Claudine Longet

Lana Del Rey, who is married, if she were dickmatised then dropped by Ryan Lochte.

"to HER." Grammar, darling.

Claudine was fame-adjacent; her ex Andy Williams was huge and they were close friends of JFK and Jackie Kennedy.

Spider Sabich was a ski bum. No star power there, even adjacent.

She was a wanna be singer

I thought her appearance in “The Party” was cute. Other than that, she was annoying. The bullshit with the skier was salacious tabloid garbage.

Brooke Shields and Andre Aggassi would be similar.

[quote]I thought her appearance in “The Party” was cute. Other than that, she was annoying.

I call that song she sings in The Party, "Nutting to Wooz," because it's so obvious to me that she either had a speech impediment or was laying the "Tweety Bird" accent on real thick to sound cute. That was not a normal French accent.

She did sing like a little girl. Maybe she thought it was sexy

[quote]The bullshit with the skier was salacious tabloid garbage.

She shot him dead and basically got away with it. Pretty understandable why that "salacious tabloid garbage" made the news.

No where close R7. She was just married to someone famous once and Spider was no where as well known to the mainstream as Agassi. One of the reasons it became such tabloid fodder is because Andy ran to her side and supported her through the ordeal after she left him for Spider. If that hadn't occurred it would have gotten some publicity but not as much. His presence in court, etc., is what had the apps out wanting pics.

Tonya Harding

R11 who was Andy? I only know the basic outline of the story

She was only well-known because she was married to Andy Williams. I never heard of Spider Sabich until she killed him. I forget why she got off though.

The Aspen police screwed up, so key evidence against her was not allowed.

Including forensic evidence that showed it was highly unlikely Sabich could have been shot while showing her how to use the gun, which is what Claudine claimed had happened. She was found guilty of negligent homicide and had to serve 30 days in jail, which she was allowed to serve at her convenience.

Claudine Longet

Claudine Longet

Did she kill Spider Sabich with malice aforethought?

Did she ever remarry?

Claudine Longet

I had no idea who she was or that she had a singing career until I googled her after seeing "the Party."

Are her albums camp classics now? The lisping is hilarious. "Who bwoke your heart?"

WHET Claudine Longet?

Has anyone seen her lately? And by lately I mean in the past 4 decades or so. How does she support herself?

What do you think Claudine Longet does all day long?

Besides counting her lucky stars?

Celebrities who got away with horrible crimes

Bill Cosby (rape)

Michael Jackson (molesting kids)

Robert Blake (murder)

Who else?

The Andy Williams Christmas Special on PBS.

The gays would like to thank Andy Williams

For your father discovering Donny Osmond and his brothers and for you bringing them to the attention of the American public.

For singing the most well-known and best version of Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany's.

For marrying Las Vegas showgirl Claudine Longet and thus making the Longet murder of Spider Sabich into such an interesting story to follow.

For allowing the cleft chinned gay crooner Johnny Mathis to have lots of airtime on your tv variety show.

For giving our parents something else to watch on Saturday nights after the Lawrence Welk Show was over.

Also a belated Happy Birthday for turning 80 years old a few months back.

Andy Williams is still alive?

Andy Williams Dies, r26

Andy Williams, whose corn-fed good looks, easygoing charm and smooth rendition of "Moon River" propelled him to the heights of music stardom in the early '60s, died Tuesday at his home in Branson, Mo., his family announced.

He was 84, and 2012 had marked his 75th year in showbiz. Williams is survived by his wife Debbie and his three children, Robert, Noelle and Christian.

With 17 gold and three platinum records to his name, Williams enjoyed his golden years playing golf and dividing his time between La Quinta, Calif., and Branson, where he appeared at his Andy Williams Moon River Theater since 1992.

It was on the stage of that theater, in November 2011, Williams announced he had bladder cancer. At the time, he assured fans the disease was no longer a death sentence and that he had every intention of being a survivor.

Born in Wall Lake, Iowa, the son of a railroad worker, Howard Andrew WIlliams sang in his family's church choir with older siblings Bob, Dick and Don. In the late '30s, the boys built up a name for themselves regionally on Midwestern radio stations as the Williams Brothers quartet.

After the war, in 1947, they joined entertainer Kay Thompson in her innovative and sophisticated nightclub act. In his 2009 memoir Moon River and Me, Williams admitted he had a long affair with Thompson, who had been a legendary vocal coach at MGM (she taught Judy Garland and Lena Horne to sing for the screen) and was 18 years the senior of her handsome young protégé.

In 1952, when the brothers' act broke up, Andy launched his solo career, only to find himself broke and without bookings. Giving himself one last shot, he wisely switched his repertoire from clever Noël Coward ditties to the latest pop hits, and his New York club appearances soon included singing spots on the Tonight show (which was in Manhattan at the time), then regular TV shots and a Columbia Records contract.

By the early '60s he had an easy-listening hit under his belt, "Can't Get Used to Losing You," though it was his romantic take on the Best Song Oscar winner from 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's, "Moon River," that landed him on the map – and kept him there.

The smash hit recording led to NBC's 1962 launch of The Andy Williams Show, which remained on the air until 1971 and then returned as an annual Christmas special. It was on the variety weekly program in 1963 that Williams introduced to America a group of young singing siblings from Utah, The Osmond Brothers.

Despite his own clean-cut good looks – the Williams signature look was a turtleneck under a brightly colored pullover sweater – scandal did touch Williams's life. In the mid-1970s, his ex-wife, French dancer Claudine Longet, went on trial in Aspen for the fatal shooting of her lover, international skiing star Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich.

In the end, Longet, who claimed the shooting was an accident, was found guilty of misdemeanor criminal negligence and received only a 30-day sentence, which she served on and off at her convenience. In his 2009 memoir, Williams, who during the trial had accompanied his ex-wife to the courtroom on a daily basis, continued to defend her innocence.

Longet and Williams were married from 1961 to 1975 and had three children together: Noelle, Christian, and Robert. They survive him, as does his second wife (since 1991), Debbie Williams.

Andy Williams died in 2012 at 84 years of age.

I wonder why Andy was so vehement in defending her. They weren't even involved romantically anymore when it happened.

Sounds like she was trying to emulate Astrud Gilberto’s style of samba and bossa nova she made popular with Joao Gilberto in the 60s (e.g., “Girl from Ipanema,” “Once I Loved,” “Agua de Beber”).

This is how Claudine attracted the attention of Andy Williams, as a showgirl and a tart.

She is now 76 years old and has kept a low profile since her trial back in the 1970's.

R29 They had 3 children so maybe he was doing it for the sake of the kids.

Claudine is the quintessence of the whispercoo singer.

J'adore her rendition of the "Rosemary's Baby" lullaby!

She's my role model!