Washington, July 11 : American film star Morgan Freeman is not going to marry his step-granddaughter, his publicist has said.

The denial from the actor's publicist comes as a reaction to reports suggesting that the Shawshank Redemption star, 72, is romancing 27-year-old E'Dena Hines.

A report published by U. S. tabloid the National Enquirer recently suggested that the two of them were planning to wed, after the finalisation the actor's divorce from his second wife Myrna Colley-Lee.

However, according to Contactmusic, Freeman''s spokesman Dave Falkenstein has now said that there was no truth in that story, and branded it "complete garbage". (ANI)