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Sinatra met Marilyn Monroe in 1954 (while he was still married to Ava Gardner, although some sources say that Sinatra and Monroe first met several years earlier) and was a friend of Monroe's second husband Joe DiMaggio, and after DiMaggio and Monroe divorced, he joined his friend DiMaggio and the writer James Bacon on a raid set up by DiMaggio ...
Frank Sinatra was married four times and remained close friends with each of his wives throughout his life.. The iconic singer met his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra, when he was 19 and wed her ...
Sinatra was close friends with Jilly Rizzo, [500] songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, golfer Ken Venturi, comedian Pat Henry, baseball manager Leo Durocher, and president John F. Kennedy (for whom he organized an inaugural ball with Peter Lawford). [501] In his spare time, he enjoyed listening to classical music. [358] He swam daily in the Pacific ...
In 1942, Sacks helped Sinatra get out of his contract with Tommy Dorsey. In return, Sinatra signed with Columbia. [6] [7] The two became close friends. In a CBS television tribute, Sinatra said, "There’s a little bit of Manie in everything good that has ever happened to me … Whenever I was in trouble and needed help, I yelled for Manie." [3]
Also joining the party, which included a trio of unidentified women, was Sinatra’s close friend Ermenegildo “Jilly” Rizzo, beloved owner of the popular New York nightspot Jilly’s.
Jilly's Saloon was a popular celebrity hangout in the 1960s. Rizzo's long-time friend Frank Sinatra frequented the lounge. [1] Rizzo later became one of Sinatra's chief aides, and was even referenced in Sinatra's adapted lyrics for "Mrs. Robinson" to avoid using the name "Jesus".
This was the second incarnation of the Rat Pack under the leadership of Frank Sinatra. The early 1960s version of the group included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. This group was originally known as the "Clan", [8] but that name fell out of favor because it was reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan. [9] [10]
She and Sinatra got married in 1976 and remained together for the rest of his life. Jilly Rizzo, a restaurateur who became close friend and associate of Sinatra, was killed on his 75th birthday by a drunk driver in 1992. Milton A. "Mickey" Rudin was the singer's attorney; he died of pneumonia in December 1999, a year and a half after Sinatra's ...