Children conceived when he was at the embassy.
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Moris says there is another reason she couldn’t tell people about her relationship with Assange, who has spent the past 11 years in captivity of one kind or another – holed up in a Norfolk stately home, the Ecuadorian embassy, and Belmarsh. Her story had simply become too fantastical – the kind you might find in a melodramatic spy novel. “I couldn’t explain the situation to friends because my circumstances had become quite unrelatable.” It emerged last April that Moris and Assange had two children while he was in hiding at the embassy. By then, Gabriel was almost three and Max was one. The story came out only because Assange had tried to secure bail with his new family at Moris’s home. Even by Assange’s standards, it was an astonishing revelation. They had managed to keep their relationship from the public for six years.
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/16/stella-moris-julian-assange-secret-family
Mrs Assange said she had flown to Australia on Sunday, with the pair's two sons, Gabriel, seven, and five-year-old Max.
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Their first son Gabriel was born in 2017, followed by Max two years later, before Mr Assange was kicked out of the embassy and sent to Belmarsh prison.
The couple married in 2022 at the maximum-security jail in south-east London and she wore a dress designed by Vivienne Westwood.
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https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2024/06/25/how-stella-moris-went-from-julian-assanges-lawyer-to-wife-and-mother-of-his-two-children/
"Girlfriend" - she was likely on the clock for an agency…