According to lawyer and researcher Mark Shaw, Ray’s relationship with Dorothy Kilgallen produced her youngest child Kerry Kollmar, whom her husband Richard Kollmar disowned after Kilgallen's death in 1965. In two books that Shaw has authored, he claims that Kilgallen remained faithful to her husband for 13 years, ignoring rumors of his extramarital affairs because she did not witness evidence of any of them during that time frame. With the passing of 13 years of married life, Richard Kollmar became careless to the extent that he brought a male lover into the third-floor master bedroom of his and Dorothy’s new home, a five-story townhouse on Manhattan’s East 68th Street. After Kilgallen caught the two men in a compromising position, she and Kollmar decided to stay married strictly for business, which included a talk radio show they broadcast from home every day that brought them large salaries and that promoted Broadway shows that Kollmar produced. Their radio listeners knew only that in 1953, a few months after they moved into the townhouse, she started talking about her pregnancy.