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

I'm just talking.

You know, Sammy, Sammy just talks.

So Davis dropped the subject as soon as it was brought up.

But according to friends and girlfriends, Davis practiced Satanism and ritual magic well into his dying days.

One girlfriend said that she had to stop seeing Sammy because of his interest in sex magic in particular, but not because he did anything bad.

Lovemaking, she said, became a ritual tied into the worship of the occult in ways that she didn't want to understand.

But it must be said that Sammy's practice did get quite dark at times.

With everyone's consent, Davis was fond of drawing blood with sharp objects like broken bottles, often from genital areas.

But always like, so I just can imagine Sammy Davis like, you mind if I bring the bottle into it?

But to his credit, it must be mentioned that his aforementioned wife, Alta Vese, stayed with Sammy from 1970 until his death 19 years later.

In fact, the information about sex magic comes from letters written to Alta Vese in which a shared associate was seemingly just keeping Sammy's wife up to date on what her husband was doing.

But when Sammy Davis Jr.

's big send-off at the end of his life was televised in 1989, Anton LaVey was not invited.

Instead, he watched it at home on TV with everyone else, probably cursing Frank Sinatra for having a hand in dashing LaVey's obvious dreams of establishing himself in the world of entertainment.

A chance like that would never come again.

I think that Anton LaVey, I think Anton LaVey would.

Oh, by 89, he hadn't talked to Sammy Davis Jr.

in a decade.

Yeah.

He really would.

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