A few weeks ago we saw a cute photo of Jude Law walking his youngest son Rudy and daughter Iris to a museum in NYC and then about a week ago we saw photos of Jude playing with his two sons Rafferty and Rudy in a Manhattan park. This weekend, Jude was spotted kicking around the ol’ soccer ball with all three of his children with ex-wife Sadie Frost … behold:
To my knowledge, I don’t believe that Jude Law has yet made the effort to meet his newest child, a baby girl named Sophia Lee, who was born about a month ago. It’s clear he loves his 3 oldest children very much … even tho he is divorced from their mother. I hope he will, one day soon, realize that his new daughter is just as precious a gift as his other children … irregardless of how he may feel for her mother. It’s just a bummer to see Jude so playful with his “legitimate” children when he has a month old newborn baby daughter who has yet to meet him.
[Photo credit: Bauer-Griffin]
im going to have to disagree with you on that trent.
while i completely agree that deadbeat dads are the worst jude NEVER really had a relationship with that woman..he slept with her and she got pregnant. now she is a greedy money hungry woman who is using his name to garner attention to herself.
yes it is his fault he didnt wear protection, but its a hundred times more her fault for bringing it to the publics attention. maybe if she wasn’t an attention whore and settled this matter privately between the two of them he would feel more responsibilty.
@ Leighton, I pretty much agree 100 percent with what you said. It’s fine if she wanted to let Jude know she was pregnant with his daughter, however she could have done it without letting the public know too.
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Also, I think that given time he will go and see his new daughter. Jude seems like the type of person who likes to keep his children and private life as low key that one can when being a recognized actor. So he may just be waiting for this whole thing to cool down for awhile. Before going to see her.
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N’ who knows(not saying this is true, but just a thought) Maybe Ms.Burke is keeping Jude from seeing his daughter so she can continue to get pity from people. N’ so she can continue to get attention with her daughter and stay in the spotlight. Because you know, that if and when Jude starts to spend time with his daughter it will ‘Jude Law and his daughter Sophia…’ in the headlines instead of ‘Jude Law’s baby mama and daughter’. Not saying she is doing that, but hey..its a possibility.
I agree with you guys. Yes, it is his responsibility to wrap it up, but it was also the new mom’s responsibility to keep her reproduction in check. If you have a baby with a man you barely know, chances are pretty great that your baby will barely know him too.
Well… I agree with Trent. There are ways to see your child without having to see the OTHER parent. No matter what happens, it takes TWO people to get pregnant. If she is a “greedy money hungry women” now, more than likely she was one before she got pregnant. It’s not just HER responsibility to make sure there is birth control. It’s not just HER responsibility to take care of this baby. It’s not that babies fault that her parents weren’t married when they had sex – and Jude Law is not getting a free pass to make bad decisions just because he’s famous. What would be the best thing to do is just MAN UP and take care of his responsibilities and I’m just not relenting on my opinion of this. If he goes to see his baby (and I truly hope he does), then THAT will change my opinion of Jude Law. It just makes me sick to think that this man who is famous and IN THE PUBLIC EYES is not seeing his child – he shouldn’t be making it seem okay. Thats just my opinion though. :-D
Aw, I like when you do a link for irregardless. It is a word people!
Isn’t Jude still in Hamlet doing 8 shows a week? I think it is pretty much impossible for him to leave NY until his run ends. If he still doesn’t see his baby after that then he will be pretty despicable in my eyes.
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How do you know she didn’t try to contact him first? how do you know that when she told him “I’m pregnant. It’s your baby and I want you to be a part of his/her life?”, that he told her that he didn’t care and wanted nothing to do with her or the baby. How do you know he didn’t promise her the world when they were together and he then blew her off once he got her into bed, or when the next best thing came along.
No one here knows the circumstances of how/why they conceived a baby (takes two to tango, folks. It’s not HER responsibility to cover for a mistake made by both of them). The fact of the matter is that there is now a little girl who has yet to meet her father. A man who refused to acknowledge the possibility that she was his until a test proved he was.
I say, good for the mother for taking advantage of the opportunity to make some money to support herself and her child. Too bad the father didn’t step up and take care of them, which could have avoided this all together.
I agree shes attention seeking, but I can’t believe people think the baby is not his responsibility. Both parents have an equal responsibility to make sure this child is well looked after and cared for. Just because she isn’t the best person in the world doesn’t mean Jude Law gets a free pass. It takes two people to not use contraception, and for all we know they did. Accidents do happen….
I know my opinion of this is going to make a few people very angry, but I’m throwing in my two cents anyway.
We have no idea what kind of arrangement these people have. Maybe he is intending on seeing her when she is old enough to recognize him, maybe he is waiting for the media attention to die down, maybe he has no intention of seeing her, maybe he’s waiting till his other children are okay with the situation. I am also taking into consideration that he flipped out on a paparazzi for taking pictures of his other children so he can’t be too pleased that this woman has done a full magazine spread. God only knows what she would do if he showed up to see the baby, secretly take pictures and sell those too?
I realize that some people find what he’s doing a crappy thing to do, but why is it okay for a woman to force a child on him? What if the situation was reversed? What if she was famous and some random guy knocked her up? She would have the choice as to whether she wanted to keep the baby or not.
He did not get that option. Now he should just man up? Why? Because he’s a good father to his other children? What if he was a terrible father and person and wanted to see the child but the mother wouldn’t let him? She would just be protecting her child.
Taking financial responsibility, which he has agreed to do, is all anyone can expect of him at this time.
I don’t think anyone has said that the baby isn’t his responsibility, but maybe I missed that. Of course it is both of their responsibilities to use birth control. However, at the end of the day, the only thing that is keeping any adult from being a parent is their OWN actions. If the mother didn’t want to get pregnant, she should have used protection (pill & condom combo insures that no accidents happen). If she did want to get pregnant, then she was a fool for chosing Jude Law to have it with. Liza, how do you know he hasn’t seen his child at all? Isn’t it possible that he saw them when the press wasn’t there?
I totally agree with you, Siobhan. If he is still doing eight shows a week, then there is probably no chance at all that he can fly down to florida for an hour to see his child. Its easy to squeeze in an afternoon of father/children time when your kids are with you, but Jude is super busy right now. I’m sure he’ll head down to see Sophia as soon as he can.
You’re right, I don’t know whether or not he’s seem the baby. I’d think, though, that with as much attention that has been brought to the fact that he hasn’t seen her (the babys mothers words), SOMEONE would get the word out that he has seen the baby – just for his own PR.
Jaded, I agree with you and several others. This is not a cut and dried situation, and I fail to see why the media keeps being so all-fired concerned AND propogating all kinds of half-truths. Jude NEVER said he would not see the baby…the only thing that Jude has officially said is he is the father and he will support the child. As far as he’s concerned, anything futher is nobody’s business. Samantha has chosen this situation for her debutante coming out, I suppose. Jude asked for privacy, but she sold their child to the tabs. Not good. Sophia is only 8 weeks old…how can anyone begin to second-guess the tricky waters Jude is navigating right now? He is doing 8 shows a week, a commitment he made before he had benefit of knowing he was a father again, pretty much right before she was born and even after she was named, for gosh sakes! Yeah, talk about a woman jerking a guy around! Plus, she has already proven that she’s very much interested in the media attention and will use every opportunity to get the “sympathy attention” if nothing else, and everybody will lap it right up because she’ll be the one talking and Jude will be saying nothing, as usual, so of course her point of view is the correct one, right?
So…what I think is, Jude will see Sophia after Hamlet is done…I think he’ll try to see her apart from Samantha, simply because she’s already made it into a circus, causing another wave of media storm for no good reason, and he isn’t obligated to facilitate her desire for stardom.
And Trent, boo on your “legitimate” label…yet again. Come on…are we living in the dark ages where African-Americans, gay people, and even little children are subjected to labels? Is that very fair? I think not.
Oh, and Jude doesn’t have to aqueisce the public’s expectations about this situation. He will do exactly what his heart tells him to do, and he doesn’t need the public to steer him in that direction…he’s a man that knows how to deal with his own business.
And also…why is it that because he’s seen with Rafferty, Iris, and Rudy, people want to act like he’s doing something wrong because he hasn’t seen Sophia? If Sophia were old enough to be with him, I’m sure he’d have her there too, if Samantha was agreeable to it. But gee whiz, she’s in a bassinet, for crying out loud, so chill and give it time and quit getting hysterical over things that aren’t all that tragic. He’ll have his time with her. It’s not like SB is going to send her on up to New York to hang out with dad just yet. Put on the old thinking caps.
Wow. I really can’t judge Jude on this one! I have no idea what his arrangements are. How can we assume he’s ditching his baby?
All I know is, he’s devoted to the 3 kids he’s got with him and he has made (at least) financial arrangements to take care of the new baby. He’s taking care of them all. I think he’s a great dad.
Trent!
Really…
irregardless???
Aren’t you a former English teacher :)
@Chris — No, I was never an English teacher, I taught 9th grade American History and US Governtment. I’m also a fan of pop culture and if you are familiar with ‘Mean Girls’ you’d know that Irregardless is a word ;) http://trent.blogspot.com/2005.....-word.html
alright I read your link…I smell what the rock is cooking…
but still…
I’m trying not to think the worst of him and want to believe he will build a relationship with his new daughter.
I think he might be trying to avoid having her sell the photos of him meeting his daughter for the first time.