Ol’ Blue Eyes lose a few tears when it came to his wives.
Frank Sinatra would flee his Manhattan brownstone, which is now on the sector for $4.45 million, on nights he fought with then-wife Mia Farrow.
“Godfather” actor Gianni Russo, who lives 5 doors down from where by the crooner and the famed actress cohabitated at 249 E. 61st Avenue, stated Sinatra was positive to ring his buzzer.
“Anytime they’d have a battle, he’d arrive have a drink and expend the night at my spot,” Russo, 80, advised The Publish.
“He’d cry and say, ‘I do not know what I’m accomplishing.’ This male was a crybaby, not the image we know of him. He’d get into the fetal posture on my couch and go to slumber.”
Russo, who played Carlo Rizzi in “The Godfather,” was 14 and working as an errand boy for Mafia manager Frank Costello when he initially fulfilled Sinatra at the Copacabana, and they remained good friends right until his dying in 1998.
Russo said he “went by way of so quite a few romances” with Sinatra, and by no means understood his friend’s attraction to Farrow.
“I don’t even know why he married her. She’s like a boy, she received no body, she obtained absolutely nothing,” he said.
The “Rosemary’s Baby’’ actress was married to Ol’ Blue Eyes from 1966 to 1968 but continued to be his lover on and off afterward — including when she was concerned with director Woody Allen.
Hollywood long speculated that Ronan Farrow, who was born in 1987, was really Sinatra’s little one.
In a 2013 Vainness Good interview, Mia Farrow was requested level blank about Sinatra’s achievable parentage and she replied coyly, “Possibly.”
Russo, who selected Sinatra as his son Luciano’s Godfather, claimed Ronan’s uncanny resemblance to the “My Way” singer is simple.
“That’s gotta be his son. No one has eyes like that,” he explained.
Russo, a Tiny Italy native, and Sinatra, who hailed from Hoboken, NJ, shared the exact birthday but ended up 28 several years aside.
That didn’t cease them from hitting up nightclubs jointly, even although Sinatra was hitched.
“When he was with me, he was dishonest,” he recalled.
“He was going out with Judy Garland. She experienced an condominium on 72nd Road, he was relationship her. He was heading out with Marilyn Monroe.”
Sinatra, who was married four moments, couldn’t be solitary “because he was that insecure,” according to Russo.
The friends were drinking buddies, but when Sinatra — who quaffed Jack Daniels by the bottle — indulged, a darker aspect would arise.
“The guy was bipolar. When he’d begin consuming, he’d feel he was 6 foot 10,” he said.
He could also be depressive.
Russo statements Sinatra experimented with to kill himself when he observed out his then-spouse Ava Gardner, to whom he was married from 1951 to 1957, cheated and was leaving him — and went to William Morris talent agent James Woods’ condominium on East 72nd Road to do it.
“Thank God his neighbor was home since there was a fuel odor coming from Woods’ condominium,” he claimed.
“When they went in, Sinatra was fifty percent in the oven with the gas on.”
Martin Scorsese is in talks to direct a Sinatra biopic that explores the “violent, sexually charged, hard-consuming Frank.”
Russo does not assume Leonardo DiCaprio is a superior option for the title part.
“You gotta have a minor little bit of balls . . . and he really do not.”
