November 8, 1940
Los Angeles Examiner
Damita Files Suit for Divorce from Flynn
On the reef of “grievous mental and physical anguish” tge tempestuous kiss-and-makeup marriage of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita seemed wrecked without hope of salvage, yesterday.
The piquant Miss Damita, who only a few months ago became a mother, filed suit for divorce from the swashbuckling star.
Throughout their six years of marriage, the handsone Ulsterman and the dainty Lili have separated on numerous occasions, and even after they separated last August 1 friends had believed there might be another reconciliation.
The statement accompanying Ms. Damita’s divorce complaint, that an out-of-court property settlement had been effected, indicated that the last chapter in one of Hollywood’s most turbulent love stories had been reached.
Miss Damita, who sued under her legal name of Liliane Carre Flynn, charged that:
“The defendant gas inflicted a course of great and grievous mental and physical anguish and suffering, and has been guilty of extreme cruelty.”
The actress asked custody of their five month old son, Sean Leslie Flynn.
Flynn, who earns $6000 a week now, is limited to a budget of $12,000 a month pending settlement of a financial battle with Myron Selznick, his former agent.
Miss Damita, before her marriage to Flynn at Yuma on June 19, 1935, was one of the most courted beauties in the world. Her admirers included the Duke of Kent, in his bachelor days, Prince Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern, Hugo Brassey, British millionaire, Sidney Smith, New York broker, and many other men of wealth, fame, or both.
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Here is Lili’s Published List of Casualties:
Duke of Kent
Prince Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern
Hugo Bassey
Lili’s Alleged Engagement with Hugo Bassey
Sidney Smith
— Tim
