Tom Junod

You know, I became, in some ways, his protector.

He did not age well, and he went from being a guy who made $250,000 a year to a guy who had lost everything.

How did he lose everything?

He was a terrible gambler and he was even worse, he was even a worse investor in the stock market.

I mean, he was the most confident man I had ever, you know, come across.

And that itself was, like, seductive and powerful.

And then he became a guy whose pockets were lined with regrets.

I mean, he was one of these guys, that's all he did was talk about, you know, woulda, coulda, shoulda.

And so, in 1996, I was writing for GQ.

I wrote this story called My Father's Fashion Tips.

which was a way to sort of allow him to expound his principles and his maxims and introduce those to, you know, the wider reading public.

The reason I did it was as a gift to him.

I wanted to make him the celebrity that he never was.

But, and there's always a but, I think, in all of these stories.

I did that story to corner my dad with a tape recorder between us.

And so I finally had the chance to talk to him about all this stuff.

And, you know, so I found out that he had

an affair with not just Zsa Zsa Gabor, but with the Gabor sisters.

I found out... One Gabor, not enough.

Yeah, not enough.