Another Arnold Schwarzenegger Mistress Emerges—Cue Gloria Allred!

Former child actress Gigi Goyette hires famed attorney amid speculation of some kind of legal action or attempt for payment

By Josh Grossberg May 19, 2011 7:14 PMTags
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gloria AllredJason Merritt/Getty Images; AP Photo/David Zentz

Forget the T-1000. The Sperminator has a new, even more powerful foe to contend with: Gloria Allred.

With Arnold Schwarzenegger coping with a love child scandal, the powerhouse attorney is stepping forward with a blast from his past.

A former child actress who says she had a extramarital fling with Schwarzenegger.

So who is she and what does she want?

"I represent Gigi Goyette, who had an intimate  relationship with Arnold," Allred tells E! News.

The attorney, however, declined to comment on why Goyette is coming forward now or her intentions for going public.

But here's what we know.

Goyette, now 52, had some success as a kid star on Little House on Prairie. According to RadarOnline, alleged she had sex with Schwarzenegger back in his 1975 bodybuilding, Pumping Iron days, when she was a 16-year-old actress on Prairie (you heard correctly—16). After a long layoff, the two reportedly picked things up again in 1989, three years after the action star married Shriver.

Goyette, who also goes by Gigi Jeffers, was one of the many women who were linked to Schwarzenegger as he made his bid for governor of California.

The Los Angeles Times reported that two days before Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy, Goyette signed a confidentiality agreement with American Media Inc.—which publishes the National Enquirer, Star and now also owns Radar—that paid her in $20,000 in exchange for her silence about their affair. Seven months later, Schwarzenegger loaned his name to the editorial masthead of two bodybuilding magazines owned by the company.

The Times report raised suspicions that Schwarzenegger cut a deal with American Media as a quid pro quo for the publisher quashing reports of his infidelity.

Allred has made a career out of repping women caught up in cheating scandals with rich and famous men and has gotten those mistresses some pretty hefty paydays. Past clients included Tiger Woods' paramour Rachel Uchitel, one of Jesse James' mystery mistresses and the woman who claimed to have a fling with David Boreanaz.

As of this morning, Allred said she has no plans on calling a press conference and announcing her plans. But we're sure she has Schwarzenegger's attention.