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After a five-year legal battle to reclaim his son, David Goldman and nine-year-old Sean Goldman finally returned to America together Thursday—and they did so in style, on a private jet chartered by the NBC television network. "It is now time for our new beginning, the rebirth of our family at such a special time of the year," Goldman said in a written statement. "I hope the momentum keeps growing and the attention does not fade because there are more fathers and mothers and children to reunite." Goldman's late ex-wife, Bruna Bianchi, took their son to Brazil in 2004 on a purported vacation only to phone Goldman asking for a divorce. Her family claimed the boy after she died, and her new husband, a leading attorney, sought to prevent Sean's father from reclaiming him. A judge in Brazil ruled on Tuesday that the boy belonged with his biological father.