Did Arnold Schwarzenegger cheat in marriage bed?

Arnold Schwarzenegger, who promised Hollywood “I’ll be back” after leaving the California governor’s office, put all his movie projects on hold yesterday as he dealt with the fallout from his love child scandal.

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“Gov. Schwarzenegger is focusing on personal matters and is not willing to commit to any production schedules or timelines,” said a statement issued by the actor’s office. “This includes ‘Cry Macho,’ the ‘Terminator’ franchise and other projects under consideration. We will resume discussions when Gov. Schwarzenegger decides.”

The statement said Schwarzenegger has Terminated all his movie projects that are “currently underway or being negotiated” until further notice. The announcement came just days after a bidding war in Cannes to make two more “Terminator” films starring the vintage action hero.


In “Cry Macho,” the 63-year-old box-office heavy was to star as a horse breeder who wins the Kentucky Derby but becomes a drunk after his family is killed. Schwarzenegger was to be paid a reported $12.5 million plus 25 percent of the profit.

The ex-gov’s other big post-politics project was “The Governator,” a comic book series and cartoon based on his life and family that he was developing with Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee. He was slated to portray a superhero.


It’s unclear how long the Hollywood heavy plans to stay out of the limelight, but his self-imposed exile will likely last at least until the media feeding frenzy over his marital mess is over. And yesterday, there was no sign that it was fading.

TMZ.com reported that Hollywood housekeeper Mildred Patty Baena, mother of Schwarzenegger’s love child, carried on an affair with the actor in the bed he shared with his wife and bragged that she was “more of a wife” to Arnold than Maria Shriver.

“Patty confided in a friend, when Maria would leave the house in the morning, she would crawl into the marital bed and do the deed with Arnold,” the Web site said. “She was always there for him.”

The housekeeper reportedly was obsessed with the Kennedy princess and wanted to look just like Maria.

“Patty would dress in Maria’s clothing and even wear her jewelry around town,” a source told TMZ.

And the housekeeper would go to Maria for advice about her love life and her pregnancy, even while she was carrying her husband’s child, the Web site said.

Meanwhile, People magazine reported that Maria has hired high-powered California divorce attorney Laura Wasser to represent her in what is expected to be a huge-stakes split.

The former NBC newsgal, 55, dumped her philandering hubby last week after he confessed to fathering Baena’s son, now 14. Radaronline.com reports that Arnold only confessed after Maria confronted the housekeeper and she admitted that the actor-turned-California governor was her son’s father.

“The magnitude of his betrayal and selfishness knows no bounds,” a pal of Maria’s told People. “I imagine her profound sadness that she was lied to for so long right under her nose, in her own house.”