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

Pack himself.

Oh, blue eyes.

Frank Sinatra.

Yeah.

He was the worst.

Well, as the 70s turned into the 80s, Sammy Davis Jr.

's social life was getting a little too groovy for the famously square Frank Sinatra.

Now, granted, Davis was definitely partying way too hard.

But from what it seems like, it was Davis's close association with Satanists like Anton LaVey that really got Sinatra's goat.

So sometime in the late 70s, Sinatra told Davis to get his shit together and cool it with the drugs and the booze.

But above all, stop hanging out with all these godforsaken Satanists.

Italians do not like Satanists.

No.

Yeah, you think so.

They're certainly a fan of nun porn, which is pretty close to Satanism if you ask me.

big priest fans they really believe in the church they do but sinatra's comment about satanist was highly ironic when you consider that the time davis spent with satanist were always his most sober and sexless nights yeah that was when he was learning yeah sinatra should have said yeah it was satanist good influence keep hanging out with them yeah stop hanging out with the old whores

Yeah.

Now, we don't know for sure if Sinatra's tut-tutting is really what caused Davis to pull back on his friendship with Anton LaVey.

But after the conversation, little by little, the frequent hangouts turned into occasional phone calls, and Anton and Sammy drifted apart by the end of the decade.

It also could have been Sammy Davis Jr.

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