Joan Collins has called her son Sacha Newley’s claim that her ex-husband Anthony Newley was a paedophile “extremely naive”. Artist Sacha told The Sunday Times that his father “was a paedophile. But actress Collins told Good Morning Britain: “I think that Sacha’s being extremely naive and not really knowing the meaning of that word because what Tony admittedly was, is he loved young women and young women of 17, 18, 19 years old. Actor and singer-songwriter Newley, who died aged 67 following a battle with cancer, was Collins’ second husband. Sacha, 52, told the newspaper that he believes his father’s 1969 film Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe And Find True Happiness?

Source: Evening echo November 27, 2017 09:11 UTC