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To: sinanju
Wasn’t he the guy who had a retarded child and basically sent him off to be institutionalized and pretended he didn’t exist? Or am I remembering the wrong guy?
8 posted on 11/11/2007 2:31:55 PM PST by DB
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To: DB

“Playwright Arthur Miller hid the existence of a son with Down’s syndrome for decades, but then quietly included him in his will weeks before his death.

The playwright committed the baby boy to an institution when he was a week old and cut him out of his life, failing even to mention him in his memoir, Timebends.

The child, named Daniel, now 40, is the son of Miller’s third wife, the late Inge Morath, a Magnum photographer whom he met on the set of The Misfits, when she was taking pictures of Marilyn Monroe, his second wife.

The secret son is the younger brother of Rebecca Miller, the actress and Personal Velocity director, who is married to the actor Daniel Day-Lewis. Quoting friends and family, Vanity Fair magazine suggests that an “appalled” Day-Lewis, who played a disabled person in his breakthrough role in My Left Foot, may have pressed Miller to renew contact with his son in the late 1990s.

Six weeks before his death in 2005 at the age of 89, Miller wrote a will and signed confidential trusts leaving Daniel a share of his estate equal to his other three children – Rebecca, and Jane and Robert, his son and daughter from his first marriage to Mary Slattery.”


10 posted on 11/11/2007 2:36:18 PM PST by sinanju
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To: DB

No. Did you confuse the child with the father?


16 posted on 11/11/2007 3:10:39 PM PST by 359Henrie (38 million illegals create a big carbon footprint. The real inconvenient truth.)
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