She was to reveal the affair in her autobiography but she feared a lawsuit

When I first heard about this couple from someone who worked in Hollywood during the golden era I was at first dumbfounded but then it made sense considering who is involved. The man was a mogul whose name and creations you see everywhere on any given day. The lady was an A-list actress and Oscar winner. Both were married when they first met in the mid 1930s and started their decades long affair. She privately told friends that he was the father she never had.