The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People by Sylvia Wallace, Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky Read Free Book Online Page B

in London on a visit from India, were kept waiting in the lobby for over an hour while Aly entertained a young woman upstairs.
    Aly’s reputation had grown to such an extent that one friend claimed: “You were déclassé, démodé, nothing, you hardly counted, if you’d not been to bed with Aly.”
    Though Aly changed women as often as he changed cars and horses, his romances were so intense that few women complained. Juliette Greco admired his perfect timing. Kim Novak found other people seemed only
    “half-alive” compared to Aly. Even actress Gene Tierney—at first so unim-pressed she thought to herself on meeting him, “That’s all I need, some Oriental superstud”—became smitten and hoped at one time he would marry her. But none of his romances had quite such historical import as his dalliance with Lady Thelma Furness, who was the Prince of Wales’ loving companion until she fell for Aly. Angered, Edward VIII turned to the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, for whom he eventually gave up the throne of England.
    QUIRKS: Aly’s claim that “I think only of a woman’s pleasure when I’m in love” came out of a unique education given him by an Arab doctor in Cairo, where his father sent him as a boy for instruction in the sex technique called Imsák . A woman described it this way: “No matter how many women Aly went with, he seldom reached climax himself. He could make love by the hour, but he went the whole way himself not oftener than twice a week. He liked the effect it had on women. He liked to get them out of control while he stayed in control—the master of the situation.”
    HIS THOUGHTS: “They called me a bloody nigger and I paid them out by winning all their women.”
    —B.B.
    Marilyn
    MARILYN MONROE (June 1, 1926–Aug. 5, 1962)
    HER FAME: She was the reigning sex
    symbol of the staid 1950s, the all—
    American dumb blond with a campy,
    exaggerated come-on. Fragile and insecure in her personal life, she sought
    security in sex, trading up from Hollywood producers to an illfated president
    of the U.S.
    HER PERSON: She began life as
    Norma Jean Mortenson, the daughter
    of Gladys Monroe Baker Mortenson, a
    hardworking but emotionally unstable
    Hollywood film cutter, and Gladys’
    second husband, Edward Mortenson, a
    man of Norwegian extraction and
    In 1949, Marilyn posed for this famous calendar shot uncertain employment, who disappeared shortly before she was born.
    Norma Jean had a deprived, Depression-poor childhood. She boarded with one family until she was seven, joined her mother until Gladys was institutionalized for paranoid schizophrenia, and spent the next three years in an orphanage and foster homes. Grace Goddard, her mother’s best friend, took care of her from the age of 11 until her marriage at 16.
    Escaping into an imaginary world filled with Saturday matinee images, Norma Jean fantasized about a father who looked like Clark Gable and about glamorous seduction scenes involving tropical islands, yachts, palaces. She also had a recurring dream in which she took her clothes off in church and the shocked congregation silently admired her naked splendor.
    Marriage to Jim Dougherty, a blue-collar savior, protective and possessive, soon proved disappointing. Contradicting the lurid tales she would later tell of having been raped and sexually abused, even impregnated as a foster child, Dougherty would report that his Norma Jean was a virgin. In any case, she became bored with playing house and was relieved when her husband went overseas in 1944. While working in a war plant, she was discovered by a photographer. Norma Jean loved to pose, and the camera (her only true lover, some would say) revealed a beautiful young woman, eager to please and be noticed, voluptuous yet vulnerable, a combination of allure and innocence.
    Obsessed by the dream of stardom, she divorced her husband, became a popular model (photographer André de Dienes fell in love with her and
    proposed), and in 1946