In 1993, Davies’ niece Patricia Lake claimed on her deathbed to actually be Marion’s daughter, fathered by Hearst and born in a French “chateau of some sort or a little private hospital.” ...

He died in 1951 at age 88. Sadly, Davies was barred from his ornate funeral at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral Church in deference to his wife. Ten years later, Davies succumbed to cancer at age 64.