Paul Anka reassured TMZ founder Harvey Levin that he was not mendacity when it got here to his feedback relating to Frank Sinatra’s manhood in a latest interview.
“There is one other thing I wanna get into, which you alluded to in one of the interviews…Sinatra’s schlong,” mentioned Levin, who laughed off the immediate whereas groans from individuals close by might be heard. “Well, you said it!”
Anka supplied his aspect of the story, admitting he was thrown off by Page Six digital reporter Nicki Gostin’s query about Sinatra’s penis. In the HBO documentary Paul Anka: His Waythe 84-year-old singer recalled being within the sauna with The Rat Pack, which compelled Gostin to ask if the rumors about Sinatra are true.
Anka mentioned his response was predicated on what Sinatra’s second spouse Ava Gardner advised a reporter in 1952 whereas she was watching him carry out on the Hollywood Palladium, in line with St. Louis Magazine.
When requested what she noticed in Sinatra, calling him a “119-pound has-been,” Gardner replied, as reported by Variety Fair“Well, I’ll tell you—nineteen pounds is cock.”
“I said that, knowing that it’s out there,” Anka mentioned. “It wasn’t any new revelation. And then I said to Nicki, ‘So, what does that do for you?”
Page Six posted footage of Gostin’s dialog with Anka, by which she merely responded, “It just makes me happy hearing that.”
Anka and Sinatra will ceaselessly be linked by the previous listening to the French music “Comme d’habitude,” shopping for the rights to the music, and writing the English model that grew to become often known as “My Way.”