Schwarzenegger Admits to Fathering Child (and more)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/17/california.schwarzenegger/index.html?hpt=T1

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child more than 10 years ago outside of his marriage to Maria Shriver, a source close to the former California governor confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

 

Shriver, who described her husband as an "A-plus human being" when he was accused of sexual misconduct in 2003, called it "a painful and heartbreaking time" in a written statement to CNN on Tuesday.

 

"As a mother, my concern is for the children," Shriver said. "I ask for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and I try to rebuild our lives and heal. I will have no further comment."

 

The revelation, published first by the Los Angeles Times, came about a week after Schwarzenegger and his wife of 25 years announced that they were "amicably separating."

 

"After leaving the governor's office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago," Schwarzenegger said in a statement obtained by CNN. "I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. There are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family. I am truly sorry."

 

Schwarzenegger fathered the child with a household staffer, the Times article said. He has provided support for the child since birth, the source told CNN.

 

The staffer told the newspaper that the child was fathered by her then-husband. She declined to comment after learning of Schwarzenegger's statement, the newspaper reported.

 

The newspaper quoted her as saying she recently retired "on good terms" with the couple after working for them for 20 years.

 

The newspaper said it was not publishing the former staffer's name or that of her child to protect their privacy.

 

The May 9 announcement that Schwarzenegger and Shriver were separating did not mention a reason for the split, but said the decision was a mutual one.

 

"This has been a time of great personal and professional transition for each of us," they said. "After a great deal of thought, reflection, discussion, and prayer, we came to this decision together."

 

The couple have four children together between the ages of 14 and 21.

 

A spokeswoman for Shriver said she would have no comment, the Times reported.

 

After Schwarzenegger and Shriver married in 1986, they became one of America's most famous couples.

 

He was one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, and she was a network news anchor and a member of the Kennedy family, America's storied Democratic political dynasty.

 

Shortly before the 2003 gubernatorial election that catapulted the former actor to political office, however, the Los Angeles Times ran a series of articles in which 16 women accused him of sexually harassing and humiliating them over a 30-year period in incidents on movie sets, at gymnasiums and elsewhere.

 

One of the women said that when she worked with Schwarzenegger on a movie, he pulled up her shirt to expose her breasts and took a picture, and groped her on two other occasions.

 

Rhonda Miller filed a lawsuit, saying Schwarzenegger and his campaign staff tried to discredit her by spreading false information about her.

 

Schwarzenegger said he knew nothing about Miller's allegations and said the timing of the complaints of the 16 women was "rather odd," given that no one had filed a complaint against him in the 35 years that he had lived in the United States.

 

Schwarzenegger issued a general apology for "behaving badly sometimes" but said many of the allegations were not true "because that's not my behavior."

 

Shriver took to the campaign trail to defend her husband a day after the allegations surfaced and just four days before the 2003 recall election.

 

"You can listen to all the negativity, and you can listen to people who have never met Arnold, or who met him for five seconds 30 years ago. Or you can listen to me," she said in a speech to a Republican women's group in Orange County.

 

"I wouldn't be standing here if this man weren't an A-plus human being. I wouldn't be taking my time, I wouldn't have left my job that I love, I wouldn't be doing any of this if I didn't believe in this man."

 

Speaking to reporters after the speech, Shriver described her husband as "an extraordinary man" and took issue with the characterization that he behaves boorishly toward women.

 

"He's honest, he's sensitive, he's sincere. And he is gracious with every bone in his body," she said. "I have met thousands and thousands of women who have come up to me and said they have worked with him, they have worked for him, alongside (him) and he has been an extraordinary gentleman."

 

She also said she thinks it took "tremendous courage to stand up and say, 'I'm sorry if I offended anybody. I apologize. That was not my intention.' "

 

Shriver said then that she was not personally hurt by the allegations.

 

"Nothing hurts, because I know the man that I'm married to," she said. "Has he said and done everything absolutely (right) 100 percent of the time? No. But I don't know anybody on the planet, male or female, who's led a perfect life."

 

"I think it's really important to understand who Arnold is today, and I think it's taken great courage on his part to get into this race."

 

Schwarzenegger, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Austria who gained fame as the youngest winner of the Mr. Universe bodybuilding contest, was governor until January. He has been busy in recent months reviving his acting career and signing movie deals -- including a project to do another installment of his "Terminator" series.

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not surprising, considering this video, he's coming day and night, it was bound to happen.

get your ass to mars

exclusive footage:

awww he's feeding a deer

he's so in touch with nature

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S25Zf8svHZQ&feature=related

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Celebrity gossip. How riveting.

This belongs in the dominant male sex-abuse subforum.

  On 5/17/2011 at 9:03 PM, Obel said:

Celebrity gossip. How riveting.

but WATMM is all about the music, right?

  On 5/17/2011 at 8:53 PM, disparaissant said:

exclusive footage:

Alyssa Milolo

I wonder if she had Twins. Sperminator. Kindergarten Cock. Anything else?

  On 5/17/2011 at 9:42 PM, Gary C said:

I wonder if she had Twins. Sperminator. Kindergarten Cock. Anything else?

Gonan

Red Bonja

Batman and Robin

  On 5/17/2011 at 8:53 PM, disparaissant said:

exclusive footage:

needs more muscle zoom

  On 5/17/2011 at 8:46 PM, Velazquez said:

not surprising, considering this video, he's coming day and night, it was bound to happen.

*buys weights*

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  On 5/17/2011 at 9:03 PM, Obel said:

Celebrity gossip. How riveting.

WILLY IN VAGINA MAKE BABBY.

*jots it down*

what's weird to me is the Kennedy family lineage would stake their reputations on a man who admitted to listening to adolf hitler speeches on vinyl regularly.

Tommy chong from Cheech and Chong said when he smoked weed with Arnold that arnold and his body building friends were really into weed smoking contests, where they would see who could take the biggest monster hit, apparently Chong claims that Arnold always won these contests, and to this day he hasnt seen anybody able to take a single hit as big as arnold

this is something i dont care really at all about, good luck to the child in life though

and every child, good luck to you all

  On 5/18/2011 at 1:24 AM, Awepittance said:

what's weird to me is the Kennedy family lineage would stake their reputations on a man who admitted to listening to adolf hitler speeches on vinyl regularly.

 

Tommy chong from Cheech and Chong said when he smoked weed with Arnold that arnold and his body building friends were really into weed smoking contests, where they would see who could take the biggest monster hit, apparently Chong claims that Arnold always won these contests, and to this day he hasnt seen anybody able to take a single hit as big as arnold

The bonginator?

god i fucking love arnold swaanangenrenger.

Well fuck it. Well done to him sir

haha, I love George Takei, well played

any it's impossible for me not like Arnold, unless we find out he's been raping babies or something. Have you seen Maria Shriver? She's looked like a cadaver for at least 10 years...

Though I still remember an interview early on in their marriage where she talked about feeling so safe in his big muscle-y embrace...lol