Jayne Mansfield’s press agent — first revealed in his 1974 biography, The Tragic Secret Life of Jayne Mansfield, that Mariska ...

Mariska Hargitay recently spent Father’s Day with her biological father, Nelson Sardelli — and they shared a powerful ...

Jayne Mansfield, right, with Brazilian-born Italian singer and actor Nelson Sardelli, Los Angeles, April 1963 Everett Collection / Everett Collection Jayne Mansfield, Mickey Hargitay and their kids ...

Hargitay was 25 years old when she found out the former Las Vegas entertainer was her biological father — not Mickey Hargitay ...

Mariska Hargitay embarks on a family journey to honor her mother, the 1950s movie star and pinup model Jayne Mansfield.Hargitay, 61, was just 3 and survived the infamous 1967 car crash that killed ...

Jayne Mansfield, one of the defining sex symbols of the 1950s and '60s, is the subject of a new HBO documentary, My Mom Jayne.. As its title implies, the documentary is directed by Mansfield's ...

Mariska Hargitay embarks on a family journey to honor her mother, the 1950s movie star and pinup model Jayne Mansfield.Hargitay, 61, was just 3 and survived the infamous 1967 car crash that killed ...

Hargitay delves into her mother Jayne Mansfield's life, ... She says her biological father was in fact a once-popular 1950s-era Las Vegas lounge singer named Nelson Sardelli.

Both in her upcoming documentary My Mom Jayne, and a recent episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, actress Mariska Hargitay, 61, opened up about finding out that Mickey Hargitay — the ex-husband ...

Mansfield died in a 1967 car accident that a 3-year-old Mariska survived. However, it would take the actress two more decades to discover the truth about her biological father.