Here are those articles I wanted to post before.
Part 1: http://it.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=icvlg0&s=4
Part 2: http://it.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=mkpb5&s=4

It is a Belgium article from November 25, 2002.

Here is a translation:

Interview by Peter Robertson
Exclusive talk with Katie Cassidy (15) and her mother Sherry

After Willy Sommers and Annemie
Also ex-idol David Cassidy has a secret daughter

Willy Sommers, David Cassidy, both teen idols at the beginning of the seventies. Both father of a lovechild. David never talks about his daughter, and also Willy kept Annemie out of the spotlights for twenty years. But just as Annemie Katie Cassidy speaks up.

Annemie met her father only recently for the first time. She broke out of silence after Willy announcing the pregnancy of his girlfriend Cindy. Also Katie, born on November 25, 1986 from David’s relationship with the former model and actress Sherry Benedon, carries out her biological dad. She recorded a cd. A catching hip hop version of “I think I love you”. The same song that took her father , teen idol David Cassidy thirty-two years ago to stardom.

But a duet between them is not for the near future. David (52 by now) is on the contrast to Willy Sommers not yet into much contact with his lovechild.

On and off relationship

David Cassidy stole the hearts of mass of teenagers in the popular tv-series “The Partridge Family”. When he in 1971 went on a solo tour the mass hysteria reached unknown heights. Ten thousands fanatical girls who shouted out their love for him. His longing voice, his boyish face made David Cassidy the subject of their fanatical devotion. In 1970 Sherry did an audition for a part in the Partridge Family. “I didn’t get the part”, she says but David did ask me out that same night. He was so sweet and charming I was no longer interested in that role. I was only interested in that beautiful boy. Sherry was never married to David. She supported during the seventies and eighties an off an on relationship with the icon. A period in which he was married two times. With actress Kay Lenz and with Mary-Ann Tanz. And she one time. With Dean, the father of her two daughters Jaime and Jenna.

I was divorced from Dean when I got pregnant with David’s baby, Sherry says. When I told him the news, he didn’t make a scene. He found it ok. He had the greatest difficulties to adjust as a father. David was always very busy, had no time for his daughter.
Katie therefore hardly knows her biological father. When she was four, her mother married Richard Benedon, a doctor. Sherry : “ Richard actually raised Katie with me, she calls him daddy.

When you where born, Katie , David was in England.
Sherry : David saw Katie as a baby.

Often ?
Sherry : That doesn’t matter.
Katie : I was in third grade when David for the first time spend some quality time with me. David and I have seen each other more since then.
Sherry : David supports Katie financially, but not with much. It’s not much for a rich man as he is.

David hardly talks about you in interviews, Katie, even as you look much more like him than his son Beau, which he has with his current wife Sue Shifrin.
Sherry : Mostly those eyes, eh!
Katie : I got his eyes. Real Cassidy eyes. I also have his spindle-legs.

David does as if Beau is his only child. On his website no word about you Katie, no link to your own website. In a recent interview he talks lyrical about his son. When he was asked if he liked more children he answered : “ No, I’m happy as I am. If you have less children, you can give them more attention. Otherwise you have to split up your attention and that’s not good for them.”
Sherry : I have to admit that I personally are involved to the secrecy of Katie. I made a deal with David when she was born to keep Katie out of the spotlights. I wanted it that way.
I couldn’t see her being raised in his world. I don’t believe that the life of an entertainer is so establishing for children. I wanted Katie to grow up as a normal child in a stabile environment.
Katie : My mother has always protected me. She also didn’t want it to be known that I was the daughter of David.

But now, at fifteenth, you bring a remarkable remake of a hit from you father.
Katie : The blood flows where it can’t go. I love to dance and act and I’ve always dreamed of being a singer.

All that fuzz is really good for you, to get you into showbiz .
Katie : That it was this number, was pure coincidence.

Are you serious?
Katie : No, really, it was not my idea, but my producers. Joel Diamond. I met him by coincidence in a store around the corner. He found me a charismatic girl, he said. We started talking. I told him I love to sing. He wanted to hear my voice. He gave my his card, asked if my mother would call him some time. My mother was rather skeptical, but after ten days I could convince her to call. A few phone calls later, and just before I went into the studio she told him who my biological father was. “Bizarre,“ he said. I sit here working on a new version of “I think I love you.” It gave me the feeling of destiny. As if I had to sing that song.
“I think I love you” is like a calling card in show business. In the future I will develop a more personal style. Which is more Rock ‘n Roll. I’m learning the guitar now and are writing some own stuff.

That you chose this number, can also be an interpretation to get your biological father to notice.
Katie : He wasn’t very pleased with it. He thinks showbiz is not for teenagers.
“ You better not do this” he said. “Don’t count on my support”
It did hurt, him saying that. He is my father and from your father you expect a bit of support. I mean, he could also have said, something like, “ I don’t approve what you’re doing, but I respect your decision, you can’t let a chance like this go by. It seems as if he’s not interested.
My stepfather Richard thinks it’s cool, what I do. He only said, “You know this is a hard business, with ups and downs. But the make you to what you are” The darling.
Sherry : David was especially scared that Katie would quit school. But he doesn’t have to be afraid of that, because Katie is in a self educating program at the Calabasas High School in California. Now that he knows that Katie is finishing school he is more relaxed at it.
Katie : Oh, I don’t need his advice. I will succeed without his help.

But as Katie Cassidy, with the name of your biological father.
Katie : Of course, My name is Cassidy, isn’t it ?

Maybe David is reacting so reserved because he knows how wrong it can go. At 21 he was the worlds highest paid performer, but he got into decadence, got the taste of drugs, drinking and love.
Sherry : I don’t disagree with him getting concerned. Teenage music became an industry. You directly get catapulted and there’s an enormous pressure on you.

According to David you don’t act in the concern of your daughter. In an interview he says “ It’s not my idea, it’s Sherry’s business.”
Sherry : (angry) As if I exploit my own daughter! David doesn’t need to worry. My husband and I will take care of her staying with both feet on the ground.
Katie : I can stand for myself.
Sherry : Katie is very mature for her age.
Katie : A person evolves. I had my teenybopper stage.

But you are very young and vulnerable. Experienced figures will try to interfere with you and your career.
Katie : Oh, but mom will watch out for me. She’ll never allow me going in the wrong direction. She’ll never allow someone to hurt me. And she’ll watch over me so that my personality never changes.
Sherry : David is prejudiced because he couldn’t handle the pressure, the expectations, the hysteria around his person. David never had a stable environment to go back to. He himself comes out of a showbiz family. (His father Jack was an actor, his mother Evelyn Ward had a successful Broadway-career, his stepmother Shirley Jones played his television mother in “The Partridge Family”) Katie grew up in a normal family. We have total different criterias than his parents. Katie grew up with normal values. That’s a great difference.
Katie : For David, showbiz was his life. For me, It’s totally different. I’ll just finish school and later I want a family. My mother is devoted to some values, which I’ve taken over from her. Mom always had a very firm influence on my live.

What is your best subject in school?
Katie : Algebra. But now it’s history. I want to know if history will repeat itself. If my song will be as successful as the original. (smiles)

COMMENTS:
First photo: Annemie, daughter of Willy Sommers has not have any ambition in showbiz. Katie goes for stardom , with a song of her father.

Second photo: A rare picture of David and Katie. As Willy and Annemie the same characteristic eyes.

Large photo of Katie : Katie today, at 15 she’s a teenage star. But for love her mother thinks she’s too young… and smiles.

Photo of David and Willy : Encounter between two teenage stars. They looked very much the same in those days.

Photo of the PF : David in his glory years as important man of the Partridge Family.

Last photo: David and his wife, songwriter Sue Shifrin. They have an 11 year old son Beau.

(Thanks to Greta Morren from Belgium for taking the time and effort of translating the story.)