Frank Sinatra Biographer Keen To End Family Feud.

13-08-2006 09:36

Frank Sinatra Biographer Keen To End Family Feud.FRANK SINATRA's leading biographer ANTHONY SUMMERS is hoping to end the feud between himself and the crooner's family by meeting with Ol' Blue Eyes' daughter TINA.The Sinatra estate has dismissed claims the singer battled alcoholism and worked as a 'money mule' for the Mafia, which are detailed in SINATRA: THE LIFE, the book written by Oxford University-educated Summers and his wife ROBBYN SWAN. The Sinatras vilified the writers as "clowns" for attempting to write about the crooner's life. Sinatra's daughter NANCY went so far to call them "garbage pickers" on her website - before the book was first published in May 2005.The biographers, who are standing by their research - which took four years to gather - insist the family was very keen to keep Sinatra's popular image intact.Swan explains, "We approached Sinatra's children and BARBARA MARX-SINATRA, his last wife, and MRS NANCY SINATRA, his first wife, and MIA FARROW, his third wife, about possible interviews and they all declined; some more politely than others."Nancy Sinatra, Frank's daughter, had numerous letters from us and was tracked down on her tour by our researcher, but several weeks before the book came out, she went on her website and disparaged fans from reading our book and vilified us as clowns and garbage pickers and said that she knew our book was garbage because we'd never bothered to approach the family.