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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 16 July 2018
Nancy Sinatra Sr., first wife of Frank Sinatra, dies at 101

By JOHN ROGERS to Los Angeles, where the daughter Nancy's 1975
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nancy singer would also become concert film, "Nancy and
Sinatra Sr., the childhood a movie star, raconteur, Lee in Las Vegas," and in
sweetheart of Frank Sinatra man about town and noto- 1974 on her friend Dinah
who became the first of his rious womanizer. Shore's talk show.
four wives and the mother Nancy Sinatra left Frank In later years she would be-
of his three children, has after his affair with actress come known as Nancy Sr.,
died. She was 101. Ava Gardner became especially after daughter
Her daughter, Nancy Sina- public knowledge. Weeks Nancy became a 1960s
tra Jr., tweeted that her after the pair's divorce be- singing star in her own right
mother died Friday and a came final in 1951, Sinatra's with "These Boots Are Made
posting on her web page ex-husband married Gard- For Walking" and other hit
said she died at 6:02 p.m. ner, while Sinatra went on songs.
but didn't indicate where to raise the couple's three She also remained friendly
she died. children: Nancy, Frank Jr. with her ex-husband, the
"She was a blessing and the and Tina. latter being said to have
light of my life," her daugh- After the gossip over the put in requests over the
ter said. divorce and Gardner mar- years for pasta and other
Attempts to reach repre- riage died down, Nancy Italian food dishes she was
sentatives for Sinatra Jr. late Sinatra devoted herself to known to be an expert at
Friday were unsuccessful. In this Feb. 5, 1971 file photo, producer Ross Hunter and Nancy family and numerous ce- preparing. She never re-
Nancy and Frank Sinatra Sinatra Sr., pose at the Golden Globe Awards in Hollywood, Los lebrity friends, largely with- married.
had been dating as teen- Angeles. drawing from the spotlight. "There is no bitterness, only
agers and married at Our Associated Press She not only outlived her great respect and affec-
Lady of Sorrows Catholic husband, who died in 1998, tion between Sinatra and
church in Jersey City, New radio show on local station For a time she was em- but her son, who died in his first wife," Gay Talese
Jersey, on Feb. 4, 1939, just WAAT. ployed as a secretary while 2016. wrote in 1966, "and he has
as Frank's singing career During the marriage's early her husband worked as a She is credited, under the long been welcome in her
was about to take off. Three years, the Sinatras lived in a singing waiter. name Nancy Barbato, on home and has even been
years before marrying the modest apartment in Jer- After Sinatra became a the Internet Movie Data- known to wander in at odd
former Nancy Barbato, he sey City, where their two pop-music sensation in the base with just two TV and hours, stoke the fire, lie on
had landed a 15-minute eldest children were born. 1940s, the couple moved film appearances, in her the sofa, and fall asleep."q