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Who are Jayne Mansfield’s children?

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Jayne Mansfield had five children: Jayne Marie Mansfield, with her first husband, Paul Mansfield; Miklós, Zoltan, and Mariska Hargitay, with her second husband, bodybuilder and actor Mickey Hargitay; and Antonio Cimber, with her third husband, filmmaker Matt Cimber. Mariska Hargitay became an actor in the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– ). In 2025, while promoting her documentary My Mom Jayne, Hargitay revealed that her biological father was Italian singer Nelson Sardelli and that she had been conceived while her mother was separated from Mickey Hargitay before filing for divorce in 1963. Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay briefly reconciled before Mariska’s birth in January 1964.

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