What about DNA testing?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Chaplin
tedmccarron — 11 years ago(October 09, 2014 02:02 AM)
Since the advent of DNA testing, wouldn't it be possible to exhume his body to see if that girl he had to pay child support for was really his daughter? They've exhumed bodies for less and this is a historical curiosity.
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nrangerseven — 11 years ago(November 30, 2014 12:32 AM)
sighit is NOT a historical curiosity. It was proven by blood test that he wasn't the father. At the time blood tests weren't acceptable in California courts as proof. What would be the point of wasting the money to exhume the body? Everyone (except you) already knows he wasn't the father. It's not like the girl is going to give the money back.
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baja_rosa82 — 11 years ago(December 04, 2014 09:26 AM)
They wouldn't have to exhume the body. Paternity could be determined thru any of Chaplin's children. The paternity test would finally prove, without a shadow of a doubt, clearing his name. Chaplin's 2nd wife Lita Grey asserted that Charlie had paid corrupt government officials to "tamper with the blood test results". However Joan Barry was also sleeping with billionaire oil tycoon John Paul Getty at the same time she was dating Charlie. So maybe if Getty was the father then the daughter would be entitled to a hefty inheritance.
At least the case brought about a change in law although 22 years later (btw one year after Chaplin had finished paying 21 years of court ordered child support) making blood test admissible in court. According to Wikipedia regarding the Chaplin case "The perceived injustice of the ruling later led to a 1965 change in California of civil procedure to allow blood tests as evidence".
IMO it was probably neither man that's why the the Child didn't go after either mans estate for more money once she was an adult. -
sage2112 — 10 years ago(October 06, 2015 09:05 PM)
lol it was totally proved he was not the father (even at the time). It was just that they didn't let the "newfangled" blood tests be admissible in court. Do you people watch these movies that you comment on?
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ShooShooFontana — 9 years ago(July 16, 2016 09:55 AM)
Can we at least agree that Joan Barry was a no-class, trashy slutty tramp?
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