F-TROOPER STORCH LIED ABOUT WIFE’S BIRACIAL DAUGHTER
BELOVED F Troop actor Larry Storch died July 8 at 99, but he leaves behind a shameful family secret — he unloaded wife Norma Greve’s biracial daughter on Black neighbors to raise!
What’s more, the comic actor ALSO sent out for adoption an out-of-wedlock baby he had with future wife Norma!
Stepdaughter June Cross, now 68, was four when the Storches asked a middle-class
Black couple in Atlanta to raise Norma’s darkskinned child.
Even when the girl visited Storch and her real mom in Hollywood, they continued to lie about her identity!
“In those days, people were encrusted in prejudice,” Storch once explained. “We saw no reason to rock the boat.”
And in 1948, many years before their 1961 wedding, Larry and Norma gave up another secret child — this time for adoption. That daughter, Candace Herman, later reunited with the couple that spurned her over fear that bad publicity would wreck the aspiring actor’s career.