Natalina Maria Vittoria Garaventa was born on December 26, 1896 in Lumarzo, Genoa, in northern Italy. She was brought to the United States when she was two months old. When she was a child, her pretty face earned her the nickname "Dolly".
Roughly five million Italians emigrated to America from 1880 and the beginning of the First World War. Among them were his father Anthony Sinatra, who came from the small Sicilian village of Palagonia, and mother Natalina Garaventa, more commonly known by her middle name Dolly, who came from Genoa.
Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants Natalina Della (Garaventa), from Northern Italy, and Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra, a Sicilian boxer, fireman, and bar owner.
Francis Albert Sinatra was the only child of two Italian immigrants. His father was Anthony Sinatra, a New York fireman of Sicilian origin, and his mother was Natalie Garavanta, called by her middle name, Dolly and was well known for her fiery Ligurian personality.
He was buried in Plot B-8 with a bottle of Jack Daniels and a pack of Camel cigarettes tucked into his suit. His head stone reads: 'The Best is yet to come. ' The website has a downloadable map. The cemetery is also home to Sonny Bono, one half of Sonny and Cher and one-time mayor of Palm Springs.
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How much money did Frank Sinatra leave Nancy Sinatra?
To my former Wife, NANCY BARBATO SINATRA, if she survives me, the sum of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000). If NANCY BARBATO SINATRA does not survive me, this gift shall lapse and shall be considered as part of the residue of my estate.
Popular on Variety. Frank Sinatra Jr., son of the legendary singer, died of a heart attack Wednesday while on tour in Daytona Beach, Florida. He was 72. His death was confirmed by the Associated Press, which received a statement from Sinatra's family citing cardiac arrest as the cause of death.
Frank Sinatra, one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century, died of a heart attack on May 14, 1998, at the age of 82. The award-winning singer and film actor's entertainment career spanned more than five decades, beginning in the 1930s.
Though turned off by organized religion at times, however, Sinatra had a deep faith that became public when he turned to the Catholic Church for healing after his mother died in a plane crash late in his career. He died as a practicing Catholic and had a Catholic burial.
In the intervening time, Tony O became one of Sinatra's best friends and closest consiglieri; a drinking and smoking buddy Sinatra could lend an ear to, a confidante to help him out or just a guy to goof around with.
His inner circle included Ermenegildo “Jilly” Rizzo, the brother he never had; his “crowd disperser,” Ed Pucci; Brad Dexter, who saved him from drowning; Leo “The Lip” Durocher; Jerry “The Crusher” Amaniera; Tom Dreesen; and Tony Oppedisano, better known as Tony O, whose vivid memoir, Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small ...
Former U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan arrives for the funeral of legendary entertainer Frank Sinatra at the Good Shepard Catholic Church in Beverly... Actors Robert Wagner and Jill St. John arrive with two other unidentified people to the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills,...
The kidnappers demanded that all communication be conducted by payphone. During these conversations, Frank Sr. became concerned that he would not have enough coins, which prompted him to carry 10 dimes with him at all times for the rest of his life; he was even buried with 10 dimes in his pocket.
And while Sinatra was a legendary lothario linked to the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland, Tony reveals he had only one real love – first wife Nancy Barbato. Nancy Senior, as Tony affectionately refers to her, is now 98 and never remarried after her 12 year union to Sinatra ended in 1951.
Ol' Blue Eyes' widow, Barbara, was married to Zeppo Marx before she married Frank, left everything to her son, Robert Marx, a lawyer and friend of Prince Albert II of Monaco.
1986 and was rushed to the hospital suffering from a severe stomach condition known as acute diverticulitis. Doctors removed a section of the singer's intestine — and attached a colostomy bag that he was forced to wear for several months, the book says.
Oppedisano, who became Sinatra's pal in his early 20s and was later his best friend and road manager, said the artist had emergency diverticulitis surgery in late `1986 and was left wearing a colostomy bag during recovery. That bag was replaced by another, he writes, after another hospitalization in February 1987.
Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg) at birth. His was a breech birth; he had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck, and ear, and perforated his ear drum, damage that remained for life.
Frank Sinatra was arrested by the Bergen County, New Jersey sheriff in 1938 and charged with seduction and adultery - a criminal offense in those times. He was tagged with 'Arrest 42799' and this notorious mug shot. The charge was later changed to adultery, and eventually dismissed.
Sinatra refused to apologize but agreed to sign a statement that he “did not intend any general reflection upon the moral character of working members of the Australian media”and regretted both “any physical injury resulting from attempts to ensure his safety” and the inconvenience to patrons.
She lost her second husband, Hugh Lambert, to cancer when he was 55, and their daughters, Amanda and AJ, now gently compel their mother to work – her new archival release, Nancy Sinatra: Start Walkin' 1965-1976, is their project alongside the US independent label Light in the Attic.
