illegitimate child
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Or take my favorite subject, Grover Cleveland, who was the target of huge headlines claiming, inaccurately, that he’d fathered an illegitimate child.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
That last relationship eventually produced an illegitimate child and the first ever kiss-and-tell book about a president, which Britton published in 1927.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2022
As for Chief Buthelezi, he dismissed the princess as "an illegitimate child of my cousin, King Cyprian", and described Prince Mbonisi as someone who the king used "to run errands".
From BBC ● May 5, 2021
In letting the case proceed, Gardephe cited the 1997 conviction of Autumn Jackson for trying to extort $40 million from Cosby in exchange for not revealing she was his illegitimate child.
From Reuters ● Jan. 6, 2020
Maybe she had an illegitimate child, and her father— No. It’s Solomon she is crying for, not a baby.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
