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| | Robert DeNiro: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Early life De Niro was born in New York City, the son of Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet and Virginia Admiral, also a painter who had met at the painting classes of Hans Hoffman in Provincetown, Massachusetts. |
 | | A biographer, John Baxter, claims that his father was gay, and had relationships with the poet Robert Duncan, the playwright Tennessee Williams and artist Jackson Pollock. |
 | | His father, after Robert was born, came out of the closet as a homosexual and eventually divorced Robert's mother. |
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