Frank Sinatra was born with more than one gift — at least according to Paul Anka.
Anka, 84, recently confirmed a long-standing rumor about the late Sinatra’s penis, revealing that Ol’ Blue Eyes was, in fact, well-endowed.
“Yeah, it was huge,” Anka told Page Six in an interview published on Sunday, November 30. “I don’t know what that does for you!”
Anka explained that when he would hang out with Sinatra and The Rat Pack — which also included singers Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop — in Las Vegas, they would hit the saunas together.
“I had trouble with eye contact,” Anka quipped, referring to Sinatra’s penis.
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The singer went on to claim that Milton Berle’s penis was actually bigger.
Rumors about Sinatra’s size started after his second wife, Ava Gardner, claimed that the legendary singer had a rather large appendage. When asked during an interview why she stayed with Sinatra despite their reported fights, she allegedly replied: “Well, I’ll tell you — nineteen pounds is c***.”
Sinatra and Gardner were married from 1951 to 1957. Sinatra left his first wife, Nancy Barbato, for Gardner. (Sinatra and Barbato were together from 1939 to 1951.)
Sinatra eventually moved on with Mia Farrow, to whom he was married from 1966 to 1968. He tied the knot with fourth wife Barbara Marx in 1976. They were together until he died at age 82 in 1998.
“Frank attracted women. He couldn’t help it,” Marx recalled in her 2011 memoir, Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank Sinatra. “Just to look at him — the way he moved, and how he behaved — was to know that he was a great lover and true gentleman. He adored the company of women and knew how to treat them.”
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Anka’s connection to Sinatra came from the song “My Way,” the 1969 English-language version of the French song “Comme d’habitude.” Anka helped with the English translation of the tune.
“[It was] one of the few times where I sat there saying, ‘I think I’ve really got something.’ Because you don’t know when you have a hit,” Anka recalled. “I sat there, and I said, ‘Jesus, where [did] this come from?’”
The song has continued to be a pop-culture phenomenon. It has been covered by several artists over the years, including Elvis Presley and Sid Vicious. It was also sung by Seth MacFarlane as Mike the mouse in the 2016 animated movie Sing.
More recently, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt danced to the track for her freestyle dance performance during the Wednesday, November 26, episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast alongside former Dancing With the Stars partner Mark Ballas.
“I want to thank this incredible team for all of their hard work, passion and relentlessness to help me bring this vision to life in under 72 hours,” Ballas shared in an Instagram statement on Saturday, November 29. “I had this concept brewing for a while, made mood boards filled with imagery and inspiration. I had been working on the music arrangement for two weeks.”