Lord of the Rings’ Sean Astin used a paternity test to learn which of three men was his real father

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As if things weren’t complicated enough, a third potential father to Sean was thrown into the mix. About a year after Sean’s birth, Duke came out to the press and announced that she had had an affair with The Addams Family star John Astin, and that he was her son’s true father.

This in itself also created quite the drama, due to the fact that Astin was still married to his wife Suzanne Hahn at the time of their fling. Sean’s mother explained that she and Astin wanted to wait until his divorce was finalized to break the news. On August 5, 1972, Duke and Astin were wed. During the wedding, one-and-a-half-year-old Sean looked up at Astin and cried, “Daddy!”