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  • Nancy Sinatra And Hometown Of Hoboken Set To Celebrate Frank Sinatra’s 100th Birthday

    Nancy Sinatra, daughter of legendary singer Frank Sinatra, and Frank’s hometown of Hoboken are gearing up for a city-wide celebration on what would have been his 100th birthday, December 12th.

    Nancy Sinatra does a radio show in Hoboken and will be joining in the festivities, but the focus will be on the life and times of Old Blue Eyes himself.

    All year long, Frank and Nancy Sinatra’s hometown has been awash in special events to commemorate Sinatra’s centennial birthday.

    For example, screenings of his movies in the outdoors and a sort of “Sinatra Idol” singing competition have helped the town remember Sinatra. There have also been special concerts that will end on a grand note with a centennial birthday party on December 12th.

    That party will take place at the Stevens Institute of Technology, which gave Sinatra an honorary degree in 1985. Sinatra was a high school dropout.

    The Hoboken Historical Museum opened a Sinatra exhibit in August and has seen a 300 percent jump in visitors.

    Museum Director Robert Foster said, “Whenever we do something on Sinatra, people come out of the woodwork. We enjoy the fans because they are so loyal and he means so much to them.”

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    Frank Sinatra died in 1998 at the age of 82.

    Back in October, one of his closest friends, Tony Oppedisano, told in an interview about the day Sinatra died.

    “He wasn’t panicked,” Tony recalled, “He was just resigned to the fact that he had given it his best but he wasn’t going to come through.”

    He added, “I told him I loved him but those were the last words I ever heard him say before he passed away.”

    Oppedisano also told of Frank’s great love for his first wife, Nancy Barbato, and the love he had for their children, despite being somewhat of an estranged father after the divorce.

    Oppedisano said, “He used to beat himself up about Nancy Senior (Sinatra’s first wife).”

    He added, “He remained dedicated to her throughout the years and had a great ongoing affection for her, despite being very much in love with Barbara (his fourth wife).”

    Frank and Nancy Sinatra divorced after 12 years of marriage due to his ongoing affair with actress Ava Gardner. He married Gardner shortly after, but that marriage only lasted two years. He then wed actress Mia Farrow and then Barbara Marx, who was still married to him at his death.

    Nancy Sinatra (Barbato) never remarried.

    What do you think of the upcoming festivities put on by his and his daughter, Nancy Sinatra’s, hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey? Will you be attending?

  • Nancy Sinatra Denies Rumors That Dad Frank Sinatra Is Father To Mia Farrow’s Son, Calling The Claim ‘Nonsense’

    Nancy Sinatra is denying allegations that her late father, crooner Frank Sinatra, is the biological father of Mia Farrow’s son Ronan Farrow, calling the allegations by her former stepmother “nonsense.”

    In a segment of a CBS Sunday Morning interview that was posted online on Wednesday, days before the Sunday premiere of the HBO documentary Sinatra: All Or Nothing at All, Nancy Sinatra said allegations made in 2013 by Frank Sinatra’s third wife, Mia Farrow, were unfounded.

    The comments came when Mia Farrow was asked in a Vanity Fair interview if Ronan was Frank Sinatra’s son, to which she responded, “Possibly.”

    Ronan Farrow, who was born Satchel O’Sullivan Farrow 20 years after Mia and Frank divorced, is now 27.

    Few can deny, however, that he does resemble the legendary singer; far more than his reported father, Woody Allen.

    “Mia’s son? Oh, nonsense,” Nancy Sinatra told CBS Sunday Morning. “He would just laugh it off. We didn’t laugh it off because it was affecting my kids, you know. They were being questioned about it and we all knew it was nonsense.”

    “I was kind of cranky with Mia for even saying, ‘Possibly,’ she added. “I was cranky with her for saying that because she knew better, you know, she really did. But she was making a joke! And it was taken very serious and was just silly, stupid.”

    Although she became “cranky” with Mia Farrow for her joke about her father, Nancy has enjoyed a great relationship with her former stepmother.

    “Well, we loved Mia,” said Nancy Sinatra of the Rosemary’s Baby star, who was married to Frank for just two years in the mid-1960s. “Mia was one of our… like, a sister. We had a good time, [sister] Tina [Sinatra] and Mia and I did.”

  • Nancy Sinatra Denies Ronan Farrow Paternity Rumor, Calls It ‘Nonsense’

    With the upcoming premier of the HBO documentary Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, the crooner’s daughter is faced with controversies of Ronan Farrow possibly being one of Sinatra’s children. In an interview with CBS News, however, Nancy Sinatra denied the story and dismissed the rumors as ‘nonsense.’

    Nancy said that she thinks Farrow was just making a joke out of her son’s striking resemblance with the late singer Frank Sinatra, but his daughter wasn’t amused. She refused to take the issue lightly because it was already affecting her children. She also revealed that she felt ‘cranky’ with her former step mother for her bad humor.

    “We didn’t laugh it off because it was affecting my kids, you know. They were being questioned about it and we all knew it was nonsense,” Nancy told CBS. “I was kind of cranky with Mia for even saying, ‘Possibly.’ I was cranky with her for saying that because she knew better, you know, she really did. But she was making a joke! And it was taken very serious and was just silly, stupid.”

    The rumors started way back in 2013 when Mia Farrow was interviewed by Vanity Fair. When the article was published, the media went wild but Farrow’s son, Ronan, addressed the issue comically. On his Twitter account, he posted, “Listen, we’re all possibly Frank Sinatra’s son.” Perhaps humor runs in the blood.

    Despite feeling ‘cranky’ with Mia, Nancy recalled how well she and her sister Tina loved their former step mother. “Mia was one of our… like a sister and we had a good time, Tina and Mia and I did,” she said.

    Nancy also shared some of her thoughts when the crooner married Mia in the ‘60s. “Daddy said, ‘I’m not sure it’s gonna last very long. A couple of years, maybe,’ he said. ‘But I feel like I have to do this.’ We said, ‘Great. She’s a great girl.’ And I think the truth be told, I think he didn’t want her to be suffering because of him and she was being, her name was being bandied about in the press and there were paparazzi everywhere… I think it was very important to him that she be presented as a lady and not be thought of as something other than just that,” Nancy explained.

    Nancy is Frank’s daughter with his first wife Nancy Barbado. She is now 74 years old.