The problem was I adopted her, but she didn’t adopt me.” Here is everything to know about Joan Crawford’s four children. Christina was born on June 11, 1939, and was adopted by Crawford ...

“I was born working,” Joan Crawford writes in ... Joan decided to adopt her own child—facilitated, Christina claims, by the gangster Meyer Lansky since adoption by a single woman was illegal ...

Mommie was Christina Crawford’s vengeful recounting of Joan’s less-than-stellar parenting ... and even if her adopted children were privileged – thanks to her – they could not take it ...

The relationship between Christina Crawford and her adoptive ... Unable to bear children, Joan, in 1940, was denied children through regular adoption agencies due to her twice divorced status ...

Joan Crawford, for the record, had died about four years earlier. Everyone knows what happened next: After the star’s will mysteriously but expressly excluded two of her four adopted children ...

Old Hollywood star Joan Crawford was estranged ... to adopt a 5-year-old girl, but the adoption never materialized. Bettmann/ Getty Crawford's oldest child, Christina, alleged that her mother ...

but the adoption never materialized. Bettmann/ Getty Joan Crawford and her children Christine, Cathy, Cindy and Christopher pose for family portrait on November 13, 1950 in Hollywood, California.