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Separate Planes. With his wife Oona and his huge family, Chaplin lives in the village of Vevey in a 15-room villa called Manoir de Ban, staffed by 13 servants, including two nannies. From its 69 acres of grass and gardens, the Chaplins have a panoptic view of Lake Geneva and the Mont Blanc range. They seldom go out to mingle with the Swiss, whom Charlie calls "those natives." (Englishman that he is, he has never learned the local French.) But visitors of all sorts make pilgrimages to Manoir de Ban-from old Hollywood cronies to such distinguished guests...
Charlie's greatest fame in recent years has been his steady siring of children. He has seven by his 36-year-old wife of 18 years*-and she is pregnant again. Oona believes in natural childbirth, a technique she learned with the last baby. Enthusiastically, she declares that all their future children will be delivered by natural childbirth, too. Oona is Charlie's fourth wife, but the first who could manage...
...comes close to worship; she has a closet full of Balenciagas, but she often dresses severely, perhaps to appear nearer her husband's age. Around the house, she wears slacks and sweaters, her hair rubber-banded in a ponytail. Terribly shy, she hates to leave the grounds. Oona is a beautiful woman, with the dark, unfathomed look of her father, Eugene O'Neill...
...London's Royal Ballet School, pursuing her dream of becoming a ballerina, was Geraldine Chaplin, 17, eldest daughter of Comedian Charlie and his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill. A month and a half of the Royal Ballet's rigorous training had presumably not yet readied the Chaplin family's latest gift to the stage for Covent Garden. But with her combination of her father's elan and her mother's exotic beauty, Geraldine was decidedly ready for Degas...
...early discovered that most European women had only two choices in buying jewelry: either the impossibly expensive or the gaudily cheap. Her own pieces sell for as little as $4, rarely cost more than $120. Torun's clients include Sweden's Princess Margaretha, Ingrid Bergman, Juliette Greco, Oona Chaplin and Duke Ellington. Once, in Biot, an 80-year-old washerwoman stopped Torun in the street and said: "I saw your daughter Pia wearing a lovely necklace. Would you make one like it for my daughter?" Happily, Torun...