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"To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe."
.... suicide note (1944), actress Lupe Velez, age 36.
In the mid-1940s, Lupe had a relationship with the young actor Harald Maresch, and became pregnant with his child. However, other reliable accounts place Gary Cooper, with whom Lupe had had a romantic relationship for years and up to her death, as the father of her unborn child, either making her alleged suicide note bogus, or Maresch only a scapegoat. Unable to face the shame of giving birth to an illegitimate child, she decided to take her own life. She retired to bed after taking an overdose of sleeping pills. According to newspaper accounts, her body was found on her bed surrounded by flowers, as she had wished.
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