Dolores Chaplin: "My grandfather Charlot was a gypsy, but he kept it a secret". Charles Chaplin died in his mansion in Switzerland on Christmas Day 1977.
He was 88 years old and had a secret that he never wanted to reveal. His wife Oona O'Neill, 36 years younger, survived him for 14 more years without knowing that mysterious episode in the life of her husband. Upon the death of her mother, when her heirs proceeded to distribute the belongings of the house, they found a letter that no one had knowledge of.