Christina Crawford Lied

  JOAN CRAWFORD'S DAUGHTER WINS SUIT AGAINST SISTER ELLIOT GROSSMAN, The Morning Call THE MORNING CALL November 25th, 1999 Two daughters of legendary actress Joan Crawford continue to have a strained relationship, but their local court dispute appears to be over. Cathy LaLonde of Allentown, Crawford's adopted twin daughter, has been awarded $5,000 plus court costs for public statements Christina Crawford wrongfully made about her. LaLonde and Christina Crawford were among four children adopted by Joan Crawford. The others were Cynthia, the other twin, and Christopher. Christina Crawford told interviewers last year that LaLonde was not a twin, just a girl who looks like Cynthia. She made the statements while promoting a new edition of " Mommie Dearest ," her best-selling 1978 book about her Academy Award-winning mother. A panel of three arbitrators issued the decision Nov. 4 after a one-hour hearing in Philadelphia, lawyers for both sides said this week. Neither side p...

 JOAN CRAWFORD'S  DAUGHTER SUES  SISTER FOR DEFAMATION   ELLIOT GROSSMAN, The Morning Call THE MORNING CALL July 21st, 1998 Christina Crawford, author of the controversial biography of her mother, the late actress Joan Crawford, is at the center of controversy again as the defendant in a lawsuit filed by her sister, who lives in Allentown. In the suit filed Monday in federal court, Cathy LaLonde alleges that Christina Crawford repeatedly made defamatory statements about her on a book tour last spring. Christina Crawford allegedly made the statements while promoting a new edition of " Mommie Dearest ," her best-selling 1978 book about her Academy Award-winning mother. For decades, LaLonde, 51, has been known as one of Crawford's adopted twin daughters. But Christina Crawford told interviewers that LaLonde was not a twin, just a girl who looks like another adopted daughter of Joan Crawford named Cynthia. Christina Crawford made the statement to People Online, the websi...