Charlie Chaplin's daughter with his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, Josephine Chaplin, passed away on July 13 in Paris, her family said on Friday. The 74-year-old actor was well known for his work in The Canterbury Tales by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Josephine Chaplin was the third of eight children born to actress and Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O'Neill and the sixth of the legendary comedy actor's 11 offspring. In 1942, Chaplin and O'Neill began dating. The following year, they were wed. Despite the fact that Oona was just 18 and Charlie was 53, the silent film icon "at last found true happiness, and it seems they had both found their soul mates," according to the Chaplin Office.

In March 1949, Josephine Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California. She performed as an actress in Menahem Golan's politically charged film Escape to the Sun, L'odeur des fauves with Vittorio De Sica and Maurice Ronet, a German-language Jack the Ripper with Klaus Kinski, and Daniel Petrie's The Bay Boy with Liv Ullman and Kiefer Sutherland. She made her cinematic debut at age three in the 1952 picture Limelight, which was written, produced, and starred her father. She also had an appearance in 1967's A Countess from Hong Kong. However, much of Chaplin's work was found in French films, such as Nuits rouges and l'ombre d'un été. Chaplin oversaw the Chaplin family office in Paris in her latter years and financed a statue of her father in Waterville, Ireland.

She had lived in Paris for a long time and was involved in an odd extortion scheme shortly after her father passed away in 1978 and two guys took his remains and coffin. The corpses were discovered 11 weeks after the family declined to pay a ransom. 1991 saw Oona O'Neill pass away. Josephine Chaplin had two marriages: to the archaeologist Jean-Claude Gardin and the Greek businessman Nikki Sistovaris. She also shared a residence with Ronet, a former co-star. The Hollywood Reporter states that Chaplin is survived by her siblings Geraldine, Victoria, Jane, Michael, Eugene, and Christopher, as well as her sons Charly, Julien, and Arthur. A funeral will be held "in the intimacy of the family" in Paris, according to the letter announcing her passing.