False Family History
For most of Krofft's life, he and his family's history was publicly presented as true when it was actually concocted by a publicity agent in the 1940s. In a Los Angeles Times article in 2008, Sid and his brother Marty admitted the deception, mentioning that even young family members possessed incorrect information, believing some of the fiction as fact. Most authoritative sources before 2008 considered the agent's fiction as fact. For example, Krofft's family was reportedly five generations of puppeteers in Greece, and Sid's birthplace was originally Athens. Sid's original name was designated Cydus Yolas.
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