Richard Williams, the 70-year-old tennis-coaching dad of Palm Beach Gardens champs Serena and Venus Williams, has become a dad again, Gossip Extra has learned.
For some reason, neither the sisters nor Richard have spoken publicly about the little boy born on the first week of the US Open, in late August.
But a close confidante of Richard tells me Williams’ 33-year-old wife and rabid tennis fan Lakeishacouldn’t attend the tournament won by Serena because she was recovering from the birth.
Richard’s presence at the New York City competition kicked off a round of rumors that he and his wife were split.
“That’s not what happened at all,” the source said. “She had a baby the first week of the Open.”
Richard Williams was divorced in 2002 from Oracene, the woman with whom he had Serena, 31, and Venus, 32.
Their split became official three years after Oracene turned up at a West Palm Beach hospital with three broken ribs. Nursing staff suspected were the result of domestic violence. Police looked into it, but no one was charged.
Lakeisha once owned a small grocery store near Fort Lauderdale and moved in Williams’ $750,000 home in Palm Beach Gardens in 2009. They were married two years later.
Messages left on Richard Williams’ cell phone were not returned.
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