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  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.

  Photo credits for this new edition of Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People can be found on the Feral House website.

  INTIMATE SEX LIVES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE

  © 2008, 1981 by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace

  All rights reserved.

  First Edition published by Delacorte Press

  Revised, Expanded edition by Feral House

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  Designed By Hedi El Kholti

  Associate Editor: Elizebethe Kempthorne

  Senior Staff Researchers: Helen Ginsburg, Loreen Leo, Anita Taylor, Linda Schallan, Torene Svitil, Claudia Peirce

  Assistant Staff Researchers: Diane Brown Shepard, Kristine H. Johnson, Karen Pedersen, Sue Ann Power

  Editorial Aides: Linda Laucella, Lee Clayton, Joanne Maloney, Patricia Begalla

  Photograph Editor: Danny Biederman

  Foreign Researchers: Dr. Primo Povolato (Italy), Dr. L. Alonso Tejada (Spain)

  Copy Editor: Wayne Lawson

  When “The Eds.” is used, it means the material has been contributed by the authors and staff of The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People.

  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.