Report alleges daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young was the product of date rape

One of Hollywood's oldest scandals is making headlines once again.

BuzzFeed is reporting that the love child of legendary actor Clark Gable and screen siren Loretta Young was the product of an alleged date rape.

Loretta Young, probably best known for "The Loretta Young Show," famously became the center of a scandal when it was revealed by her daughter Judy in the mid-nineties that her biological parents were Young and "Gone With The Wind" star Clark Gable.

See Clark Gable through the years:

Gable and Young met while co-starring in 1935's "The Call of the Wild."

Young confirmed in memoirs released after her death that her daughter's adoption story was false and that her biological father was actually Gable - who was married at the time.

Now, Young's daughter-in-law tells BuzzFeed that in 1998 Young claimed that she was date raped by her co-star after learning what the word meant.

Linda Lewis said that after her mother-in-law asked what "date rape" meant, she said "I did the best I could to make her understand."

According to Lewis, Young and her daughter Judy had a tumultuous relationship centered around the question of her parentage. Judy revealed the truth about Gable being her father in a book published in 1994 when she wasn't on good terms with her mother.

Lewis says Young elected not to tell her daughter about the revelation of the alleged date rape because it "wouldn't help" her. Judy died in 2011 never hearing about the allegations.

Why Linda Lewis decided to come forward with these claims nearly 5 years later is a bit unclear. None of the parties involved: Gable, Young or their daughter are alive to refute the story.

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