Rudolf Nureyev claimed that he could have 6 children

So? I could have been Napoleon. In an alternate reality.

I heard too that he had many women, actually he told this, but 6 children OMG

Rudy was an animal!

How many with Robert Kennedy?

6 children and 2,050 butt babies.

Interesting article

No eggroll?

"Nureyev asked him to phone next day. Tracy thought he was joking. A day or so later at rehearsal, Nureyev asked why he had not phoned. Tracy looked at him in amazement. They went out together for three evenings, then Tracy moved in with him."

What a bunch of LESBIANS!

[8] romantic agony loool

Nureyev infected Tracy with AIDS, this guy is died in 2007.. He didn't care about protection i don't remember where I read, but he has infected so many people :|

[10] Wallace Potts too

You mean Rudolph Valentino could have six children.

Those in the know say that Nureyev was propelled to lead dancer at the Kirov after he slept with the prima ballerina, Ninel Kurgapkina. She demanded he be made her partner when he was still a young unkown dancer.

Nureyev is (was) a classic example of a bisexual who is egregiously mislabeled gay by the gay press and general gay pop.

I don't think he was bisexual. A bisexual man, particularly in the world of ballet, would have slept with far more than 3 women in his life.

I believe he slept with Kurgapkina to further his career, not out of sexual desire.

He didn't have the child-bearing hips necessary for 6 babies.

You mean he had sex with a woman six times?

r14, agree, that happens with a lot of historical figures.

Guys, I don't think he slept with Ninel (she said that maybe they could be having an affair, if he had not defected). But yeah she was one of six women that he also claimed to have impregnated (eeediot!) as a fact he had affair and I think long affair with Xenia Jurgenson, wife of his teacher Pushkin. About his sexuality i think he was a just sexual being, how he described himself

r18 Yes, with all five of them, history calls gay.

As far as I understand, the question of the sexuality of a bi-sexual is not a particularly straightforward delineation. If by gay you mean homosexual, he wasn't quite one hundred percent that delineation.

He as pushed from the corps de ballet to lead dancer at Ninel's insistence, R19. It wasn't because of his talent, as he wasn't at that level yet.

R14 agree, but later in life he seems to have stuck with the guys

Basically he fucked anything that moved. He was raw sex personified, and everyone wanted him to fuck them.

Jerome Robbins summed Nureyev up: 'Rudi is an artist, an animal and a cunt.' R24 it says a lot 😅

If he had a uterus.

This is very significant

I doubt the man who described sleeping with women as "fucking wet lettuce" was as bisexual as some of you like to imagine.

Nureyev was gay but it's acknowledged that he did have a affairs with women. He was often openly misogynist but airing such views about women doesn't necessarily preclude a willingness to sleep with them, alas.

"Aquatic salad" was in Simon Robinson book A Year With Nureyev, someone read it? Nice book?

I give him a pass because he allegedly called Makarova, who was rather middling as a dancer, a cow.

Margot was old cow too, everyone was cunt, cow, bitch and etc. R31

he fucked almost all Kennedy family

R33 And whom he hadn't fucked?

One guy tells the story when he was in Le Trap bar in 1980s Nureyev kissed him with his tongue, and couple days later he became with terrible virus, for months he ached all over and had fevers. None of the doctors knew what it was.

I know someone (one of the tens of thousands) who had sex with him. Apparently it was just pound, pound, pound, until the shit was flying everywhere. He didn't care. Animalistic, and big tarter cocked pounding, but one could have passed the time catching up on one's knitting while it was going on. Then again perhaps lovers were treated to a different experience.

"Tracy has never accepted this [AIDS] diagnosis. He believes his friend, like other gays, was the victim of poisoning by governments. "

Clearly intelligence wasn't the No1 driver for Rudi in choosing a partner.

"but it's acknowledged that he did have a affairs with women."

Affairs is an overstatement. It was the women who embroidered what were curiosity fucks, charity fucks, and one-night stands into affairs. Men don't generally delude themselves in that regard.

Jerry Robbins? Now that's the pot calling the kettle 'cunt'!

R37 of course! he took it where he could find it, I mean sex, and he really used people for, men or women, he don't give a fuck

I know that many people tells that sex with him was mechanical, he was like robot.. One man told 'I should have charged him. It was like call service'. And he became very aggressive when he got older and his conquests younger. I think that he hated people, I think he hated the people, it becomes especially clear when there comes legends about his unprotected sex. Tracy also confirmed that 'bunch of people. All dead.' R36

A terrible fuck by any sane measure.

Edward Villella was the only straight man in ballet, EVER.

He was quite a slut.

R42 thanks for this article! I think Baryshnikov was straight too, kinda ladies man:)

whats the story with him fucking robert kennedy?

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Yet in his obit in the NY TIMES, the then main dance critic, Anna Kisselgoff, never mentioned the AIDS.

When he was already with AIDS he suggested his friend Charles Jude to mix their sperm in a test tube in order to give Jude's wife for designer a baby. Wtf? This man was really MAD?!

Ugh! that's so unpleasant R48

he was ill in the middle of 60s, some VD.

r48, he wasn't mad. He was a boor, a poorly educated Soviet from Ufa. He was clever in some respects, but not exactly a brain surgeon.

R51 agree with you, he was self-made man. But this is astonishingly ignorant things

What is it with the broken English on this thread. It's like someone is posting from Russia!

R53 lol

Just your usual article-challenged Slavics.

Rudolph was another naive victim of the multi billion dollar global horror known as "HIV/AID$" Inc. - AZT divisia.

R55 Nureyev's ghost is here lmao😂

Which is, in your opinion, the best biography on Nureyev?

By Solway and also Kavanagh, both books are fascinating. R58

How many did he have?

No officially recorded ones, R60. But possibly one or more secret / unrecognised ones. IIRC, at the end of his life, he mentioned his regret that some of the women he slept with decided to get abortions.

The Kavanagh book is really good. Well researched and well written. One doesn't have to know a lot about the dance world to appreciate the book. He led an amazing life and Kavanagh does a really fine job of capturing the many sides to him.

So that's how many women he fucked!

I'd assume Rudy was basically gay, but when young had a strong enough sex drive to get up with women for various reasons. Never his first choice and I really doubt he was capable of being in love with one. A Kinsey 5 instead of a 6.

There have been a few straight danseurs: Villella, Baryshnikov, Jacques D'Amboise, Peter Martins. I know there have been questions raised about Balanchine's sexuality, but he certainly was obsessed with his ballerinas, so there was a somewhat misogynistic heterosexual component.

Well R64, some of the old queens here are obsessed with supermodels, but that doesn't make them straight!

Still, Balanchine did seem straight, or mostly straight. He really was all about women.

They were ass babies

I thought he was gay. And Julie Kavner? The plot thickens.