Brando had gay affair with Pryor, says widow
THE widow of comedian Richard Pryor has said her late husband and movie legend Marlon Brando were lovers in the Seventies.
Jennifer Lee Pryor said her openly bisexual husband would be “cracking up” with laughter that the pair’s relationship had finally been made public.
“It was the 70s. Drugs were still good, especially quaaludes. If you did enough cocaine, you’d f*** a radiator and send it flowers in the morning,” she said.
She added that Pryor, known for his no-holds-barred, obscenity littered stand-up routines, had written about his sexual adventures in diaries, which would be published this year.
The comedian, who died in 2005 aged 65 of a heart attack, was married seven times to five different women. He and Jennifer Lee divorced after a year together in 1982, but remarried in 2001. They stayed together until his death.
Brando, who died in 2004 at the age of 80, is regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema.
He won Oscars for his performances as washed-up boxer Terry Malloy in On The Waterfront and mafia boss Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
His love life featured an epic cast of women and men. Aside from countless lovers he married three times and fathered 11 children.
In 1976, he admitted to a French journalist: “Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences, and I am not ashamed. I have never paid much attention to what people think about me.”
A 2016 book James Dean: Tomorrow Never Comes by Darwin Porter, included claims from Stanley Taggart who said the East Of Eden star was involved in “kinky sado-masochistic sex” with Marlon Brando where Dean was the submissive one.
And a biography, Brando Unzipped, claimed the actor had sex with Cary Grant, Montgomery Clift, and Sir John Gielgud.
Brando’s many female conquests included Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Winters and Rita Moreno.
During his affair with Moreno – the Puerto Rican star of West Side Story – Brando was still married to his first
wife, the Welsh actress Anna Kashfi. He later married Mexican actress Movita Castenada but left her for Tarita Teriipia, a 19-year-old Polynesian beauty he met while filming 1962’s Mutiny On The Bounty, and who became his third wife.
Pryor’s daughter from second wife Shelley, Rain Pryor, denied the claims about Brando but made other startling revelations.
She wrote on Facebook: “My dad was very open with his life, so much so that news of his relationship with a trans woman in the early 70s and 80s wasn’t really newsworthy nor notable. As a child I knew her, not as the trans person in our home, but the lady whom everyone accepted.”
The relationship between Pryor and Brando was first made public this week by music producer Quincy Jones in an interview. In it he described Brando as rampantly promiscuous saying that he would “sleep with anything, even a mailbox”.