First Blue Eyes shed a few tears when it came to his wives.
Frank Sinatra would flee his Manhattan brownstone, now on the market for $4.45 million, on the nights his then-wife Mia Farrow fought.
“The Godfather” actor Gianni Russo, who lives five doors down from the crooner and iconic actress at 249 E. 61st Street, said Sinatra was sure his buzzer was about to go off.
Russo, 80, told The Post that whenever they would fight, he would spend the night at my house drinking.
“He would cry and say, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing.’ This boy was a crybaby, not the image we know of him, he would curl up in the fetal position on my couch and fall asleep.
Russ, who played Carlo Rizzi in “The Godfather,” was 14 and working as a errand boy for Mafia boss Frank Costello when he first met Sinatra at the Copacabana. The meeting happened, and they remained friends until his death in 1998.
Russ said he “went through a lot of romances” with Sinatra, and never understood his friend’s attraction to Farrow.
“I don’t even know why he married her. He’s like a boy, he’s got no body, he’s got nothing,” she said.
The “Rosemary’s Baby” actress was married to Ol’ Blue Eyes from 1966 to 1968 but continued to be his lover afterward — including when she was involved with director Woody Allen.
Hollywood has long speculated that Ronan Farrow, who was born in 1987, was actually Sinatra’s child.
In 2013 Vanity Fair In the interview, Mia Farrow was asked point-blank about Sinatra’s possible parentage and she replied softly, “Possibly.”
Russ, who chose Sinatra as godfather to his son Luciano, said Ronan’s uncanny resemblance to the “My Way” singer is undeniable.
“It has to be his son. No one has eyes like that,” he said.
Russo, a native of Little Italy, and Sinatra, who hailed from Hoboken, NJ, shared the same birthday but were 28 years apart.
That didn’t stop them from hitting nightclubs together, even though Sinatra was busted.
“When he was with me, he was cheating,” she recalled.
“He was going out with Judy Garland. He had an apartment on 72nd Street, he was dating her. He was going out with Marilyn Monroe.
According to Russo, Sinatra, who was married four times, could not live alone “because he was so insecure.”
The friends were drinking, but when Sinatra – who had bottle-fed Jack Daniel’s – joined in, a darker side would emerge.
“The guy was bipolar. When he started drinking, he’d think he was 6-foot-10.
He may also be depressed.
Russo claims that Sinatra tried to kill himself when he discovered his then-wife Eva Gardner, to whom he was married from 1951 to 1957, was cheating on him – and he Went to the apartment of William Morris’ talent agent James Woods on East 72nd Street. do it.
“Thank God his neighbor was home because Woods’ apartment smelled of gas,” she said.
“When they walked in, Sinatra was half in the oven and the gas was on.”
Martin Scorsese is in talks to direct. Sinatra biopic who discovers “Violent, sexually charged, hard-drinking Frank”
Russo doesn’t think Leonardo DiCaprio is a good choice for the title role.
“You’ve got to have some balls. . . . And he doesn’t.”
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