Charlie Chaplin loved only younger girls!
Although he has slept with more than 2,000 women, many consider him a great gentleman.
Today, at a time when more content is being produced in 24 hours than was available in all libraries of the world hundreds of years ago, and at a time when information is circling the globe in less than a second, it is impossible not to know the dark secrets of Hollywood. Some actors succeeded in hiding them for decades. Numerous scandals of the once greatest movie stars result in the regular cancellation of further engagements, but some stars have successfully hidden their sins under the rug.
One of the greatest in the history of film, arguably the biggest star of silent films, and one of the most talented comedians of all time is Charlie Chaplin. He is one of those for whom we can wonder how would end up his career if he had reached the modern age. Although he most often played the perfect gentleman on movie screens, in reality, he was a man who adored young girls. And there may have been nothing wrong with that when he himself was only a few years older than them, but his penchant for a certain age of the women he was in a relationship with remained present until the end of his life.
He relentlessly boasted of his conquests and claimed to have slept with more than 2,000 women in his lifetime. And he was far from simply unsuccessfully searching for happiness in love. When reporters in interviews asked him to describe his ideal wife, Chaplin regularly replied that he wasn’t exactly in love with her, but she was therefore completely in love with him. But what he did not explicitly say was that his ideal wives were significantly younger than him. When he was 25, he embarked on his first relationship that captured public attention with his 19-year-old colleague Edna Purviance.
Four years later, when he was 29, he met 16-year-old child actress Mildred Harris. Completely in love with her, he ruthlessly sent her flowers and waited for her in front of the studio where she worked. The two soon became lovers, got married, lost a child, and divorced.
Shortly after the divorce, he fell in love with 15-year-old child actress Lita Gray. He met her for the first time when she was only six years old. He helped her to get a role in the film The Kid (1921) when she was only 13 years old. In 1925, Lita became pregnant as a teenager. Although Charlie asked her to have an abortion, she refused. In their short marriage, two sons were born, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1927.
Unsurprisingly, Charlie was not single for long. He soon fell in love with another young actress, Paulette Goddard. She was 22 while he was in his 40s. In 1936, they spent their summers together in Asia and got married. Six years later, they realized that they were not for each other and decided to divorce.
By then Charlie was already in his 50s and it seemed like his romantic life was coming to an end, but at the age of 54, he met 18-year-old Ona O’Neill, the daughter of American playwright Eugene O’Neill. The two of them got married, had eight children together, and lived happily ever after. Charlie seemed to find his true love, despite being 36 years older than she.
