“You can sum up my life in a sentence, honey: She made movies, she made out, and she made a f--king mess of her life. But she never made jam.” Ava Gardner shares the secrets of her three marriages in the memoir that was almost never published. VFArchive
Once Hollywood’s most irresistible woman—wed to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra—by 1988 Ava Gardner was nearly broke, ravaged by illness, and intent on selling her memoirs.
But the man she chose as her ghostwriter, PETER EVANS, had his own problems, not least a legal war with Sinatra. In an exclusive from the book that wasn’t published in either of their lifetimes, Gardner spills the seduction-to-split secrets of her three marriages
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