Al Pacino says his one-year-old son Roman is ‘learning new things’ and has ‘come into the world a little more’ as he grows.
The Scarface actor became one of the oldest known new fathers in the world when his girlfriend Noor Alfallah, 30, gave birth to Roman in June 2023.
Now their baby has become a toddler, and Al is keeping an eye on the legacy he will leave behind for his youngest child.
He revealed that Roman’s arrival was part of the impetus for his decision to write his memoir Sonny Boy, which will be published next week.
In the book, the Oscar-winning actor has written a passage ‘musing about’ his little boy, he revealed in a new interview with the New York Times.
Al Pacino says his one-year-old son Roman is ‘learning new things’ and has ‘come into the world a little more’ as he grows; pictured at the Oscars in March
The Godfather star revealed that Roman was ‘one of the reasons, of course,’ that he decided to put his story between covers.
‘And that has been a campaign for me to stick around a little longer if it’s possible,’ added Al, who suffered a near-fatal bout of COVID-19 in 2020.
When he was asked whether his decision to have a baby at 83 was because he had come face to face with his own mortality, Al was flummoxed.
‘Wow, that was something. I have to really think about that. I don’t know. Maybe? I don’t even understand it,’ he said, leaving the door open to the possibility.
When Roman grows old enough to start watching his father’s movies, Al thinks he should ‘start off with’ the Adam Sandler comedy Jack And Jill.
The 2011 Thanksgiving romp features Al in a cameo playing himself, acting in a parody of a cheesy Dunkin’ Donuts commercial.
‘I think that’s funny. It came at a time in my life that I needed it, because it was after I found out I had no more money. My accountant was in prison, and I needed something quickly. So I took this,’ Al recalled.
In 2010, Al’s ex-financial advisor Kenneth Starr was sentenced to seven years in prison on a string of charges including money laundering and fraud.
The Scarface actor became one of the oldest known new fathers in the world when his girlfriend Noor Alfallah, 30, gave birth to Roman in June 2023
Al was recently lauded as an ‘amazing’ father by his girlfriend Noor Alfallah, 30, who had his baby last year; the pair are pictured August 2023
Kenneth, who had boasted a string of celebrity clients over the years, was found to have run a $33 million Ponzi scheme and was nicknamed the ‘mini-Madoff.’
Jack And Jill was apparently a needed windfall for Al in the wake of the scandal – though the movie had one adverse side-effect.
‘There’s this thing I do in that film: They got me doing a Dunkin’ Donuts commercial. You know how many people think I actually made that commercial?’ Al marveled.
His new interview came two months after Noor made a rare public comment about their family equation, showering praise on Al’s abilities as a parent.
She has remained steadfastly private about her son – rarely allowing his face to be shown to the public – but described him as a ‘combination’ of her and Al.
While out and about in Beverly Hills in August, she was asked whether she would ever consider marrying Al and gave a surprising answer to TMZ.
Noor had previously remarked that she had no intention of going down the aisle with Al, describing herself as ‘not the marrying type’ in November 2023.
However during her August interview, she was asked again whether she might tie the knot, and that time she replied: ‘I don’t know.’
When Roman grows old enough to start watching his father’s movies, Al thinks he should ‘start off with’ the Adam Sandler comedy Jack And Jill (pictured)
Noor and Al have been romantically involved since at least April 2022 but were friends long before that; she is pictured in July 2022
Noor, who was reportedly born in Kuwait but raised in Beverly Hills, has full physical custody of Roman but shares legal custody with Al.
Under the terms of their agreement, Al furnished Noor with an upfront child support payment of $110,000, according to court documents.
He was also meant to pay her at least $30,000 a month – a sum that could be increased depending on his income – plus $15,000 a year into an education fund.
Al also has three grown children – Julie, 34, with acting teacher Jan Tarrant, and twins Anton and Olivia, 23, with Coal Miner’s Daughter actress Beverly D’Angelo.
Noor and Al have been romantically involved since at least April 2022 but were friends long before that, becoming especially close during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
‘Al lives down the street from my house and we started spending every day together, playing chess and watching movies,’ she explained to Vogue Arabia.
‘It was like film school with Al Pacino. “Did you ever see Scarface?” he asked me. “No,” I answered: “Though I know the lines. Say hello to my little friend.”‘
Her ‘favorite’ film of his was Bobby Deerfield, a little-known 1977 romantic drama starring him opposite Swiss actress Marthe Keller, whom he dated.
When Noor was 22, she famously had a relationship with Mick Jagger, then 74, but she has insisted that their age gap ‘didn’t matter to me.’
When Noor got pregnant, Al was allegedly ‘shocked’ and demanded a DNA test to prove his paternity because he thought he was unable to father a child on account of his health issues, sources claimed to TMZ.
It was reported that Noor acceded to Al’s request and agreed to undergo the test, establishing that the baby was in fact his.
When Noor was 22, she famously had a relationship with Mick Jagger, then 74, but she has insisted that their age gap ‘didn’t matter to me.’
She explained: ‘The heart doesn’t know what it sees, it only knows what it feels. It was my first serious relationship, but it was a happy time for me.’
Noor added that Mick was in ‘great shape’ for his age, describing him as ‘much fitter than I am. I really respect that he is so disciplined,’ via Hello! magazine.
He has never married but has been involved with a string of stars including actresses Tuesday Weld and Jill Clayburgh and supermodel Veruschka.
Al also had an on-off romance with Diane Keaton, his love interest in The Godfather trilogy, who tried to persuade him to marry her but never succeeded.
She has said she ‘worked hard on’ getting him to commit and eventually left him in 1990 – the year The Godfather III came out – after issuing an ultimatum.
Diane revealed that she ‘was mad for him’ when they first became acquainted while filming the original Godfather picture in 1971, she told People.
‘Charming, hilarious, a nonstop talker. There was an aspect of him that was like a lost orphan, like this kind of crazy idiot savant,’ she said. ‘And oh, gorgeous!’