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Joan Crawford seemed to have it all: a 45-year career in the movies, an active love life, marriages to magnates and movie stars, and four beautiful adopted children. Then, in 1977, she died - and the public began to realize all had not been quite right. Her daughter Christina, disinherited in her will, published a shocking memoir of child abuse the following year. What was it called? |
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It's harder for celebrities to hide their parenting mistakes these days, with camera crews swarming the streets of Los Angeles. In the first year of her first son's life, this pop singer was photographed driving with him on her lap; encountered child protective services when he fell out of his high chair; and almost dropped him on a cobblestone sidewalk. Oops! Whose errors in judgment cost her in her custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline? |
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Most parents, worrying about what might happen to their children after a parent's death, plan carefully so that things will be taken care of. Then there are the parents who don't. When James Brown, Godfather of Soul, died of complications of pneumonia in 2006, what surprise did his will reveal? |
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As a group, celebrities have long been famed for giving their children outlandish names. Some of these names are so outlandish that gossips and celebrity watchers label them cruel: they imagine the star parents must be knowingly condemning their children to a lifetime of teasing, awkward explanations, and difficulty filling out forms. Which of these oddly named children is NOT correctly matched with his or her celebrity parent? |
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A stable, loving home is generally agreed to be best for any child, but that was something this movie star just couldn't provide. In 1958, one of the "Imitation of Life" actress's violent arguments with her boyfriend so frightened her daughter Cheryl that the child intervened to defend her mother - fatally. Which classic film star thus found herself mother to a fourteen-year-old on trial for murder? |
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Great actors, even if they become enduring icons of masculinity, are not always emblems of fatherhood. When his adult son pled guilty to manslaughter in 1990, this famous actor tried to make amends, testifying at the sentencing hearing that he and his former wife had been bad parents. Who was this Hollywood leading man, who said "Sayonara" in 2004? |
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Michael Jackson - once renowned as the King of Pop - came under fire later on for his interactions with the children of strangers, and his raising of his own children has also caused controversy. In 2002, he landed in the tabloids for holding his infant son out over a balcony railing, above a crowd of fans. But he wasn't completely blind to the baby's best interests. How was the child protected? |
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Parents normally try to protect their young children from the harshest facts of life -- so it is, to say the least, horrifying when a parent inflicts a double tragedy on his or her offspring. Which of the following celebrities was NEVER accused of murdering his wife or ex-wife, the mother of his child or children? |
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All too often non-celebrities aren't great parents either. Kit was a former Broadway actor who saw his child's chance to make it big - but his management did his son's career more harm than good. "Getting Even With Dad" as a teen, his son pursued legal independence from his parents in order to keep his earnings safe, leaving him "Home Alone." Who is Kit's son, one of the most successful child stars ever? |
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Here's a writer, actor and director whose films explore the heart of New York City, and whose own heart has gotten him into trouble. In 1992, his twelve-year relationship with an actress ended bitterly when his girlfriend discovered his revealing pictures of her 21-year-old daughter; he married the daughter five years later. Who is this badly-behaving almost-stepfather? |
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