illegitimate child
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They included a similar $150,000 hush-money payment to another woman, and $30,000 paid to a Trump Tower doorman who supposedly knew about an alleged illegitimate child of Trump's.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023
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
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
Sargon himself was born an illegitimate child and was, at one point, a royal gardener who worked his way up in the palace, eventually seizing power in a coup.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 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
