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DJ Quentin Mosimann Reveals He Is Father After Volunteering as Sperm Donor

A skin-to-skin moment at the birth prompted him to abandon a notarized 'no rights' agreement after which he legally recognized the child.

Overview

  • Mosimann publicly disclosed on Wednesday, June 24, 2026 that he is the father of a two-year-old daughter named Hayden, in a France Inter radio chronicle and an Instagram post.
  • He says he offered to be the sperm donor for his best friend and manager, Maud Brooke, who was pursuing a solo PMA (medically assisted procreation) process after several years of attempts.
  • Before the birth the pair signed a notarized agreement stipulating the donor would have no rights or obligations, a pact Mosimann says he intended to honor at first.
  • At the child’s birth a midwife asked him to do skin-to-skin, which Mosimann describes as an immediate, overwhelming emotional shock that led him to ask to recognize the baby and to change the earlier arrangement with Brooke’s consent.
  • The decision, kept private for about two years, highlights shifting family forms and raises public attention to how emotional moments can prompt voluntary legal and parental reversals in assisted-reproduction cases.