Description |
32 pages ; 21 cm |
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Note |
Title from cover. |
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"As a warning to maidens as to what may be expected from union with a rich but much older man, we are publishing this"--Cover. |
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"Being an exact and complete copy of the allegations of one of the youngest wife and mother complainants ever to place on record her grievances against an older husband: of his extraordinary and immoral demands on her before, during and after her becoming a mother: of his public and private allegations against her: altogether the most sensational divorce plea ever made before the superior court of Los Angeles, California."--Cover. |
Summary |
Privately printed edition of the divorce complaint of Lita Grey Chaplin. In 1924, when she was 16 years old, she became pregnant by Charles Chaplin, who was then 35. Chaplin, who could have been imprisoned for having sexual relations with a minor, married her in secret in Mexico to avoid a scandal. The marriage lasted three years before collapsing in a sensational divorce in 1928 which was one of the most sensationalized media scandals of its day, with Chaplin hit with the largest divorce settlement ever awarded. The legal complaint, with details of the star's sexual life, infidelities and proclivities as published here. |
Subject |
Actors -- United States.
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Actors' spouses.
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Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
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Chaplin, Lita Grey, 1908-1995.
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Actors. (OCoLC)fst00796296
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Actors' spouses. (OCoLC)fst01738926
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977, defendant.
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Chaplin, Lita Grey, 1908-1995 plaintiff.
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