This was something I ran across accidentally a few months ago, and I happened to think about it again, but have forgotten the details.
What I seem to recall is a baseball owner fathered a child with an actress (1900-1920 time frame). The actress (not a notable name) legally was able to establish paternity. It seemed as though the attorney handling either his estate or the paternity suit died unexpectedly (car accident)?
I just thought (at the time, anyway) that it was one of those stories with interesting twists, and I have no idea what led me there, who the principals were, and what team it was, and now, as Andy Rooney might have said, “It’s bothering me.”
Anyone wanna try? (I thought it was too trivial for FQ).
From what I can find, Ruppert did indeed leave 1/3 of his estate to Helen Weyant, a chorus girl who was 34 years his junior. There does not appear to be any solid evidence that they were lovers, nor that they had a child (and it appears that Weyant’s father was a friend of Ruppert’s) – Ruppert never married, and was childless; the other two-thirds of his estate went to two of his nieces.
Thanks, but I don’t think this was the person. I probably would have remembered if it was the Yankees. Seems the team was a Midwest team, and the child didn’t find out about her parentage until her mother had died, and she had found a note. Probably a dead end with no more clues than I have, and not remembering what circumstances landed me on that press account.