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Charlie Chaplin: FBI File for "White Slave Traffic Act" Investigation Lengthy carbon copy report prepared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and submitted to the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, 42 pages, 8 x 10,5m November 9, 1943. The header notes: "Title: Charles Spencer Chaplin; Mary Louise Gribble, with aliases: Joan Barry, Joan Berry, Mary Louise Berry, Joan Barratt, Mary L. Barratt, Joanne Berry, JoAnne Berry—Victim. Character of Case: White Slave Traffic Act." The synopsis documents the history of Chaplin's affair with Berry, an aspiring actress, in part: "Charles Spencer Chaplin, Hollywood film comic, met Victim Joan Berry about June of 1941, placed her under contract 3 weeks later to Chaplin Studios and about the same time had sexual intercourse with her, instructed her in dramatics, with the assurance that she would be featured in a picture...in June, 1943, her mother, Gertrude E Berry, filed a civil suit against Chaplin, charging that he was the father of Joan's yet unborn child. On 10/2/43 Berry gave birth to a baby girl which she claims is the result of intercourse with Chaplin on about 12/23/42. Instant suit still pending and blood tests to be given the baby and Chaplin 4 months after birth of Berry's child." The document goes on to offer extensive background information on Chaplin and his association with Berry, as well as other figures connected to the case, and contains allegations of intoxication, drug use, homosexuality, stalking, and abortion. Other celebrities referenced in the report include J. Paul Getty, Oona O'Neill, Orson Welles, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Tyrone Power, Paulette Goddard, and Louise Brooks. In overall very good to fine condition, with old tape stains and repairs to the first and last pages. Charlie Chaplin was charged with violating the Mann Act, previously called the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, which made it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of 'any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.' Chaplin met Joan Barry, age 24, in 1941. After signing her to a $75-a-week contract for a film he was putting together, she became his mistress. By mid-1942, Chaplin let her contract expire. To send her home, Chaplin paid her train fare to New York which led to this investigation and, ultimately, his arrest. The highly publicized trial ended with Chaplin being acquitted of the Mann Act charges, though he was found to be the father of Barry's child in a separate paternity suit. This episode tarnished Chaplin's public image and contributed to his increasing difficulties with the U.S. government.

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Charlie Chaplin: FBI File for "White Slave Traffic Act" Investigation Lengthy carbon copy report prepared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and submitted to the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, 42 pages, 8 x 10,5m November 9, 1943. The header notes: "Title: Charles Spencer Chaplin; Mary Louise Gribble, with aliases: Joan Barry, Joan Berry, Mary Louise Berry, Joan Barratt, Mary L. Barratt, Joanne Berry, JoAnne Berry—Victim. Character of Case: White Slave Traffic Act." The synopsis documents the history of Chaplin's affair with Berry, an aspiring actress, in part: "Charles Spencer Chaplin, Hollywood film comic, met Victim Joan Berry about June of 1941, placed her under contract 3 weeks later to Chaplin Studios and about the same time had sexual intercourse with her, instructed her in dramatics, with the assurance that she would be featured in a picture...in June, 1943, her mother, Gertrude E Berry, filed a civil suit against Chaplin, charging that he was the father of Joan's yet unborn child. On 10/2/43 Berry gave birth to a baby girl which she claims is the result of intercourse with Chaplin on about 12/23/42. Instant suit still pending and blood tests to be given the baby and Chaplin 4 months after birth of Berry's child." The document goes on to offer extensive background information on Chaplin and his association with Berry, as well as other figures connected to the case, and contains allegations of intoxication, drug use, homosexuality, stalking, and abortion. Other celebrities referenced in the report include J. Paul Getty, Oona O'Neill, Orson Welles, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Tyrone Power, Paulette Goddard, and Louise Brooks. In overall very good to fine condition, with old tape stains and repairs to the first and last pages. Charlie Chaplin was charged with violating the Mann Act, previously called the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, which made it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of 'any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.' Chaplin met Joan Barry, age 24, in 1941. After signing her to a $75-a-week contract for a film he was putting together, she became his mistress. By mid-1942, Chaplin let her contract expire. To send her home, Chaplin paid her train fare to New York which led to this investigation and, ultimately, his arrest. The highly publicized trial ended with Chaplin being acquitted of the Mann Act charges, though he was found to be the father of Barry's child in a separate paternity suit. This episode tarnished Chaplin's public image and contributed to his increasing difficulties with the U.S. government.

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