The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People

The Intimate Sex Lives

of Famous People

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Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
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INTIMATE SEX LIVES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE

© 2008, 1981 by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace

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The Intimate Sex Lives

of Famous People

by Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace,

David Wallechinsky and Sylvia Wallace

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
.

A.E.

Ann Elwood

M.S.

Michael Sheeter

A.K.

Aaron Kass

M.W.

Mark Wheeler

A.L.G.

Alan L. Gansberg

N.C.S.

Nancy C. Sorel

A.P.

Adam Parfrey

P.A.R.

Patricia A. Ryan

A.S.M.

Anthony S. Maulucci

R.G.P.

Roberta G. Peters

A.W.

Amy Wallace

R.J.F.

Rodger J. Fadness

B.B.

Barbara Bedway

R.J.R.

R. John Rapsys

B.C.

Barnaby Conrad

R.K.R.

R. Kent Rasmussen

B.J.

Burr Jerger

R.M.

Robert McGarvey

C.D.

Carol Dunlap

R.S.F.

Robert S. Fenster

C.H.S.

Charles H. Salzberg

G.A.M.

Greg A. Mitchell

C.L.W.

Craig L. Wittler

I.W.

Irving Wallace

C.O.

Carol Orsag

J.A.M.

Joshua A. Martin

D.M.L.

Deci M. Lowry

J.E.

John Eastman

D.R.

Dan Riley

J.H.

Jannika Hurwitt

D.W.

David Wallechinsky

J.M.

Josef Marc

E.K.

Elizebethe Kempthorne

J.M.B.E. John M. B. Edwards

E.Z.

Ernest Zebrowski

J.M.M.

John M. Moran

F.C.

Flora Chavez

R.W.S.

Roy W. Sorrels

J.L. Jason

Louv

S.B.

Skip Baumgarten

J.Z.

John Zebrowski

S.L.W.

Sandra L. Weiss

K.P.

Karen Pedersen

S.W.

Sylvia Wallace

L.A.B.

Laurie A. Brannen

T.C.

Tim Conaway

L.K.S.

Laurie K. Strand

V.S.

Vicki Scott

L.L.

Loreen Leo

W.A.D.

William A. DeGregorio

L.S.

Linda Schallan

W.A.H.

William A. Henkin

M.B.T.

Marguerite B. Thompson

W.K.

Walter Kempthorne

M.J.T.

Michael J. Toohey

W.L.

William Lawren

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

Contents

INTRODUCTION
(11)

1. SEX SYMBOLS

Josephine Baker (15)… Clara Bow (18)… Lord Byron (20)…

Casanova (24)… Jean Harlow (28) … Mata Hari (31)… Prince Aly Khan (34)… Marilyn Monroe (37)… Porfiro Rubirosa (41)…

Anna Nicole Smith (43)… Rudolph Valentino (45)

2. ACTING IT UP

MOVIES:
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)… Charles Laughton (72)

STAGE:
Sarah Bernhardt (74)… Eleanora Duse (76)… Lillie Langtry (79)… Lillian Russell (81)

3. PAINTING THE TOWN

Paul 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 COMPELLING

Colette (109)… George Sand (111)… Gertrude Stein (113)…

Virginia Woolf (116)… Mary Wollstonecraft (119)

5. THE PEN IS PROMINENT

Honoré de Balzac (125)… J. M. Barrie (127)… James Boswell (131)… Sir Richard Burton (134)… Lewis Carroll (137)…

Carlos Castaneda (139)… Gabriele D’Annunzio (142)… Charles Dickens (145)… Fëdor Dostoevski (148)… Alexandre Dumas
père
(150)… William Faulkner (153)… F. Scott Fitzgerald (155)… André 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)… Marquis de Sade (189)… William Seabrook (192)… Stendhal (195)…

August Strindberg (199)… Leo Tolstoi (201)… Mark Twain (204)…

H. G. Wells (207)… Oscar Wilde (211)… Thomas Wolfe (215)…

Émile Zola (217)

6. POETIC LICENSE

Robert 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. LET’S MAKE MUSIC

Johannes Brahms (245)… Frédéric 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)… Pëtr Ilich Tchaikovsky (276)…

Richard Wagner (278)

8. ROCKIN’ AND ROLLIN’

Kurt Cobain (285)… Jimi Hendrix (287)… Michael Hutchence (290)… Janis Joplin (292)… Jim Morrison (294)… Nico (296)…

Elvis Presley (298)… Tupac Shakur (302)

9. COMMAND PERFORMANCES

Napoleon 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 LEADER

U.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 WAR

John Paul Jones (389)… T. E. Lawrence (391)… General Douglas MacArthur (394)… Pancho Villa (397)… Malcolm X (399)

12. GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS

Henry Ford (405)… William Randolph Hearst (407)… Howard Hughes (410)… Aristotle Onassis (414)

13. BED SPORTS

Juan Belmonte (419)… Wilt Chamberlain (421)… Jack Johnson (423)… Babe Ruth (426)… William Tilden, Jr. (429)

14. HOLIER THAN THOU

Pope 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 WIN

PSYCHOLOGISTS:
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 PAY

Ninon de Lenclos (501)… Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglioni (503)… La Belle Otero (506)… Cora Pearl (509)
17. EVERYBODY’S DOING IT

Natalie Barney (515)… Milton Berle (517)… Isadora Duncan (519)… Emma Goldman (522)… J. Edgar Hoover (526)…

Henri Désiré 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)

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 micro-film; 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, nonfiction 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.