Arnold Schwarzenegger flees LA amid love child scandal, mistress says ex always knew son wasn't his
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Schwarzenneger has fled Hollywood amid revelations of his extramarital affair, secret love child.LOS ANGELES - The man on the birth certificate of Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child has always known he wasn't the boy's biological father, a lawyer for Mildred "Patty" Baena claims.
In a sharply worded letter sent to "Entertainment Tonight" and obtained by the Daily News, lawyer Michael Saltz wrote that Rogelio Baena "abandoned" his wife for another woman in 1989 and was out of the country when the Schwarzenegger housekeeper became pregnant in 1997.
"Thus, Mr. Baena knew then, just as he knows now, that he could not possibly have been the boy's father," Saltz wrote in the letter, first reported by TMZ.com.
The letter was sent after Rogelio Baena, 61, told Entertainment Tonight in a two-episode interview that he learned just "one week ago" that his ex-wife's youngest son was not his own.
"Angry. Very, very angry" was how he described his reaction to Entertainment Tonight. "Arnold Schwarzenegger, for me, was my hero. Now I feel betrayed."
Saltz said Rogelio Baena never contributed financial support and was the one who asked that the boy's name not appear in the couple's 2008 divorce filing.
"Mr. Baena had demanded that no children be identified on said divorce papers so that his efforts to obtain citizenship in the United States would not be thwarted by his public failure to pay child support," Saltz wrote.
He called Rogelio Baena's claim of betrayal "poorly contrived."
"Mr. Baena could not possibly have ever suspected that he was the young boy's father, and his conduct establishes that he never tried to be," he wrote.
Schwarzenegger, 63, admitted last week that he fathered a child with a household staffer, saying "there are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused."
The embattled ex-governor decamped to his house in Sun Valley, Idaho, this week to give his family "some space," a source told the News.
"He though it was appropriate to give his family some space and some time," the Schwarzenegger source said.
"He has been in contact with his (immediate) family regularly by phone," the source said, "but there's a lot of media attention in Los Angeles, and he didn't want his presence there to affect their privacy as well."
A photo of Schwarzenegger riding his bike in the mountain resort city appeared on TMZ.com.
Despite his intentions, his physical absence did little to stem the constant stream of stories surrounding his sordid sex scandal.
The National Enquirer quoted an alleged hotel security guard Wednesday who claimed Schwarzenegger used California Highway Patrol vehicles to ferry girls in and out of the Sacramento Hyatt during randy romps while he was governor.
The hotel said it had no record of the man ever working there.
Meanwhile, Gigi Goyette, a Malibu actress who has claimed for years that she had a long-term affair with Schwarzenegger under the nose of wife Maria Shriver, told Extra TV that their dalliance started when she was just 16.
The Extra interview included an apology to Shriver.
"I am very sorry for the mistakes I made in the past and for being intimate with your husband," said Goyette, who first sold her story to the National Enquirer in 2001. "I would hope that you would forgive me for that."
Schwarzenegger's lawyer Marty Singer questioned her credibility.
"She's just a person who wants to make money selling stories," Singer told People.com
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