Joseph Baena, the son Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered with former housekeeper Mildred Patricia Baena, was reportedly not invited to his half-brother Patrick Schwarzenegger’s wedding to Abby Champion on Sept. 6 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, according to a TMZ report cited by Daily Mail.
The report said Baena, 31, who has pursued bodybuilding and acting, did not appear on the guest list for the ceremony. Arnold Schwarzenegger shares Patrick and three other children with his ex-wife Maria Shriver.
The family’s fractured public history dates to 2011, when Schwarzenegger and Shriver announced their separation on May 10 and revealed days later that the actor and former California governor had fathered a child with a longtime household employee more than a decade earlier. Joseph Baena did not learn that Arnold was his father until he was 13.
In the immediate aftermath, Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement saying he had told his wife about the past event after leaving the governor’s office and that he took "full responsibility for the hurt" he had caused. Shriver filed for divorce on July 1, 2011. In later interviews, Schwarzenegger described the episode as a source of regret and emphasized efforts to maintain relationships with his children.
The family has appeared publicly at some events in recent years but in ways that underscored continuing distance. At the premiere for Schwarzenegger’s series FUBAR in June, the actor posed in one group photograph with the four children he had with Shriver and later posed separately with Baena, a moment observers interpreted as a visible separation between the half-siblings.
Baena’s absence from Patrick Schwarzenegger’s wedding follows a pattern of limited public interaction between him and his half-siblings, according to reporting. The wedding drew attention because of the extended family’s high public profile and the lingering public memory of the 2011 revelations.
Statements confirming guest lists or family decisions about invitations were not included in the reports. The details published derive from a TMZ account summarized by Daily Mail; no independent confirmation from representatives for the family was provided in those reports.
The 2011 disclosure prompted widespread media coverage and legal filings at the time; since then, members of the Schwarzenegger family have occasionally addressed the episode in interviews, describing it as painful but stressing ongoing parenting and family ties. The recent wedding and reports about who was invited have renewed public interest in the private dynamics of one of Hollywood’s most prominent families.