Mariska's PATERNITY BOMB SHELL!

A DECADESLONG FAMILY SECRET IS FINALLY REVEALED

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Mariska Hargitay's extraordinary family story is the stuff of Hollywood folklore. In 1967, at the tender age of three, the star was left motherless when her screen-siren mother, Jayne Mansfield, died in a tragic car accident – the very one that gave Mariska her now-iconic facial scar.

The death of the bombshell movie star, her devastated widow and the five children she left behind was a tale that dominated the news for years to come. But there was more to the story.

Mariska, now 61, has lifted the lid on an explosive secret Jayne took to her grave – she had a love child, and Mariska was it!

Last week at the Cannes Film Festival, the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star made her directorial debut with the documentary