Mr Toledo, for example, has been linked to a pyramid savings scandal, and is alleged to have abandoned an illegitimate daughter.

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The illegitimate daughter, Cosette would be an orphan.

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Born in 1028, William was the illegitimate son of Duke Robert I of Normandy and a young woman called Herleve, the daughter of a Falaise tanner.

BBC: 9 September