Headline
Charlie Chaplin's Fortune: No Intention of Dividing it
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1920-10-30
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Publication Year
1920
Page
3
Summary

A peace parley that had been arranged between Charlie Chaplin and his wife Miss Mildred Harris who were to have met in the office of the comedian's lawyer recently, did not take place. Threats she had made to 'tie up' his property, and observations on his alleged Bolshevism, had angered Mr. Chaplin, and at the last moment, he refused to meet her. Mrs. Chaplin's counsel talked of applying for an equity receivership on Charlie's real and personal property, which he valued at £1,600,000, and intimated that the wife would claim 50 percent of it. Charlie's counsel contended that this could be done. 'The only way she can get any money is by a suit for desertion or non-support, or alimony in separation or divorce action. She cannot claim non-support, because I understand she is making £300 a week in the movies.' Charlie Chaplin protested emphatically that he was no Bolshevik. 'They believe in dividing property, don't they?' he said. 'Well, I don't intend to divide my property with anybody, and I want the whole world to know it.'

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