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Daily Mail
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The daughter of America's most famous crooner was spotted smelling the roses... can you guess who she is?
She's the youngest child of one of America's most iconic crooners, born during the first of his four marriages. And while both her brother and sister found some fame in the swinging '60s this daughter chose a quieter path. She did dip her toes in her family's specialty, joining them for a 1968 Christmas album, lending her voice alongside her famous father and siblings. But rather than chase the spotlight, she found her strength behind the scenes, carving out a successful career as a theatrical agent. When her legendary father passed, she stepped in once more – this time to protect and preserve his cinematic and musical legacy. Can you guess who she is? It's Tina Sinatra! Tina was spotted on Thursday talking a stroll before stopping to chat with a gardener a day before her 77th birthday. Wearing a bright purple strappy maxi dress with a floral print, she bent down at one point to smell a rose. As she bent down, a floral tattoo was spotted, centered on her back between her shoulder blades. Another one was visible on her foot. Her sister Nancy's silky transatlantic tone and striking style made her a household name primarily through the novelty hit These Boots Are Made For Walkin' which was a Number One hit throughout the world in 1965. And Nancy, now 85, teamed up with her famous father for Somethin' Stupid, which was also a huge international hit the following year. Tina's brother, Frank Jr. – who died in 2016 aged 72 – had less success, but was still a regular guest on TV. Frank Jr. is best remembered for being kidnapped from a Lake Tahoe hotel room in 1963 when he was 19. His father eventually paid over $240,000 and he was released unharmed after two days. The two kidnappers were sentenced to long prison terms but only served a fraction of them before they were freed. But twice-married, twice-divorced Tina largely kept out of the limelight. She did a little television work in Germany where she lived for several years and appeared in a few episodes of TV shows in the States including It Takes a Thief and McCloud. She worked behind the scenes as an agent and film producer and in her 2000 memoir My Father's Daughter she wrote that she 'lacked the ambition and confidence' to become an actress. Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has long been planning a biopic of Tina's dad, who died in 1998, but it has been hung up by disputes with Tina who controls the Sinatra estate. Kevin Spacey and Leonardo DiCaprio have both been named as possible portrayers of Ol' Blue Eyes with Jennifer Lawrence at one time named in the role of actress Ava Gardner with whom the legendary crooner had an affair that ended his marriage to Tina's mom, Nancy Barbato. 'They won't agree to it,' Scorsese told the Toronto Sun last year, referring to the surviving Sinatras. 'Open it up again and I'm there!' Shortly after that interview, Tina disputed Scorsese's account. 'Marty and I have been dance partners for a long time and not once has he stepped on my toes!' she told TMZ. But still there was no movement and the movie, which would look at Sinatra's alleged mob connections as well as his philandering is no closer to being made than it was in 2009 when Scorsese first floated the idea. Sinatra was married three times – to Barbato from 1939-51, to Gardner from 1951-57 to Mia Farrow from 1966-68 and to Barbara Marx from 1976 till his death. He was also engaged to both Lauren Bacall and Juliet Prowse and had numerous affairs, including with Marilyn Monroe and Lana Turner, giving Scorsese plenty of material for his movie. The Hoboken, New Jersey, native was also dogged throughout his life by allegations of Mafia ties. He even admitted that if he hadn't have fallen into showbiz he would probably have lived a life of crime. The FBI kept him under surveillance for more than 50 years.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Seth MacFarlane on Channeling Frank Sinatra for ‘Lush Life' & Who Will Be His ‘First Call' If He Uncovers a Lost Sinatra Duet
Thanks to a decadeslong love of Frank Sinatra and a relationship with his family that started when Frank Sinatra Jr. guest-starred on Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane was entrusted with a gold mine of never-released material arranged for the late crooner that has become his just-released ninth studio album, Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements. 'If you're an aficionado of this kind of music, it's like being a Lennon-McCartney fan and finding something that was written in like 1969 that was just never played,' MacFarlane tells Billboard's Pop Shop Podcast of Frank's daughter, Tina Sinatra, approaching him with the opportunity to dig into 1,200 archival boxes of unrecorded sheet music arranged specifically for her dad. 'And you hear it, and it's like, 'My God.' More from Billboard Seth MacFarlane Salutes Frank Sinatra on His New Album 'Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements' Taylor Swift No Longer Needs to Re-Record Debut Album & 'Reputation,' But Have Fans Come to Expect 'Taylor's Version'? Janet Jackson & Jennifer Lopez Aren't Leaving Las Vegas Anytime Soon After 2025 AMAs 'You know, the songs that we have are the songs that we have from his discography; obviously he's gone, the arrangers are gone, so there's nothing new. And then all of a sudden, it's like, 'Oh, you know what? There's one more cookie at the bottom of the bag.'' Listen to MacFarlane's full interview in the new Pop Shop Podcast episode below: Below, find highlights from our conversation with MacFarlane, and listen to the full chat in the podcast above. In many cases, no one has ever heard of them, because they just didn't exist. There's a song called 'Who's in Your Arms Tonight' — you could travel to the ends of the earth before we did this, and you would not find a single person who knows that song, because it just was never recorded, and everyone involved with this writing is long gone. … We asked the oldest guys in the band — I mean, our bassist played for Frank Sinatra for years in the last part of his life, and he had no idea what this was. So about a third of the songs on the album are songs in which both the song and the arrangement are just completely unknown. Particularly in the case of [Sinatra arranger] Nelson Riddle, you could instantly hear his signature trademarks, like those flutes. And that was what was so interesting. There was no question who wrote this, but it was new. It was familiar stylistically, but it was new, in the same way you watch a Wes Anderson movie that's brand-new, you're instantly going to know it's him. You're going to see his visual touchstones, but the movie's brand-new. That's kind of how it was. It was so clearly Nelson Riddle, but we were hearing the first new Nelson Riddle chart that anyone has heard in decades. So it was a pretty profound moment. It would have been nice if we had found some, you know, Rosemary Clooney or Peggy Lee duet. I mean, Liz would have been my first call. For this kind of music, there's just no one better on the planet, but so far, we have not found any duets. We haven't dug through these boxes in such detail that there couldn't be one — there may be. There are 1,200 boxes. We couldn't play everything on that day because an orchestra is expensive. … But there's so much in that archive that it is possible, and, yeah, if we find something, then we'll give Liz a call. There are a couple [songs] that we recorded that we cut from this album, just because we had, I don't know, some edict to get it down to 12 songs or less. All I know is we were told initially, I think they wanted it to be like six songs. I'm, like, 'Guys, that's not an album.' I don't know, there's all this, like, marketing data that they go by, and really, nobody knows sh–, because if they did, everything would be a monster hit. [Laughs] So I do remember us pushing back and saying, 'Let's do an album's worth of songs for this thing.' So it's a dozen songs, which, for a Sinatra album, was in the ballpark. And there were a couple songs that we did record that were not included that would be on the next one. … There are probably two albums' worth of real, honest-to-God songs that can be released. Is three days a residency? [Laughs] I once spent a week in Vegas, and I was like, 'I'm forgetting who I am. I'm an insane person. The walls are moving.' That's a lot of Vegas. __________ Also on this week's Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Taylor Swift's former No. 1 album reputation, released in 2017, jumps from No. 78 to No. 5 on the Billboard 200 following an outpouring of fan support of the project after Swift announced she had acquired her Big Machine Records-era music catalog. Plus, SEVENTEEN and Miley Cyrus' latest releases debut in the top five, while the top slots on both the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100 are static, with Morgan Wallen's 'I'm the Problem' and Alex Warren's 'Ordinary' staying put. We also hit the biggest pop headlines of the week, including Sabrina Carpenter's new 'Manchild' single and video, Darren Criss and Nicole Scherzinger winning at the Tony Awards, David Byrne joining Olivia Rodrigo onstage at Governors Ball, and Mariah Carey returning with her new Eric B. & Rakim-sampling single 'Type Dangerous.' The Billboard is your one-stop shop for all things pop on Billboard's weekly charts. You can always count on a lively discussion about the latest pop news, fun chart stats and stories, new music, and guest interviews with music stars and folks from the world of pop. Casual pop fans and chart junkies can hear Billboard's executive digital director, West Coast, Katie Atkinson and Billboard's managing director, charts and data operations, Keith Caulfield every week on the podcast, which can be streamed on or or your favorite podcast provider. ( on Best of Billboard Drake's Historic Chart Week: How He Matched The Beatles' 57-Year-Old Record How Elton John Keeps Up His Hot 100 Hot Streak With Dua Lipa Duet 'Cold Heart' Pink's 'All I Know So Far' Has Us Looking Back at the History of Live Music on the Charts
