Todd Purdom
speaker
44 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Yes, his uncle took him to the fanciest bordello in Santiago de Cuba, his hometown, and introduced him to sex in a bordello. And when he came to New York as a young performer, he frequented Polly Adler's bordello, which was the most elegant whorehouse in New York, basically, that had the cream of...
entertainment and society clientele and desi i think he would clearly be what we now would think of as a sex addict he didn't have affairs with people as his daughter once said to me with people who had last names he just had endless dalliances with prostitutes sometimes more than one one at a time and when this was semi-private it bothered lucy but she could tolerate it
When it became increasingly public and he ultimately got arrested weaving down the street in Hollywood in a neighborhood of notorious bordellos, it became humiliating for Lucy and she really just couldn't take it anymore. And that's ultimately what that and his drinking is what led to their divorce in 1960.
Thank you, Terry. It's a pleasure to be here.
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