Yetta

He and his wife, Yetta, had four children and lived in a brick house in Brooklyn.

Her Jewish great-grandparents, Abraham Simon and Rhoda Yetta Freeman and their eight children, including Lill's grandmother Florrie, came to Newry in about 1890 from Kaunas in Lithuania, part of the then Russia.

Yetta Cushman, who immigrated around 1890, never became a U.S. citizen and died before Social Security existed.

Yetta Cohn, with whom the star was said to have had an affair — the pair are mentioned in Arthur Laurents’s memoir, “Original Story By” — pops up at regular intervals.

Among his earliest hoaxes was a political campaign for one “Yetta Bronstein,” a fictitious Jewish homemaker from the Bronx who sought the presidency in 1964 and 1968.