Arnold Schwarzenegger Cuts Off Financial Support to Son, Despite a Net Worth of Almost Half a Billion Dollars

“He started looking like me, that’s when I kind of got it. I put things together,” Arnold Schwarzenegger told 60 Minutes. At the time, he made sure the Baneas were taken care of financially. However, Joseph went about his life without knowing who his biological father was—until he was 13 years old. Following the end of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s run as governor in 2011, the lives of both the Baenas and the Schwarzeneggers were changed forever.

The Result of an Affair

Just one day after leaving office, news broke about an affair in 1997 between Schwarzenegger and his former housekeeper. The relationship resulted in a child—who, ironically, had been born just five days before the son born to Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver.