Lady Gaga and her fiancé, Michael Polansky, have reportedly become parents for the first time after welcoming a baby girl through surrogacy.

The singer, 40, and Polansky are said to have named their daughter Rose Bean Polansky. She was reportedly born at 11.19pm on June 9 at Los Angeles‘ renowned Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, with the couple using a surrogate, according to TMZ.

It is not known why the couple chose surrogacy. Gaga has, however, spoken publicly for years about living with fibromyalgia, a chronic condition linked to intense pain and fatigue.

The Grammy-winning star gave viewers an emotional insight into her experience with chronic pain in the 2017 Netflix documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two. During a 2020 conversation with Oprah, she also described being in pain from “head to toe.”

Exclusive Daily Mail photographs showed the pop icon arriving in Los Angeles on a private jet on Sunday, holding her newborn daughter as she stepped off the plane.

The Daily Mail has approached Gaga’s representatives for comment and is awaiting a response.

“She has been in full nesting mode and has never been happier in her life because being a mother was a very large goal, even more than becoming a successful musician,” a source told the Daily Mail.

A birth certificate obtained by TMZ reportedly confirmed the newborn’s name and sex, along with further details surrounding her birth.

The child was delivered by Dr Robert Katz, an OB/GYN who also delivered Ciara and Russell Wilson’s daughter Sienna Princess. 

The name Rose has a sentimental connection to Gaga, whose maternal grandmother is the late Veronica Rose ‘Ronnie’ Ferrie Bissett.

She also has the name of her song from A Star Is Born, La Vie En Rose, tattooed down her spine. 

News that Gaga and Polansky had welcomed a child first came to light last week after she mysteriously dropped out of the public eye several months ago.

Page Six broke the news and published photos of the couple with their baby daughter. 

The Born This Way singer had last been seen in public in August during a fan encounter in Northern California that was documented with an Instagram selfie.

But before that, she had kept a very low profile after wrapping up her tour, The Mayhem Ball, in April. 

Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, and Polansky have been together since 2019 and became engaged in April 2024.

During an appearance last October on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the hitmaker said motherhood would be her ‘next starring role.’

‘I would like to do many things, yeah, all of these things,’ she said after Colbert asked if she wanted to continue acting in films or performing on Broadway. ‘But, what I really want is to be a mom. That’s my next starring role, I hope.’

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While speaking to the New York Times in March 2025, Gaga said she was ‘excited to be a mom,’ even though she ‘used to have a lot of apprehension about it.’

‘I’m also kind of at war with myself sometimes as I get ready to, hopefully, become a mom soon,’ she added. ‘Like, today is wonderful, but the whole day has revolved around me. There’s an incredible amount of narcissism in this.’

Gaga’s plans for becoming a mother may not end with just one child.

‘She has only one sister, Natali, and always wanted more siblings. So she wants her children to have many siblings so they can all lean on each other,’ a source told the Daily Mail.

So far, there’s no word on when Gaga and Polansky plan to tie the knot, but in March of this year she indicated that they planned to wed ‘soon.’

During an appearance on Bruno Mars’s Romantic Radio TikTok Live, the Poker Face singer said via a recorded message: ‘Me and my fiance have been traveling all year, but we’re getting married soon. We were hoping you could choose a special song for us.’

In her earlier interview with Stephen Colbert, Gaga couldn’t help but sing her fiance’s praises.

‘He’s my best friend in the whole world,’ she said of Polansky, adding that he ’empowered me as a woman in music with a beautiful partner that has my back every day.’

‘He just blew me away from the minute that I met him,’ Gaga continued. ‘He always, I think, really saw me and I think I always really saw him.’

Back in October 2024, the occasional actress told Jimmy Kimmel that she and Polansky were considering an elopement involving ‘just going to a courthouse, just the two of us, and ordering Chinese food.’

Gaga and Polansky have been together for six years after meeting in 2019 at a star-studded 40th birthday party in Los Angeles for tech entrepreneur Sean Parker.

They were first seen out together as a couple on New Year’s Eve that year at the Park MGM in Las Vegas before being spotted stealing a kiss on a hotel balcony in February 2020. In the days that followed, they went to the Super Bowl in Miami, then confirmed their relationship on social media with a cozy picture of them cuddled up on a boat.

By 2024, they were engaged. The couple made their red carpet debut that fall at the Venice Film Festival, with Gaga flashing her colossal diamond ring at the cameras.

Polansky, it would later be revealed, had proposed to her five months prior on April Fools’ Day when the couple was out rock climbing.

‘We were just walking back to the room and talking. He actually – it was very Michael – asked me if he could ask me. He wanted to know if it was OK to propose before he proposed. And I was like, “Yes, it’s so OK!”‘ she recalled.

‘He had the ring in his backpack, so it was so super cute. But you know what? I’m a modern lady. I like what he did.’

Now, the couple has started to build a quieter life in the affluent town of Ross in Marin County, close to the home of California Governor Gavin Newsom, according to sources.

‘There are tons of Lady Gaga sightings all over Marin, and everyone loves her; she has become a local,’ one resident told the Daily Mail.

Newly released surveillance video captures the harrowing final seconds before a news helicopter rapidly lost altitude and crashed Tuesday night in Chatsworth, killing its two crew members and a man on the ground.

The footage, obtained by NBCLA from a nearby building, shows the Airbus helicopter hovering above an intersection before suddenly descending toward the ground.

The aircraft had been reporting on a fatal collision involving an SUV and a Metro bus when it crashed into the parking lot of a self-storage facility.

Reporter Eliana Moreno, 38, and pilot George Marciniw died in the crash. Also killed was 29-year-old Edy Gutierrez Mejia, who was on the ground at the time.

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The newly obtained video does not show the helicopter’s complete descent, as a building obstructs the camera’s view during its final moments. Seconds later, however, thick smoke and flames rise from behind the structure as emergency responders rush to the scene.

The video emerged as federal investigators examine whether an engine problem or other mechanical failure contributed to the deadly helicopter crash.
The recording also appears to indicate that the aircraft did not merely run out of fuel.

Smoke becomes visible about 20 seconds after the impact, while flames first appear roughly 50 seconds after the crash.

The National Transportation Safety Board has asked anyone with video of the Chatsworth crash to contact investigators as they work to reconstruct the helicopter’s final moments.

Finland has overhauled security along its eastern frontier after what officials describe as Russian efforts to unsettle European countries, recently finishing a new fence designed to strengthen control of the border with Russia.

The country has built about 124 miles of fencing on the Finnish-Russian border. Petri Hakkarainen, political director at Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, told News Media that the barrier serves as an additional safeguard against the arrival of unauthorized migrants directed from Russia.

“We have in the past witnessed Russia’s attempts … to instrumentalize migrants at the Finnish border,” Hakkarainen said. “Basically pushing migrants towards our borders, forcing us then to take them on.”

Hakkarainen said a rapid surge in arrivals can place major pressure on Finland’s asylum system, requiring authorities to handle a high volume of applications and potentially creating broader instability if the numbers become large enough.

Finland responded by shutting its entire land border with Russia in 2023. Moscow quickly protested the decision, characterizing the move as “Russophobic.”

The Kremlin said it “deeply regretted” the closure, arguing that Finland had abandoned decades of pragmatic and mutually respectful ties in favor of what it called an anti-Russian political approach.

Finland’s 833-mile boundary with Russia is the longest shared by any European Union or NATO country. The newly completed border fence adds another layer of protection alongside the crossing closures.

With Russia still engaged in a grinding war in Ukraine, Western officials have accused the Kremlin of conducting broader campaigns to destabilize Europe. Those alleged efforts range from disinformation operations to state-backed economic pressure aimed at weakening public confidence.

“We think it’s important to listen to those of us who live next door to Russia,” Hakkarainen said. “Listen to our analysis of the situation: We consider Russia to be a long-term threat to transatlantic security — not only to Ukraine, not only to Europeans, but to transatlantic security as a whole.”

Finland launched the border fence initiative after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a landmark conflict that prompted the historically neutral Nordic nation to join NATO in April 2023.

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Moscow has long viewed NATO’s eastward expansion as a direct security threat, using it to justify reinforcing its Western defenses. 

When Finland officially joined the alliance, Helsinki saw an immediate reaction. Over 1,300 migrants without visas arrived at its eastern border.

Finland accused Moscow of weaponizing migration as an act of “hybrid warfare,” a charge the Kremlin denied.

Closing the border checkpoints has proven “very effective,” Hakkarainen noted. Beyond physical barriers, Finnish lawmakers passed the Border Security Act. 

The temporary law allows border authorities to restrict asylum applications and turn back migrants if a foreign actor attempts to destabilize the country by funneling people across the border.

While the law sparked some initial debate over potential human rights and international law violations, Hakkarainen emphasized that national defense took priority.

“We take these concerns very seriously,” he said. “But national security and our own sovereignty … weighed more heavily in this conversation, though there is broad majority support for the act.

“We take our security and preparedness very seriously. 

“I would say not despite that, but because of that, we are able to lead very normal lives here — regardless of the neighbor we have.”

The lone juror who declined to acquit Lindsay Clancy has said he never wavered in his belief that she should be found guilty, despite fellow panel members urging him to support a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity in the deaths of her three children.

The juror, identified by NewsNation as Michael P. Desronvil, said he had no uncertainty about a guilty verdict, contradicting previous comments from jury foreperson Roni Carlson.

Desronvil claimed that he was repeatedly interrupted when he attempted to lay out alternative interpretations of the evidence during deliberations, saying his concerns were rooted in what had been presented at trial.

Still, he told NewsNation that the physical evidence, testimony from key witnesses and the prosecution’s case led him to conclude that Clancy understood her actions and had planned to kill her children: five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan.

Speaking separately with Ray Marcel of Fugitive TV, Desronvil said he remained convinced that Clancy could distinguish right from wrong at the time of the killings.

Marcel said the juror told him that the evidence he reviewed left him certain of Clancy’s guilt. According to Marcel, Desronvil believed she was not legally insane and was aware of what she was doing.

Although Marcel did not air their conversation, he said the holdout juror spoke with him by phone for more than an hour. Desronvil reportedly felt compelled to address the case after other jurors criticized him publicly following the trial.

Marcel said Desronvil believed some public accounts of his role on the jury were incomplete, misleading or false. That included claims that he had harbored reasonable doubt over Clancy’s guilt, an assertion the juror rejected.

Clancy’s trial sharply divided opinion after she admitted strangling her three children, but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. 

The jury ended in a controversial 11-1 deadlock. Podcast host Marcel said the holdout juror told him their 40-hours of deliberations were contentious from the outset. 

Since the verdict, there has been a wild social media race to identify him publicly. 

NBC Boston published details of domestic violence allegations against him, but did not reveal his identity. They stem from a dispute involving his ex-wife. 

In his phone call with YouTube host Marcel, the juror explained his decision to convict was based on ‘preparation she [Clancy] did’ before killing her children, including sending her husband Patrick out for errands before attacking the kids. 

The holdout juror also said he had been stunned by the vitriol he faced after he voted to convict Clancy, and felt the backlash from his fellow jurors was because he was a ‘black Republican,’ Marcel claimed.

After NBC Boston that the holdout juror was accused of domestic violence, which he was arrested but never prosecuted for in 2021, questions swirled over how he was admitted to the case – as potential jurors are required to disclose if they have ever been arrested or charged with a crime in the past.

Marcel said the holdout juror insisted that he never lied to the court, and he ‘checked the box he was supposed to check’ on juror questionnaire forms, but was selected anyway. 

He said the holdout juror told him the allegations stemmed from a turbulent ‘fraudulent marriage,’ and their relationship rapidly deteriorated when Desronvil allegedly discovered she was an illegal immigrant. 

‘He didn’t know that, and he told me that’s pretty much when everything hit the fan,’ Marcel said on his YouTube show. 

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He said the holdout juror told him that his former partner raised domestic violence allegations in retaliation after he filed for divorce.

In 2025, the holdout juror was also alleged to have attacked his nephew by shoving him to the ground and striking him in the face, according to reported restraining order documents obtained by NBC Boston.

The juror was also not prosecuted over that incident, the outlet reports, and Marcel said the juror told him that he did not want to get into those allegations beyond saying that ‘the truth will come out.’

Jury foreperson Roni Carlson previously told NBC10 that the holdout juror ‘admitted he had reasonable doubt,’ but Marcel reported this was disputed.

‘He felt that she was sane when she did it. And that’s exactly what he told me,’ Marcel recalled in an interview with NewsNation. 

Desronvil reportedly insisted that despite the deliberations ending in deadlock, the jury was not unanimously against the holdout juror from the start and their conversations began with just eight jurors wanting to acquit Clancy. 

‘They were doing their best to convince,’ Marcel said, adding that two of the jurors were undecided, and the holdout juror had at least one other person who also believed she was guilty. 

Marcel said Desronvil told him the other juror was on his side ‘until the last moment,’ at which point she ‘caved and voted with the rest.’

‘He said he didn’t know if it was due to the pressure (from the other jurors), but he didn’t care,’ Marcel continued. 

‘He said he knew that she was guilty because of the evidence that he saw. He felt he was not insane at the time and knew what she was doing.’ 

Over 40 hours of deliberations, Marcel said Desronvil told him the conversations grew agitated, and at one point he used a water bottle and a piece of string to demonstrate the force Clancy would have used to strangle her children to death.

‘He tied a string around the water bottle, and did it to set and example and show people, “Imagine the water bottle as their little necks,”‘ he recalled. 

Asked what convinced the holdout juror of Clancy’s guilt, Marcel told NewsNation that he was told that he felt ‘she was sane by the preparation she did’ before strangling her children. 

Marcel told NewsNation the fact Clancy took her time’ strangling each child, some in separate rooms to the other also helped sway Desronvil’s decision.

‘The preparation showed that she was sane and knew what she was doing, pretty much knew right from wrong, before she did what she did,’ Marcel said. 

Marcel explained he decided to share the juror’s perspective amid the huge response and vitriol directed at the holdout juror.

‘No matter if you agree with him or not, his name shouldn’t have been put out there like that,’ the Fugitive TV host said. 

‘No juror should be put to the forefront like that, because it’s their civic duty to do that, and they should be protected. He never asked for any of this whatsoever.’  

A California mother of three was killed in a suspected DUI hit-and-run Tuesday night, allegedly by a driver who had previously been convicted of DUI.

Fernando Saldana, 26, of Escondido, was arrested after Vanessa Wheyland was struck near Redwood Avenue and Carlsbad Boulevard, close to Tamarack Beach.

Authorities said Saldana left the scene following the collision.

“Last night, Vanessa was tragically struck and killed by a driver, leaving behind her loving husband and three children,” Nicole Check wrote in a GoFundMe created for Wheyland’s family.

Wheyland was discovered in the roadway with major injuries shortly before 8 p.m., after what friends said had been a family walk. She was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Investigators located Saldana just over a mile from the crash scene using evidence recovered at the scene, tips from community members and automated license plate reader technology.

His prior DUI conviction is particularly significant in the case. Under California law, prosecutors were able to file a second-degree murder charge under the “Watson Murder” doctrine because of that earlier conviction.

Saldana was also arrested on allegations of leaving the scene of a collision resulting in injury or death, driving under the influence causing injury or death, and gross vehicular manslaughter.

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“Vanessa was a devoted wife, an incredible mother, and a cherished friend whose love and presence touched so many people,” Check wrote.

A proud San Diego State University graduate, Wheyland was also the CEO of Wheyland Electric, a prominent electrical contracting company serving Carlsbad and the wider San Diego area.

The Carlsbad Police Department has not released any information regarding Saldana’s citizenship status. He was booked into the Vista Detention Facility and is set to face a judge Friday.

One Instagram user pointed to California’s laws after Wheyland’s death, writing: “So sad- CA needs tougher deterrents and stronger laws.”

The deadly crash has also fueled frustration among neighbors who told NBC 7 they have seen several crashes along the roadway, including fatal crashes, with each loss devastating the community.

A memorial has been set up for her at Tamarack Beach, where loved ones plan to hold a vigil Thursday night.

“Her family was her entire world, and this devastating loss has left everyone who loved her heartbroken,” Check wrote.