Ben Kissel

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Last Podcast On The Left · Episode 669: Anton LaVey Part IV - Old Wizards Die Hard · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

So on the nights that Davis hung out with LaVey and Higarty, these ended up being Sammy Davis Jr.

's tame nights.

Anton and Diane were his sober friends who were more likely to bring over a German silent film to watch than a fat sack of drugs to snort.

Real normal shit.

Real normal.

You like the pool?

Honestly, pool is great.

See, besides sex, Sammy Davis Jr.

also had a taste for substances.

He was a whiskey man with a nose for cocaine.

But when Anton and Diane settled in during that very first hang, Davis' silver cocaine bowl got pushed behind the bar with his whiskey.

Instead of dabbling in indulgence, LeVay and Davis spent hours discussing the tenets of Satanism.

And while LaVey was disappointed to hear the NBC hadn't picked up Poor Devil, he was damn near euphoric to hear that Davis was both experienced with Satanism and informed of its finer, more subtle points.

I can't remember what Robert Evans said about cocaine.

It ruins the boater, but it turns up the verbosity.

Now, over the next several years throughout the mid-70s, Anton LaVey and Diane Higarty became Sammy's regular guests at intimate dinners, big parties, live shows, and visits to Sammy's second home near Lake Tahoe.

You've got to remember, Anton and Diane, fabulous dinner guests.

Great dinner guests.

At Lake Tahoe, LaVey was flattered to see that Davis had displayed the Baphomet necklace presented by the Church of Satan in a prominent place in his master bedroom because Sammy Davis Jr.

was, according to many girlfriends, an almost too frequent practitioner of sex magic.

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