TO APPEAR IN COURT
FILM STAR CHARGED WITH ASSAULT N&W YORK, October 22. A Los Angeles message says two charges of assault have been preferred against Errol Flynn, the Australianborn screen star. Flynn is due to appear in court to-morrow on a charge of having assaulted Betty Hausen, aged 17 years, after a party on tho night of September ■ 29. Last night Flynn was charged with having assaulted Peggy Satterlee, aged 17, during a week-end trip on his yacht on August 3, 1941. Police records show that the girl’s mother reported the affair to the district attorney, bub that she and her daughter disappeared before a complaint could be issued. Flynn was born at Hobart in June, 1909,. and became an American citizen last August. He was rejected for military service because of a lung ailment. He married Lili Damita, also a film star, in May, 1935, and she divorced him last April, retaining _ custody of their son, Sean. Under Californian law the age of consent is 18.
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Evening Star, Issue 24334, 24 October 1942, Page 4
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168TO APPEAR IN COURT Evening Star, Issue 24334, 24 October 1942, Page 4
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