Liam Gallagher’s ‘secret’ baby-mama is seeking sole custody of their daughter Gemma

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Over the summer, there was a B-list paternity scandal involving Liam Gallagher. Liam is married, and he had a brief affair with a New York journalist named Liza Ghorbani who ended up pregnant. Liza gave birth to their daughter ten months ago. Liza went about trying to secure some child support payments from Liam, only to be rebuffed completely by Liam’s lawyers. Allegedly, Liam refused to privately settle and he demanded a paternity test. It came back and Liam IS the father. So Liam and his lawyers then demanded that Liza sign all of these extensive confidentiality agreements to secure child support for the kid. And that was the last time I paid attention to the drama. Now Page Six claims that Liza is seeking to formalize her sole custody of the little girl:

The mother of the New York love child fathered by Liam Gallagher is fighting for full custody to keep the former Oasis rocker away from their 10-month-old daughter — whom he has never seen.

Page Six has exclusively learned that journalist Liza Ghorbani is preparing to file for custody of baby Gemma in Manhattan family court, and requests that Gallagher only be allowed to see her under supervision.

A source tells us, “Ghorbani is seeking sole custody of Gemma and asking the court to impose supervised visitation upon Gallagher — if he ever decides to meet and visit his daughter.

“Her concern is that he still lives the life of a rock star, and she wouldn’t want to leave the child in his care.”

The source added, “Liam has never seen Gemma, nor spoken to her, nor has he expressed any interest in how she is doing.”

Gorgeous Gemma was born after Ghorbani interviewed married Gallagher for a 2010 New York Times profile and the pair began a relationship. A DNA test proved that Gallagher, now the frontman of band Beady Eye, is her father.

Ghorbani, 39, is suing Gallagher, 41, in Manhattan for child support. Unless Gallagher agrees to a settlement, there could be a public trial in late fall. The legal process suffered a minor hiccup when the judge threw out Ghorbani’s original petition after a court hearing was missed. Her lawyer is expected to file a motion to reinstate the case this week.

A source close to Ghorbani claimed that the dismissal of the case was a procedural glitch, but Gallagher has been causing other delays.

Said the source, “He still has not produced any financial documents after delaying the proceeding for months: There was a two-month delay to seek testing to prove his paternity — and then a six-week delay to seek a confidentiality order. Gallagher’s deposition cannot go forward until he produces his financial records, which he continues to fail to do.”

Raoul Felder, the lawyer for Gallagher, and William Beslow, who’s representing Ghorbani, both declined to comment on the custody case.

[From Page Six]

From what I can see, the sole custody thing is a twofer: one, Liza’s custody situation keeps her in the news, which seems to be what she wants and two, she’s merely formalizing the existing situation. It’s pretty clear that Liam doesn’t want anything to do with this kid, but unless the court says that directly, I’m guessing that Liam could still possibly exercise his custodial rights. Not that he would ever want to, though. It’s pretty clear that Liam doesn’t want to have anything to do with his daughter Gemma. He doesn’t want to see her, he doesn’t want to pay any money towards her education and he doesn’t want to acknowledge her in the slightest. Which sucks.

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  1. Kiki says:

    Why B-list?

    • Spooks says:

      Yeah, I wanted to say that. Liam is a colossal jerk, but he isn’t B-list. Then again, Robbie Williams was called semi-famous on this site, and he is one of the biggest pop stars out there.

      • Lisa says:

        When it comes to Robbie Williams, I think it depends on the location. Here in the U.S., “semi-famous” describes his status pretty well, I think, especially with people under 32 or so.

      • Bubbles says:

        Yeah, but the US isn’t the whole world.

      • Lisa says:

        @Bubbles: I’m not saying it is, just that I would consider him semi-famous, given my age and location, so to some people he is “semi-famous.” That’s why I wrote that it depends on the location.

    • doofus says:

      meh, I think B-list is accurate. I think describing people as A-list is done way too generously, overall.

      I think of A-list as an elite group; think Jack Nicholson or Meryl Streep for actors, or Bruce Springsteen or Madonna for music…to me, A-list means that EVERYBODY knows your name, even the out-of-touch grandparents who don’t read the tabloids.

      I don’t think Gallagher falls into that category.

      (I realize that these categories are all subjective but that’s just my take…)

      • Spooks says:

        To me, Oasis is A-list. Madonna, not so much. I mean, I know she’s popular, but she’s more shock than music.

      • doofus says:

        I understand that Oasis is more actual “music” than Madonna, but Madonna has better name recognition…that’s all I meant.

        I use the old “have my parents heard of him/her/them?” test…

        I know they know Bruce Springsteen and Madonna, but I’d doubt they’ve ever heard of Oasis or Gallagher.

      • Pandy says:

        I don’t think we can continue to call him A list based on Oasis – that was a long time ago …

    • Adrien says:

      B-list is generous. I won’t even rank him A-list in the UK. Noel is still having a stellar career with his Flying Birds, Liam is only famous now for making rude comments.

    • Dominique says:

      Formerly A-list, now B-list.

  2. Trollontheloose says:

    If she was concerned for her daughter because of his rocker life style, gold digger wouldn’t have had a kid. But that’s what gold digger do: they get pregnant, demand money and don’t want the dad to show up. Poor little girl.

    • Spooks says:

      Yeah, because he has no control over his c**k, poor little rock star.

      • Tapioca says:

        And yet there would be no deadbeat dads if not for the women willing to have unprotected sex with them – it works both ways!

        Ultimately this lady consciously decided to have a baby with a obnoxious rock star who already has 3 kids by 3 different women (that we know of) and a laissez-faire attitude to fatherhood. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t ever dream of bringing an innocent child into the world simply for the pay check.

    • eliza says:

      So, she should have had an abortion if she was worried about the welfare of the child? Great logic. Lol.

      I guess a man is not responsible to wrap it up and be faithful to his wife. Like another poster said, poor little rock star. Life is so unfair.

      • Erinn says:

        I agree with this. But my god, the woman can’t be that bright if she thought having unprotected sex with Liam was a great idea. As a woman, don’t expect other people to be responsible for your body. Pregnancy aside, there are way too many risks to unprotected sex.

        I hate when women rely on the men to wrap it up – protect YOURSELF ladies.

  3. erna says:

    I agree that Liam is a big douche,but I can’t stand it when people defend Noel.Noel is a good songwriter/guitarist but he shows no respect when he talks.Which sucks.

    • Spooks says:

      Well, he did write all the songs, and it is sometimes refreshing when someone actually says what they mean.
      And they had a very f***ed up childhood, no wonder they turned up this way. But Noel has an okay family life, no?

      • Tessaa says:

        I can’t help but like Noel. he’s said some idiotic things in his youth, yes, but nowadays he’s rather charming and witty and funny. He’s a damn good interview.
        AND he doesn’t run around getting randoms pregnant every 2 years like his brother….

      • erna says:

        People who suffer abuse as children are usually prone to be violent (especially in family) later in life,and both brothers are known to be good family men.(Even Liam is said to be a very nice person to his family,despite of throwing temper tantrums ,his on-stage persona and his love life antics.)
        As for Noel,he can say what he means without offending other people.He sounds like a sociopath sometimes.

      • Bubbles says:

        I still like Noel. Sociopath and all. His recent interviews were great, with Graham Norton and Alan Carr. Although, Alan could make almost anyone funny. Except Britney. She’s dead behind the eyes.

      • Spooks says:

        I still like Noel, too.

      • Rhea says:

        @Tessaa : yes! I found him charming when listening to his interviews nowadays. Can’t help liking him. 🙂

        http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ6K496YMsg

  4. capepopsie says:

    What a JERK! I never liked him anyway and now he´s given me a perfect reason not to. Hope the Little girl doesn´t look anything like him.

  5. Lizzy says:

    Is it just me who is grossed out by the fact that they essentially had unprotected sex? Yeah, gold digger and all that wanting the baby to milk this guy but seriously! Yuck!

    Not to mention that there is still no cure for AIDS around and STDS are just a nasty busines.

    • doofus says:

      no, you’re not the only one. every time something like this happens (Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson, etc.) I think the same thing.

      as someone on another thread said, pregnancy is the least worrisome thing that can happen from unprotected sex. (AIDS or other incurable STDs being the most worrisome.)

    • Hollz says:

      Thoughts like this drive me crazy! You are assuming they had unprotected sex. The failure rate of condoms is 15 percent. Just because she got pregnant, doesn’t mean they had unprotected sex.

  6. Bubbles says:

    I still like Noel. His recent interviews on Graham Norton and Alan Carr were very funny. Although Alan can make anyone funny. Well, anyone except Britney. She’s completely dead behind the eyes, poor thing.

    • Spooks says:

      I LOVE Alan Carr. The funniest talk show host, along with Craig Ferguson. Graham is a bit too a**-kissy.
      But, yeah, that Britney interview was just sad.

  7. Gine says:

    Poor kid. Both her parents are assholes.

  8. Lila says:

    Filing for full custody sounds like a legal move to me. If he’s delaying and generally being a dick about things filing more motions could be used as more pressure to make him respond. And once the full custody is made official, that cuts out some of the wrangling in the child support arguments.

    If she was that concerned about being famous she wouldn’t have tried to settle it privately first and we would be hearing every step of this mess. Instead this is the first time I’ve heard about it in a while.

    He really sounds like a prize. The kid is his. If he had half a brain he’d just agree to an amount and send the money. Skip the drama. He sounds like an asshole on every level.

  9. Mitch Buchanan Rocks! says:

    At least he lets his kids cut his hair.

  10. Bridget says:

    It sounds like he’s trying to force her to jump through hoops for him to pay child support, so going to court amd formalizing custody would supposedly take that power away (I say supposedly because of course he still has to follow through on the court mandates). We may think she’s.a golddigger, but she had his baby and in the state of New York that entitles her to financial support from him. If he didn’t want to pay he should have thought about that before he went 4 for 4.

    And whoever was saying Liam was an ass in public but nice to his family: no. He’s a controlling, cheating, douche. Not a nice guy at all.

  11. poppy says:

    these 2 with their unprotected sex.
    his wang has got to be filthy. as a journalist she didn’t realize rock stars swim in any pool they can? so many pools, who knows how clean or dirty all those pools were. filthy!
    if he had only spent half the energy in preventing the birth of a child he didn’t want as he has trying not to pay child support …
    2 imbeciles that are now this little girl’s parents. smh

  12. Tiamet says:

    I suspect she wanted a kid and wanted financial support for the child but didn’t want an involved father rather than just seeing the child as a pay check. More honest women in that situation go to a sperm bank.

    She picked a married rock star figuring he’d pay up to get her to shut up and go away. I’m not sure what went wrong – asking for a DNA test is only sensible but when it came back positive, he should have handed over the cash.

  13. madchen says:

    If I remember this correctly, she wasn’t some random but was a journalist who actually published work on what was a pretty regular basis. She had interviewed him and they began hooking up, It seems whatever the relationship was, it lasted for a while. Maybe she loved him and maybe he fed her many a line of b.s. to keep her available for when he was in NY. Regardless, they’re both grownups and she only went public when he refused to deal with the situation. If he doesn’t want to make babies with women he shags on the side, then he should get snipped.