Who are Julian Assange’s children – Daniel, Gabriel and Max? The WikiLeaks founder has finally reunited with his wife Stella Assange and kids in Australia as a free man, after a 14-year legal battle

Jul 2 , 2024

Julian Assange is finally free to reunite with his wife Stella and two young children, Gabriel and Max. Photos: AP, @MoreBirths/X

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has seen his youngest children with Stella Assange for the first time outside of prison after reuniting with his family in Australia

Julian has three children that we know of, though former WikiLeaks colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg claimed he has multiple ‘love children’ because he liked the idea of ‘lots and lots of Julians’

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is finally a free man, reuniting with his family in Australia last week after pleading guilty to violating US espionage law. He arrived by private jet at Canberra airport where his wife Stella Assange, members of the media and supporters awaited him as they cheered on in their droves, Reuters reported.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has returned home to Australia to start a new life after admitting he revealed US defence secrets in a deal that allowed him to walk free. Photo: AFP

Assange, who has been embroiled in a 14-year legal battle for his freedom, is considered by some a journalistic hero for exposing abuses by US armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan on his WikiLeaks platform. In 2010, WikiLeaks released footage of US soldiers shooting dead Iraqi civilians and two Reuters staffers in Baghdad, which caused public outrage against the US government.

WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson (left) and lawyer Stella Assange (right), wife of Julian Assange, walk outside the High Court in London during WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange’s extradition appeal in May. Photo: EPA-EFE

His arrival in Australia follows more than five years in a British high-security jail and seven years in asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, per Reuters. The Guardian reported that CIA officials under then-president Donald Trump had even discussed abducting and assassinating Assange during the years he was sheltering at the Ecuadorian embassy.

After years of protests for Assange’s release, the news is considered a win – however, some argue that him having to plead guilty for doing his job as a journalist sets a chilling precedent for future whistle-blowers and reporters. “That is a really alarming precedent. It is the sort of thing we’d expect in an authoritarian or totalitarian country,” said Andrew Wilkie, an independent Australian lawmaker, per Reuters. If his extradition to face court in the US had gone through, he would’ve faced a maximum of 175 years in prison, NPR pointed out.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange embraces his wife Stella Assange as he arrives in Canberra, Australia, on June 26. Photo: Reuters

It won’t be an easy transition either, after years of confinement.

“Julian needs time to recover, to get used to freedom,” his wife Stella said at a press conference at a hotel in Canberra. “I want Julian to have that space to rediscover that freedom.”

“This case is an attack on journalism, it’s an attack on the public’s right to know, and it should never have been brought,” she added. “Julian should never have spent a single day in prison. But today we celebrate, because today Julian is free.”

Here’s what we know about Julian Assange’s family, who he has finally reunited with: