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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3021828/Charlie-Chaplin-s-divorce-papers-reveal-film-star-s-cruel-inhumane-treatment-teenage-bride-short-lived-marriage.html

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Charlie Chaplin's divorce papers lay bare the film star's 'cruel and inhumane' treatment of his teenage bride during their short-lived marriage.

Chaplin's union to Lita Grey, who was nearly 20 years his junior, lasted just three years. 

The iconic film star was said have bedded the impressionable 16-year-old after promising her marriage and then tried to convince her to have an abortion when she fell pregnant.

On the pairs wedding night Chaplin was also said to have confided in friends that the union was a better prospect than prison.

An original copy of the couples 50-page divorce papers was set to fetch an estimated £15,000 when it goes under the hammer, after being found in America.

She got $800k as a settlement in 1927. Anyone know what $800k would be worth  today?



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Hollywood.  Misogynistic and corrupt, then and now.

Who's surprised?
Character still matters.  It always matters.

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Hollywood.  Misogynistic and corrupt, then and now.

Who's surprised?
Not me, yet I had heard years ago how awful of a human being he was.


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Charlie married a 16 year-old?

That little tramp.
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