The hell of being wed to Charlie Chaplin

CHARLIE Chaplin was a charmer and a joker on the silver screen, but married life with him was hell, according to his teenage wife back in the 1920s.

Lita Grey, who married him when she was 16, described in divorce papers how the star of silent films seduced her while she was underage, got her pregnant and made “degrading” sexual demands.

An original copy of the 1927 divorce papers filed by Grey has emerged, the Times of London reports. The papers are now being sold by British company Parade Antiques.

The 50-page document, discovered in an abandoned bank in Los Angeles, includes claims that Chaplin first seduced the actress when she was 15 and he was 35. The statement claims that after she became pregnant at 16 and refused his demand to have an abortion, her mother threatened to report Chaplin to police unless he married her.

They wed in 1924 when she was still 16.

Grey claimed in the document that Chaplin made “revolting, degrading and offensive” sexual demands and forced her to perform acts that were illegal in California at the time.

The details helped Grey land the world’s then-largest divorce settlement of $825 000.

After the marriage ended, Grey went on to marry three more times and died in 1995.

Chaplin wed twice again and died in 1977 at age 88. NO JOKE: Charlie Chaplin got Lita Grey pregnant at 15