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THE OLD DADS’ CLUB

WHAT are wrinkly, been around the block many times and might well need walkers when they attend their kids’ school plays?

The members of the celebrity older dads’ club, that’s what. They may be grizzly enough to be great-granddads, but when you have big bucks and a rip-roaring showbiz reputation, you can have babies with women young enough to be your granddaughter.

Case in point: Al Pacino.

He recently made headlines with news he’s going to be a dad again at the ripe old age of 83. His baby mama is Noor Alfallah, a 29-year-old producer he’s been dating since April 2022 and who’s three years younger than his firstborn, Julie (33).

“Al loves being a father and always has,” a source tells People. “He’s excited.”

Fatherhood, Al told The New Yorker a few years ago, means the world to him. He was two when his own dad left him and his mom and that shaped his relationship with Julie (whose mother is acting coach Jan Tarrant) and 22-year-old twins

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