Charlie Chaplin’s son has insisted his father ‘fell in love with a lot of young ladies’ but he ‘wasn’t forcing them to have sex’.
The comedy pioneer had four wives, marrying Mildred Harris, then 16, when he was almost 30, Lita Grey, just 16 at the time, when he was 35, Paulette Goddard, then 26, when he was 47, and Oona O’Neill, aged just 18, when he was 53.
Michael Chaplin, 77, the second child and eldest son from Charlie’s