The world may have its first member of Canadian singer-songwriter royalty. Rufus Wainwright is now the proud father of a baby girl -- and on her mother's side, she boasts Leonard Cohen as a grandfather.
Wainwright announced the news, and unconventional parenting arrangement, on his website on Feb. 21: "Darling daughter Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen was born on February 2, 2011 in Los Angeles, California to proud parents Lorca Cohen, Rufus Wainwright and Deputy Dad Jorn Weisbrodt. The little angel is evidently healthy, presumably happy and certainly very very beautiful."
Weisbrodt being Wainwright's fiance, many initial reports had the baby as their own and Lorca Cohen (Leonard's daughter) as a surrogate. Not so. Wainwright issued a follow-up statement to clarify everyone's parental status.
"She did not carry the child for someone else," writes camp Wainwright. "Lorca Cohen is the mother of the baby and Rufus Wainwright is the father."
What this means...
Wainwright announced the news, and unconventional parenting arrangement, on his website on Feb. 21: "Darling daughter Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen was born on February 2, 2011 in Los Angeles, California to proud parents Lorca Cohen, Rufus Wainwright and Deputy Dad Jorn Weisbrodt. The little angel is evidently healthy, presumably happy and certainly very very beautiful."
Weisbrodt being Wainwright's fiance, many initial reports had the baby as their own and Lorca Cohen (Leonard's daughter) as a surrogate. Not so. Wainwright issued a follow-up statement to clarify everyone's parental status.
"She did not carry the child for someone else," writes camp Wainwright. "Lorca Cohen is the mother of the baby and Rufus Wainwright is the father."
What this means...
- 2/21/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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