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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If so, it is plausible that he would have tried to have his father's mistress and her illegitimate daughter painted out of history.

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They had an illegitimate daughter, then married and had two sons.

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The illegitimate daughter, Cosette would be an orphan.

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Senator Strom Thurmond was a virulent defender of racism but treated his own illegitimate black daughter with great kindness and thoughtfulness (although he never publicly acknowledged her).

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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.

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