Jack Nicholson's illegitimate brood

By Stone Martindale Aug 4, 2007, 16:48 GMT

Jack Nicholson watches courtside during the first quarter of game four of the first round Western Conference playoff game between the Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, 29 April 2007. The Suns lead the best-of-seven series two games to one. EPA/ANDREW GOMBERT

Actor Jack Nicholson is denying a claim that he may be the father of an illegitimate handicapped son, and has tried to keep it a secret from everyone.

Page Six of the New York Post reports that in "Five Easy Decades," an unauthorized biography out this October from Wiley, author Dennis McDougal says the Oscar-winning actor is known "by most counts" to have one legitimate daughter and five bastard children.

"There are two other possibles whom those closest to Jack whisper about, including one young man who lives with handicaps brought on by his actress mother's drug abuse . . . These are among the closely held secrets he has generally succeeded in keeping from his fans," writes author McDougal.

Abe Somer, Jack's attorney told Page Six: "The allegations of the handicapped son are false and inaccurate. There is no handicapped son of Mr. Nicholson."

Somer declined to comment to Page Six on McDougal's allegation of a second unknown love child, adding, "Let's respect his privacy."

Somer claimed to Page Six tht Nicholson has only four illegitimate kids.

McDougal told Page Six that his information of the alleged disabled son "comes from a very good source, but she . . . would not let me use her name."

Page Six lists the first out of wedlock child as a son named Caleb born in 1970 with "Five Easy Pieces" co-star Susan Anspach.

The boy was legally adopted by Mark Goddard and Anspach who were wed four years later, reports Page SIx.

Another out of wedlock daughter was with a former Monkey Bar waitress, Jennine Gourin, and Nicholson "bought her silence with a settlement 'rumored to be in the mid-six-figures,' the biographer claims," reports Page Six.

His other out of wedlock kids are Lorraine, 16, and Raymond, 15, by his ex-girlfriend, actress Rebecca Broussard.

The condom averse actor's penchant for sleeping with lots of women is well known writes Page Six. "I'm interested in sex. I'm preoccupied with sex. I love it," he was quoted, according to the book.