Is Halle Berry related to Aretha Franklin and Sarah Palin?

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First, Oscar winner Halle Berry revealed that she was a “distant relative” of polarizing former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

Now, rumor has it, she may be also related to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.

According to the Huffington Post, the legendary soul singer “revealed in a press release that she’s currently following up on a family member’s claim that her grandmother and Berry’s grandmother were first cousins.”

This connection would be ironic, since Franklin had publicly lobbied to have Berry play her in a big screen biopic, an overture the Cloud Atlas star politely declined.