Robin Williams: Unknown Facts About the Comedy Legend

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Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois to parents, Laurie McLaurin and Robert Fitzgerald Williams. Laurie was a former model and Robert worked as a senior executive at Ford Motor Company’s Lincoln-Mercury Division. Supposedly, when the family moved to Detroit, they lived in an enormous farmhouse with forty rooms and a maid.

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