Perhaps unsurprisingly, this was nothing more than tabloid fodder.
she joked to Stephen Colbert, continuing, “No.
The former model then detailed how once she met Charlie Chaplin’sactualdaughter, Geraldine Chaplin.
The silent film star had eight children with his wife Oona O’Neil, with Geraldine being the first.
She’s also an actor best known for her role in the 1965 movie “Doctor Zhivago.”
At the time,“The Way Home” actordidn’t approach Geraldine to set the record straight.
“The Tramp” actor did face a paternity suit back in his day, however.
Eventually, a blood test proved that claim to be false.
Nevertheless, Chaplin had 11 children with three of his four wives and numerous affair partners.
Her mother was Pauline “Paula” Johnston, and her father was Marion St. Pierre MacDowell.
Unfortunately, the Hallmark actor had a particularly rough upbringing.
A few years later, MacDowell’s father left the family, never to return.
Sadly, her mother passed away two years later, when MacDowell was 23.
