In the 1940s,
Gypsy Rose Lee was in love with the theatrical impresario
Mike Todd, who produced two Broadway shows starring Lee, "Star and
Garter" and "The Naked Genius"). She married
Alexander Kirkland in 1942 in an
attempt to make the already-married Todd jealous. They divorced in
1944. While married to Kirkland, she had a brief fling with
Otto Preminger.
The fruit of their affair was a boy named Erik Lee, who has been known
successively as Erik Kirkland, Erik de Diego and Erik Lee
Preminger.