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Article: The Little Tramp who was really a monster.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2002
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Byline: GLENYS ROBERTS
Secret files reveal how Charlie Chaplin's lust for young girls nearly cost him his knighthood...
HE WAS the image of appealing innocence on screen - but Charlie Chaplin, the 'Little Tramp' and star of so many brilliant films, had a predatory love-life which centred on underage girls.
If he could not find a young starlet to deflower, he would prowl the streets until he found any girl with whom he could have his way.
This compulsion worsened whenever he was making a film, as his creative powers fuelled an already insatiable sex drive.
In a magic moment in his 1925 masterpiece The Gold Rush, Chaplin, in ...