‘Crybaby’ Frank Sinatra would flee and go ‘fetal’ when fighting with Mia Farrow, tried to kill himself when Ava Gardner cheated: actor neighbor
nypost.commarket for $4.45 million, on nights he fought with then-wife Mia Farrow. “Godfather” actor Gianni Russo, who lives five doors down from where the crooner and the famed actress cohabitated at 249 E.
61st Street, said Sinatra was sure to ring his buzzer.“Anytime they’d have a fight, he’d come have a drink and spend the night at my place,” Russo, 80, told The Post. “He’d cry and say, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing.’ This guy was a crybaby, not the image we know of him.
He’d get into the fetal position on my couch and go to sleep.”Russo, who played Carlo Rizzi in “The Godfather,” was 14 and working as an errand boy for Mafia boss Frank Costello when he first met Sinatra at the Copacabana, and they remained friends until his death in 1998.Russo said he “went through so many romances” with Sinatra, and never understood his friend’s attraction to Farrow.“I don’t even know why he married her.
She’s like a boy, she got no body, she got nothing,” he said. The “Rosemary’s Baby’’ actress was married to Ol’ Blue Eyes from 1966 to 1968 but continued to be his lover on and off afterward — including when she was involved with director Woody Allen.
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