“The Sad & Tragic Ending of Lucille Ball: Volume 2,” is out Tuesday. Still, the couple — who would a decade later become immortalized as the wholesome Ricardos in the groundbreaking sitcom “I Love Lucy” — continued dating other people, almost up until their November 1940 nuptials.
Arnaz allegedly shuttled Ginger Rogers — “presumably” pregnant with his child, Porter said — across the border to Canada for a late-stage abortion mere weeks before the wedding.
Meanwhile, Ball had dalliances with a local politician she met in Milwaukee while on a press tour, and was still carrying on a fling with Henry Fonda that started in 1939, Porter said.
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