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Patricia Douras Van Cleve (June 8, 1919 [2] – October 3, 1993), known as Patricia Lake, was an American actress and radio comedian. Presented as the niece of actress Marion Davies, she was long suspected of being her natural daughter, fathered by publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Shortly before her death, her son claimed that Lake revealed she was the biological daughter of Davies and Hearst. [73] There was never any public comment on her alleged paternity in public, even after Hearst's and Davies' deaths.
Patricia Van Cleve Lake, “the only daughter of famed movie star Marion Davies and famed (publisher) William Randolph Hearst,” was dead.
Feb 14, 2021 · In 1993, Davies’ niece Patricia Lake claimed on her deathbed to actually be Marion’s daughter, fathered by Hearst and born in a French “chateau of some sort or a little private hospital.”
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Oct 3, 1993 · Many reference books state that Lake's parents were Marion Davies' sister Rosemary and her first husband, George Van Cleeve, but after her death in 1993, Lake's family claimed that she was actually the daughter of Davies and Hearst, born during a trip the pair took to France in 1923.
In 1993, the estate of Patricia Van Cleve Lake (wife of Arthur Lake) revealed, upon her death, that she was actually the child of Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst. Van Cleve had been raised by Davies' sister Rose and had always been introduced as her niece and Lake as her nephew.
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Patricia Lake. Self: The Kate Smith Hour. Patricia Lake was born on 18 June 1919 in Paris, France. She was married to Arthur Lake. She died on 3 October 1993 in Riverside, California, USA.
