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Oscar-winning actor, Joaquin Phoenix, has reportedly welcomed his first child with his fiancé and fellow Hollywood A-lister actress, Rooney Mara. The couple have named their new baby boy after Phoenix's late brother, River, who tragically passed away in 1993 aged just 23 years old.

The joyous news came courtesy of director Victor Kossakovsky, who revealed the new arrival at the 2020 Zurich film festival after a screening of the black-and-white documentary Gunda, on which Joaquin Phoenix is an executive producer.

When asked about Phoenix's involvement in the movie, which looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions, two cows and a one-legged chicken, Kossakovsky responded saying, "He just got a baby, by the way, his name was... a beautiful son called River, so he cannot promote [the film] right now."

River Phoenix died of an accidental drug overdose in West Hollywood in the early hours of October 31, 1993 aged just 23. Despite his young age,...

Two-time Oscar-nominated actress Rooney Mara has sold her celeb-pedigreed mid-century residence above L.A.’s Bronson Canyon for almost $3.6 million, a notable bit above its final asking price of $3.45 million. The buyer appears in tax records as a whimsically named trust linked to property previously owned by rock ’n’ roll scion and television personality Kelly Osbourne. Designed by architect Phil Brown and built in 1963 on a not quite one-quarter-acre promontory near the end of a quiet cul-de-sac with panoramic city views through walls of glass, the just over 2,300-square-foot residence has two modest bedrooms plus a den and two bathrooms with scrupulously preserved vintage tile work.

Set to star in Annapurna Pictures’ upcoming abduction drama “A House in the Sky,” Mara purchased the discreetly low-slung architectural gem in early 2015 for $2.9 million from “Pretty Little Lies” star Alexander Skarsgård. She first floated the conscientiously restored and updated residence as an off-market...