Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra

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It was 1948, and the 32-year-old crooner was both married and a flagrant cheater (Lana Turner, Judy Garland…you name it, he hit it). Sinatra was Italian Catholic and had vowed to never divorce — but when he fell in crazy love with Hollywood’s lustiest bombshell, all bets were off. Frank married Ava in 1951! Their relationship was famously smoldering — replete with booze-soaked brawls, sex in inappropriate places, jazz, cigarettes, and more sex (as she put it, “the problems were never in bed”). It couldn’t sustain itself, and in 1957, Ava ran off with a Spanish bullfighter. But the two circled each other for the rest of their lives.