They had their first encounter in , when she was working at the Riviera casino in Las Vegas. Come over here.
Join us! That was Frank Sinatra. Two years later, she married Zeppo Marx, once a member of the Marx Brothers comedy team, who was 25 years her senior. They settled in the show business enclave of Palm Springs, California, where Sinatra also had a home. She was still married to Marx when she and Sinatra, by then divorced from his third wife, actress Mia Farrow, became more than casual acquaintances.
No way. It took hours for him to unwind after his performances, and he enjoyed the company of other people and strong liquor. Sinatra proposed by placing a diamond engagement ring in a glass of champagne, and the couple married in An hour before the ceremony, the bride-to-be was presented with a prenuptial agreement, which she signed. She managed to get her husband to moderate his drinking in his later years, as he launched a musical comeback.
He returned to the recording studio in for the first time in years and continued to appear in concerts until three years before his death at 82 in Barbara Blakeley was born Oct. Her father was a butcher. After moving to California in the s, she won a beauty pageant and began working as a model. She later ran a modeling and charm school in Long Beach, California.
Her first marriage, to an aspiring singer named Bob Oliver, ended in divorce. They had one son, Robert, who later took the last name of Marx, although he was not formally adopted by Zeppo Marx. She was a neighbor of the couple in Rancho Mirage, where she lived with then-husband Zeppo Marx. After divorcing Marx in , she married Frank three years later. Born Barbara Blakely in Bosworth, Mo. In , she was the queen of the Belmont Shore pageant.
She continued a career in modeling and later moved to New York with her first husband, Bob Oliver, an aspiring singer. After giving birth to her son, Robert, she divorced Oliver and became a showgirl in Las Vegas, where she met her second husband, Zeppo Marx. They married in , and Marx helped take care of her son, whom Marx wanted to officially adopt.
He had long been the face of the Sons of Hawaii, a popular recording group and a pioneering force in traditional island music. The British war correspondent was the first journalist to report the Nazi invasion of Poland that marked the beginning of World War II. His informed yet accessible prose led many laymen to read his books as their introduction to religions of the East and West.
Born Barbara Blakeley in Bosworth, Mo. She was married to Robert Oliver and, after a divorce, to Marx. George A. The Associated Press is an independent, not-for-profit news cooperative headquartered in New York City.
Sylvere Lotringer, intellectual who infused U. Bobbie Kirkhart, the matriarch of atheism in L. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. Barbara Sinatra, a prominent philanthropist and advocate for abused children, died Tuesday at her Rancho Mirage home.
By Associated Press. For the record: a. July 26, An earlier version of this story failed to mention that Frank and Nancy Sinatra had a third child, Tina.
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