Robert De Niro attends the 92nd Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California.
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Diehard fans of Robert De Niro know he has a long history of dating and marrying Black women.
“My children are all half-Black and I don’t have, even me, I take certain things for granted,” De Niro admitted Wednesday evening while talking about his family during a virtual appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
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In addition to acknowledging his privilege as a white man and all the opportunities it affords him, he realizes that his children may not be privy to the same.
De Niro’s children include his daughter, Drena, 48, and son, Raphael, 44, with his first wife, Diahnne Abbott.
