Melissa Etheridge has something new to sing about and some new people to sing to. PEOPLE magazine is reporting that Etheridge and her partner Tammy are the new parents of a son… and a daughter.
The magazine reports that the couple’s son Miller Steven and their daughter Johnnie Rose were born on Tuesday. The twins and their mothers are reportedly doing well.
“The creation of life brings about immeasurable love, and pours hope into the future,” the couple said in a statement released to the magazine. “The joy will help carry us through our upcoming sleepless nights.”
Etheridge already has two children from a previous relationship with Julie Cypher: daughter Bailey Jean, 9, and son Beckett, 7. According to Etheridge, Bailey Jean and Beckett were conceived via artificial insemination courtesy of friend and rock legend David Crosby. Likewise, she says the twins are also the result of artificial insemination, though the donor is unknown.
On a somber note, various media outlets are reporting that tennis champ Chris Evert and her husband, former Olympic skier Andy Mill, have split. In a twist on the traditional obligatory star break up statement, Evert and Mill did away with the blatant use of euphemisms (e.g. we love each other very much, but have decided to separate, we still remain best friends, yada, yada, yada) and cut to the chase. Their statement read: “After 18 years of marriage, we have decided to get divorced.”
Evert, who won Wimbledon three times during her career, is known as one of the tennis world’s best ever-female players. She and Mill married in 1998 and have three sons ages 15, 12, 10. My heart breaks for those kids.
Finally, she may have finally laid her son to rest in the Bahamas this week, but that doesn’t mean that Anna Nicole Smith is ready to high tail it back to the mainland. According to news reports, the former model will remain in her tropical hideaway—secluded from the media glare and the demands from a California attorney (hired by her ex-boyfriend) to submit her 6-week-old daughter for paternity testing.
According to “Access Hollywood,” a lawsuit filed by photographer Larry Birkhead seeks a court order for Smith to bring the girl to California for a DNA test. Even though a birth certificate lists Smith’s attorney, Howard K. Stern, as the father of Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.
Speaking through her Bahamian attorney Smith said she refused to be bullied by Birkhead and would not “run her life according to his wishes.”
Meanwhile, Birkhead’s attorney, Debra Opri said if Smith doesn’t return to California she plans to fly to the Bahamas to take depositions from her and Stern on. She said Smith has been served with multiple notices of her request for a meeting.