Mia Farrow Admits Frank Sinatra 'Had a Temper' but Was 'So Compassionate and Shy'

Mar. 15, 2025

Mia Farrow in Los Angeles on April 26, 2023; Frank Sinatra in Los Angeles on April 15, 1971.Photo:ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images; Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images

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Mia Farrowis recalling the multi-layered person that was her late ex-husbandFrank Sinatra.

During the 79-year-old actress' appearance onCBS Sunday Morningon Sept. 1 alongside her friendPatti LuPone(they costar together in the Broadway playThe Roommate), Farrow opened up about Sinatra, whom she was married to from 1966 to 1968.

“Like Patti, he was Sicilian,” she told journalist Seth Doane, laughing alongside LuPone, 75. “But unlike Patti, he had a temper.”

Farrow, who was nearly 30 years Sinatra’s junior, said that “the essential person” of the late actor and singer “was so compassionate and shy, and readily available, more than anyone I’ve ever known.”

“It ended up being a friendship that lasted until he died,” she added.

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After meeting on the 20th Century Fox lot in 1964, Farrow and Sinatra quickly fell in love. They wed two years later at a Las Vegas hotel in 1966, when Farrow was 21 and Sinatra was 50.

Still, that didn’t mean she and Sinatra completely parted ways. While speaking toVanity Fairin 2013, the actress admitted that they “never really split up.”

The two enjoyed a long-lasting friendship until his death in 1998 at age 82. In the years since, Farrow has paid homage to her late ex-husband on social media.

In December 2023, she celebrated what would have beenthe singer’s 107th birthdaywith a sweetInstagram postcaptioned in part, “Happy Heavenly Birthday C.B. I will always love you ♥️."

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Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow on July 19, 1966.Bettmann Archive

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Speaking with Doane, Farrow said she saw doing the show as a chance to have one last hurrah. “It was perhaps a feeling of maybe ‘Is this it, or might there be one last adventure?’ " she said, adding that she’s “very good at doing nothing” when she’s not working.

“It’s a gift,” Farrow joked. “I’m endlessly entertaining to myself. I have good friends. I have no complaints.”

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source: people.com