Table of Contents
Copyright Page
Title Page
Epigraph
The New, Expanded Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
I - Sex Symbols
Star of the Folies
The Girl Who Had It
Clubfooted Libertine
The Lover’s Love
Blond Bombshell
The Eye of the Day
The Prince of Playboys
Marilyn
“Toujours Prêt”
I’m a Sad Clown
The Italian Sheik
II - Acting It Up
MOVIES
The Great Profile
The Tramp
Coop
The Four-Year Itch
Little Boy Lost
The Juggler
In Like Flynn
“Pa”
Captain Bligh In Love
STAGE
The Divine Sarah
Love’s Victim
The Jersey Lily
Unlucky In Love
III - Painting The Town
Painter In Paradise
The Dejected Dutchman
The Deaf Lover
Model Lover
The Rich Bohemian
The Promiscuous Behemoth
The Coffeepot
IV - The Quill is Compelling
Chéri
The Romantic Feminist
Salonkeeper
The Abstract Lover
Born Free
V - The Pen is Prominent
Caffeinated Casanova
Never-Neverland
Lecherous Bozzy
Sexual Savant
Thank Heaven For Little Girls
The Sorcerer
The Satyr
The Unhappy Husband
The Late Bloomer
The Exuberant Satyr
The Farmer
Paradise Lost
Scandalous Moralist
Herr Nicefoot
The 30-30 Shell
The Indefatigable Egotist
The Gay Romantic
Ireland’s Lost Sheep
“Public Lover Number One”
Prodigal Son
The Call Of The Wild
A Double Life
The Tireless Frenchman
The Last Samurai
Philosopher With A Whip
The Non-Violent Sadist
The Chameleon
The Tormented One
The Remorseful Lover
The Man Who Loved His Wife
Domestic Claustrophobia
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
The Giant And The Jew
The Chaste Pornographer
VI - Poetic Licence
Scotland’s Bawdy Bard
The Bride Of Silence
The Snow Princess
The Mad Poet
The Santa Claus Of Loneliness
The Whippingham Papers
The Sexual Vagabond
VII - Let’s Make Music
The Moody Bachelor
Life Of The Party
The Temperamental Diva
—A.L.G. The Operatic Lover
Musical Chairs
The Duke
The Music Lover
Lady Day
The Virtuoso
Warmhearted Wunderkind
The Sensuous Soprano
Sparrow
Bighearted Bessie
The Maestro Seducer
The Closet Z
The Cocksure Composer
VIII - Rockin’ and Rollin’
“God Is Gay”
Are You Experienced?
Take My Breath Away
Victim Of The Kozmic Blues
Ride The Snake
I’ll Be Your Mirror
All Shook Up
California Love
IX - Command Performances
The Little Corporal
Reclining Venus
No Horsing Around
Old Rowley Himself
The Sexual Politician
The Royal Rake
The Abdicating Lover
The Royal Tease
The Polygluttonous King
The Lady-Killer
Muhammadan Heaven
The Sun King
The Well-Beloved
Spain’s Doña Juana
The Monk And The Harem
The Passionate Prude
X - Follow the Leader
U.S. LEADERS
The Master Of Monticello
Bachelor President
Supreme Commander
The Indiscreet President
The Philandering President
The Elusive Extrovert
WORLD LEADERS
The Jewish Lion
The Politics Of Sexual Sublimation
Mysterious Bed Partner
The Fornicating Fascist
Evita
The Red Book With The Plain Brown Wrapper
XI - Make Love Not War
The Agreeable Sea-Wolf
Lawrence Of The Birches
Big Mac
The Salacious Soldier
The Angriest Black Man In America
XII - Getting Down to Business
Contradictory Car-Maker
The Sugar Daddy And The Show girl
The Sex Investor
The Golden Greek
XIII - Bed Sports
The Other Don Juan
Wilt The Stilt
The Black Hope
The Bambino Of The Bed
Net Loss
XIV - Holier Than Thou
The Papal Bull
Hymn To Pan
John Doe, Alias God
The Infallible Healer
Tempted By The Devil
The Lord’s Ringmaster
The Lustful Monk
The Passionate Philosopher
The Polygamous Preacher
XV - Heads You Win
PSYCHOLOGISTS
The Impotent Educator
It’s All In Your Head
The Beloved Of The Jung-Frauen
Crusader For B.C.
The Frustrated Sex Expert
SCIENTISTS
The Devoted Physicist
Women Versus The Wireless
The Virgin Genius
PHILOSOPHERS
The Bourgeois Communist
The Objectivist
The Man Who Confessed Everything
The Randy Lord Russell
An Open “Marriage”
Pessimist With Passion
XVI - Play For Pay
The Epicurean Delight
“The Beautiful Little Thing”
Royal Favorite
Uncultured Pearl
XVII - Everybody’s Doing It
Philosopher Of Love
Uncle Miltie
The Dancing Revolutionary
The Most Dangerous Woman In The World
Private Eyes
The Modern Bluebeard
A Woman Ahead Of Her Time
Lady With A Hatchet
The Rites Of Spring
The First Free-Lover
Arctic Explorer
The Adulterous Diarist
The Celebrity Collector
Designing Lover
Sexual Characteristics
Index
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material:
Excerpt from A LOVING GENTLEMAN by Meta Carpenter and Orin Borsten: Copyright © 1976 by Meta Carpenter Wi
lde and Orin Borsten. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, A Division of Gulf & Western Corporation.
“Lifting Belly” by Gertrude Stein: Reprinted by permission from BEE TIME VINE AND OTHER PIECES (1913-1927) by Gertrude Stein, Yale University Press.
Part IV from “The Seven Phallic Poems” by Rainer Maria Rilke: Selection is reprinted from RILKE ON LOVE AND OTHER DIFFICULTIES, Translations and Considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke by John J.L. Mood, with permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright © 1975 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Lyrics from “Purple Haze” written by Jimi Hendrix: © 1967 Yameta Co., Ltd. & Six Continents Music Publishing, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Lyrics from “Are You Experienced?” written by Jimi Hendrix: © 1967 Yameta Co., Ltd. & Six Continents Music Publishing, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Lyrics from “Dolly Dagger” music and lyrics by Jimi Hendrix: Bella Godiva Music, Inc., Publishers.
Lyrics from “Kitchen Man” words and music by Andy Razaf and Alex Bellenda: © Copyright 1929 by MCA Music, A Division of MCA, Inc., New York, N.Y. Copyright renewed. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Excerpt from the dedication of SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM by T. E. Lawrence: Copyright 1926, 1935 by Doubleday & Company, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc., the Seven Pillars Trust, and Jonathan Cape Ltd
Lyrics from “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice: © Copyright 1976, 1977 Evita Music Ltd., London, England. Sole Selling Agent Leeds Music Corporation, New York, N.Y., for North, South, and Central America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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INTIMATE SEX LIVES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
© 2008, 1981 by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace
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The way in which people make love may tell us more about them than any searching analysis could.
—Maurice Nadeau, editor of Les Lettres Nouvelles
The New, Expanded Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
When the first edition of this book was released back in 1981, with long-suppressed information about political, scientific, literary and musical leaders, it was not the sort of thing that normally saw distribution on the front tables of major booksellers. Sure, there was The Joy of Sex and myriad racy how-to tomes, but rarely did this newfound sexual freedom impinge on the official biographies of well-known and distinguished men and women in world history.
It really seemed shocking to read about the intimacies of buttoned-up world leaders, one kink after the other. According to the authors, the search for facts was difficult and challenging. They read biographies, over 1,500 of them, including many in foreign languages that they had translated just for the purpose. They pored over rare pamphlets, correspondence, periodicals and newspapers on microfilm; they also leafed through legal transcripts and medical reports. They talked with lovers, confidants and associates of numerous people within the book.
The authors of this book were in fact a famous publishing family on their own. Father Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916-June 29, 1990) was a bestselling author of dozens of novels, non-fiction books and screenplays; son David Wallechinsky co-wrote the influential What Really Happened to the Class of ’65?, expert collections on the winter and summer Olympics, and the book Tyrants that adds to his yearly feature on the “World’s Worst Dictators” for Parade Magazine. Wife and mother Sylvia Wallace (who passed away in 2006) wrote the bestselling novels The Fountains and Empress. Daughter Amy Wallace also wrote, among many other books, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the fascinating memoir of her life with the invisible guru, Carlos Castaneda.
The Wallaces put together such bestselling books as the multi-volume The Book of Lists, The People’s Almanac, and The Book of Predictions. The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People (originally published by Delacorte Press) was one of the most fascinating works by this enterprising, daring and industrious family.
More than 25 years later, Amy Wallace and David Wallechinsky return to Sex Lives adding new profiles on Kurt Cobain, Wilt Chamberlain, Nico, Ayn Rand, Aleister Crowley, Jim Morrison, Anna Nicole Smith, Malcolm X, Michael Hutchence, Tupac Shakur and Carlos Castaneda. David and Amy have also added a handy cross-referenced list of Sexual Characteristics held by the many people of influence within the book.
Perhaps the best thing about The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People is its rectitude, respect and (yes) fairness. If only the tabloid gossip-mongers had such sophistication. Yes, you can have your cake and eat her too.
—Adam Parfrey
Feral House
I
Sex Symbols
Star of the Folies
JOSEPHINE BAKER (June 3, 1906-Apr. 12, 1975)
HER FAME: In the 1920s and 1930s, dancer-singer Josephine Baker became the first black female entertainer to star in the Folies Bergère as well as the first American black woman to achieve international renown. Dancing the Charleston, wearing only a blue and red ring of feathers around her hips, she took Paris by storm.
HER PERSON: Her mother, Carrie Smith, told Josephine that her father was a Spaniard whose family would not allow him to marry a black woman. As an infant, Josephine was sent to live with her grandmother. She had an affinity for music and on Saturdays joined in neighborhood jam sessions. By the time Josephine returned to her mother, Carrie had married a man named Baker and had given birth to three more children. They lived in a one-room shack in the poorest section of St. Louis, Mo.