
The 36-year-old
Hollywood actor
Jude Law has three children with ex-wife Sadie Frost, is set to
become a father for a fourth time with his former lover
Samantha Burke, a
24-year-old actress/model .
Spokeswoman says that "following a relationship last year,
Jude Law has been advised by the birth mother that he is to be the father of a child due in the autumn". And Law is no longer in a relationship with the woman but "intends to be a fully supportive part of the child's life."
The Daily Mirror newspaper reported Thursday that Law met
Burke while filming
Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" movie in New York last year.
He is currently starring in
"Hamlet" on the London stage and on Broadway in October and will star with
Robert Downey Jr. in the film
Sherlock Holmes opening on Christmas Day.