WikiLeaks’ Assange had 2 children with lawyer – Report

A report has revealed that WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, secretly fathered two children with his lawyer.

The Australian-born Assange fell in love with the lawyer, Stella Morris, while hibernating in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the United Kingdom.

The South African-born lawyer , 37, was helping Assange fight his extradition to the United States when the duo started the affair that led to the birth of the two children.

The Mail claims Morris who changed her name from Sara Gonzalez Devant years ago fell in love with Assange while visiting him in 2015.

The report revealed that the couple who have been engaged since 2017 had their first child, Gabriel, in 2016.

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According to reports, it is understood the couple also managed to keep their relationship and the birth of their children secret from Ecuadorian diplomats and officials who had given Assange refuge.

Assange is currently being held at the high-security Belmarsh Prison.

Last year, Swedish prosecutors reopened an investigation into a r*pe allegation made against him in 2010.

According to BBC, Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, revealed that the case would be reopened because there were still plausible reasons to suspect that Assange had committed the crime.

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