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Mariska Hargitay makes rare comments about the 'trauma' of losing mother Jayne Mansfield at age three

Mariska Hargitay made rare comments about the trauma of losing her mother, Hollywood film bombshell Jayne Mansfield, at the age of three.

'I lost my mother when I was 3 years old, and I grew up in a house of people dealing with the tragedy in their own way,' the actress shared; Jayne and Mariska pictured with Mansfield's friend, Satanist Anton LaVey Mansfield’s rather rocky private life – three marriages that all ended in divorce, along with allegations of numerous affairs – was also a major talking point during her time in the public eye. Mansfield’s life was suddenly cut short while she was in a Buick car traveling from Biloxi, Mississippi to New Orleans along with her lawyer and then-boyfriend Samuel S. Brody, driver Ronnie Harrison, and three of her children.

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