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PERSONAL LIFE Grey married 4 times. In 1924 when she was 16 years old, she became pregnant by Charles Chaplin, who was then 35. She is widely believed to be the inspiration for the title character in Vladimir Nabokov 's classic tale '' Lolita ''. They married and had two children, Charles Chaplin, Jr. (1925-1968) and Sydney Earle Chaplin (b. 1926). They divorced on August 22 , 1927 due to his numerous affairs with other women, and he was ordered to pay over $600,000 (USD) and $100,000 (USD) in trust for each child. It was the largest divorce settlement up to that time. The divorce was one of the sensational media events of the time. Copies of her lengthy divorce complaint which made then-scandalous sexual claims against Chaplin were published and publically sold. She later married Henry Aguirre, then Arthur Day, then Pat Long. In the 1970's and 1980's, she worked as a clerk at Robinson's Department Store in Beverley Hills. She died in Los Angeles, California in 1995 of cancer, aged 87. FILMOGRAPHY
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