Editing Constance Bennett (section)

===Philip Morgan Plant===
Bennett's next serious relationship was with millionaire socialite Philip Morgan Plant. Her parents planned a cruise to Europe, taking Constance with them, to separate the couple. As the ship was preparing to leave port, however, the Bennetts saw Plant and his parents boarding, too. A contemporary newspaper article reported, "Now the little beauty and the heir to all the Plant millions were assured a week of the cosy intimacy which an ocean liner affords."<ref name="ose">{{cite news|title=Brought Together the Lovers They Wanted To Part|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12983379/constance_bennett/|work=The Ogden Standard-Examiner|date=July 8, 1923|location=Utah, Ogden|page=26|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = August 9, 2017}} {{Open access}}</ref> In November 1925, the two eloped and were married in Greenwich, Connecticut, by the same justice of the peace who officiated at Bennett's wedding to Moorehead.<ref>{{cite news|title=Constance Bennett Weds Philip Plant|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12986291/constance_bennett_marries_philip_plant/|work=The News-Herald|agency=United Press|date=November 4, 1925|location=Pennsylvania, Franklin|page=1|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = August 9, 2017}} {{Open access}}</ref> They divorced in a French court<ref>{{cite news|title=Constance Bennett No Longer Wife of Plant|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12986910/constance_bennett_divorce_from_philip/|work=The Iola Register|agency=Associated Press|date=March 19, 1929|location=Kansas, Iola|page=4|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = August 9, 2017}} {{Open access}}</ref> in 1929.<ref>{{cite news|title=Decree Won From Millionaire, Divorcee Maps Plans for Future|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12986692/oakland_tribune/|work=Oakland Tribune|date=April 24, 1929|location=California, Oakland|page=1|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = August 9, 2017}} {{Open access}}</ref> 

In 1932, Bennett returned from Europe with a three-year-old child, whom she claimed to have adopted and named Peter Bennett Plant (born 1929). In 1942, however, during a battle over a large trust fund established to benefit any descendants of her former husband, Bennett announced that her adopted son actually was her natural child by Plant, born after the divorce and kept hidden to ensure that the child's biological father did not get custody. During the court hearings, the actress told her former mother-in-law and her husband's widow that "if she got to the witness stand she would give a complete account of her life with Plant." The matter was settled out of court.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,802442,00.htm |title=Domain Inquiry |website=Jcgi.pathfinder.com |access-date=July 23, 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791142-1,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930095816/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791142-1,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=People: People, Nov. 29, 1943 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=November 29, 1943 |access-date=July 23, 2017}}</ref>