The Tabloid Truth Behind Frank Sinatra's Scandals, Illness, and MONEY Battles

[@tammyallen1125]

One of those tabloids had a headline about Suzanne Somers. She passed away today.

[@StephenSchnee]

Strange how modest his gravesite is. I expected it to be a bit more elaborate... but another great video!

[@jant7881]

Agreed. I was expecting his grave at a mausoleum surrounded by candles, a rosary, and flowers all behind a locked gate.

[@orvil9223]

I think the family was more concerned with how much money they would end up with than how elaborate his gravesite was.

[@ellenfagan4338]

Thanks a million, Scott, for showing us the innards of this deep file! Love Frank, always & forever...but holy jamolies, what a mess of a life. How telling is it that the daughters swapped out his modest headstone? Always love getting your take on...everything. ✌️♥️

[@dannyryan9246]

I think it’s important to remember these are TABLOID reports and NOT legitimate news outlet articles. There have been several reputable books written by his manager, lawyer and comedian Tom Dreesen which dispel some of these stories.

[@davidcross701]

Been Following dearly departed 21 years!!! Always the best scenes, commentary, and one of the first to take us to the forgotten.

[@shannonhenry3416]

46 years old. Raised by grandma so it was always jazz as she was a ballroom dancer and teacher before WW11. Dean Martin was always her love. But I Loved Frank too! I remember a lot of the tabloids around this time of his passing… Being from Ohio my Aunt who passed a few years ago was neighbors with Dean Martins family in Steubenville. ♥️ When ever I need a lift in life Frankie always is still my number 1 for feel good music! ♥️

[@uhsaywhatnow]

I really enjoy the “sit down and flip through the tabloids” videos. They’re cozy. 💜

[@dianabeurman364]

They are fun

[@Mszahnclass95]

thank you Scott for the rag mag talk we call it its always interesting what is said about the famous people. Rip Susan Sommer 76 just a day before her 77 birthday .

[@JormunB]

That Strangers with Candy reference at 12:09, simply perfection! That's why we love ya, Scott!

[@kellybonsignore1380]

So sad how families will fight over money. Good thing mine was broke… nothing to fight over!

[@Mary-t5d5c]

It does bring out hateful prople.

[@ingrid-7777]

I am surprised, that his grave is so plain. 😮

[@pookycat1626]

Me too. I expected it to be something like Al Jolson’s.😂

[@ingrid-7777]

@@pookycat1626 Oh, aha... I had to search for Al Jolsons grave. Yeah, now that's a bit bigger 😉

[@MadMax76er]

I thought so too, for a man so much larger than life

[@conditionallyunconditional5691]

I guess New York didnt care enough? He brought revenue where ever he went.

[@writer422]

Rest in peace Frank. Also RIP Suzanne Somers

[@gigigiseleworld]

🕯️🕊️🕯️💐💐💐📿🥀🙏

[@SandySaunders9142]

I'm amazed that as big a star as Frank Sinatra was, and what an ego he had, I am amazed his grave is not more, much more ornate. I love your work Scott! BRAVO!🎉🎉🎉

[@marshamariner7897]

Never tire of Scott's videos. ..keep up the great work Scott ✌️✌️✌️😺😺

[@karenleemallonee684]

Scott, you said you were getting rid of your files...oh no! Just a thought...maybe you could raffle them off & use the money for the many gravestones that you so kindly provide for the stars who cant afford. Just a thought!?! Great video, what a guy!!! 🥃

[@DearlyDepartedTours]

Thanks! I am raising the money to pay for storage. Our artifacts cost a lot to keep safe, and well, it's a struggle. I appreciate you watching.

[@karenleemallonee684]

I just finished watching the rest of the video...I heard E-BAY for the file...never mind, lOl!!! I'm so sad to hear his home in Palm Springs is no longer, bummer!

[@karenleemallonee684]

​@@DearlyDepartedTours Definitely understood! 👍👍

[@maryellenshock]

Is there a museum/ library that would take your files? Looks like you have spent a lot of time compiling them. It would be a shame to lose them.

[@MummyBrown]

My two cents: He was POS that had a heavy hand in his circle around him from day 1. If your wife won’t allow your children around in your dying day, she was clearly like that early on enough for him to have a say so long before he was in a place where he couldn’t have a say so. He NEVER had issues setting his wives straight on bullstuff before his last wife, he seemingly delighted in it. All of this sounds like he was a jerk to his kids himself and they don’t want to admit that. Our culture has a funny way of martyring people when they pass. Dude had the voice of an angel, but he was far from an angel himself. Nancy says he made one big mistake in his life, but his whole life was rife with personal mistakes. Sinatra “was buried with some of his favorite things” but his most favorite thing wasn’t possible: a woman that wasn’t his own wife. All of this is proof that karma keeps score and remembers addresses in the end.

[@maryellenshock]

Kitty Kelly wrote an unauthorized book on Sinatra , didn't paint him in a favorable light ( then again most of her books don't) but I'm hearing a lot of the same things I read in the book.

[@investigator77]

I wonder if she meant Ava Gardner. I've read that she was the greatest love of his life, but she wouldn't bow down to him. Probably one of the only women that ever said NO to him. I know an actress in Hollywood, not a big name or anything, but she's been in 125 films and many, many advertisements, and she said her old agent told her that Frank Sinatra had seen one of my friends head shots in the agents office and told her "If anybody ever makes a movie about my life, she needs to play Ava"". So I think he always loved her (kind of like Frank D and Marilyn Monroe).

[@sugarjoe50]

The famous pic of Frank with Carlo Gambino & 'the boys' was taken at the short-lived Westchester Premiere Theater, just north of NYC in the 70s. Not surprisingly, that place was totally mobbed up.

[@laurastrobel718]

This was great. 🤗 A couple of weeks ago I watched the Virginia Graham interview, enjoyed it. Thanks Scott. RIP Frank and Virginia ❤️🌹🕊️🌈

[@DearlyDepartedTours]

Oh I'm so glad. She was great. Thanks for letting me know.

[@laurastrobel718]

@@DearlyDepartedTours Sure 😀

[@pamelastalnaker]

I enjoy watching you go through your files. It is wonderful remembering these things. Thank you

[@acelarson1872]

I live in Palm Springs now and Frank was a legend here and he gave so much to the city, I think Nancy lives here again in the valley how great is that Scott?

[@arricammarques1955]

Modest headstone for Francis.

[@ChimingIn]

remember reading so many of those articles when they first came out. It's amazing to me that you still have them.

[@DearlyDepartedTours]

Wow - thank you so much! That is very kind of you.

[@beatles23]

thanks for educating us.

[@dianemakarevitz798]

Fun video. Thanks Scott!!! ❤️☮️

[@susiepittman601]

Love your videos. Thanks.

[@BufordPusser582]

Another great vid Scott. Thanks

[@Janster59]

I am always happy to see a new video of yours!

[@alliekuma4234]

Omg, and I thought my family drama was bad! Holy crap

[@MB-vu3ow]

Thanks, Scott. I saw your interview with Virginia Graham (in her apartment, I believe), which was a video. She was an interesting, articulate, and still stunning lady. Several months ago I found it on your website, but it was audio only. Why? ♥️

[@DearlyDepartedTours]

It wasn't meant to be a video blog to start with. Thanks, I'm so glad you listened.

[@judybrown6666]

The absolute best book about Sinatra is (Sinatra the life) by Anthony Summers and Bonny Swan It’s 711 pages I promise you will not be disappointed He wasn’t what people thought he was

[@tomjones5650]

Also Mr.S. By Frank's Valet George. He was always there.

[@darlenemorris9550]

Thank you so much for sharing this file. I have been reading everything I can get my hands on about Sinatra and Dean Martin's life. I have read the books by Tina Sinatra and Barbara Sinatra about their lives with Frank. They tell very different stories.

[@donnsunderland2684]

Indeed they do Darlene.

[@dodiegennaro6605]

The lawyers encourage the client to put in the wills the line...anyone who challenges the will is cut out of it... To save fights afterward...

[@ericab845]

thanks Scott for this trip down memory lane. There was a story about Frank, he was at the BH Hotel in the bar and there were two Jewish gentlemen who were also there celebrating the marriage of their children with their wives. One of the Jewish men went over to Frank's raucous table (they were swearing and very loud) and asked them to please quite down and keep the swearing down it was upsetting their wives. Long story short, Frank got pissed and sneaked up behind one of the men with one of those old fashioned heavy phones and hit one of them over the head. The poor man suffered greatly and was in a coma for several weeks on the verge of death. Frank ran off to the desert and remained in hiding. The man's family was going to sue Frank but they got so many death threats from Frank's Mafia friends that they decided to drop it. The injured man was never the same, suffered many health issues and Frank was never charged. Loved Franks music but the man was a real pig.

[@DearlyDepartedTours]

Is a terrible story. I believe it.

[@kathyhays9819]

You are so right, money makes the crazy people really crazy. I feel bad for his children if she did that to them. Wonder if the children took her to court to get what was theirs. Thanks for sharing

[@investigator77]

HE did that to them. He should have stipulated in his will, whatever he wanted his kids to have. I think that's what he did, they just didn't like it. He was a very unkind man, and like many of his generation was self made. He earned the money, and he could leave it to who he wanted.

[@plowking57]

I cant get enough of this ... Go though all the memory books too 😂

[@lindahill9980]

Thanks Scott

[@LeeTheVet]

He had some great WWII movies and his music was oustanding.

[@michaelgrow8630]

Shirley mcclaine was known as rat pack mascot.

[@anthonyelbambo6306]

Another awesome video

[@joseluiscastillo6170]

I cannot believe that Sinatra didn't have a larger and fancier tombstone...That one is pitiful.

[@investigator77]

At the Hollywood Forever cemetary, Burt Lancaster's marker is about 8" square flat on the grass, and just has his name on it. He told people he wanted to be remembered by his films, and all of the work he had done. Jayne Mansfield has a tiny marker there too, but her real grave is in Pennsylvania where she was from.

[@gigigiseleworld]

Maybe it's the Cemetery,,that has certain rules regarding... Colorful and expansive headstones "? Or he made that decision"?? Only his children would know "??

[@gardenmama1393]

​@@gigigiseleworldthe picture looks like one of those cemeteries that has flat headstones so that the lawn mower can go over it efficiently. I forgot what they are called.

[@LizaFergison]

@joseluiscastillo6170 Tombstones are simply there to mark the grave. I live next to a large graveyard where I like to walk. I've seen some awful monstrosities on graves. Thankfully, the they were removed and replaced with more suitable small stones, because they broke the rules. It is now a beautiful place with modest stones in keeping with the new rules. The person in the grave is dead, so they don't care.

[@ramonarettzo8883]

He said he didn't want that. He bought the simple plot.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

I have the Enquirer on Carey Grant framed and hanging on a wall at home. It was $0.65 in 1986. I've got this one on Sinatra and I'm going to have to get it framed someday.

[@pepperlee2313]

Odd on the end of your video you had Suzanne Somers on one of those magazines. 👀👀

[@JoeinSeattle.]

That grave is not worthy of a legend like Sinatra. The daughters need to step it up.

[@suzanne296]

So different when your driving,compared to Illinois. Watching now. Nice new stone for Frank.

[@carolchmielewski5313]

The Rat Pack Girl was Shirley MacLaine...I think.

[@Silversmoke1000]

I'm really surprised. First at how simple the grave is and secondly I would have thought he would have been buried in New Jersey or more obviously, Las Vegas.

[@acelarson1872]

Frank spent 50 years in Palm Springs it was his home.

[@natomblin]

Very nice. Also makes an excellent unintentional ASMR. 😊

[@spudwas]

Nancy Sinatra stated that she was at home watching the final episode of "Seinfeld" the night her dad died!

[@stacyhughes.and.her.2cats]

I'm always amazed when you show super famous ppl just have basic, at ground level head markers. I'd expect them to have head STONES. Something grand. I mean, even my dad is marked with a $15,000 above ground stone. And he wasn't famous...but to those that knew him.

[@pamhutzell8268]

So cool!

[@mylynraevinton-spooner70]

Very interesting

[@jdowns7636.]

Just wondering why are you getting rid of your files and are you selling them? Just wondering, enjoy your videos. Thank you for all you do😊

[@mackhopper]

Nancy is THE BOMB! I love her…and she is SPOT on!!! Nancy claims that Barbara was the idiot who played right into Kitty Kelley’s manipulations, as she was researching her ‘unauthorized’ salacious book, “His Way - The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra”. When someone titles their book, ‘unauthorized,’ they think this gives them carte blanche to be a hatchet man (or woman, in this case). If what Nancy says is true, thanks Barbara Sinatra!

[@Mary-t5d5c]

My step monster was the same. My dad had his will and hers done a while after they were married. My dad was married 4 times. My mom being the 2nd and me the only child. She had my dad unadopt my two stepsisters that were from Doris wife number 3. And he did. I was given 10 life insurance policies that were 10,000 a piece upon my 45 yr birthday. When my dad passed my step monster said if i was to go to the house or the funeral id be arrested for tresspass. Where would i stay when i got there? How would i gdt from ohare airport to hebron indiana? Then i got a copy of my dads will and he left her as executor. She was supposed to split when she died with her son as and me. Well that didnt happen. And she t old me before she fied that s he had no copies of my life insurance policies. They were thtown away yrs ago and were w orthless. I know i had them because before my dad died i cashed one out before i was 45. Andvi got penalized. I got 2500 dollars. So they were there. So i never got a cent after my dad passed. I think she took lessons from barbara

[@annec781]

I remember when Frank Jr was kidnapped.

[@rockjagg1]

I remember going to a friends house and a bunch of us watched the final episode of Seinfeld and heard that evening that Sinatra had passed.

[@lemonhead162]

Barbara made damn sure her son would get the bulk of the estate. Frank's natural kids didn't get near as much as his wife & step-son. I believe the step-son even owns the music royalties. It disgusts me how greedy Barbara was!

[@donnsunderland2684]

According to his wife who wrote the book "Lady Blue Eyes" his last words were in a whisper "I can't." They were in response to her pleadings that "You've got to fight - You have to fight, Frank."

[@leewaight]

She also claimed he said " I'm losing " still never let the truth get in the way of a good story. The lovely woman didn't tell his kids he was dead they heard about it on the news. He lay dying and who does she call? His publicist

[@donnsunderland2684]

​​@@leewaightThat quote was attributed not to Barbara but rather an attending nurse. However in Barbara's book she states she never left his side with him dying in her arms twenty minutes after her last words to him with the whisper "I can't" - (Page 356 - 357 of "Lady Blue Eyes.")

[@LannieLord]

I think, in the Patty Duke book Call Me Anna; she had a one night stand with him as I recalled. Probably during her Valley of the Dolls days when she looked her best . Call Me Anna is a great read -- even if you don't care for Patty Duke.

[@LannieLord]

P.S. Just sent a VERY FUN unboxing gift a few days ago ...................

[@DearlyDepartedTours]

Oh yay!

[@enekervis]

Oh no please don't get rid of your files

[@ImsunaSong-gw2gs]

Hmm nothing fancy about their graves..that was surprising.

[@orvil9223]

I remember that robbery while they were out for a walk. It was Doheny Dr., wasn't it? right off of Sunset. Sounds like a little insurance money, lol.

[@Silenced23]

So what were his final words? Seems nobody really knows and the one that does know is now dead.

[@lindapgolan7070]

Maybe try to scan as much as you can into a PDF, that way your files would be digital as a back up to the printed material.

[@RoeVenturesLLC]

Jill St. John was soo hot

[@markjamesmeli2520]

Are you allowed to digitize this clipping collection? This looks like a hell of a read. I mean, my mom and I saw Sinatra in concert in 1997 (?) or so, and followed his later career.

[@PageCreations]

Sad that someone so talented and such an American Icon's memory has to be drug through the mud after his death. I was really surprised what a modest stone he had, but to be honest the first one was a lot nicer. I could see if the children would give him something more grand, but that one was just meh. More about the gotcha to step mom than about the man himself. If she did that to them I get it, but still kind of petty. If anything get him a nicer memorial than what he had. Just sayin'. Edit: I wrote this prior to hearing you say that Frank didn't want some big fancy memorial. Thank you Scott & Troy. I always enjoy your videos. You bring up things I forgot about or didn't know. It's always so interesting.

[@AussieAngel826]

I liked the original stone

[@JohnP538]

"Ain't nobody bigger than Sinatra!", from the movie Mafia, and still true today.

[@Everett-eh4nn]

I met Sinatra at foxwoods casino in Connecticut. I think it was 1994. I've heard he only carried brand new 100 dollar. That's all he would carry.

[@alec19811]

Scott do you sell things on ebay if so what is your e bay name

[@donnacobb4027]

Why did they work in him till he dropped dead

[@68lyn68]

Wow I thought Frank would of has a bigger burial plot and stone

[@CatskillsGrrl]

I absolutely believe he has outside kids. How could he not?

[@lesliegoodman-malamuth9796]

Nancy Sinatra Sr. lived to be 101. The family included in her obituary the recipe for her favorite clam sauce for linguine (it’s very easy-sauté garlic in olive oil and dump in two undrained cans of minced clams with some chopped parsley).

[@maryellenshock]

Your recipe sounds perfect, same one I've used!

[@maryellenshock]

Your quoting the national inquire for info, you would have done better with people magazine.

[@josephinepowell2242]

Sorry but you said she hadn’t passed yet ( he’s first wife Nancy , she actually has passed away )

[@DearlyDepartedTours]

At the time of the article, not as of today.

[@mattkaustickomments]

That new marker is nowhere near as nice as the original.

[@lovesalaska1329]

I like your channel Scott, but I would never trust the Enquirer for facts

[@DearlyDepartedTours]

Not as gospel, no. But there are nuggets to be found!

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

The Enquirer has printed a LOT of truth.

[@maryellenshock]

Amen to that! I would trust people magazine before the enquirer.

[@lacosanostra6032]

Need a collar with daag again

[@NuffinEdited]

I'm surpised they didn't have him exumed and moved away from her. I was never a fan I believe every aweful thing ever saud about him. Including him being R*pist

[@brandywalkenten9085]

I don’t know but if the will was set up and worded that it couldn’t be challenged, and he was of sound mind, he did that for a reason. Maybe I’m wrong but it sounds like Frank set it up that way intentionally

[@ritacatalinich]

Now I understand why FS has that simple grave stone , its because his last greedy wife most probably decided to not spend too much money , so there would be more for her & her family , its so sad for his children because he probably was brainwashed by that witch ! Imagine his children ,they loved their FATHER & most likely were hurt by their FATHER , how he was being treated by the 4 th wife she was using him for her benefits , & he was with them when they were little that was their DAD ! & divorced parents make their children mad because the kids suffer, kids love both parents & want their family like it was , divorce is horrible on children . I read that the 4th wife made him work even though he was unwell & FS used to forget his lyrics but was still made to work …. She pulled the strings & he was vulnerable he had no choice he was not well mentally . She worked him well for her son imagine SINATRA’S kids how angry the must be ,after all that was their father !!! So most likely they don’t want to even go to the cemetery & only change his stone to have the last say !! because the witch is buried next to him & I guess they feel that they don’t want to be next to her even though she’s dead . But I will tell you that I read that TINA SINATRA said her father would go to their home many times for dinner & spend time with his family & Nancy sr would cook his favourite meals maybe he was sorry that he destroyed his family & had regrets , & knew he could go back home so he stayed living in his life from women to women very sad . I wonder if you could find out where his son FSJ is buried & NANCY SNR . I would love to know where they are . Great story THANKS 🙏

[@kenpalmer985]

His last wife was a hottie

[@brucesumter4327]

back 19*8the compture was $649.00?? suzanne she past away yesterday she was 77 did you and troy meet her?? just wounder ty for video i got frank cd's i list to the pamlspring,ca mod1073fm all diffen type music play yall have a good week