I remember George Lucas being interviewed years ago on 60 Minutes, I think, and he was asked about his love life. He was single at the time, and he basically said that he only wanted to date women with their own stuff going on. I believe he named Queen Noor as his dream date. Well, he didn’t get Queen Noor, but he did get a nice lady named Mellody Hobson. Lucas and Mellody dated for seven years before he proposed, and they were married this past June on his Skywalker Ranch. The wedding was a huge, star-studded event with guests like Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Robert De Niro, Glenn Close, Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart, Quincy Jones and Rashida Jones, and the ceremony was officiated by Bill Moyers.
It was all very lovely and it didn’t seem at all controversial or noteworthy, really. It was Lucas’ second marriage, and he came into this relationship with three adult children (son Jett and daughters Katie and Amanda). George is 69 years old – Mellody is 44. So, there is a 25-year age gap, but mostly I’m just mentally high-fiving Mellody for having really awesome game, you know? George Lucas is crazy rich. So good for Mellody for riding that neck-beard all the way to the bank, right? Right.
But, as it turns out, Lucas and Hobson had another reason for the June wedding – they had already arranged for a surrogate to carry their first child together. They just had a girl.
Surprise! George Lucas is a dad for the fourth time! The Star Wars creator and his wife, Ariel Investments president Mellody Hobson, welcomed a daughter via surrogate on Friday, Aug. 9, Huffington Post confirms.
The new addition will join Lucas’ three adopted children, Amanda, 32; Katie, 25; and Jett, 20, whom he shares Amanda with ex-wife Marcia Griffin. A name for their new daughter — the first biological child for both parents — has yet to be revealed.
The happy news comes just two months after Lucas, 69, and Hobson, 44, tied the knot at Skywalker Ranch, in Marin County, Calif. on June 22 after first meeting at a business conference in 2006. “How else would a financial person and a movie person ever be at the same place at the same time?” Hobson later joked during a January 2012 appearance on OWN’s Oprah’s Next Chapter.
The wedding — the first marriage for Hobson and the second for Lucas — was officiated by PBS journalist Bill Moyers and was attended by famous pals like Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg.
Remember when Elton John and David Furnish welcomed their two kids via surrogacy too? Elton was 62 when Zachary was born in 2010 and he was 65 when Elijah was born earlier this year. And while I have no shade whatsoever for gay parents, I do have shade for people becoming parents this late in life. I’m sorry, but having babies when your partner/husband is 69? Granted, Mellody is young and chances are, she’ll live to see her daughter into adulthood. But will George Lucas? Ugh. I mean, congrats. Ugh.
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