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All rights reserved.Photo credits for this new edition of Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People can be found on the FeralHouse website.INTIMATE SEX LIVES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 2008, 1981 by David Wallechinsky and Amy WallaceAll rights reserved.First Edition published by Delacorte PressRevised, Expanded edition by Feral HouseFeral House1240 W. Sims Way Box 124Port Townsend, WA 98368www.FeralHouse.com / www.ProcessMediaInc.comDesigned By Hedi El KholtiSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 2The Intimate Sex Livesof Famous Peopleby Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace,David Wallechinsky and Sylvia WallaceSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 3Associate Editor: Elizebethe KempthorneSeniorStaffResearchers: HelenGinsburg,LoreenLeo,Anita Taylor,LindaSchallan, ToreneSvitil, Claudia PeirceAssistant Staff Researchers: Diane Brown Shepard, Kristine H. Johnson, Karen Pedersen, Sue AnnPowerEditorial Aides: Linda Laucella, Lee Clayton, Joanne Maloney, Patricia BegallaPhotograph Editor: Danny BiedermanForeign Researchers: Dr. Primo Povolato (Italy), Dr. L. Alonso Tejada (Spain)Copy Editor: Wayne LawsonWhen The Eds. is used, it means the material has been contributed by the authors and staff ofThe Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People.A.E. Ann ElwoodA.K. Aaron KassA.L.G. Alan L. GansbergA.P. Adam ParfreyA.S.M. Anthony S. MaulucciA.W. Amy WallaceB.B. Barbara BedwayB.C. Barnaby ConradB.J. Burr JergerC.D. Carol DunlapC.H.S. Charles H. SalzbergC.L.W. Craig L. WittlerC.O. Carol OrsagD.M.L. Deci M. LowryD.R. Dan RileyD.W. David WallechinskyE.K. Elizebethe KempthorneE.Z. Ernest ZebrowskiF.C. Flora ChavezJ.L.Jason LouvJ.Z. John ZebrowskiK.P. Karen PedersenL.A.B. Laurie A. BrannenL.K.S. Laurie K. StrandL.L. Loreen LeoL.S. Linda SchallanM.B.T. Marguerite B. ThompsonM.J.T. Michael J. TooheyM.S. Michael SheeterM.W. Mark WheelerN.C.S. Nancy C. SorelP.A.R. Patricia A. RyanR.G.P. Roberta G. PetersR.J.F. Rodger J. FadnessR.J.R. R. John RapsysR.K.R. R. Kent RasmussenR.M. Robert McGarveyR.S.F. Robert S. FensterG.A.M. Greg A. MitchellI.W. Irving WallaceJ.A.M. Joshua A. MartinJ.E. John EastmanJ.H. Jannika HurwittJ.M. Josef MarcJ.M.B.E. John M. B. EdwardsJ.M.M. John M. MoranR.W.S. Roy W. SorrelsS.B. Skip BaumgartenS.L.W. Sandra L. WeissS.W. Sylvia WallaceT.C. Tim ConawayV.S. Vicki ScottW.A.D. William A. DeGregorioW.A.H. William A. HenkinW.K. Walter KempthorneW.L. William LawrenSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 4Thewayinwhichpeoplemakelovemaytellusmoreabout them than any searching analysis could.Maurice Nadeau, editor of Les Lettres NouvellesSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 5Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 6ContentsINTRODUCTION (11)1. SEX SYMBOLSJosephine Baker (15) Clara Bow (18) Lord Byron (20) Casanova (24) Jean Harlow (28) Mata Hari (31) Prince Aly Khan (34) Marilyn Monroe (37) Porro Rubirosa (41) Anna Nicole Smith (43) Rudolph Valentino (45)2. ACTING IT UPMOVIES: John Barrymore (51) Charlie Chaplin (54) Gary Cooper (57) Joan Crawford (59) James Dean (62) W. C. Fields (65) Errol Flynn (67) Clark Gable (69) CharlesLaughton (72)STAGE: Sarah Bernhardt (74) Eleanora Duse (76) Lillie Langtry (79) Lillian Russell (81) 3. PAINTING THE TOWNPaul Gauguin (87) Vincent van Gogh (89) Francisco de Goya (92) Amedeo Modigliani (95) Pablo Picasso (97) Diego Rivera (100) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (102)4. THE QUILL IS COMPELLINGColette (109) George Sand (111) Gertrude Stein (113) Virginia Woolf (116) Mary Wollstonecraft (119)5. THE PEN IS PROMINENTHonor de Balzac (125) J. M. Barrie (127) James Boswell (131) Sir Richard Burton (134) Lewis Carroll (137) Carlos Castaneda (139) Gabriele DAnnunzio (142) CharlesDickens (145) Fdor Dostoevski (148) Alexandre Dumas pre (150) William Faulkner (153) F. Scott Fitzgerald (155) Andr Gide (158) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (160) Ernest Hemingway (162) Victor Hugo (165) Christopher Isherwood (168) James Joyce (170) George S. Kaufman (172) D. H. Lawrence (175) Jack London (178) W. Somerset Maugham(180) Guy de Maupassant (184) Yukio Mishima (186) Marquisde Sade (189) William Seabrook (192) Stendhal (195) August Strindberg (199) Leo Tolstoi (201) Mark Twain (204) Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 7H. G. Wells (207) Oscar Wilde (211) Thomas Wolfe (215) mile Zola (217)6. POETIC LICENSERobert Burns (223) Emily Dickinson (226) Edna St. Vincent Millay (228) Ezra Pound (230) Rainer Maria Rilke (232) Algernon Charles Swinburne (235) Paul Verlaine (238)7. LETS MAKE MUSICJohannes Brahms (245) Frdric Chopin (247) Maria Callas (249) Enrico Caruso (251) Claude Debussy (253) Duke Ellington (255) George Gershwin (258) Billie Holiday (260) Franz Liszt (262) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (264) Adelina Patti (266) Edith Piaf (268) Bessie Smith (271) Leopold Stokowski (274) Ptr Ilich Tchaikovsky (276) Richard Wagner (278)8. ROCKIN AND ROLLINKurt Cobain (285) Jimi Hendrix (287) Michael Hutchence(290) Janis Joplin (292) Jim Morrison (294) Nico (296) Elvis Presley (298) Tupac Shakur (302)9. COMMAND PERFORMANCESNapoleon Bonaparte (307) Pauline Bonaparte (310) Catherine II (313) Charles II (316) Cleopatra (320) Edward VII (322) Edward VIII (325) Elizabeth I (327) Farouk I (330) Henry VIII (332) Abdul-Aziz Ibn-Saud of Saudi Arabia (336) Louis XIV (338) Louis XV (341) Maria Louisa of Spain (341) Mongkut of Siam (346) Victoria (347)10. FOLLOW THE LEADERU.S. LEADERS: Thomas Jefferson (353) Grover Cleveland (355) Dwight David Eisenhower (357) Warren G. Harding(359) John F. Kennedy (361) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (364)WORLD LEADERS: Benjamin Disraeli (367) Mahatma Gandhi (367) Adolf Hitler (373) Benito Mussolini (377) Eva Peron (380) Mao Tse-tung (383)11. MAKE LOVE, NOT WARJohn Paul Jones (389) T. E. Lawrence (391) General DouglasMacArthur (394) Pancho Villa (397)Malcolm X (399)Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 812. GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESSHenry Ford (405)William Randolph Hearst (407)Howard Hughes (410)Aristotle Onassis (414)13. BED SPORTSJuan Belmonte (419)Wilt Chamberlain (421)Jack Johnson(423)Babe Ruth (426)William Tilden, Jr. (429)14. HOLIER THAN THOUPope Alexander VI (435)Aleister Crowley (437)Father Divine (440)Mary Baker Eddy (442)Martin Luther(444)Aimee Semple McPherson (447)Grigori Rasputin(449)Paul Tillich (452)Brigham Young (454)15. HEADS, YOU WINPSYCHOLOGISTS: Havelock Ellis (461)Sigmund Freud(464)Carl Gustav Jung (467)Margaret Sanger (470)Marie Stopes (473)SCIENTISTS: Albert Einstein (475)Guglielmo Marconi(477)Sir Isaac Newton (479)PHILOSOPHERS: Karl Marx (481)Ayn Rand (483)Jean-Jacques Rousseau (486)Bertrand Russell (490)Jean-Paul Sartre (493)Arthur Schopenhauer (496)16. PLAY FOR PAYNinon de Lenclos (501)Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglioni (503)La Belle Otero (506)Cora Pearl (509)17. EVERYBODYS DOING ITNatalie Barney (515)Milton Berle (517)Isadora Duncan(519)Emma Goldman (522)J. Edgar Hoover (526)Henri Dsir Landru (528)Maria Montessori (530)Carry Nation (533)Waslaw Nijinsky (535)John Humphry Noyes(538)Robert Peary (541)Samuel Pepys (543)Alma Mahler Werfel (547)Frank Lloyd Wright (549)SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS (553)INDEX (561)Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 9Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 10The New, Expanded Intimate Sex Lives of Famous PeopleWhen the rst edition of this book was released back in 1981, with long-sup-pressed information about political, scientic, literary and musical leaders, it wasnot the sort of thing that normally saw distribution on the front tables of majorbooksellers. Sure, there was The Joy of Sex and myriad racy how-to tomes, butrarely did this newfound sexual freedom impinge on the ofcial biographies ofwell-known and distinguished men and women in world history.It really seemed shocking to read about the intimacies of buttoned-up worldleaders, one kink after the other. According to the authors, the search for facts wasdifcultandchallenging. Theyreadbiographies,over1,500ofthem,includingmanyinforeignlanguagesthattheyhadtranslatedjustforthepurpose.Theypored over rare pamphlets, correspondence, periodicals and newspapers on micro-lm;theyalsoleafedthroughlegaltranscriptsandmedicalreports. Theytalkedwith lovers, condants and associates of numerous people within the book.The authors of this book were in fact a famous publishing family on theirown. Father Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916June 29, 1990) was a bestsellingauthor of dozens of novels, non-ction books and screenplays; son David Wal-lechinskyco-wrotetheinuentialWhatReallyHappenedtotheClassof65?,expertcollectionsonthewinterandsummerOlympics,andthebookTyrantsthat adds to his yearly feature on the Worlds Worst Dictators for Parade Mag-azine.WifeandmotherSylviaWallace(whopassedawayin2006)wrotethebestselling novels The Fountains and Empress. Daughter Amy Wallace also wrote,amongmanyotherbooks,SorcerersApprentice,thefascinatingmemoirofherlife with the invisible guru, Carlos Castaneda. TheWallacesputtogethersuchbestsellingbooksasthemulti-volumeTheBook of Lists, The Peoples Almanac, and The Book of Predictions. The Intimate SexLivesofFamousPeople (originallypublishedbyDelacortePress)wasoneofthemost fascinating works by this enterprising, daring and industrious family.More than 25 years later, Amy Wallace and David Wallechinsky return toSexLives addingnewprolesonKurtCobain,WiltChamberlain,Nico,AynRand, Aleister Crowley, Jim Morrison, Anna Nicole Smith, Malcolm X, MichaelHutchence,TupacShakurandCarlosCastaneda.DavidandAmyhavealsoadded a handy cross-referenced list of Sexual Characteristics held by the manypeople of inuence within the book.Perhaps the best thing about The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People is itsrectitude, respect and (yes) fairness. If only the tabloid gossip-mongers had suchsophistication. Yes, you can have your cake and eat her too.Adam ParfreyFeral HouseSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 11Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 12Sex SymbolsISex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 13Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 1415Star of the FoliesJOSEPHINE BAKER (June 3, 1906Apr. 12, 1975)HERFAME: Inthe1920sand1930s,dancer-singerJosephineBakerbecamethe first black female entertainer to starin the Folies Bergre as well as the firstAmericanblackwomantoachieveinternationalrenown.DancingtheCharleston, wearing only a blue and redringoffeathersaroundherhips,shetook Paris by storm.HERPERSON: Hermother,CarrieSmith,toldJosephinethatherfatherwas a Spaniard whose family would notallow him to marry a black woman. Asan infant, Josephine was sent to live withhergrandmother.Shehadanaffinityfor music and on Saturdays joined in neighborhood jam sessions. By the timeJosephine returned to her mother, Carrie had married a man named Baker andhad given birth to three more children. They lived in a one-room shack in thepoorest section of St. Louis, Mo.As the oldest child, Josephine was sent out to do domestic work for whitefamilies. She never forgot the cruelties that were inflicted on her, but she alsoremembered the kindness of one family, the Masons, who took her to the the-ater for the first time and encouraged her to build her own makeshift theaterin their basement. When Josephine confided to Mrs. Mason that Mr. Masonhad come into her room at night and stood beside her bed breathing heavily,she was sent back to her family.Whilejobhunting,13-year-oldBakerwalkedintotheBooker T.Wash-ington Theater and applied for work. That evening she left St. Louis employedassingerBessieSmithsmaid.OnBessieSmithsadvice,Bakerbecameachorine at New Yorks Cotton Club.In 1925 Baker went to Paris as part of La Revue Ngre. Asked to dance attheprestigiousFoliesBergre,Bakerpreparedforopeningnightbyholdingbowls of cracked ice against her bosom to make her breasts firm and pointed.In her initial appearance onstage, she impressed the audience with her satin-like hair and her costume, which consisted of a belt of bananas and nothingelse.Herwildlydartingimagewasreflectedathousandtimesasshedancedbefore a background of mirrors. Improvising, Baker sang and closed her act byleaping into a banana tree, spreading its leaves, crossing her eyes, and wavingSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 1516 / Intimate Sex Livesto the audience, which was applauding thunderously. To the French, this wasthe epitome of le jazz hot. Overnight, Josephine Baker became a sensationand the reigning queen of the Folies.With the advent of WWII, Baker became a member of the French Resis-tance,deliveringtotheAlliestheoriginalcopyofanItalian-Germancodebook. Bakers marriage to a Jewish businessman, Jean Leon, brought herto the attention of the Gestapo. They decided to liquidate her. According totheplan,HermannGringinvitedhertodinner.Herfishcoursecontainedcyanide. Forewarned, Baker excused herself from the table as soon as the fishwas served, saying she had to go to the powder room. There she intended todropherselfdownthelaundrychuteintothearmsofResistancemembersbelow.Beforeshecouldleavethetable,however,Gringguninhandordered her to eat the fish. She ate it, complained of dizziness, stumbled to thepowder room, and lowered herself into the laundry chute. Resistance membersbrokeherfallandrushedhertoanundergroundclinic,whereherstomachwas quickly pumped. After lingering between life and death for a month, sheslowly recovered. Word was put out that she had died in Morocco. The poi-soningepisodecausedhertoloseallherhair(sheworewigsfromthenon).Her courage won her the Croix de Guerre, the Rosette of the Resistance, andthe Legion of Honor. In the decades following the war, Baker returned to thestage. Also, to prove universal brotherhood was possible, she adopted 11 chil-drenofdifferentracesandreligionsfromplacesasdiverseasKorea,Algeria,and Israel.SEX LIFE: Bakers serious affairs began when she moved to Paris at the age of19.Shefellinlovewithafair-haired,handsomeFrenchmannamedMarcel,whosetherupinaluxuriousapartmentontheChampslyseswhichshecalledhermarblepalace.Marcelappearedeveryeveningandbroughtlivegifts with himwhite mice, a parrot, a miniature monkey. At last Baker askedhimwhentheywouldbemarried.Hesaidmarriagewasimpossiblebecauseshe was black and a public dancer. The next day she walked out on her palaceand her menagerie.BakersfirstdistinguishedadmirerwasaMoroccanshecalledtheSheikof Araby. He sent her a tame panther wearing a diamond necklace, and tookboth Baker and the panther to dinner. However, she decided that having sexwithhimwasimpossible.Hewasshortandchubby,andshewastall.Theproblem, she said, was that when I was young I used to like to do it stand-ing up, and if I had ever done it with him, he would have been jabbing me inthe knees.In1929CrownPrinceAdolf(futureKingGustavusVI)ofSweden,entranced by Baker, visited her dressing room and invited her to his country.AlthoughBakerknewtheprincewasmarried,shesenthimaone-wordtelegram later that night: When? The following morning she had his reply:Tonight. That evening Baker boarded the princes private railroad car with itsgold interior and Aubusson carpets. In her sleeping quarters was a swan-shapedSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 16Sex Symbols / 17bedcoveredwithsatinsheetstohighlighttheshapelycontoursofherduskybody. After she had settled into bed, the Prince arrived. When she complainedofbeingcold,hewarmedherheartbyfasteningathree-stranddiamondbracelet on her arm. While grateful, she told him that her other arm was stillcold.Heroaredwithlaughterandgaveheranotherbracelet.Undressing,hepulleddownthesheetsandjoinedher,kissinghersoftly. Theymaneuveredtheirbodiestogetherandallowedtheundulatingmovementsoftherailroadcar to set the tempo of their lovemaking. He was a real fox, Baker said after-ward. HewasmycreamandIwashiscoffee,andwhenyoupouredustogether, it was something!They spent a warm winter month together in his isolated summer palace,makinglovewhenindoorsandplayinglikechildreninthesnowoutdoors.Thelastnightoftheiridyllhedrapedafloor-lengthsablecoataroundher,took her in his arms, and they danced a silent waltz. They never met again.At a cabaret, Josephine Baker was introduced to Count Pepito Abatino,anItalianadministrator. Theydancedatango,whichledtoanightoflove-making. Before long Abatino had become her lover and manager. They nevermarried,butBakeralwayspresentedhimasherhusband.Hewasajealouslover as well as a tough manager, sometimes locking her in her room to forceher to work on dance routines. The affair lasted 10 years and ended in NewYork when Baker decided she wanted to be free of his domination.OnNov.30,1937,BakermarriedFrenchindustrialistJeanLeon.Hewanted children and a home in the country. Together they leased Les Milandes,a chteau that became her dream house. When Baker became pregnant butmiscarried, she lost not only the baby but Leon as well. The judge who dis-solvedtheirmarriagein1939said,Theyweretwostrangerswhoneverreally met.It was five years before Baker fell in love again. In 1933 she had met JoBouillon, a French orchestra leader, when he came backstage at the Folies toask her for an autographed picture. They met again in October of 1944 whensheaskedBouillontodonatehisservicestothecauseofFreeFrance. Theybegan seeing each other. On June 3, 1947, they were married. During theirmarriage Baker purchased the chteau she had once leased, Les Milandes, andhad it renovated into a resort. She incurred huge debts, placing tremendouspressureontherelationshipwithherhusband.HermarriagetoBouillonlasted 13 years.In her last years Josephine Baker gave more and more time to her adoptedchildrenandtohergrowingstruggleagainstracism,especiallyintheU.S.,where many of her bookings had been canceled. Ironically, it was following atriumphant tour of the U.S. that Baker died of a heart attack in Paris at theage of 68.F.C.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 1718 / Intimate Sex LivesThe Girl Who Had ItCLARA BOW(Aug. 6, 1905Sept. 27, 1965)HERFAME: AsF.ScottFitzgeraldembodiedtheRoaringTwentiesinlitera-ture,sheembodieditonlm,having48lms to her credit by the age of 25. In 1927she was receiving 40,000 fan letters a week.HERPERSON: ClaraswastheclassicHollywoodstoryupfromobscurityatage19tobecomethereigningsexgod-dess of her time, collecting the obligatoryemotional scars all along the way. FatherRobertwasofteneitherunemployedorfootloose; Mother Sarah was bitter. Shedstick Clara in the closet of their Brooklyntenementwhilesheturnedtricksforfoodandrentmoney.Once,whenshelearned that Clara and her father were submitting a picture of Clara for a mag-azine beauty contest, she crept into Claras bedroom with a knife, vowing thather daughter wouldnt live to be one of those whores who primps before cam-erasforthepleasureofmen.LuckilyClaraescapedintothebathroomthatnight,withherlifeandhercareer.ShewonthecontestandaninitialstabatHollywood, which eventually led to her signing with Paramount.Shebecameoneofthestudiosbiggeststars,earning$7,500aweek.Andthankstotheinsomniawhichresultedfromhermotherslate-nightthreatonher life, she was able to live in a manner that embellished her on-screen image.Shed speed up and down Sunset Boulevard in an open convertible accompaniedbyacoupleofchowswhomatchedherhennaedhair.ShedrunupfabulousgamblingtabsinLasVegas.Andshewasperfectlyscandalousinherpersonalaffairs. In 1931 those affairs brought her down when she sued Daisy DeVoe, herprivate secretary, for embezzling $16,000 from her. During the trial, the judgewould not permit Daisy to discuss Clara Bows sexual escapades, so Daisy soldher expos to Bernarr Macfaddens New York Evening Graphic (incidentally, theauthors of this book scoured the U.S. for a copy of the expos issue, but no copywas available anywhere). Daisy was found guilty and sent to jail for a year. Wordgot out about Claras private life and damaged her career.SEX LIFE: In her heyday Clara reputedly made love to Gilbert Roland, VictorFleming, Gary Cooper, John Gilbert, Eddie Cantor, Bela Lugosi, and the entireUniversity of Southern California football team.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 18Sex Symbols / 19She met Roland, Paramounts Latin lover, during their lming of The Plas-tic Age. He was the rst man she ever cared about, she said, but it wasnt enoughfor the temperamental Roland, who went into ts of jealousy at Claras contin-uedinterestinothermen.Whenheproposedmarriageasaremedyforhisinsecurity, she dismissed the proposal, saying that no man would ever own her.Thus she set the pattern for most of her relationships with men. Shed lovethem,butneverenoughtosatisfytheiregos.Director VictorFlemingwas20years older than Clara and had vast prior experience with women, but neitherfact helped him cope with her, especially when he learned that after theyd n-ish having sex together, shed climb into her roadster and head off for a sessionwith another, usually younger man.Most notable amongst those younger men was Gary Cooper, who had a bitpart in It and was dubbed the It boy for his involvement with Clara, the quin-tessential It girl. In later years Coop tried to dismiss his relationship with Claraas just so much publicity, but Clara told delicious stories of his bathing her andher dogs in the morning and making love to her all night.There was the Thundering Herd, the University of Southern Californiasfootballteam,whichClaraentertainedonaregularbasisatherBeverlyHillshome. Thosewithavestedinterestinthe Trojansportsprogramhavealwaysmaintained that the post-game get-togethers at Claras place were nothing morethangood,cleanfun,butneighborsandfriendstoldtalesofnudefootballgames on the front lawn and all-night orgies. The legend grew that Clara intro-duced the team concept to lovemaking by taking on more than a single playerat a time. Whatever the truth to the stories, a sign was eventually posted in theTrojan locker room making Clara Bow off limits.ClaratookabrieffancytoEastCoastfootballinthepersonofRobertSavage,amillionairessonwhoplayedforYale.UnlikemostofClarasotherlovers, who merely went off and brooded when they found out that they werentnumber one in her program and number one in her heart, Savage tried to killhimselfbyslashinghiswristsandlettingthebloodowontoanautographedpictureofClara.Claraexclaimed,JesusChrist,hesgottobekidding.Mendont slash their wrists, they use a gun!HarryRichman,top-salariedBroadwaysingingstarinthe1930s,didnotbecomeaHollywoodimmortallikesomeofClarasotherlovers,althoughhetried to do so by aunting their relationship. He boasted that she was the onlywoman who could ever keep up with him sexually. She gave him a $2,000 ring.He gave her a child (which she had aborted), put detectives on her tail when hewas out of town, and even followed her himself to see where she went after theirnights together. Needless to say, they did not live happily ever after.ShemighthaveachievedthatblissfulstatewithWilliamEarlPearson,aTexasdoctorwhoperformedanemergencyappendectomyonherduringthelmingofDangerousCurves.Shelovedhimenoughtotrymonogamyforawhile (gifting him with a $4,000 watch), but when he returned to his wife inTexas, Clara was left with nothing but an alienation-of-affections suit that hadbeen led against her, which was settled out of court.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 1920 / Intimate Sex LivesTherehadbeenactors,ballplayers,stuntmen,airmen,andguysoffthestreet,butnallytherewasRexBell,acowboyactorandstaunchRepublicanwhotwicebecamelieutenantgovernorofNevadaduringthe1950s.Claramarried Bellin1931andhesawherthroughtheDaisyDeVoetrial,afailedcomeback in the early 1930s, and a series of emotional breakdowns. Because ofher unstable emotional condition, she lived apart from Bell and their two sons,seeking help in various sanitariums. In 1961, the 59-year-old Bell died of a heartattack. Clara succumbed four years later while watching television with a nurse-companion in her Los Angeles home.HER WORDS: Most men want me on their terms. The trouble with men isthat they all want to make you over into something else. It burns me up. Espe-cially since its me as I am that they fall for. The more I see of men, the more Ilike dogs.D.R.Clubfooted LibertineLORD BYRON (Jan. 22, 1788Apr. 19, 1824)HISFAME: Consideredoneofthegreat19th-centurypoets,GeorgeGor-don,LordByron,wastheincarnatesymbol of romanticism. In his works hecreatedtheByronichero,amysteri-ousandlonelyyoungmandefiantlyhidingsomeunspeakablesincommit-ted in his past. Byrons autobiographicalmasterpiece, Don Juanleft unfinisheduponthepoetsdeathwonuniversalacclaimforitscombinationoflyricalstorytelling and satirical realism.HISPERSON: ABritishlordbyage10,youngByronwasinfluencedadverselybyanunstablemotherandafootsocrippledthatheoncebeggedadoctor to amputate it. Nevertheless, he became an excellent distance swimmer,easily lasting for 5 mi. or more. This exercise did not end his constant battleagainstobesity,andat17heenteredCambridgeUniversitycarrying212lb.althoughhewasonly5ft.8in.tall. Tomaintainhisweightatareasonablelevelinadultlife,Byronfastedfrequentlywhiletakingdrugstoreduce,andByron at age 26Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 20Sex Symbols / 21kept to a fairly steady diet of hard biscuits plus a little rice, washed down bysoda water or diluted wine. An occasional gorging on meat and potatoes whenhecouldnolongerresistthetemptationtriggeredanimmediatedigestiveupsetandaddedrollsoffatabouthismiddle.ByronhopedthathislifelongSpartan regimen would also cool his passions, but it didnt. In 1809 he sailedwithJohnCamHobhouseforatwo-yeargrandtourofEurope.Uponhisreturn, Byron published Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, a fictionalized narrative ofthe trip done in Spenserian stanzas, and the poem brought instant fame. Hefollowed the success quickly with a series of Greco-Turkish tales (The Bride ofAbydos, The Corsair, The Siege of Corinth, and others) that enhanced his repu-tation further. Driven from England by public reaction to his sex life, ByronmadehiswaytoItaly.Hecontinuedtowritebrilliantly,producingManfred(1817)andBeppo (1818)alongwithDonJuan (18191824).IntriguedbyBalkan politics, Byron slipped into Greece to fight against its Turkish mastersbut perished from malaria at Missolonghi before achieving battlefield honors.Hisdeathfulfilledafortune-tellersprophecy,madetohismotherin1801,that he would die in his 37th year.SEX LIFE: Byron was sexually initiated at age nine by the family nurse, MayGray. Thedevout,Bible-quotingScottishgirlseizedeverychanceforthreeyears to creep into the childs bed and play tricks with his person. Arousingtheboyphysicallybyeveryvariationshecouldthinkof,Mayalsoallowedhim to watch while she made love with her uninhibited lovers. Thus primed,Byroneager for continued stimulationmoved with ease into sexual activ-itiesduringfouryearsatHarrow,oneofEnglandsprestigiousboardingschools. There he preferred the company of young boys: the Earl of Clare, theDuke of Dorset, among many others. Although he may have been bisexual,the thought of having sex with adult males repelled him. One such proposi-tionfrom23-year-oldLordGreydeRuthyn,tenderedwhileByronwasvisitingonholidayfromHarrow,sentthefuturepoetfleeinginterror.In1805, entering Trinity College (Cambridge), Byron fell in love with choirboyJohnEdleston,whogavehimaheart-shapedcarneliantosealtheirfriend-ship.ByroncombinedthreeyearsofintermittentstudieswithanorgiasticexistenceinLondon,stagingbacchanalianrevelriesthatnearlykilledhim.Living on laudanum (a tincture of opium), he cavorted nightly with prosti-tuteswhilemaintainingatleasttwomistresses,oneofwhomhedressedinboysclothingandpassedoffasacousin.Thedeceptionendedwhentheyoung gentleman miscarried in a certain family hotel in Bond Street, to theindescribable horror of the chambermaids.LeavingEnglandfortheContinentaltourin1809,ByronspentalmosttwoyearstravelingthroughGreece,Albania,andAsiaMinor.In Turkeyhewas fascinated that the major physical difference seemed to be that we haveforeskins and they none, and that in England the vices in fashion are whoringand drinking, in Turkey, sodomy and smoking. We prefer a girl and a bottle,they a pipe and pathic.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 2122 / Intimate Sex LivesThepublicationofChildeHarold inMarch,1812,broughtByronintocontactwithLadyCarolineLamb,theuninhibited27-year-oldwifeofWilliamLamb,wholaterbecameLordMelbourne,primeministerofEng-land. Meeting Byron, she confided in her journal that he was mad, bad, anddangeroustoknow.Herslender,boyishfiguremetByronsstandardsandtheyweresoonlovers.Anotoriousexhibitionistandoutspokeneccentric,Caroas Byron fondly called herproved a unique sex partner. In August,astartledByronopenedanenvelopetofindathatchofCaroscurlyblackpubic hair and a long note. I cut the hair too close, she wrote, and it bled.Do you not the same. She asked for a like gift, admonishing him to be care-ful when handling the scissors. Amused, Byron complied but soon tired of herconstant presence and erratic behavior. With the help of his good friend LadyMelbourne(whowasalsoCarosmother-in-law)hebrokeofftheaffairinDecember. Caro burned Byron in effigy, vowed revenge, and bided her time.Fleeing from Caros fury, he moved in with Jane Elizabeth Scott, the 40-year-old wife of Edward Harley, the Earl of Oxford. Happily making love to LadyJane until the following June, Byron was the latest in a series of lovers she hadenjoyedduringhermarriage.(TheOxfordchildrenwereknownastheHarleian Miscellany because of their uncertain paternity.)In July, 1813, Byron broke the ultimate sexual tabooincestby seduc-ing his married half sister, Augusta Leigh. Reared separately, the two childrenborn to Capt. John Mad Jack Byron rediscovered each other with an intensepassion. Nine months and two weeks later, Augusta gave birth to a daughter,Medora, and a proud Byron left little doubt as to the father. Referring to thebelief held in the Middle Ages that incestuous intercourse produced monsters,he wrote Lady Melbourne that it is not an ape, and if it is, that must be myfault. To silence the malicious gossip that his open affection for Augusta hadcreated, Byron married Annabella Milbanke, a prim and scholarly heiress whobelievedshecouldreformhim. Theirone-yearmarriagewasatotaldisaster.Byronbecamealmostpsychotic,verballytauntingherformonthswithembellished stories of his past orgies. He suffered continual nightmares, awak-eningattheslightestbodycontactwithAnnabella,screaming,Donttouchme! or crying out, Good God, I am surely in hell! in his dim awareness ofthe red damask curtains around the huge four-poster and the flickering tapershe kept burning in the bedroom. Since Byron felt a woman should never beseen eating or drinking, Annabella took her meals alone. In December, afterthe birth of their daughter, Augusta Ada, a fearful Lady Byron fled and suedfor a legal separation. The ensuing scandal feasted upon rumors about Byronssexualperversions:e.g.,hedmadelovetotheagingLadyMelbourneatherrequest; hed sodomized his terried wife in the nal month of her pregnancy;hedattemptedtorapeLadyOxfords13-year-olddaughter. Thesensationalcharges, which were viciously helped along by a vengeful Lady Caroline bentonByronsruin,ostracizedhimsocompletelythathewasforcedtoleaveEngland for good on Apr. 25, 1816, his reputation in shreds. But in his finalmonth, Byron put it about (his adopted term for copulating) one last time,Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 22Sex Symbols / 23with Claire Clairmont, the plain 17-year-old stepdaughter of free-love advo-cateWilliamGodwin.AttractedbyByronsnotoriety,Clairebrazenlypropositionedhiminaseriesofprovocativeletters.Drawnbyherpersistentsuggestions that he use her body at his earliest convenience, Byron finally gaveinaweekbeforedeparture. TheirbriefcouplingproducedAllegra,bornthefollowing January.OnceanexpatriateinVenice,Byronresumedhissexualexcessesinearnest.HefoundroomsnearSt.MarksSquareandimmediatelytookhislandlords wife, dark-eyed Marianna Segati, as his next mistress. Almost simul-taneously,heacquiredasecondpartner,theJunoesque(5ft.10in.)bakerswife Margarita Cogni. ThefieryamazonsexplosivejealousyforcedByrontoschedulehisotherassignationsverycarefully.Althoughveryreligiousshecrossedherselfeverytimeprayerbellsrang,evenwhenmakinglovewithByronMargarita would have stabbed any rival caught in her lovers bed. In1818ByronbrokewithMariannaandrentedthePalazzoMocenigo.Thepalace doubled as a personal brothel for Byron, populated by a harem of mis-tresses and streetwalkers. For a time his gentle tigress, Margaritasecure inher role as the poets primary mistressserved as housekeeper, but her tempertantrumsprovedtoomuchforByrontoaccept.WhenByronaskedhertoleave, she threatened him with a knife and stabbed his hand. She then threwherself into the canal. Finally convinced that Byron no longer wanted her, shereturned to her husband.Byron once estimated that almost half of his annual expenses had gone forpurchased sex, parceled out to at least 200 women. Perhaps more, he wrote,for I have not lately kept the count. The orgies were not without addition-alcost.Byronwasplaguedbygonorrhea,thecurseofVenushavingbeenpassed along by his ladies.In April, 1819, tiring of endless promiscuity and growing fat, Byron metTeresaGuiccioli,a19-year-oldcountesstrappedinamarriageofconve-nience.Hebecamehercavalierservente,fulfillingtheroleofofficialpublicescort as allowed by Italian custom for such marriages. Privately, the two fellgenuinelyinlove.Byroncutdownsharplyonhissexualprowling,writingfriends that he had not had a whore this half year, and had confined him-self to the strictest adultery. At Count Guicciolis invitation, Byron movedinunderthesameroof,therebysimplifyingtheaffair.Eventually,however,Guicciolitiredofthearrangement,andafteranemotionalconfrontationTeresa was granted a separation. Ironically, the four-year affair domesticatedByron almost completely, and he wistfully pictured himself as a living exam-pleofconjugalhappiness. TeresaandByronlivedtogetheruntilJuly,1823,when he left for Greece.W.K.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 2324 / Intimate Sex LivesThe Lovers LoveGIOVANNI JACOPO CASANOVA (Apr. 2, 1725June 4, 1798)HISFAME: Hisnamehascomedownin history as a synonym for a great lover.He was also a gambler, writer, and prac-titioner of the occult, as well as an escapeartistandinveteratetraveler,wholivedand loved by his wits.HIS LIFE: I was not born a noblemanIachievednobility,declaredCasanova,who was sensitive about his antecedents.Hismotherwasapromiscuous youngVenetianactress,ZanettaFarussi,whomarriedadancernamedCasanova;hisfather, he believed, was Michele Grimaniofthepatriciantheatrical family.(HisbrotherFrancescoissaidtohavebeenfatheredbythePrinceof Wales,thefutureGeorgeII,whileZanettaCasanovawas on tour in England.) He was raised by his grandmother, boarding out as astudent at the University of Padua, from which he received a doctorate in law atthe age of 17. After being expelled from a seminary for alleged homosexual activ-ity, Casanova eventually made his way into the Venetian army.At21,havingacquiredaknowledgeofthehealingartsandtheoccult,CasanovanursedbacktohealthanagingVenetianaristocratnamedMatteoBragadin, who adopted him in gratitude. Incarcerated in Venices Leads Prisonfor various peccadilloesmany of them sexual in natureCasanova escaped tospend the next 18 years wandering all over Europe. He was a compulsive gam-bler who served briey as organizer of the French state lottery; a litterateur whotranslatedtheIliad andwrotemanybooks,includingapropheticnovelinvevolumes. He visited Voltaire in Switzerland, fought a duel with a Polish count,interviewedRussiasCatherinetheGreat(aboutcalendarreform),andaffectedthe title of Chevalier de Seingalt.Returning to Venice in 1774, Casanova served the Inquisition as a spy andbureaucrat for seven years, until he was exiled for writing a satire on the Venet-ian ruling classes. He ended his life as librarian to Count von Waldstein in a castlein Dux, Bohemia.HISPERSON: Tall,dark,andpowerfullybuilt,withthewittymannerofaHarlequin or a Figaro, Casanova possessed the ability to insinuate himself intoevery picaresque possibility. His sexual conquests were legion. There was notSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 24Sex Symbols / 25awomanintheworldwhocouldresistconstantattentions,heclaimed.AMachiavelliofsexualintrigue,hewouldcourt,cajole,scheme,insult,andthreaten until he got his way; rebuffed, his ardor would only increase. Conti-nencecausedillness,hethought,whereasindulgenceresultedinatleast11bouts with venereal disease. (Perhaps on this account, but also because he wassympathetic to the womans risk of pregnancy, he was familiar with the use ofaprotectivecoveringaswellasacontraceptivediaphragmmadeofhalfalemon,thecitricacidactingasaspermicide.)Avigoroussexualathlete,herefers casually to running my sixth race, and more. In his prime he was capa-ble of having sex anywhere, with anyone, and in any position, with particularreference to the positions described by 16th-century satirist Aretino.Unlike a Don Juan with a constant need to prove his virility, according toDr. Robert B. Greenblatt Casanova was a connoisseur of sex who enjoyed thesexual encounter as much for the pleasure it afforded him as for the satisfactionobtained in the seductive process itself, and in the mystique of the adventure.Gourmand as well as connoisseur, Casanova celebrated women with all hissenses. The odor of those I loved was always fragrant to my nostrils, he wrote.Andofcoursehehadahighlydevelopedsenseoftaste.Oneofhisspecialtieswas the oyster orgy, which involved passing the savory aphrodisiacs from mouthtomouth,retrievingthemwithhislipsshouldtheyhappentofallbetweenalabaster spheres.Above all, Casanova was an incurable romantic who constantly fell in love.Without love this great business is a vile thing, he believed. He was foreverrescuingdamselsindistress,thenextricatinghimselfwithdifculty.Hecon-sidered marriage the tomb of love, preferring instead the inexpressible charmofstolenpleasures.Hedescribedthesepleasuresinexquisiteandoccasionallyctional detail in the 12-volume Histoire de ma vie (History of My Life).HIS LOVERS IN PARIS: Sexual awakening came when Casanova was 11 or soatthehandsofBettinaGozzi,hislandlordssister,who,whilewashinghim,touched his thighs suggestively. His rst complete sexual experience, six or sevenyearslater,involvednotonebuttwobuddingyoungnymphets,NanettaandMartaSavorgnan.Conspiringtointroducehimselfintotheirbed,helulledthem into a deceptive sense of security by feigning sleep. Gradually he uncurledrstonegirl,thentheother,slowlymovingtowardhisultimateobject.Afterwashing together, the three aroused themselves to such a state of sexual intoxi-cation that they spent the remainder of the night in ever varied skirmishes.With a female friend, Casanova discovered, the weakness of the one bringsabout the fall of the other. The pattern later repeated itself with Helena and Hed-wig, cousins in Geneva. Having pierced their maidenheads and bathed them (anactivitythatalwaysdelightedhim),Casanovafoundhisardorrenewedbytheircurious hands, which aroused him to ll their cup of happiness for several hours,changing from one to the other ve or six times before I reached the paroxysmof consummation. Even then, one of the girls was delighted on kissing his pistol,as Casanova occasionally referred to his member, to prompt yet another eruption.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 2526 / Intimate Sex LivesHOMOSEXUALITY: InhisyouthCasanovabecameobsessedwithwhathemistakenlybelievedtobeacastrato,oneoftheyoungboysplayingwomensrolesontheItalianstage.Bellinoturnedouttobe Teresa,a16-year-oldgirlwith whom he initiated an affair. Later, unwilling to forgo any new sexual expe-riences,heindulgedinmorethanonehomosexualencounter.Bragadin,Casanovas adoptive father, may have been a pederast. And in Russia Casanovaexchanged tokens of the tenderest friendship, and swore eternal love with thebeautiful, androgynous Lieutenant Lunin.LESBIANS AND VOYEURS: C.C. (Casanova usually concealed the identi-tyofhislovers)wasa15-year-oldwho,relievedofhervirginitybyCasanova,was locked up by her father in the convent at Murano. While visiting her thereCasanova caught the eye of Mother M.M., a beautiful young nun with a verycatholiclibido,whoproposedanassignationatherloverscasino.Theirrstcoupling was staged for the voyeuristic pleasure of M.M.s lover, Abb FranoisdeBernis,FrancesambassadortoVenice,whowasobservingthemfromahidden chamber. On another occasion, C.C. was persuaded to join M.M. andCasanova. M.M. and C.C. began by exploring the mysteries of Sappho. Thenall three of us, Casanova wrote, intoxicated by desire and transported bycontinualfuries,playedhavocwitheverythingvisibleandpalpablefreelydevouring whatever we saw and nding that we had all become of the same sexin all the trios which we performed.Another nun, also referred to as M.M., later seduced a 12-year-old boarderat a French convent for Casanovas pleasure. By demonstrating the manual tech-nique of verifying virginity, Casanova aroused the child to perform fellatio. Shesuckedthequintessenceofmysoulandmyheart,Casanovarelatedinhismemoirs. The entire encounter took place through the grating which separatedthe nuns from the visitors.INCEST: I have never been able to understand how a father could tenderly lovehischarmingdaughterwithouthavingsleptwithheratleastonce,wroteCasanova, having discovered the pleasures of incest. He had fallen in love withLeonilda, the mistress of a homosexually inclined duke, only to nd that she washis daughter by Lucrezia, with whom he had enjoyed copulating marathons 17years earlier. Leonilda personally observed her parents reenactment of her con-ception,undressing(sayingthatasherfatherIwasentitledtoseeallmyhandiwork), and even taking part somewhat in their lovemaking. The relation-shipbetweenfatheranddaughterwasconsummated,nineyearslater,whenLeonilda was married to an impotent old marquis and Casanova fathered her son.SEX FOR FUN AND PROFIT: Casanova had a sense of humor about sex, asevidenced by his affair with Mlle. X.C.V. (Giustiniana Wynne). Since the ladywas already pregnant, his motives were initially honorableto help her obtain anabortion. All else having failed, he tried a cure from cabalistic literature: the arophof Paracelsus, a concoction which was to be applied to the mouth of the uterus,Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 26Sex Symbols / 27by means of an object 6 to 7 in. in length, when the subject was in a state ofsexual arousal. Casanova was convulsed with laughter when the moment arrived,but soon recovered enough to achieve repeated penetration if not the abortion.Casanovas most elaborate episode of sexual charlatanry involved the widowedMarquise dUrf, a rich eccentric whose consuming passion was to be reborn as amale child. He proposed rst to impregnate personally an angelic virgin with ason, into whom the marquise would breathe her soul. But the virgin proved to bemore of a trollop, and Casanova was forced to consider the necessity of procreatingwith the elderly marquise. This would of course require aid and inspiration from adivine spirit in the person of Marcoline, actually a lesbian nymphomaniac. Mar-coline arrived dressed all in green, with a note in invisible ink introducing her as awater sprite, adept at certain ceremonial ablutions. The marquise failed to bear thedesired male child, but she was good for about two years worth of pocket money.LOVERS (CONTINUED) Casanovas other conquests included the mayoress ofCologne;anun,alockofwhosepubichairhekeptforremembrance;ablackwoman, out of curiosity; an actress with two humps on her back and an eroticallyirregular vulva. Eager to explore all the combinations and permutations of sexualpleasure, he assembled more than one harem of nubile young seamstresses. Mostofhiswomenwereofthedemimondeorlowerclasses,withafewexceptions.Casanovas most rewarding affair, according to biographer John Masters, was witha well-bred, well-educated Frenchwoman named Henriette, his equal in adven-ture and hedonism. They spent three months together before she returned to herhome. Years later, Casanova found himself in the same hotel room in Geneva, onthewindowofwhichshehadscratchedwithadiamondherfatefulfarewellmessage: Tu oublieras aussi Henriette (You will also forget Henriette).Exhausted by his prodigious endeavors, Casanovas sexual potency began toagbeforehereached40.InLondonin1763heresortedtoadvertisingforacompanion, was driven to distraction by an unwilling beauty, and was drained ofhis cash by ve mercenary Hanoverian sisters. He began to revisit the same cities,repeating his old conquests. Back in Venice there was an uneducated seamstress,Francesca Buschini, who remained faithful for years. Otherwise, he was forced tofrequent the women who could be had by anyone, for a price.And during the 13 years as a librarian in Bohemia, there were probably nowomen at all. There were only the pleasures of eating (since he could no longerbe a god in the gardens, a contemporary wrote, he had become a wolf at thetable), of writing, and of reading, which prompted an aphorism on his favoritesubject: Woman is like a book which, be it good or bad, must begin to pleasewith its title page. Needless to say, even though he was impotent during his nalyears, Casanova was always curious to read new ones.HISTHOUGHTS: My vices have never burdened anyone but myself, exceptthe cases in which I have seduced; but seduction was never characteristic of me,for I have never seduced except unconsciously, being seduced myself.C.D.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 2728 / Intimate Sex LivesBlond BombshellJEAN HARLOW(Mar. 3, 1911June 7, 1937)HER FAME: The reigning sex queen ofthe 1930s, Jean Harlow played comedicmovierolesinwhichshewastheplat-inum-blond floozy with a heart of gold,acombinationgoodkidandslut.Amongherbest-knownfilmsareHellsAngels,DinneratEight,PublicEnemy,Bombshell, and Red Dust.HER PERSON: Jean was born HarleanCarpenterinKansasCity,Mo.HermotherdivorcedherdentisthusbandandtwoyearslatermarriedMarinoBello, an Italian-American of uncertainprofessionwithshadygangsterconnec-tions. Marino and Mama Jean, as shewascalled,managedJeanscareerandleeched large sums of money from her. The family moved to Hollywood whenJean was a teenager, and her first important part was in Hells Angels, a fabu-louslyexpensiveHowardHughesproduction.Hughescoinedthetermplatinum blond for Harlow (her almost white hair was to become her great-est trademark) and had his costumer design the lowest-cut evening gown everphotographed for the screen. Jean, wearing very little to begin with, caused asensationwhensheutteredtheimmortallineDoyoumindifIslipintosomething more comfortable? The next step was to superstardom, althoughMama Jean, Marino, and Jeans friends still called her by her childhood nick-name: the Baby.SEXANDLOVELIFE:Storiesaboutheramorousliferangefromoneextreme to another: that Harlow was sex-crazed and promiscuous; that Harlowhated sex; that Harlow was a normal, healthy girl who just had bad luck withmen. Probably a little of each is true.One thing her biographers do agree on is that she had her rst sexual expe-rience at 16. Partly in order to escape from a girls boarding school in Illinois,she eloped with 21-year-old Charles McGrew, the son of a wealthy investmentbroker. She lied about her age and succeeded in getting married, but the newly-weds families separated the young bride and groom almost immediately. Theyprobably never saw each other again, and a divorce was obtained in 1929. Jeanremembered her rst act of love as messy and not very satisfying.Wedding photo of Jean Harlow, Paul Bern and friendsSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 28Sex Symbols / 29She had no other lovers until she married her second husband, Paul Bern,in1932.Thiswasahighlyunusualandmuch-gossiped-aboutcourtship.Bern was a small, mustachioed, almost weasely-looking man twice her agean odd choice for a woman who had her pick of the great Hollywood leadingmen.MostlikelyshewasseekingafatherfigureandenjoyedthefactthatBernappearedtobeinterestedinhermindratherthanherbody.Hewassuave,intellectual,andgentlemanly.HewasalsoIrving ThalbergsassistantatMGM,andwascalledHollywoodslittlefatherconfessorbecauseheloved to listen to other peoples problems. Before he married Jean, he had hadan unusual arrangement with another girl. He had set the girl up in a Holly-woodflatandvisitedhereveryafternoon.Thegirlwoulddisrobeandlienaked on the bed while he read poetry to her. Then they would have tea andhe would leave.But the mystery of the Harlow-Bern liaison has still not been solved. Themostfamousstoryofthefatefulweddingnightandfollowingweeksisthis:Afterahappywedding,thecouplewenttotheirhometoconsummatetheunion.SeveralhourslaterJeansagent,ArthurLandau,receivedatearfulphone call from his distraught client. He picked her up outside the house, andsherevealedthatadrunkenBernhadbeatenherwithacane,leavinglong,ugly welts all over her snowy body. He had also bitten her thighs so savagelythat they bled. Jean spent the remainder of her wedding night with the Lan-daus.Enteringthehousethenextmorning,LandaufoundBernnudeandweeping.HesaidtoLandau,EverymanIknowgetsanerectionjustbytalking about her. Arthur, didnt I have the right to think Jean could help meat least that much? Apparently Bern had the penis and testicles of an infantboy and was completely impotent. (A variation on the story was told by Jeansmaid, who quoted Bern as saying, The Babys still a virgin.)Whatever happened was not good, but they kept up appearances for thesakeofJeanscareer.Finally,onenighttwomonthsaftertheweddingBerngainedentryintoJeansusuallylockedbedroom.Hestrodeinwearinganenormousdildo,withhugetesticlesandabulbwhichshotwateroutoftheendoftheartificialpenis.Jeanburstintohystericallaughter,andBernprancedaroundtheroomsportingthegiantphallusuntilthetwoofthemremoved it and flushed it down the toilet.The next evening, probably while Jean was out (the sequence of eventsisfuzzy),thebutlerdiscoveredBernsnakedbodysprawledbeforeafull-lengthmirror.Itwasdrenchedinhiswifesfavoriteperfume,Mitsouko.Bern had shot himself in the head with a .38 caliber pistol. The note he leftgavethepressafieldday.Itread:DearestDear,Unfortunatelythisistheonly way to make good the frightful wrong I have done you, and to wipe outmy abject humiliation. I love you. Paul. You understand that last night wasonly a comedy.Three days later the body of a blond was found in the Sacramento River.The suicide was Dorothy Milette, who had claimed to be Berns common-lawwife before Jean had married him.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 2930 / Intimate Sex LivesAdistraughtJeanturnedtopromiscuityasself-punishment,tondoutwhat sex was all about, and because she suddenly wanted to have a baby. She cuther hair very short (studio heads were furious when they found out), wore ablack wig and sunglasses, and began to pick up men, starting with a salesmanwith whom she spent two nights in a sleazy hotel in San Bernardino. She metoneofherpickupsinfrontofaSanFranciscomovietheatershowingRedDust, her latest film with Clark Gable. The man told her she resembled JeanHarlowandoughttogotoHollywoodtotryoutforthejobofstand-inordouble.ButHarlowcouldbechoosy;whenLouisB.Mayer,theheadofMGM studio, propositioned her, dangling a fur coat as bait, she turned himdown.Inanycase,herattemptstogetpregnantfailed,andsheeventuallyfound out she was sterile.The last of Jeans three marriages of inconvenience, as she called them, wastoHalRosson,atalentedandsuccessfulcameraman.RossonresembledPaulBern and was 16 years older than Jean. The couple happily eloped in 1933, butthe marriage lasted only eight months. No one knows why exactly, though it isspeculatedthatMamaJeanandMarinosinterferenceledtothebreakup. Thecomplaints Jean led for the divorce proceedings were ridiculous; for example,she charged that he was ruining her career by reading in bed until late at night,thus making her sleepy on the set.Jeans nal affair was with actor William Powell, probably her one true love.Like Bern he was intelligent and sauve, and he too resembled Bern physically.Powellwas43toJeans24,andonthethirdanniversaryoftheirrstdatehebrought Jean a cake with a card saying, To my three-year-old from her Daddy.They were probably engaged at the time of Jeans sudden collapse at the age ofSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 30Sex Symbols / 3126. She quickly died of uremic poisoning because Mama Jean was a ChristianScientist and would not allow her to have medical help until it was too late.It is believed that at her funeral Powell was the one who placed in her handa single gardenia, her favorite ower, along with a note that read, Good night,mydearestdarling,andthattheemptyplotnexttoJeanandhermothersgraves is reserved for him.QUIRKS: Harlow was the rst actress in Hollywood to appear regularly in lmswithout a bra; in fact, she rarely wore any underwear. Years before when a highschool teacher reprimanded her for this, the 15-year-old replied, I cant breathewhenImwearingabrassiere.Shealsorubbedhernippleswithicetomakethem stand out for the camera, and dyed her pubic hair platinum to match thehair on her head.HERTHOUGHTS:MyGod,mustIalwayswearalow-cutdresstobeimportant?A.W.The Eye of the DayMATA HARI (Aug. 7, 1876Oct. 15, 1917)HERFAME: Anexoticdancerfamousforhersensationalnudeperformances,MataHariwasthetoastofEuropeintheearlyyearsofthe20thcentury.In1917 she was executed by a French ringsquad for acting as a German spy duringWWI. Thoughhernamenowconnotesatreacherousandfascinatingfemalespy, it has never been proved that she wasin fact a double agent.HERPERSON: Eighteen-year-oldGertrudeMargaretaZelle,herconventschoolingover,answeredanAmster-damnewspaperadsupposedlyplacedbyanarmyofficerseekingawife.Actuallyitwasajokesetupbyoneoftheofficersfriends.Nonetheless,theofficer,balding39-year-oldRudolphMacLeod, ended up marrying Margareta. Mata Hari in costume for her Javanese danceSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 3132 / Intimate Sex LivesFor the next two years they lived in Holland, where she bore their son, Nor-man. WhenMacLeodwasreassignedtotheDutchEastIndies,hetookhisfamilywithhim.ThereMargaretahadanotherchild,Jeanne;flirtedwithyoungofficersandplanters(arousingMacLeodsjealousy);andwatchedJavanese temple dancers, who inspired her future career. MacLeod drank, wasunfaithful, and beat her. At least once he threatened her with a loaded gun.One story, probably legendary, states that their son was poisoned by a nativesoldier incensed over MacLeods seduction of his girl friend, the boys nurse.Margaretalaterclaimedthatshestrangledthepoisonerwithherbarehands, of course.TheMacLeodsreturnedtoHollandandseparated,andby1904Mar-gareta was in Paris, without husband or child. I thought that all women whoran away from their husbands went to Paris, she said.Atherdebutasadancer,shemetmiletienneGuimet,theownerofan Oriental art museum, where she soon gave an electrifying performance ofOriental dances, dressed in jeweled bra and see-through draperies in a settingofpalms,bronzestatues,andgarlandedcolumns.TheatercriticdouardLepage described her appearance in the hyperbole typical of the times: suppleliketheunrolledserpentwhichishypnotizedbythesnakecharmersflute.Her flexible body at times becomes one with the undulating flames, to stiffensuddenly in the middle of her contortions with a brutal gesture, Mata Haririps off her jewels throws away the ornaments that cover her breasts. And,naked, her body seems to lengthen way up into the shadows! she beats theairwithhershatteredarms,whipstheimperturbablenightwithherlongheavyhair.(Somesourcessaythatsheneverdancedcompletelynude,butalwaysconcealedherbreasts,whichhadbeenbittenandthuspermanentlydisfigured by MacLeod.)By then, she had become Mata Hari (Malay for eye of the day, the sun),completewithstorythatshewasthechildofa14-year-oldIndiantempledancerwhohaddiedgivingbirth;raisedbytemplepriestswhotaughtherdances sacred to the Hindu god Siva; danced nude for the first time at the ageof13beforethealtarofaHindutemple.Shelookedtheparttall,dark,strong-featured,withvelvetyeyes.Hercareerskyrocketedandshebecameasensation in most of the major capitals of Europe. And she was a scandal; thedirectress of one of her performances went so far as to force her to wear a pieceof red flannel, diaper-fashion, at her crotch.Thespyplot,trueornot,beganontheday WWIwasdeclaredandsherode through the streets of Berlin with a police official. It was all high drama:the bottles of invisible ink given her by the Germans (she threw them into acanal, she said); her German code number, H 21; her seduction of high Germanofficials (for money, love, or secrets?); her agreement to spy for the French forthemillionfrancssheneededtoimpressthefatheroftheloveofherlife,Vadime de Massloff, a Russian captain; her grandiose plans for manipulatingnoblementhroughjealousy,greed,andlust;theFrenchspiestailingherinMadrid, one disguised as an old man on a bicycle, and so on.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 32Sex Symbols / 33ShewasarrestedbytheFrenchinFebruary,1917.Somesayshegreetedthe arresting officers naked on a couch in her hotel room. This is no more truethan the rumor that she took milk baths while Parisian children starved or thatshe danced nude in her cell at Saint-Lazare Prison.The file on her was 6 in. thick, but the evidence was inconclusive. A tubeofsecretinkinherpossessionturnedouttobeoxycyanideofmercury,whichsheinjectedintoherselfaftermakingloveasabirth-controlmethod.HeragedloverMatreClunetdefendedherathertrial,andanotherlover,JulesCambonoftheMinistryofForeignAffairs,testifiedinherbehalf.Athird lover, old and amiable General Messimy, sent a letter written by his wifewhich asked that the general be excused from testifying since he didnt knowthe defendant. At that, Mata Hari laughed, Ah! He never knew me! Oh, well.He has a nerve! The jury laughed with her, but humor did not save her fromher awful sentencedeath by a firing squad.The nun who came to fetch her on the day of her execution chastised herfor showing too much leg while putting on her stockings in front of the prisondoctor. She was dressed to the teeth. On the way out of prison, she was askedwhether she was pregnant (according to French law, a pregnant woman couldnot be executed). This question arose, some say, from a last-ditch attempt byClunet to save her by claiming to be the father of her unborn child.She was shot at the polygon of Vincennes, at her own request without ablindfold. It is not true that she pulled open her coat to reveal her naked body,so astounding the firing squad that not one man could squeeze a trigger. Nordidaplayboyaviatorboyfriendstrafethefield.Nordidanotherloverinspired by the plot of the opera Toscabribe the firing squad to use blanks,put her in a ventilated coffin, and bury her in a shallow grave so that he couldspirit her away. The truth? No one claimed her body, so it was contributed toa medical school for dissection. Was she guilty? Thats still a question.LOVE AND SEX LIFE: Though she accepted money for sex, she was so infat-uated by the uniform that she often slept with soldiers for nothing. She mayhave hated most men, in spite of the fact that she exploited their sexual urgesin order to support herself.Judgingbyherletterssignedyourlovinglittlewife,shewasintimatewith MacLeod before their marriage. Her long string of later lovers includedinnumerablemilitarymenofseveralnationalities;thecrownprinceofGer-many;theheadofadirigiblecompany;thepresidentoftheDutchcouncil;andtwoboys,17and18respectively,whenshewascloseto40.Herprice,whensexwasabusinessdeal,was$7,500anight,orsosheclaimed.Uponoccasion Mata Hari turned a candidate downan American munitions sales-man with bad table manners, for example.HerfirstimportantloverwasLt.AlfredKiepert,arich,marriedlandowner in the German Hussars, who set her up in an apartment in 1906.Aboutayearlatertheyparted,andshereturnedtoPariswiththestoryshehadbeenonahuntingtripinEgyptandIndia.In1914theywerebackSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 3334 / Intimate Sex Livestogether again. A newspaper snidely reported: When Mata Hari, the beau-tifuldancer,saidgood-byetotherichestateownerKiepert,wholivesjustoutside Berlin, she took along a few hundred thousand as a farewell present.Whethertheshineofthemoneyhaswornofforwhetheritislovethatbrought her back to her former friend, during the last few days they could beseen,apparentlyhappyandcloselyintimate,inaprivatediningroomofafashionable restaurant in town.In1910shelivedintheFrenchregionofTouraineasthemistressofXavierRousseau,astockbroker.Hespentweekendswithherattheirhide-away, the Chteau de la Dore, where once she rode a horse up and down theouter staircase. After they split up, he became a champagne salesman. His wifeclaimed that Mata Hari had ruined him.AfterRousseaucamedouardWillenvanderCapellenrich,married,and a colonel in the Dutch Hussars. But her passion reached full flower withher Russian captain, Vadime de Massloff, whom she visited in 1916 in Vittel,a French resort in the military zone. He was recuperating from a wound; shemayhavebeenspying.Whenshewasarrested,severalphotographsofDeMassloffwerefoundinherhotelroom.Writtenonthebackofonewas:Vittel, 1916. In memory of some of the most beautiful days of my life, spentwithmyVadime,whomIloveaboveeverything.Whenjailed,shewroteapatheticlettertoaninterrogatorbeggingfornewsofDeMassloff.YetDeMassloff claimed their relationship had been a minor affair.HERTHOUGHTS:Inevercoulddancewell.Peoplecametoseemebecause I was the first who dared to show myself naked to the public. To aninterrogator, while she was jailed: I love officers. I have loved them all my life.I prefer to be the mistress of a poor ofcer than a rich banker. It is my greatestpleasure to sleep with them without having to think of money. And moreoverI like to make comparisons between the various nationalities. I have said yesto them with all my heart. They left thoroughly satisfied, without ever havingmentioned the war, and neither did I ask them anything that was indiscreet.Ive only kept on seeing De Massloff because I adore him.A.E.The Prince of PlayboysPRINCE ALY KHAN (June 13, 1911May 12, 1960)HIS FAME: Aly Khan was once heir apparent to Aga Khan III of India, but hisinternational pursuit of fast cars, horses, and beautiful women cost him the postofimamspiritualleadertoover20millionMuslimsoftheIsmailisectwhich had been held by his father.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 34Sex Symbols / 35HISPERSON:BorninItalyandrearedinEurope,PrinceAlySuleimanKhaninheritedafortuneandlearnedearly how to enjoy it. In 1929, after thedeath of his mother, Aly threw himselfintohigh-societyLondon,wherehehadbeensenttostudylaw.Theshortand swarthy teenager stood out amongthepalegentry,andhisexoticlooks,boundlessenergy,andskillatracingcars and horses won him fame and theadoration of that years debutantes. HewentontocompeteinEuropeanautoracesandhuntonAfricansafaris,allthewhilemanaginghishorse-breedingfarmsandvillasinIreland,France,Switzerland,andVenezuela.TheAlliesfoundhisdaringandhisfluencyinEnglish,French,andArabicinvaluableduring WWII, awarding him the Croix de Guerre and the U.S. Bronze Starforhisworkinintelligence.ThoughsomeconsiderhismostoutstandingconquesttobeRitaHayworth,whomhemarriedin1949,heearnedgreatrespectasPakistansdelegatetotheU.N.,whereheservedfrom1958untilhis death in a car accident two years later.LOVE LIFE: Two skills from race-car driving and army service stood him wellin his career as a lover: speed and logistics. With houses all over the world, hehadonlytocaptureawomansattentionandhecouldwooherwhereverhewished. His blitzkrieg involved the eyes-across-the-crowded-room approach:staring intently at the chosen prey until he had her attention. Then he wan-gledanintroduction,followingitupwithdozensofroses,constantphonecalls,andattentiontohisvictimseverywhimanddesire. TheinternationalcelebrityhostessElsaMaxwellwrotethatAlymadeawomanfeelnootherperson exists for him. He talks to her with breathless excitement. He danceswith her slowly and rapturously, as though it is the last time he will ever holdher in his arms. When he tells a woman he loves her, he sincerely means itat the moment. The trouble is that a moment passes so quickly. Even a mar-riedwomancouldcarryonanaffairratherdiscreetlywiththeprince,whoalwaystraveledwithacrowdofpeopleandkepteveryoneguessingwho,among the current crew, was the chosen one. A bewildered member of Parlia-ment,Mr.LoelGuinness,toldadivorcecourtin1936thathehadleftahappily married woman, his beautiful blond wife, Joan, with such a retinue,and returned from a business trip to find she wanted a divorce to marry AlyKhan. Joan was Alys first wife and she gave him two sons, Karim (who becamethe fourth imam when Alys father died in 1957) and Amyn.Though Aly continued to stalk other women, he didnt bother to ask JoanforadivorceuntilhemetRitaHayworthin1948.ThesultryactresswasAly Khan with Rita HayworthSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 3536 / Intimate Sex Livesvacationing on the Riviera. As competition Aly had Hollywoods leading menas well as the shah of Iran, also vacationing there and planning seductions ofhisown.Alywon,gallantlyhelpingRitaforgetherinattentivehusband,Orson Welles,bywhiskingherofftoParis,London,andMadrid.ForRita,seeking privacy and respite from a grueling Hollywood schedule, marriage toAly was a bitter disappointment. He felt alone with anything less than a mob,she said. She took their daughter, Yasmin, back to America with her, becomingthefirstwomantowalkoutonAlyKhan. Theydivorcedin1953andAlyrenewedoldinterests,shuttlingbetweencountriesonvisits,soinvolvedheoften did not leave his hotel suite. His father once became incensed when adelegation of Ismailis, in London on a visit from India, were kept waiting inthelobbyforoveranhourwhileAlyentertainedayoungwomanupstairs.Alys reputation had grown to such an extent that one friend claimed: Youwere dclass, dmod, nothing, you hardly counted, if youd not been to bedwith Aly.Though Aly changed women as often as he changed cars and horses, hisromancesweresointensethatfewwomencomplained.JulietteGrecoadmiredhisperfecttiming.KimNovakfoundotherpeopleseemedonlyhalf-alive compared to Aly. Even actress Gene Tierneyat first so unim-pressedshethoughttoherselfonmeetinghim,ThatsallIneed,someOrientalsuperstudbecamesmittenandhopedatonetimehewouldmarry her. But none of his romances had quite such historical import as hisdalliancewithLady ThelmaFurness,whowasthePrinceofWaleslovingcompanionuntilshefellforAly.Angered,EdwardVIIIturnedtotheAmericandivorceWallisSimpson,forwhomheeventuallygaveupthethrone of England.QUIRKS: Alys claim that I think only of a womans pleasure when Im inlove came out of a unique education given him by an Arab doctor in Cairo,where his father sent him as a boy for instruction in the sex technique calledImsk.Awomandescribeditthisway:NomatterhowmanywomenAlywentwith,heseldomreachedclimaxhimself.Hecouldmakelovebythehour, but he went the whole way himself not oftener than twice a week. Heliked the effect it had on women. He liked to get them out of control whilehe stayed in controlthe master of the situation.HIS THOUGHTS: They called me a bloody nigger and I paid them out bywinning all their women.B.B.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 36Sex Symbols / 37MarilynMARILYN MONROE (June 1, 1926Aug. 5, 1962)HERFAME:Shewasthereigningsexsymbolofthestaid1950s,theall-American dumbblondwithacampy,exaggeratedcome-on.Fragileandinse-cureinherpersonallife,shesoughtsecurityinsex,tradingupfromHolly-wood producers to an ill-fated presidentof the U.S.HERPERSON: ShebeganlifeasNormaJeanMortenson,thedaughterofGladysMonroeBakerMortenson,ahardworkingbutemotionallyunstableHollywoodfilmcutter,andGladyssecond husband, Edward Mortenson, amanofNorwegianextractionanduncertainemployment,whodisap-peared shortly before she was born.NormaJeanhadadeprived,Depression-poorchildhood.Sheboardedwith one family until she was seven, joined her mother until Gladys was insti-tutionalized for paranoid schizophrenia, and spent the next three years in anorphanageandfosterhomes.GraceGoddard,hermothersbestfriend,tookcare of her from the age of 11 until her marriage at 16.EscapingintoanimaginaryworldfilledwithSaturdaymatineeimages,Norma Jean fantasized about a father who looked like Clark Gable and aboutglamorous seduction scenes involving tropical islands, yachts, palaces. She alsohadarecurringdreaminwhichshetookherclothesoffinchurchandtheshocked congregation silently admired her naked splendor.Marriage to Jim Dougherty, a blue-collar savior, protective and possessive,soonproveddisappointing.Contradictingtheluridtalesshewouldlatertellof having been raped and sexually abused, even impregnated as a foster child,DoughertywouldreportthathisNormaJeanwasavirgin.Inanycase,shebecameboredwithplayinghouseandwasrelievedwhenherhusbandwentoverseas in 1944. While working in a war plant, she was discovered by a pho-tographer.NormaJeanlovedtopose,andthecamera(heronlytruelover,somewouldsay)revealedabeautifulyoungwoman,eagertopleaseandbenoticed, voluptuous yet vulnerable, a combination of allure and innocence.Obsessed by the dream of stardom, she divorced her husband, becameapopularmodel(photographerAndrdeDienesfellinlovewithherandIn 1949, Marilyn posed for this famous calendar shot Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 3738 / Intimate Sex Livesproposed),andin1946presentedherselfat20thCentury-Fox.Shedemon-strated remarkable esh impact in a silent screen test, on the basis of which thestudio signed her, lightened her hair, and changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.SEX ON THE CASTING COUCH: Marilyn emanated a strong sexual aura,by all accounts. She thought about sex all the time, considering it with everymanshemet,butwoulddescribeherselfasselectivelypromiscuous,submit-tingonlytomensheliked,themainrequirementbeingthattheybenice.Her preference was usually for older men, kindly, warm father figures.Hollywood in the late 1940s was an overcrowded brothel, in Marilynswords, and she needed all the help she could get to move up from third-stringblonde at Fox. Her first patron was veteran producer Joe Schenck, then near-ly70.Schenckwinedanddinedthestarletandinvitedherregularlytohishomeandoffice,wherehewouldfondleherbreastsandtalkabouttheolddays while she performed fellatio.Schenck introduced Marilyn to Harry Cohn, the tyrant of Columbia Pic-tures,butshewasfiredafterherfirstfilm,allegedlyforrejectingCohnsimperioussexualdemands.ComedianMiltonBerle,whosucceededwhereCohn failed, claimed, She wasnt out to please me because I might be able tohelp her [but] because she liked me. At the time, she was also in love withFred Karger, her vocal coach, who enjoyed her sexual favors but did not reci-procate her feelings.AnintimateglimpseofMarilynssexualityinthisperiodisaffordedbyAnton LaVey, then an 18-year-old accompanist at a strip joint where the 22-year-oldactressworkedbrieflyafterbeingfiredfromColumbia.LaVey,whohadatwo-weekaffairwithMarilyninmotels(or,whentheywerebroke,inher car), describes her as sexually passive, a tease who enjoyed the ogling admi-ration of men but not their more pressing attentions.Marilyns biographers are inclined to agree. Fred Guiles wrote that she wastooself-absorbedtorespondtomenmostofthetime,whileNormanMailer concludedthatshewaspleasantinbed,butreceptiveratherthaninnovative.And Marilyn was still pathetically insecure. I dont know if I do it right,she murmured after making it with actor Marlon Brando. Or she would jumpinto bed, nude, pleading, Dont do anything but just hold me.SucceedingSchenckasMarilynspatronwasJohnnyHyde,atopHolly-wood agent. Hyde was short, well barbered, and at 53 suffered from a seriousheart ailment. He was infatuated with Marilyn and wanted to marry her, butshe refused. He gave her a sense of security and a new wardrobe and paid forplastic surgery on her nose and chin. Most important, Hyde used his influencetolineupMarilynsbestearlyroles,bothaskeptwomen,inAsphaltJungle(1950)andAllAboutEve (1950).MarilyndidntenjoysexwithHydebutwould fake ecstasy in order not to offend him.When Marilyn signed her first big contract, she is said to have exclaimed,ThatsthelastcockIllhavetosuck.Infact,shewasalreadysettingherSex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 38Sex Symbols / 39sightshigher.KiddingaroundwithonetimeroommateShelleyWinters,shemade a list of the men shed like to sleep with. The names included an emi-nentmanMarilynwouldmarry,anothershewouldseduce,andAlbertEinstein.ShelleyWinterswouldlatercomeacrossaphotoofthegeniusinscribed to Marilyn, With respect and love and thanks.LOVERSASHUSBANDS:JoeDiMaggiowasMarilynsfirstreal-lifehero-lover, a Galahad of an all-time great baseball star. Just retired at 37, he was inprimephysicalshape,afittingcomplementtotheblondbombshellwhowouldbecomeasuperstarwiththereleaseofGentlemenPreferBlondes andHow to Marry a Millionaire in 1953. Unfortunately, however, DiMaggio did-nt want his wife to be a superstar after their 1954 marriage. The strong, silenttype, proud, possessive, and old-fashioned, and detested Hollywood. He dis-likedMarilynsdramacoachandmentor,NatashaLytess,whoretaliatedbysuggesting that Marilyn got along better with women. In a desperate effort tosave their marriage, DiMaggio conspired with his friend Frank Sinatra to catchMarilyn with the other womanpresumably to force her into dropping herdivorce suit. But Lytess allegation was never proved.Tryingtobreakawayfromherstudio-imposedstereotypeofthesexyblond, Marilyn left Hollywood for the East Coast, where she thought she hadfinallyfoundamaninterestedinmorethanherbody.PlaywrightArthurMiller, whom she had first met in 1950 (He sat and held my toe and we justlooked into each others eyes), was as respected in radical intellectual circlesas DiMaggio was in baseball circles. They were married in 1956.LenaPepitone,hermaid,describedMarilynsdailylifeinNewYorkbetweenactingclassesandsessionswithapsychiatrist. WhileMillerworkedin his study, the actress would lie alone in her bedroom, sipping champagneand talking for long hours on the telephone, or listening to Frankie recordsand admiring her naked image in the mirrors. (She also preened before a full-lengthpictureofDiMaggiointhecloset.)Totallyuninhibited,Marilynbelchedandfartedconstantly.Sherarelybathed,althoughshedidtakethetrouble to bleach her pubic hair (I want to feel blond all over) which gaveher infections, and she owned no underwear. She ate in bed, wiping her handson the sheets, which had to be changed frequently, particularly when she hadher period.At first the Millers embarrassed friends with their physical possessiveness.Afteronenightoflovemaking,Marilynwouldnotlethermaidchangethesheets, saying, I want to lie on these all day. Then Marilyn suffered two mis-carriages,despitecorrectivesurgery,followedbyincreasingdepression.Herlater films were completed under great strain (and mounting cost to the pro-ducers,forMarilyn,waschronicallylateorabsent).Unabletosleep,shebecame a heavy barbiturate user, narcotizing herself into oblivion. More thanonceMillerrescuedherfromaccidentaloverdosing.AftercollaboratingonThe Misfits (1960), the Millers were divorcedprophetically, on the day thatJohn F. Kennedy became president.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 3940 / Intimate Sex LivesLOVERSANDOTHERSTRANGERS: Nowapproaching35,aloneanddesperately worried about aging, Marilyn was hungry for reassurance. She hadengagedinahighlypublicizedaffairwith YvesMontand,herco-starin LetsMakeLove (1960),whodisappointedherterriblybyendingtheaffair,notwantingtoleavehiswife,SimoneSignoret.Thereweremeetingsinseedyhotels with Danish journalist Hans Jrgen Lembourn, whose hands made hersleep, she said. She went bar-hopping, according to her maid, entertained herhandsomechauffeur,andbecameintimatefriendswithhermasseur,RalphRoberts.DiMaggiooccasionallystayedovernight,buttheystilldisagreedabout Marilyns career. Another old friend and sometime lover was Frank Sina-tra,whosesexualdemandsandprotectivedominancesoexcitedandpleasedher that she indulged in fantasies of marriage. Then Sinatra introduced her tothe Kennedys.She was enjoying secret assignations with the President at his brother-in-law Peter Lawfords Santa Monica beach house, at the Beverly Hills Hotel inCalifornia, and on the presidential jet. She bought a house and moved back toLosAngeles,shetoldfriends,becauseitsurebeatshangingaround[hotelrooms] for God Himself Jack Kennedy to show up. Kennedys performancewas very democratic and very penetrating, she giggled. I think I make hisback feel better, she joked to her masseur.John Kennedy liked to pat and squeeze her, Marilyn said, but was embar-rassedonputtinghishandupherdressunderthetableatadinnerpartytodiscover she wore no underwear. He also began to be annoyed by her latenessand her constant telephone calls, and he was fearful of publicity. Marilyn wasbecoming too hot to handle by the time JFKs 45th-birthday fund-raiser washeldatMadisonSquareGardenthatMay.MarilynstoletheshowsingingHappy Birthday.By June, cushioning the blow of rejection, the President had handed herovertohisbrotherBobby.BobbyandMarilynconsummatedtheirrelation-shipinacaroutsideLawfordshouse,itwasrumored,andMarilynbeganfantasizingmarriageagain.Whenhertrustprovedtobedevastatinglymis-placed, and RFK changed his phone number to escape her calls, she talked idlyabout calling a press conference to blow the whistle on him.Suicide?Ormurder?Marilynsmoodsduringthatlastsummerof1962swung from gaiety to despair, the latter relieved by pills and daily psychiatricsessions.Shehadbeenfiredfromherlastpictureforabsenteeismandwasdespondent over her inability to hold a manto fulfill anyones total needs,she wrote in a letter, never mailed, to DiMaggio. Her life had been so disor-dered, with so many rehearsals for death, that it came as a shock but not a totalsurprise when she was found dead of an overdose early one Sunday morning.The love goddess died for lack of love.C.D.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 40Sex Symbols / 41Toujours PrtPORFIRIO RUBIROSA (1909July 6, 1965)HISFAME: Ostensiblyhewasadiplo-matintheserviceoftheDominicanRepublic,representinghiscountrywithnorecordeddistinctioninGermany,Argentina,France,Belgium,andCuba.Inactualityhewasthelastandgreatestofthatexhaustedbreed,thequintessen-tial international playboy-lover.LOVE LIFE: They called him ToujoursPrt (Always Ready), and throughouthis amorous career, which embraced veheadline-makingmarriagesandcount-lessscandalousaffairs,nowomaneverdisputedthewhisperednickname;norhas anyone ever stepped forward with abetter explanation for the romantic triumphs of Porrio Rubirosa. As he onceannounced,IconsideradayinwhichImakeloveonlyonceasvirtuallywasted. He came from a middle-class family in the Dominican Republic, hada brief education in Paris where his father worked in the Dominican legation,andreturnedtohishomelandtojointhearmy.Inmanhood,hewasshort,dark,at-nosed,andbow-leggedfromridingpolohorses.Hewasshrewdrather than bright, aggressively attentive to women, and he spoke English witha French accent.Hisrstwifewas17-year-oldFlordeOro(FlowerofGold)Trujillo,daughter of the notorious dictator Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo. Although thegeneralissimo felt little enthusiasm for his 22-year-old son-in-law, he declared abank holiday on his daughters wedding day. He then dispatched the young cou-ple to his legation in Berlin, thus launching Toujours Prt on his unremarkablecareerofdiplomacyandhisremarkablecareeroflovemaking.Fiveyearslater,when Flor and Rubi were living in Paris, Flor announced that she was tired ofher husband and wanted her freedom. Rubi stepped aside gracefully, by then awealthier man than hed been as a bridegroom. The divorce did not disturb hisfather-in-law,whosoonpromotedRubirosawithintheDominicanlegation,declaring: He is an excellent diplomat because women like him and because heis a liar. Rubirosa played the eld until he and the lovely French actress DanielleDarrieux fell in love. When the Germans took over Paris, Rubirosa was arrestedand interned. Compromising her future, Darrieux agreed to entertain the Nazisin exchange for Rubirosas release. In 1942 Rubirosa and Darrieux were married,Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 4142 / Intimate Sex Livesvowingtheywouldremaintogetheronlyaslongastheirmutualpassionsur-vived.WhenDaniellesmothermovedinwiththem,Rubispassionsubsidedand the union sputtered and died.In 1947 Rubirosa hit his stride. He became the husband of tobacco heiressDoris Duke, then the richest woman in the world. Doris provided the weddingringandRubiprovidedthecigaretteswhichhesmokedthroughoutthecere-mony. Thirteen months later the marriage ended and Rubi walked away fromthewreckagepraisingDorisforherextremelygeneroussettlement.Anevengreater coup awaited him. In 1953 he married the second-richest woman in theworld, dime-store heiress Barbara Hutton, veteran of four previous mismatings(one to Cary Grant, who did not want or take any of her money). News photosshow the bride looking slightly spacey. It was Rubirosa who kept his head. Sev-enty-threedayslater,whenlovehaded,RubiandBarbaracalledthewholething off. Rubirosa is thought to have emerged from the Hutton ing with a set-tlement of between $1 million and $5 million. Weaving throughout his maritaldiversionswereseveralaffairsandtwodivorcesuitsinwhichiratehusbandsnamed Rubirosa as corespondent.And then there was his notorious on-again, off-again romance with actressZsaZsaGabor.Sinceneitherpartyeverretreatedfrompublicity,theirtenderlovestorywasconductedwithallthesecrecyanddelicacyof WWII.Itwashighlighted by an event involving Zsa Zsas then husband, actor George Sanders.Wanting out of what he called his ridiculous marriage, encouraged by reportsofZsaZsasfaithlessness,SanderschoseChristmasEvetovisitthehouseinwhich his wife was then bedding down with Rubirosa. He threw a gift-wrappedbrickthroughthebedroomwindow,thencalmlyclimbedabalcony,followedthebrickwithhispersonandtwodetectives,andproclaimed,MerryChrist-mas, my dear! Rubirosa, it is reported, ed to safety in the bathroom.At 44 Rubirosa reappraised his life and his nancial position and declared,Never again will I marry for money. He took his last bride, 19-year-old FrenchstarletOdileRodin,in1957. ThepairwerestillhappilywedwhenRubirosa,exhilarated by a spectacular win on the polo eld, dropped Odile at their apart-ment and alone continued off into the night to celebrate. After a few drinks ata nightclub near the Champs lyses, he climbed back into his Ferrari and start-ed home through the Bois de Boulogne. In an accident eerily similar to the onewhich ve years earlier had claimed the life of his good friend Prince Aly Khan,Rubicrashedintoatree.Hediedenroutetothehospital.Atleast250cele-brated friends attended his funeral.S.W.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 42Sex Symbols / 43Im a Sad ClownANNA NICOLE SMITH (Nov. 28, 1967Feb. 8, 2007)HERFAME: AnnaNicoleSmithmadeher fame as the 1993 Playboy Playmate ofthe Year, then went on to become some-thing of a one-woman carnival sideshowforthenextdecadeandahalf,alumi-naryofthegoldenageofpublicconfessionalandrealitytelevision.HerhighlypublicizedmarriagetodyingoctogenarianbillionaireJ.HowardMarshallandthesubsequentU.S.SupremeCourtbattleoverhismoney,aswellasherfluctuatingweight,waspublicfodder,andledtoherappearinher own reality show. HERPERSON:Born VickieLynnHoganinHouston, Texas,AnnaNicolesfather abandoned the family shortly after her birth. She was raised by variousfamily members, and after failing ninth grade, she dropped out of school. ShewassoonworkingasawaitressatJimsKrispyFriedChickenin Texas.Atseventeen she married the sixteen-year-old cook, Billy Wayne Smith. Her sonDaniel Wayne Smith was born the next year; the couple was separated shortlyafter. TosupportherselfandDaniel,AnnaNicoleworkedatWal-Mart,RedLobster, and as an exotic dancer. It was while dancing at a strip club that shemet oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall, 63 years her senior. After auditioningforPlayboy,shewaschosenbyHughHefnertoappearonthecoveroftheMarch1992issue,underthenameVickieSmith.Many,includingAnnaNicole,attributedherimmediatepopularitytoherresemblancetoMarilynMonroe. Anna Nicole was one of many women who reinforced the trend formassive surgical breast enhancement. Anna Nicole nally settled on the nameAnnaNicoleSmithbythetimeofherelectionasthe1993PlaymateoftheYear. She then married Marshall, who died 13 months later, initiating a bitterlegal battle between Anna Nicole and Marshalls disowned son James HowardMarshallIII(technicallySmithsstepson)fortheoilmagnates$1.6billionestate. She returned to widespread fame as the public faceofthe TrimSpadietmethod (before going on a diet, the grossly overweight Smith had been askedbyConanOBrienwhatherplaymatedietwas,towhichsheimmediatelyrepliedfriedchicken),aswellaswithherownreality TVshow,TheAnnaNicole Smith Show, which largely put her and her close relations on display likeprescription-drugged zoo animals.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 4344 / Intimate Sex LivesIt was announced on June 1, 2006 that she was pregnant again and theapparent father was her lawyer Howard K. Stern. Her daughter DannielynnHope Marshall Stern was born in September 2006. Her first child, 20-year-old Daniel Smith, died shortly after the new birth, while visiting his motherandDannielynninthehospital;anautopsyshowedthathehaddiedofalethal combination of Zoloft, Lexapro and methadone, likely obtained fromhis mother. Smith herself was found comatose a few short months later in aHollywood,FloridahotelroomandpronouncedDOAattheemergencyroom of an apparently lethal combination of sleeping pills and large numbersofotherprescriptiondrugsinhersystem,manyofthemprescribedtoHoward K. Stern.LOVEANDSEXLIFE: AnnaNicoleslifeissignicantnotforthesexualdebauch but for the depths of misery and isolation she felt about her behavior.Abizarrepsychosexualsymbol,Smithwaspaidlucrativelytobetheobjectof13-year-olds masturbatory fantasies, and paid even more to be the kept womanofanancientbillionairethephrasegold-diggerwasfrequentlyvolleyedinthe media. Despite Anna Nicoles profuse claims of love, the couple never livedtogether. During and after her second pregnancy, a string of men came forwardclaimingpaternityafteraffairswithSmith,includingZsaZsaGaborshus-bandFrdric PrinzvonAnhalt,formerbodyguardAlexanderDenk,andex-boyfriend Mark Hollywood Hatten. It was also rumored that she had usedMarshallsfrozenspermtoconceivethechild.DNAtestsafterSmithsdeathconrmed that another ex-boyfriend, entertainment photojournalist Larry Birk-head, was the actual father.In the year before her death, Anna Nicole told Entertainment Tonight thatshehadbeenphysicallyandsexuallyabusedasachild,andrapedbymultiplemalefamilymembers,whichhermotherwhoalsobeatheruntilshelefthomeknew about but did nothing to stop. Much of her adult behavior is text-book for survivors of sexual abuse. Diaries from the early nineties released afterSmiths deathand subsequently sold on eBay for over $500,000 to a Germanbusinessmanopenedaninsightfulwindowintoherprivatelife:shewroteoftenofhergreatloveforMarshallaswellasherdisdainforsexIhateformen to want sex all the time I hate sex. InhercontroversialexploitativebookBlondeAmbition,televisionhostRita Cosby suggests that Anna Nicole most enjoyed lesbian liaisons and obses-sively watched a videotape of attorney Howard K. Stern having oral sex withLarry Birkhead. In turn, Stern filed a $60 million lawsuit against Cosby andher books claims.HER THOUGHTS: In a video released after her death, Howard K. Stern fol-lowsadruggedandpregnantAnnaNicolewhoisinexplicablywearingfullclownmake-uparoundthehousegoadingherwiththecamera,until,cor-nered, she wails Iiiim a saaad cloooown.J.L.Sex Lives-final33/27/081:49 PMPage 44Sex Symbols / 45The Italian SheikRUDOLPH VALENTINO (May 6, 1895Aug. 23, 1926)HIS FAME: Valentino made the womaninthesilent-pictureaudiencefantasizethat he would take her in his arms, forcehislipsonhers,andtemptherbeyondher power to resist. He was the embodi-mentofloveinitsmostprimalforminsuchlmsasTheSheik (1921),BloodandSand (1922),andTheSonoftheSheik (1926).HISPERSON: RodolfoGuglielmidiValentina DAntonguolla, from the smalltownofCastellaneta,Italy,wasaway-ward boy and a daydreamer. He appliedhimself just long enough to get throughanagriculturalschool,afterwhichhetookaholidayinFranceandsquanderedhisfamilyshard-earnedmoneyinnight spots and restaurants. He had to borrow funds to get home. His motherwashorriedbythechangeinhim;henowassociatedwithshowgirlsandloose women. Rather than run the risk of disgrace, his parents shipped him offto the U.S. He arrived in New York City as Rodolfo Guglielmi, age 18, friend-less and unable to speak th