BIZARRE LIFE AS A BIMBO!
News legend loved seducing married men
LEGENDARY newsgal Barbara Walters was a hot-to-trot wildcat who sated her lust by bedding other women’s hubbies and engaging in a series of torrid trysts during her long life!
The former prime-time anchor, star of NBC’s Today and creator of The View, who died at 93 on Dec. 30, “lived her life with no regrets,” says a source.
Married four times — twice to showbiz mogul Merv Adelson — Walters had a slew of flings, including married Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, the first Black U.S. senator, and even tried to steal Barbra Streisand’s lover, producer Jon Peters!
“One of her husbands called Barbara a cold fish,” says a source. “But plenty of other men — including several married guys — found her terribly exciting!”
Her most dangerous affair exploded in the 1970s when she seduced Brooke. He told his wife, Remigia, he wanted a divorce, but Walters was cautious, recalling in her memoir, Audition, “I slowly began asking myself, ‘Would such a marriage destroy his career? Would it destroy mine?’ ”
Normally brazen Barbara didn’t want to find out. She ended the romance when Brooke’s furious spouse tried to tell all to the media.
Later, in 1999, Walters had a fling with Elizabeth Taylor’s ex-hubby Sen. John Warner.
In the ’70s, Walters dated Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, at the same time she was bedding Bear Stearns CEO Alan Greenberg — and the similar names gave her housekeeper fits when they left messages.
She told her housekeeper if the man “talked in a normal tone” it was Greenberg and if he “almost whispered” it was Greenspan.
Walters admitted she tried to seduce Streisand’s live-in lover Peters after interviewing the pair in 1976 — by “performing a sexy striptease.” But Peters stuck with the Funny Girl, which insiders say dented Walters’ ego.
Walters also had a secret two-year affair with married Big Apple restaurateur Claude Philippe. “He knew all about wine, food, restaurants and was the epitome of sophistication,” she wrote.
Her biggest celeb crush was Clint Eastwood — gushing over his “flat stomach and tight rear end.”
When he flirted during a 1982 interview, “I got all flustered and goofy,” she wrote. Her big regret was when he asked her to stay for dinner, she said she “had to fly back to Los Angeles” to be with her TV crew.
GLOBE / January 23, 2023