Frank Sinatra’s fury at Presidential snub

A MAJOR new biography of Marilyn Monroe reveals how her old flame Frank Sinatra flew into a violent rage when President John Kennedy snubbed him in favour of the Hollywood icon.

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The crooner, who had been in a relationship with the actress, was furious when his friend JFK rejected a long-standing arrangement to stay at his luxury Palm Springs home.

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Instead he chose to bed Marilyn at Bing Crosby’s nearby house on the night of March 24, 1962.

It was just two months before Marilyn sang Happy Birthday to the President at his birthday bash in May. Two-and-a-half months later she was found dead, aged just 36.

“Frank Sinatra had been expecting JFK and his Secret Service man to stay with him at his Palm Springs home,” explains Keith Badman, author of The Final Years Of Marilyn Monroe. “In readiness for the visit, extra land was purchased and an additional guest house was built, an ultra-modern phone service installed and new concrete helicopter landing pad was constructed.

“Sinatra then learnt that Kennedy would be spending the night nearby at Crosby’s home instead. Fury engulfed him.”

His rage was focused on Rat Pack colleague Peter Lawford, Kennedy’s brother-in-law, who had promised that the President would be staying with him that night.

Badman says: “In a fit of fury, he picked up an axe and started to attack the prized items strewn around his house, many of which were purchased especially for the presidential visit.

“Sinatra armed himself with a sledgehammer and ran up the lodge’s stairs to the club’s roof where he vented his anger on another of his prized possessions: the recently modified concrete helicopter pad on which JFK’s helicopter was expected to alight.”

Contrary to previous accounts Badman insists this was the only sexual encounter between Marilyn and the President and that there was no long-standing affair.

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