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Lita Grey — second marriage and divorce 207
and his wife, Princess Xenia of Russia, he met Long Island socialites. In New York he took long solitary walks about the city.
On June 1, 1927, Lita and her lawyers decided to force action. They threatened to name, in court, the five women with whom Chaplin had allegedly been intimate during his married life with her. Though Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in a 1931 thumbnail sketch of his friend, declared that Chaplin "likes nothing better than to be referred to as a Don Juan," Chaplin shrank from this opportunity to indulge himself. According to Carl Robinson, Chaplin gave in mainly to protect these actresses, whose careers, in the then prevailing public temper, would have been ruined by the scandal. He agreed to a cash settlement. Lita withdrew her sensational complaint and asked for an interlocutory decree on the single charge of cruelty. Chaplin's cross complaint was dismissed by the court.
After twenty minutes on the stand, Lita received a six hundred thousand dollar settlement, the custody of the children, and a two hundred thousand dollar trust fund for them. Chaplin was allowed to see his sons. Lawyers on both sides received plenty. The divorce was granted August 22, 1927.
To finish the Lita Grey saga. After European trips with the children, she entered vaudeville and filled nightclub engagements billed as Lita Grey Chaplin. At various times she was reported engaged to >Roy D'Arcy, Phil Baker, and Georges Carpentier. In 1936 she married Henry Aguirre, Jr., and two years later Arthur F. Day. There were further court skirmishes over the handling of the children's trust fund. In 1932 Chaplin prevented her from putting the boys in the movies. They were in uniform in World War II and have since sought stage careers.