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"Denise Richards reportedly wanted to keep her recent adoption &amp;quot;extremely quiet&amp;quot; from the media.  A representative for the Wild Things actress revealed this week that she has adopted a newborn baby girl named Eloise Joni Richards from the US.  A source told US Weekly that the adoption process &amp;quot;has obviously been going on for quite some time&amp;quot; but that Richards wanted to keep the news from leaking publicly in order to maintain her family&amp;#039;s privacy.  Richards is said to have decided to make the announcement about baby Eloise so that she could &amp;quot;leave the house&amp;quot; with her new daughter and older children Sam, 7, and Lola, 6, from her previous marriage to Charlie Sheen.  &amp;quot;The whole family is thrilled. Denise is a fabulous mother and the girls are great big sisters,&amp;quot; the insider added.  Richards and Sheen, who divorced in 2006, were recently involved in a dispute after Sheen attempted to win full weekend custody of the girls but was denied. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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