FACT: The attorney did play house with longtime mistress Patty Sikora, a legal secretary, while still married to his first wife, Barbara, with whom he had a daughter. In her 1995 book Life After Johnnie Cochran, Barbara alleged that Johnnie beat her several times, including when she confronted him about Patty. During the 10-year period, Cochran and Sikora had a son together and he had a second daughter with Barbara.