around three. a toddler, basically. he didn t know until the kid was, i think two or three. greta: was there some sort of testing that was done? i assume he s probably going to deny it. does edye night this is his child at all? apparently not now. at some time, did he? i m not aware. i don t know if they took a dna test. what i do know is arnold generously, is the word i was told, took care of this child and mildred, his mistress. he financially took care of them throughout this young man s life. whether or not that is admitting it or not if you start paying for the child it is sort of an admission. greta: why did arnold schwarzenegger suddenly decide that he needed to tell his wife about this? i take it he didn t get hit with a sense of moral
website. we should point out, we re not naming the child in this case, of course. we should also tell you it was the new york times that we are giving credit for for mildred patty baena, the name of the mistress that is coming to us. harvey, thank you. the job market still rough but there are good-paying jobs out there, if you have right training, if you need a job. well, you need to listen to this.
he told maria shriver, for some reason he told her. i m curious, was he worried that mildred resurfaced and said i m going to tell your wife or some newspaper article. something had to have happened last january. great point. i m not sure what happened between them. you are right tell maria a while ago. it is very interesting that s how it happen. all i know is that one of the reasons that arnold decided to say it was true because he felt pressure from the media that the story could be out there. i don t know whether anyone had an inkling it was happening. i know talks were happening. i don t know, i get the feeling that no one in arnold s life knew about this, including maria, which is unbelievable you could keep a secret like this for that long. greta: governor schwarzenegger has blown up his marriage, hurt his children beyond ward words and
conscience. the story started to leak out. we were working on it three, four days before it was made public. the l.a. time broke the story. they the l.a. times broke the story. greta: he told her months ago. there must have been some provocation. did the woman said she was going to out him? or some of the newspapers trying to get after him. she has known about in for several months and it was quiet. something caused schwarzenegger to tell her several months ago. from what i hear, there was discussion between arnold and mildred, the mistress about the situation. actually, i m told mildred got calls several times from the media and denied it, leading up to the fact when it was published. i think there was [ talking over each other ] greta: i understand all that went on in the last few days or few weeks. if you go back to january when
birth records show that the two were born less than a week apart. so close in age that, in a christmas photo taken in 2000, and obtained by tmz, there is arnold, there is the housekeeper, but the little boy on her knee could be christopher or could be her son. patty baena continued to work during her pregnancy, meaning the two women must have crossed paths when they were pregnant and after. one of them knew schwarzenegger s secret, the other didn t. baena divorced her husband three weeks after her son was born. on the birth certificate she listed her then-husband as the boy s father. but in the divorce papers she maintains she and her husband had no children together. last spring, the week schwarzenegger voted in the california primary for his successor, his housekeeper was buying this $270,000 retirement home in bakersfield. we spoke with the next door neighbor who said the realtor let slip that the buyer had some help with the financing.