Arnold Schwarzenegger Enjoys Cigar Amidst Fan Excitement Outside NYC Hotel, Following Disagreement with Rob Lowe over Maria Shriver’s Divorce

Arnold Schwarzenegger emerged from the Loews Regency New York in Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Wednesday with a cigar firmly in his mouth.

The Austrian-born 76-year-old bared his biceps in a dark-brown Polo shirt tucked into light-brown pants and dark-brown boots.

Arnie has been hard at work in the Big Apple promoting his self-motivational book Be Useful: Seven Tools For Life, which Penguin Press published on Tuesday.

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Schwarzenegger proved his star power hasn’t faded by immediately getting swarmed by fans and autograph seekers.

The former California Governor made sure to have his silver-haired bodyguard by his side to protect him.

Oral fixation: Arnold Schwarzenegger emerged from the Loews Regency New York in Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Wednesday with a cigar firmly in his mouth

Arnold stopped by the Barnes & Noble on Fifth Avenue to attend a book signing, gushing on Instagram: ‘I love meeting my fans! What a fun event at @barnesandnoble in New York. Let’s build a positive army of useful people!’

Schwarzenegger – who’s graced the cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine three times – is said to love Cuban stogies so much he smokes two a day.

The FUBAR producer-star was originally introduced to cigars by his former father-in-law Sargent Shriver in Hyannisport, MA way back in 1977 after falling in love with his daughter Maria Shriver.

But Arnold’s 25-year marriage to the 67-year-old journalist notoriously ended in 2011 after she discovered he’d secretly fathered now 26-year-old son Joseph with their housekeeper Mildred ‘Patty’ Baena during a ‘one-night stand.’

‘Arnold and Mildred don’t hang out, don’t talk very often, or at all, but he makes sure that she is okay and finds out how she is doing through Joseph, and it is all done matter of factly,’ a source told DailyMail.com exclusively.

‘He loves that Joseph has a great relationship with her, and though that affair ended his marriage with Maria, he respects her as the mother of his child. He still is there for Joseph, for any advice he might need. But his day-to-day life doesn’t involve Mildred at all.’

In this Thursday’s episode of Literally! With Rob Lowe, Schwarzenegger playfully ribbed the 59-year-old host for taking sides with Maria in their first real reunion since the divorce.

‘I think she got custody,’ Rob smiled in ET’s sneak peek.

Strut: The Austrian-born 76-year-old bared his biceps in a dark-brown Polo shirt tucked into light-brown pants and dark-brown boots

Author duties! Arnie has been hard at work in the Big Apple promoting his self-motivational book Be Useful: Seven Tools For Life, which Penguin Press published on Tuesday

Still got it! Schwarzenegger proved his star power hasn’t faded by immediately getting swarmed by fans and autograph seekers

Muscle: The former California Governor made sure to have his silver-haired bodyguard (R) by his side to protect him

Arnold stopped by the Barnes & Noble on Fifth Avenue to attend a book signing, gushing on Instagram: ‘I love meeting my fans! What a fun event at @barnesandnoble in New York. Let’s build a positive army of useful people!’

Smoker: Schwarzenegger – who’s graced the cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine three times – is said to love Cuban stogies so much he smokes two a day

Blame her dad! The FUBAR producer-star was originally introduced to cigars by his former father-in-law Sargent Shriver in Hyannisport, MA way back in 1977 after falling in love with his daughter Maria Shriver (R, pictured in 1978)

‘You wanted to prove to her that you’re loyal to her and not to me,’ the seven-time Mr. Olympia scoffed.

‘We had a lot of fun [back in the day]. And you came over to the house all the time. I kind of missed all that stuff. But you know, maybe eventually you’re gonna wake up and say, you know, “I can hang out with Arnold again and Maria’s not gonna decapitate me.”‘

Arnold hasn’t graced the silver screen since playing the aging T-800 Carl in Tim Miller’s 2019 sci-fi flick Terminator: Dark Fate, which only earned $261.1M at the global box office after having a $196M budget.

But Schwarzenegger has two upcoming films he shot before the SAG-AFTRA strike, Scott Waugh’s prison thriller Breakout and David Sandberg’s long-delayed sequel Kung Fury 2.

‘No relationship’: But Arnold’s 25-year marriage to the 67-year-old journalist notoriously ended in 2011 after she discovered he’d secretly fathered now 26-year-old son Joseph with their housekeeper Mildred ‘Patty’ Baena (pictured in 2001) during a ‘one-night stand’ 

Aa source told DailyMail.com exclusively: ‘He loves that Joseph has a great relationship with her, and though that affair ended his marriage with Maria, he respects her as the mother of his child. He still is there for Joseph (R, pictured November 6), for any advice he might need. But his day-to-day life doesn’t involve Mildred at all’

‘I think she got custody’: In this Thursday’s episode of Literally! With Rob Lowe, Schwarzenegger playfully ribbed the 59-year-old host (L, pictured in 2020) for taking sides with Maria (R) in their first real reunion since the divorce

The seven-time Mr. Olympia scoffed: ‘You wanted to prove to her that you’re loyal to her and not to me…We had a lot of fun [back in the day]. And you came over to the house all the time. I kind of missed all that stuff. But you know, maybe eventually you’re gonna wake up and say, you know, “I can hang out with Arnold again and Maria’s not gonna decapitate me”‘