LUCY & DESI’S SEX SECRETS EXPOSED!
They cheated on each other from the start
WICKED and wild Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had hot sex with each other — and a slew of other folks — during their tempestuous love affair that ultimately ended in an ugly divorce, an explosive new book reveals!
Authors Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince’s book The Sad & Tragic Ending of Lucille Ball: Volume 2 details the story you don’t see in the just-released flick Being the Ricardos, starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as TV’s legendary I Love Lucy couple.
In real life, Lucy and Desi were far different than their wholesome, kooky sitcom characters, a ditzy housewife married to a hardworking bandleader. Certainly, their romance wasn’t love at first sight.
When Desi, then 23, first spotted 28-year-old Lucy at the RKO studio commissary, she was dressed for a role as a burlesque dancer — and he called her “a 10-cent whore,” the authors write.
But he soon fell in lust with the leggy, flame-haired B-actress, who’d posed for nudie photos and even turned tricks when she was starting out in New York.
Desi and Lucy eloped in 1940 “after a night of heavy sex,” says the book. “He woke her up at 6:30 and said, ‘We’re getting married.’ They drove to Greenwich, Conn., without any friends.”
The next day “at a meeting with RKO president George Schaefer, Arnaz forgot to zip up his pants. Without missing a beat, Ball zinged, ‘George, Desi believes in advertising.’ ”
But they cheated on each other from the start. Desi knocked up Ginger Rogers and drove her to Canada for an abortion — and Lucy was bedding Henry Fonda and a Milwaukee politician before they even tied the knot, says the book.
After getting hitched, Lucy continued to see Fonda and others while Desi hired whores.
According to the book, he explained, “‘You respect and love your wife, but these on the side are meaningless.’”
The authors describe their time together as a “mad love affair” cemented by “sex.”
And when Lucy once filed for divorce in 1944, Desi ended all talk of a split by going “home and throwing her into bed,” says Porter. They broke up for keeps in 1960 but went to their graves carrying a torch for each other.