{"id":55370,"date":"2017-07-26T14:17:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T21:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=55370"},"modified":"2017-07-26T14:17:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T21:17:05","slug":"barbara-sinatra-franks-fourth-wife-and-icon-of-vintage-vegas-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/barbara-sinatra-franks-fourth-wife-and-icon-of-vintage-vegas-dies-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Sinatra, Frank’s Fourth Wife and Icon of Vintage Vegas, Dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbara Sinatra, wife of iconic entertainer Frank Sinatra and one of the last links to vintage Las Vegas<\/a>, died Tuesday at age 90. She had been in declining health the last few months and died of natural causes, surrounded by family in her home in Rancho Mirage, California.<\/p>\n

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Philanthropist Barbara Sinatra, a former showgirl and Frank Sinatra’s fourth wife, died Tuesday at the age of 90. (Image: AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While her third husband was famous for his performances on the Strip, appearing with fellow singers Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin as part of the renowned Rat Pack, she too had a strong association with the Sin City and its glamorous casino image.<\/p>\n

A model who won a beauty contest in Long Beach, California, Sinatra came to Sin City to work as a showgirl at the Riviera<\/a>. There she met Zeppo Marx, whom she married in 1959. The two would eventually settle down in Rancho Mirage, the toney desert town 120 miles east of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Meeting Ol\u2019 Blue Eyes<\/h2>\n

With Marx\u2019s connections, Barbara soon started socializing with many of the Hollywood elite. One of her neighbors was Sinatra. The two began a friendship after he asked her to play tennis with his ex-wife, Ava Gardner.<\/p>\n

For years, the two remained nothing but friends, according to Hollywood biographers. She was still married to Marx when they met, and the two, along with Sinatra and then-wife Mia Farrow, would often travel to Las Vegas to watch Sinatra perform at the Sands casino and Caesars Palace.<\/p>\n

Marx reportedly was jealous of Barbara and Frank\u2019s friendship, which was one of the reason cited for her divorce from Marx in 1973.<\/p>\n

Budding Romance<\/h2>\n

Soon after, the friendship with Sinatra blossomed into a romantic relationship. The two were seen around town in Las Vegas and Southern California, though Frank\u2019s mother, Dolly, supposedly disapproved so much that she would not visit her son when Barbara was there.<\/p>\n

The relationship took Barbara by surprise and she was not sure why the two initially got involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve tried to analyze it,\u201d she once told The Desert Sun<\/em>. \u201cI think it\u2019s because we were friends before anything romantic happened. He would call and chat, but it wasn\u2019t romantic until later. It\u2019s something you can\u2019t explain why or how it happened.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It took her threatening to leave the relationship before Sinatra finally proposed, on a flight from Las Vegas to Chicago following a tennis tournament she was in. The two were married in 1976 until his death in 1998.<\/p>\n

It was Sinatra’s fourth and final marriage, and the longest-lasting one for both. She converted to\u00a0Roman Catholicism\u00a0before they married. According to her book,\u00a0Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank<\/em>, “He never asked me to change faith for him, but I could tell he was pleased that I’d consider it.”<\/p>\n

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Upon his death, Frank left Barbara $3.5 million in assets, along with mansions in Beverly Hills, Malibu, and Palm Springs. She also inherited the rights to Sinatra’s\u00a0Trilogy<\/em>\u00a0recordings, and control over his name and likeness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Together the two were involved in philanthropic activities, with Sinatra performing to raise money for causes such as abused children. In 1986, they founded the Barbara Sinatra\u2019s Children Center Foundation, which is next to the famed Betty Ford clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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