Gary Oldman's son Gulliver writes open letter on domestic abuse allegations: 'It didn't happen'

Son of Oscar-winning actor and former model Donya Fiorentino says his father is 'the man I aspire to be one day'

Gulliver Oldman (left) with his father Gary and younger brother Charlie (Getty)

Gary Oldman’s son Gulliver has penned an open letter in which he defends his father’s character, after it was questioned by media outlets over allegations of domestic abuse.

Gulliver Oldman, the 20-year-old son of the Oscar-winning actor and former model Donya Fiorentino, criticised “clickbait journalism” for reporting on an incident he says “did not happen”.

His statement was published after the Daily Mail resurfaced an interview with Fiorento who called her four-year marriage to Oldman a “nightmare”.

Fiorentino also spoke with TMZ in the wake of her ex-husband’s Oscar win where she said: “Congratulations, Gary, and congratulations to the Academy for awarding not one but two abusers with Oscars” – referencing Dear Basketball writer Kobe Bryant, who denied allegations of rape in 2003. “I thought we had evolved. What happened to the #MeToo movement?”

“It has been troubling and painful to see that these false allegations against my father [are] being written about again, especially after this was all settled years ago,” Gulliver Oldman wrote.

“In the case of my father, there is only innocence. There never has been any guilt. The reality is confused in excerpts, and published half truths from years ago.

“Saddly (sic), heartbreakingly, all of this is revisited in a very recent interview of my mother by a reporter at the Daily Mail – despite all of this having been thrown away and discredited as false years ago.

“For me to write this letter is direct proof of this. Custody of children is not given to a wife beater, and under most circumstances, hardly ever a man. My having lived, full time with my father should be in itself, proof enough.

“My father is my one and true guiding light. My only hero. He is the man I aspire one day to become. If I could only become even half as great and half as pure. I was granted the good graces of his fatherhood as a child to be raised by him and only him. For that I am eternally grateful every hour of every day. I owe him the world and I owe him my life.

“If it appears that publicly speaking ill of my mother [is] something I am either fond of, or accustomed to, that is not the case. She has been a sad and very troubled person most of her life. Yes, she brought me into this world. She didn’t however, teach me how to be a part of it.”

He added: “My brother and I both have played the role of pawn on numerous occasions throughout our lives in a big game our mother has been desperately trying to play against our father. On all such occasions, the only retort my father has had is the truth. Always, and thankfully so, the truth is on his side.”

Gulliver Oldman noted how he supported the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements but was “there at the time of the ‘incident’, so I’d like to make this radiantly clear: it didn’t happen. Anyone who says it did is lying.”

You can read the full statement via Variety.