PREMIER League star John Obi Mikel has fathered two secret
love children with different women, reports The Sun on Sunday.
The Chelsea
midfielder, 28, has a four-year-old son who was born after he had a brief fling
with the lad’s mum.
He also has a
one-year-old daughter by a woman he met in a nightclub two years ago.
BABY No1
Sex: Male
Age: 4
Mother: Woman Mikel invited to a party and had a brief fling with.
Home: £500,000 house in Home Counties he bought for the mother.
Upkeep: He gives the mum several thousand pounds a year and a new car
every 3 years.
BABY No2
Sex: Female
Age: 1
Mother: Woman he met in a trendy London nightclub in 2013 and had a short
relationship with.
Home: Child lives with mother in South of England. Mum is not well off
but drives a new car.
Upkeep: Mikel provides for the child but is said to want no contact with her.
Nigeria
international Mikel, whose team was beaten at home by Crystal Palace on
Saturday, is now dating Russian businesswoman Olga Diyachenko and has posted
online photographs of the pair together.
The footballer —
paid about £80,000 a week — is not named on his son’s birth certificate, but
bought a house in the Home Counties where the boy lives with his mother.
Mikel paid more
than £500,000 for the detached property in 2013.
He is said to have
expressed a desire to play a part in the boy’s life — even though he at first
refused to believe he was the dad.
However Mikel
is not believed to see his baby daughter, who lives with her 23-year-old mother
in the South of England.
Both women are
supported financially by the player, but it is not thought they know about each
other.
A source revealed
Mikel, a role model to legions of fans of Chelsea and Nigeria, did not believe
the boy was his when first told by his mum.
The source said:
“They met ages ago when John invited her — and a friend, I think — to an
after-party after some London celebrity event.
“She got together
with John briefly and ended up pregnant.
“She got in touch
with John and told him about it, but he initially refused to accept or believe
the baby was his. His name was not on the birth certificate.
“After the baby
was born there were some negotiations about it. He then agreed to pay her a
decent amount of money. She was allocated money to buy a house.”
The mum moved to
the Home Counties after the property purchase. Our source added: “John also
agreed to give her tens of thousands a year in upkeep and, I think, agreed to
give her a new car every three to five years.
“He said he wanted
to play a role in the boy’s life.
When his son was
two, Mikel had a short relationship with the mother of his daughter after
apparently meeting her at a nightclub in London during 2013.
The girl was
born last year, but again Mikel’s name did not appear on her birth certificate.
A friend of the
tot’s mother said: “John has provided for her and the girl, but does not seem
to want to be involved with the child.
“She is not from a
well-off family and does not now earn much, but she drives around in a new car.
“She seems to have
come into money since having the baby and is keeping a low profile.”
A spokesman for
the footballer said of the lovechildren: “This is an entirely private matter.
John provides for and cares for his children and will continue to do so. He
asks that their privacy be respected.”
