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George Lucas and his girlfriend Mellody Hobson are engaged.

The Star Wars director, 68, proposed to the DreamWorks animation chairman, 43.

Hobson has been dating Lucas since 2006.  This will be her first marriage, but the second for Lucas.  He had been previously married to film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, with whom he adopted a daughter, Amanda, before their 1983 divorce.  Lucas also has two other adopted children.