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An orgy with 12 women, mob boss Lucky Luciano, a troop of Girl Scouts and a nun: The Frank Sinatra his family DON'T want you to know about in feud with Martin Scorsese over biopic
Frank Sinatra insisted he'd had no knowledge that his visit to the Cuban capital coincided with a top level US Mafia convention there.
And the author provides plenty of other examples of how Sinatra was very far from the cosy image of Ol' Blue Eyes – from the crooner's self-pitying narcissism and cruel treatment of women to his Mafia connections and violent aggression. It doesn't help matters that Scorsese intends to focus on a particularly unsavoury period of Sinatra's life in the 1950s and 1960s, when he cheated on his long-suffering first wife, Nancy Barbato, Tina's mother, with Ava Gardner whom he later married in a tempestuous union that rocked Hollywood. Sinatra fawned on the mob bosses who came to watch him perform in their Las Vegas casinos, giving Chicago Mafia chief Sam Giancana a huge sapphire ring as a gesture of friendship.
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