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September 2, 2008

Lucy & Desi's Long Lost Grandchild?

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They continue to charm worldwide audiences in "I Love Lucy" reruns -- now a woman is claiming Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz hid a love child that would have ruined their public image!

According to the NY Post, Cassandria Lucianna Carlson, 38, believes she's the granddaughter of the comedy duo -- and that her mother was put up for adoption before "I Love Lucy" aired -- reportedly to prevent ruining Ball's plans for stardom.

While no DNA test has been conducted to examine Carlson's lineage claims, she insists she has evidence to support them -- including a memory of being visited by Lucille herself!

Desi Jr. and Lucie Arnaz, the couple's two children, did not respond to the Post's request for comment.


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This woman is crazy!From what I know about this story and about the REAL Lucille Ball, it is IMPOSSIBLE!
1-Lucille Ball`s biggest dream was to have a kid, and by the time, she`d reather have a kid than to have a big, wonderful career.
2-That woman would already have had shown up a long time ago.Our country is goign through a bad time now, I`ll bet you she wants money so she can have something to eat tomorrow!
3-She keeps on comparing her kid to Desi.Pardon me, but he does not has a single sell that look like Desi.None of them look like the Arnaz/Ball.
4-She is making such a big deal out of it, and my god, she must be making millions.That must be why she keeps on with this story.
5-Even if she was a real Arnaz/Ball, She should keep her mouth shut, and stop boathering everyone!
Well, I cloud stay here the whole night saying why the is NO WAY AT ALL she is an Araz/Ball, but I have to go!
Sincerely,
Amily J.

Side note:
She is just a big stalker.Be carefull people!Some day she might be following you around just because you had achance to read this!—;-p


- Emily J.
Posted 12/23/08 05:47 PM
 

I look just like Lucille Ball,and I know for sure I am not her granddaughter.so many people in this world look like someone, remember we all have a 100 twins.


- Anonymous
Posted 11/02/08 03:15 PM
 

cassandria is living in a dream world!!!! lucy and desi wanted children desperately.they would have given up fame and fortune quickly to have a child.anyone who does not believe that does not know one thing about lucy and desi.cassandri wants a free ride!!karen in hagerstown md. and a dedicated fan of both lucy and desi.


- karen stine
Posted 10/21/08 04:31 PM
 

one more personal attack on Julia.
family theraphy that is kind of deep.
Do you people know that if Julia was trying to get a knew carreer that all this stuff comes up about her.I read all these comments, and I must say if I wanted to hire Julia, I probably woulnt.
There has been so many personal attacks on her character,from her fake nieghbors,to fake drug counslors,
I know for a fact a drug counslor
would not say those this to a woman in recovery,and I am one of Julia’s nieghbors,so thats how I know they are fake,just yesterday Julia and her husband helped our nieghbor get to the hospital because her husband had just died 15 min earlier,and also when our nieghbor Cathy’s husband died Julia was the first one to bring her a tray a bkd ziti,and that ment so much to Cathy.
All Julia ever said is that she does not believe this story, and how can you blam her it is very far fetched. 20/20 now I would love to see this story get on that show just to see how Mr’s Carlson answers all these allegations. I do not know 100 percent if this is true or not true, but me just like Julia and all the other skeptics are only stating facts they read about lucille during the time of pregnancy.


- Anonymous
Posted 10/21/08 06:53 AM
 

@Lottie: You can read all you want. When people want to keep secrets they go to every means available to keep it under lock and key.
Look at how Governor Palin hid her pregnancy from her entire staff!!!! Not one person knew she was pregnant, let alone with a DS infant.

People can research Lucy’s movie history all they want to see if she was out of work. This decision was obviously between her and Desi. They may have desparately wanted a baby but they were separated so often, who knows why they made their decision.

Physical characteristics are a giveaway and the child looks just like Desi. Her hair started out blond, as some children’s do but she later turned into a brunette and as a teen even looked like Lucie Arnaz. You can’t beat that for proof. Plus, the PI that was hired believed the evidence he saw.


- Kim
Posted 10/18/08 12:16 PM
 

@lucyfan: An actress back then hid a pregnancy the same way Loretta Young did. Everyone is acting as if this isn’t plausible. Well look at the pictures.

I don’t know if the woman is Lucy’s but she sure as hell is the spitting image of Desi Arnaz, Sr. and his kids. Even as a teen, she and Lucie resemble.

Fans don’t want to know the personal stories about celebs unless they happy go lucky stories all the time. Well, sometimes they have skeletons in their closets too.
Jack Worthington is saying he’s JFK’s son and the resemblance is soo strong. His mother told him of his paternity but I believe she didn’t think it would go public. Now she’s denying the story.
As for this Julia girl. She needs family therapy and it should include her father, Desi, Jr. Goodness.


- Patti
Posted 10/18/08 11:55 AM
 

Oh please. Has anyone see a picture of this womans’ mother?!! She looks exactly like Desi and his kids with Lucy. There’s no doubt in my mind she is who she says she is. No doubt. I hope someone comes forward so she can get the DNA out of the way and tell the REST of this story.
Lucille Ball was all about her career. I’m a fan but personally, her children were raised by nannies. She and Desi were workaholics. There’s nothing that can be done about that now. Celebrities do have personal lives and decisions to make and sometimes we find out things about our parents that we didn’t know.
It took years for Desi, Jr. to even acknowledge his daughter and it was odd he came to paternal realization after his daughter was about to help Ms. Carlson. This woman wants nothing from the Ball/Arnaz estate, just acknowledgement.
This story should be on 20/20.


- Kim
Posted 10/18/08 11:12 AM
 

wrong, I live in CA and yes you can be granted the death certificate w/out the birth certificate,this story is so over!and really old. Jim


- Anonymous
Posted 10/06/08 08:41 PM
 

I re-read the pages of the Kathleen Brady bio, that deal with this time period and there is nothing there that says Lucy was holed up in her home for months with only a couple of friends visiting her during this time. The pages, for anyone who is interested, are in chapter 11, 154-157. Rather than hinting that she was pregnant during this time, Brady notes that Desi wasn’t around much, and tells the story about how badly Lucy wanted children, doting on the babies of her friends and sobbing over her inability to have her own (pages 155-156).

Also, if Carlson and all her friends claim to have all these documents and other “proof” why didn’t they offer it when they came out with this story? All they offered, apparently, was a birth certificate with another woman’s name (Helen Barnes) on it. Where are the baptismal certificates, birth certificates, photos, etc., that you claim exist, Auntie Lanie? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? If you have them, go to court and ask a judge to demand a DNA test, rather than going on and on with this proposterous nonsense. If Carlson really respected the Arnaz family, she would hire a lawyer, go quietly off to court and save herself the embarrasment. P.S. Neither Lucie or Desi, or any of their combined four biological children was blond or had freckles.


- Lottie
Posted 10/01/08 08:02 AM
 

All will reveal itself in due time. Very soon. Some one will be eating crow soon. Very soon. Just wait and see. Yawn, you people are so far behind.


- Anonymous
Posted 10/01/08 06:09 AM
 


HAVE FUN TRYING TO GET BLOOD OUT OF A STONE…..
ITS NOT LONELY AT THE TOP, ITS JUST TWO CROWDED AT THE BOTTOM!!!


- Anonymous
Posted 09/27/08 01:37 PM
 

Hello every one I have not posted in sometime.but I have been reading and keeping up.first I would like to say everyone is welcome to jamestown:) its open to the public,you do not have to be invited.second I wish the Carlson family well w/ there new baby to come:)
third, I am not pressing charges,yes this did take a big toll on me and thank god I did not go to my old habits,the harassment has stoped so I will leave that alone, anyhoo I have to focus on a very important test I have been studing for tomarrow.and I have been bonding so much w/ my step mommy and wonderfully funny father.all this has mad me so so so much closer to the Arnaz family.So when the other side thought they were hurting me, they only brought me much closer to everyone on my father side of the family:) so agian thanks.oh and thank you everyone who stuck up for me, some I knew, and some I did not.see you all in Jamestown at the next festival:) truly Julia Arnaz


- Julia arnaz cook
Posted 09/26/08 07:36 AM
 

SO WERE ARE YOU HISTORIAN ?
Dint think, so your afraid to give your name so that we can google to see if you are in fact a historian.
Boy this story gets more clear, it is just not true, I hope the Arnaz’s get you for fraud, and harassment!!especial poor Julia,the way you all attacked her.I am someone who goes into Jamestown every year,I hear Julia is going their very soon,and then she will also be invited to the next festival. {INVITED} So many fans cant wait to meet her, and I am one of them!


- Anonymous
Posted 09/26/08 06:02 AM
 

“ICONIC” is obviously this wacko, trying to reinvent herself yet again. She just never stops trying to reappear under new identities.


- Anonymous
Posted 09/25/08 08:50 PM
 

Iconic, are you ironic?
why dunt ya call yourself Xavier Cugat or sumptin?
he was always in the background but never seen.
are ya too scared to reveal your true self?
“It’s a moo moo.” that is what i’m hearing from you. jibber jabber. eek ork gravitz!
Oh, i know, you are from mars? WOMEN FROM MARS, that’s it.
Hum……i think that Julia is a really beautiful person. she’s gorgeous.
Pst..come here. Do you wanna bargain? are you interested in some high class beef?
i bet i could persuade you since you are so easily led.


- Caroline Appleby
Posted 09/25/08 03:15 PM
 

- Iconic

Is this from Johnna


- Anonymous and Proud of it
Posted 09/25/08 10:35 AM
 

I am Sorry, But I do not think the alleged and the real granddaughter Julia,look anything alike.look for your self.Julia always has her profile open.she has nothing to hide!


- Anonymous
Posted 09/25/08 07:49 AM
 

Yeh, the book’s are ALL WRONG !!!!SURE.
Then how did she do out takes for Her Husband Affairs at 8 MONTHS PREGNANT
in 1947?!?! Your full of it historian, if that is what you are, why dont you give your full name and we can look into the fact that you are indeed a real historian.We are working w/ real historian’s and they sing a different song.


- Anonymous
Posted 09/25/08 06:16 AM
 

As a historian, I have been following this diligently (it’s part of my research project.) The Devita child is rumor there are no facts at all surrounding the child. We’ve pulled all kinds of public information on her and know that she’s a DEVITA born child. Period. The Devita child allegedly born 2-3 years before Lucille’s leg incident which happened when she was in her late teens this is according.

As historians we have pulled photos of the alleged Devita child and she and all the Ball-Arnaz’s including the “alleged” and there are no resemblances at all not a one. The Devita child is Italian and looks nothing like Lucy at all or any of the Ball Hunt side. Not like Madeline looked like Lucy and Lucie.

You are correct Dream Girl did begin in LATE June 1947. It is FACT that Lucille had her dresses altered by Harriet during the filming of Husband’s Affairs. Studio noted it. Why have them let out? It’s all very suspect.

I have been keeping up with the “alleged” granddaughter on her myspace. She’s apparently laying low as she’s found out she’s w/baby and in delicate condition.

I saw a photo she recently posted of Madeline and Lucie Arnaz. They could almost be twins like Julia and the alleged. It’s scary how much they all look a like on that side of the family.

I don’t like to reference the books, as they seem to be all over the place. Here’s what I found.

In the book “Love, Lucy” edited (mind you edited) by Lucie where according to Hannah Hoffman the book was cut more than 35 pages of original text by Lucie. Lucille Ball references her ONLY six-month vacation-ever in her life where she was not under contract with any studios in early 1947 to late June 1947. She then flew out to NY to make it to the Dream Girls start which Lucille took over in very late June 1947 if not the last day in June.

In the book “Lucille” by Kathleen Brady, Brady stated that Lucille’s coming and goings got very hard to track from late 1946-1951 and that most of what is written was questionable as Lucille was not under contract with the exception of Dream Girls in 1947-1948. It’s also stated that Lucille’s radio appearances were pre-recorded. Most of Lucille’s visible footwork from November 1946-June 1947 was minimal at that. Brady also stated that Ball during May to June 1947, would not allow anyone to her house and suffered from a nervous breakdown and did not want anyone to see her other than two very close friends who stayed with her during that time who forever remained close confidants to Ball.


- Iconic
Posted 09/25/08 05:42 AM
 

THIS LADY IS CRAZY SHE NEEDS TO BE LOCK UP IF SHE HAD ANY PROOF IF I BELEAVE I WAS HER GREATGRANDCHILD I GET NA TESTING SO WHY DON’T SHE BECAUSE IT WOULD NE NEGTIVE I DON’T BELEAVE THAT THEY WOULD GIVE UP A CHILD KNOW MATTER WHAT THEY BOTH LOVED THERE KIDS EVEN WHEN THEY GOT DIVORCE CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE THIS OFF THE INTERNET ITS A DISGRACES TO THEM THEY ARE TURNING OVER IN THERE GRAVES ARE URN. MARTHA IN TUCSON I ALWAYS LOVE THEM BOTH ONLY ONE QWESTION WHY DIDN’T THEY PUT LUCILE IN THE TV SHOW JUST ARNAZ JR. I’M GLAD THERE KIDS DIDN’T REPLY TO THIS I STILL WATCH THEM I WISH THEY WOULE SHOW ALL THE ONES MADE IN 1957 IN THE COUNTRY.


- martha
Posted 09/24/08 04:05 PM

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