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Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan has become a father for the first time, after his partner Chloe Mendel gave birth to a baby boy.
According to People magazine, Mendel gave birth last month (16 November), but news of the new arrival only became known this week. The couple have reportedly named their child Augustus Juppiter Corgan.
At 48, this is Corgan's first child. It's also (unsurprisingly, given that the artist is just 22) Mendel's first.
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Back in October, a month before his son was born, Corgan quit Twitter in order to launch a new project - a Tumblr of photos of people and their cars.
In other news, Corgan has also spent the year touring with Marilyn Manson, looking sad at Disneyland and loathing the current state of guitar music.
