I couldn’t believe that this truth, this bombshell for me, didn’t ever come to light," says the ‘Law & Order: SVU’ star about going public with her biological father’s identity in an HBO documentary on her mother,

When Mariska Hargitay was 3, she and two of her brothers survived the car accident that killed their mother, bombshell movie star Jayne Mansfield. The kids were asleep in the back seat; the three adults in the front—Mansfield,

In "My Mom Jayne," Mariska Hargitay receives mom Jayne Mansfield's grand piano, a gift husband Peter Hermann tracked down for her 60th birthday.