10 Famous Directors You Didn't Know Had Really Weird Fetishes

5. Charlie Chaplin Had A Big Thing For Young Girls

Charlie Chaplin is often lauded as one of the greatest geniuses in all of cinema, and such claims are not without reason: he was one of the first great filmmakers in the history of the medium, after all, and he produced some of the most beloved motion pictures ever made. That said, he had a totally uncool fetish for girls of the "younger" variety. Whilst he claimed to have slept with more than 2,000 different women during his time at the top, Chaplin married the 16-year-old actress Mildred Harris in 1918. When that relationship died a horrible death, he entered into an illegal relationship with 15-year-old Lita Grey - and then married her quickly to avoid being prosecuted because she was underage. So well known was Chaplin's lust for young women that some of his partners even pretended to be younger than they were in order to woo him. Actress Paulette Goddard, for example, told Chaplin that she was 17 when she was really 22. It's all very, very weird.