Where is Matt Lattanzi now? His secretive life explored

I wonder if he still had a nice body. He was gorgeous when young, but as OP's photo shows, he didn't have the kind of features that aged well.

I saw a pic of him on Chloe's IG the other day. You would never recognize him from his former self. His knees looked torn up.

God, he was gorgeous.

I heard he was gay, but the 3 wives suggest perhaps not.

How many wives did Cary Grant have?

With his career, the guy certainly sucked the wrong dicks

Played the young Gene Kelly character in Xanadu.

I would imagine Olivia gave him a nice settlement.

R4 Tom Cruise...next?

ONJ had lesbian rumors for years.

[italic]Olivia Newton-John’s ex-husband wants fans to “celebrate the joy” that the late actress brought to the world.[/italic]

Sure a gay guy in the public eye has reason to beard, but he grows weed for a living.

In that book of intdrviews with Hollywood hookers, he was rated the most tender lover.

[quote] Sure a gay guy in the public eye has reason to beard, but he grows weed for a living.

Not the demon weed commonly know as marijuana marijuana! Why, does he not realize that's illegal in his home state of Oregon?

Oh, wait...

The book is You’ll never Sllep In This Town Again or something. I’m sure he’s at 80% straight. But having his yoithful beauty celebrated through the lens of George Cukor (Thank you daddy!!) distorted perceptions.

R10 Greek born Australian actress Chantal Contouri had long be rumoured to be in a relationship with ONJ.

He didn't state anything about Oliva, made his third wife do it. He left Olivia while she battled cancer for their daughter's babysitter. Now, he's running a pot farm with Chloe. Wanna bet that Olivia bank rolled the operation for her Chloe's sake? Olivia was lucky to be rid of this jerk.

Why'd she marry a dancer? She had looks, brains, talent and money. All the choices in the world and she married fruity Pierre of Portland.

She wanted bot young dick, and could afford it.

Yeah, but don't marry it. She had choices.

It's probably good for Chloe to be on a pot farm with her dad. I've been thinking she won't be long for this world. But maybe with enough support and soft drugs, she'll pull through.

You are probably right. And Olivia would want her daughter to be okay.

Bisexual rumors long lingered around ONJ. Yonks ago I was in a TV studio booth watching while she recorded an interview with an exhaustingly middle-aged gay interviewer with a comb-over. Surprisingly, when the camera wasn't rolling she came across as quite hardened. One has to be tough to survive in the music industry, but the difference between her sunny light glowy entertainment persona and the reality was quite striking.

Here, bitches!

With Christopher Atkins.

After they divorced he stayed in Australia for many years, then came back to the states and supposedly lived way off the grid somewhere in Malibu. Then moved to Portland. I feel sure she made sure he was well taken care of when they divorced.

He is SO scorching HOT in the 1981 video for "Landslide!"

And in 1983's "My Tutor!"

R23 - was the interviewer Molly Meldrum?

Molly interview.

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Matt's ass in Rich and Famous was a showstopper. Thanks, George!

[quote]Matt's ass in Rich and Famous was a showstopper.

Yep.

I immediately had a huge crush (and lust) on him when I first saw him in Rich&Famous. I just assumed he might be gay - no straight guy could be that pretty. Love him too in Grease 2 and My Tutor. But then he got bald early and shallow me just lost interest.

Chloe was on some singing competition reality show and he made an appearance - he was living in a teepee

By the time he appeared in Grease 2 his beauty was far overshadowed by Max Caufield’s. FAR.

Matt looks MUCH older than his 63 years of age, but he still has very fine, beautiful features. If someone had never seen photographs from when he was young, they would still be able to say that he's been a very handsome man in his youth.

The thing that has always shocked me is how ugly Chloe Lattanzi still is, in spite of the insane amounts of plastisc surgery she has had. The poor thing looks like an extraterrestrial.

By the way, Olivia's last husband John Easterling is also a VERY handsome man. She had great taste.

Handsome is a words old people use

Olivia cheated on her boyfriend (Bruce Welch, from the band The Shadows) in the 1970s with this French singer. He kind of looked like Matt.

[quote] Handsome is a words old people use

What's the "words" the youngins are using instead?

[quote]Handsome is a words old people use

One thing old people have it all over the young is the proper use of grammar.

R2 - can you post the IG pic of Matt and Chloe please.

Wasn't Matt's brother rumored to be gay porn star Chris Thompson?

R42, I've posted it in R37. The link is below.

He was gorgeous, but ONJ deserved so much better than him. He doesn't appear to have aged well.

Chloe appears to have grown up to be more like her father than her mother - how unfortunate.

I posted this before to disbelieving DLers but it deserves a shot again. A friend worked for Olivia at her complex in Malibu taking care of her numerous dog and cats. She loved Olivia and said Matt was an okay guy but was on the prowl for women even when he was married. Not very bright at all. But they had a great relationship while it lasted. Friend got fired because she and Matt made an outdoor picnic for Olivia and then the dogs came and ate and pissed on everything. Olivia wanted her to stay but Matt insisted she go. BTW, Olivia's sister Rona was married to Jeff Conaway so those NJ sisters go for the crazy.

Wow he look so old in that instagram pic. Got curious if it's only me and run it to a guessing-age app and it says he's 78.

Was sacha straight r39 she sure had a type!

For someone who was so nice and loved by everyone around her, she sure had a messy private life. I don't understand the dichotomy.

She married that boy Lattanzi who left her for the babysitter. Then she hooked up with some guy who mysteriously went missing on a boat and presumed dead, only to turn up alive. He was obviously trying to disappear for some reason. Her relationships have been so bizarre. She was one of the biggest sex symbols during her peak and could have had any man she wanted, and yet she chose to be with a series of sketchy men. Something is not adding up.

In his films of the early 1980s, Matt Lattanzi always pinged the gaydar to its highest level. He was just far too pretty to be straight.

Always assumed his marriage to Olivia was a bearding arrangement.

Stunned to hear he was fucking around with the babysitter, eventually married the babysitter and later married another woman.

R48 Yeah, he was married and didn't want to leave his wife for Olivia.

[quote]For someone who was so nice and loved by everyone around her, she sure had a messy private life. I don't understand the dichotomy.

If your read her autobiography, her parents divorcing when Olivia was a young girl tremendously affected her. She was very close to her father and she went from that to not seeing him that much growing up. It affected her relationships with men for a number of years.

When Olivia had Chloe, she tried everything she could to not have Chloe go through a similar situation. But Olivia said that the marriage with Matt was over years before she actually divorced him. They had nothing in common other than their immense love of nature. By the time of the babysitter affair, she was just done with him. But for Chloe's sake, they remained on good terms with each other.

R49 Her second husband seems a nice guy who gave her a lot of support.

[quote]The thing that has always shocked me is how ugly Chloe Lattanzi still is,

She's not ugly, but incredibly plastic & clearly a hot mess.

R43 1980s gay porn star Chris Thompson, who also had a few small parts in legit films as Chris Lattanzi, is also from Portland OR, and looked like he could be Matt's brother, , same body type as well.

R55 Wow, he does look like Matt.

Christ he was beautiful. Time has no mercy.

Supposedly Olivia met first met Matt when she picked him up hitchhiking. They had an affair, and she put him in her film Xanada as one of the primary dancers to get him in the door of Hollywood. He was major eye candy and while he had zero dancing experience it turns out he was a natural.

Where did you hear THAT? R58

Olivia met Matt on the set of Xanadu. He was already hired as a background dancer.

Yes, r55. Definitely looks like Matt.

I would assume they were brothers, or cousins.

And he's acting under the name Chris Lattanzi? Who would make up a last name like that. It's got to be his real name.

R57 I think he looks pretty good for a 60 year old. His hair framing his face worked really well for him, but he lost his pretty boy looks when the hair went.

R59 That's the story they tell everyone, but she knew him before and she got him hired.

Couldn’t he have let a few producers have at him ? Straight but willing for a chance at stardom? As mentioned above, it didn’t work (film) but for awhile , with Olivia, he got to live the A level life with a huge star. Still his ass shot in Rich & Famous got me going as a teen. Not on par with Christopher Atkins in his stripper film.

[quote] Handsome is a words old people use

How appropriate, since we're talking on a site weighted towards Xers and Boomers on a thread about a 63 year-old man who is mostly famous for marrying a singer who just died at 73.

Maybe you'd be happier cunting on a site for teenagers like yourself.

Several years ago I saw a some photos of Chloe Lattanzi with her boyfriend, and it was very strange because the boyfriend was aggressively sneering and glaring at her.

R64 I don’t understand the people who come to DL and post ageist comments as an attempt to insult - like, that’s the whole point.

Olivia didn't want to record Physical; she was uncomfortable with its sexual lyrics. Matt liked it and convinced her to sing the song.

And it was a big hit.

Women need to listen to men more often.

Yikes! Pics @ r44 show extreme sun damage. Once a beautiful boy but now...

Use your sunscreen, ladies.

[quote]I think he looks pretty good for a 60 year old.

An eye exam might be in order.

Fuck off r64 you’re a bore.

Y'all have to stop smiling. The crows' feet are killers.

Olivia aged and looked much better than he did, even though she was over a decade older.

Hasn’t her daughter been engaged for years? You’d think she would’ve married before her mother died.

She’s married r74

1990s photo of Matt L.

2002, Matt & Chloe.

The daughter is unfortunate looking.

R75, she’s not married. Engaged since 2010.

I don't think Chloe was ugly before the plastic surgeries, she just wasn't pretty like her mom. And I guess that is the main problem...

I second Chloe being pretty. She took after her father, but she wasn't bad looking at all. She shouldn't have gotten all that plastic surgery. It was unnecessary, but it's clear she had a lot of issues with growing up in the limelight under the shadow of Olivia (who wouldn't, to be honest). Plus she's struggled with an eating disorder.

According to Leeza Gibbons who was a good friend of Olivia's, Chloe and Olivia got very close in the last few years and healed a lot of wounds. I think she's in a much better place than she was years back. She seems to have gotten a good head on her shoulders.

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She was beautiful before the surgeries, too bad she felt the need to compete with her mother. She could’ve done something else and been her own person. No need to be a superstar.

Troll-dar reveals that even though r38 is being nasty here about "olds," he's also in actuality (of all people on Datalounge) the Shelley Hack/Charlie's Angels Troll.

If its true that Matt was discovered as a hitchhiker perhaps that explains a drifter mentality and apparent lack of career ambition. Being married to a famous and wealthy woman would have give him opportunities but could also have been an ego burden, especially for an Italian man.

[quote] I second Chloe being pretty. She took after her father, but she wasn't bad looking at all. She shouldn't have gotten all that plastic surgery. It was unnecessary, but it's clear she had a lot of issues with growing up in the limelight under the shadow of Olivia (who wouldn't, to be honest).

Having a daughter is always a risk for a female beauty. Olivia was uncommonly beautiful and no matter what the daughter looked like she would have been disparaged. Chloe was cute, maybe even pretty, but that's just not good enough for ONJ's daughter. A son would have fared better.

I wouldn't say the daughter is a "total knockout" at R82. That's also a really bad photo of ONJ. Neither of them look great in that photo.

R86 - i think the same standard applies for the son of a handsome man, so any son of Matt would be equally compared.

[quote] Being married to a famous and wealthy woman would have give him opportunities but could also have been an ego burden, especially for an Italian man.

Oh for Pete's sake. He's not "an Italian man." He's an Italian-American man, born and raised in Portland, OR.

You're talking about him as if he's a special home-made bolognese sauce when he's nothing but a supermarket jar of Ragu.

Please, other than aging queens who remembers Matt?

I preferred hart bochner in rich and famous and overall. Much more my type.

[quote] Please, other than aging queens who remembers Matt?

There are actually people other than aging queens who would remember a chorus boy from forty years ago?

There are actually people other than aging queens who post on Datalounge??

I enjoyed watching him in My Tutor late at night on HBO after my parents went to bed. OOF he has not aged well and sounds like an ass.

Olivia did the lez-lez with Helen Reddy in the 70s. She allegedly came out as gay on the Johnny Carson show, although no one has a tape of it.

There are too many coincidences for Matt and Chris to not be related (likely brothers). Same (not common) last name, strong resemblance to each other, grew up the same town and even attended the same high school (Benson Polytechnic High School).

Here's footage of Helen Reddy meeting the Queen - the event that Olivia and Peter Allen also reportedly attended and laughed when they saw Helen had donned an evening gown and her own tiara.

Olivia was a tree-hugging, weed-smocking new age-y liberal woman. I think if she liked pussy, she probably would've made this clear years ago.

She has a lesbian half-sister, though.

Great pic find, r97. Thx for posting

[quote]I think she's in a much better place than she was years back. She seems to have gotten a good head on her shoulders.

She’s an anti-vax conspiracy nut.

Punchable face.

Did Chris Thompson make it through the 80s?

Matt does in fact have a brother named Chris who owns a construction company in Los Angeles. Couldn’t find any pics to confirm it’s the porn star though.

How did a hot looking pretty boy from Portland ,who was outdoorsy, make it as a dancer in a major motion picture for Universal?? Did he audition? Or did ONJ get him the part after picking him up hitchhiking? I find it hard to believe that even in Malibu CA, a famous and attractive star would pick up a hitchhiker even if he did look like a Greek Adonis like Matt Lattanzi did. I realize this would have happened in 1979 but even then Olivia would have been well versed with personal security (especially after the pandemonium of Grease) that she would never pick up a hitchhiker.

That being said, after rehearsal and principal photography began during the last 3 months of 1979, Olivia and Matt are said to have hit it off and he would hide inside closets and cupboards in her hotel suite when hair/makeup would arrive every morning to keep their new relationship under wraps.

[quote] She allegedly came out as gay on the Johnny Carson show, although no one has a tape of it.

What happened was she kept referring to a Platonic female friend as a "girl-friend," and Johnny kept implying that meant she was a lesbian ("Oh! You have a girlfriend!"), and she was so innocent she didn't pick up on the innuendo and the audience kept laughing.

They met on "Xanadu" and he can be seen through out the dance numbers.

Matt Lattanzi had absolutely no dancing or acting experiencing when cast a a lead dancer in Xanadu. He was basically leading a nomadic life doing odd jobs.

With the persistent lez rumors, I always wondered if the "met on the set of Xanadu" thing was a PR stunt. I instantly think of a closeted actor being paired with a make up artist.

R107 in today’s society you can rewrite history to be whatever you want it to be. Whatever you want it to be in your mind

I guess casting on the movie would know. What about choreographer Kenny Ortega? He would have known the 411 on Matt.

[quote] But then he got bald early and shallow me just lost interest.

It happens

R82, she’s not outshining her mother in that picture. She’s two steps from homely there. Poor gross-featured little thing.

Matt net worth. Possibly changing after the will is announced.

Matt and Olivia interviewed together.

From. R112's article: Olivia wed Matt Lattanzi, a former American actor and cum dancer, in 1984.

What's a cum dancer?

R113, I couldn't play the video. Are they on the set of Over our Heads from The Facts of Life?

they are at Koala Blue.

I think they meant cum dancer as in he later became a dancer. It's an older phrase. Get your mind out of the gutter, missy!

Oooooh, okay that makes more sense.

R38- I must be ANCIENT because I refer to certain good looking men as DREAMBOATS- a word popular when cars had fins and way before I was born.

The Koala Blue interview gives the impression that Matt is either high or special.

Olivia must have lost a fortune on Koala Blue. It was never really successful and didn't last long.

It was a big success for 5 years and was opening new stores at a rapid pace. So much so that Koala Blue was poised to open a store in a mall near you in the US. 1983-1988.

Koala Blue did very well when it was a boutique store in LA. The problem is she made it into a franchise with people who had no clue as to what they were doing. She lost a lot of money.

Her Melrose store was the OG. I shopped there multiple times.

Any info about Matt on stage in Los Angeles playing a man who thinks he is the reincarnation of Elvis' twin brother?

the film The Identical (2014) covers the same topic. It is written by Wade Cummins and Howard Klausner though not apparently based on a play.

Does he have to deal with the ugly anorexic daughter now?

Ha ha!

Unfortunately, Olivia was a lesbian who bearded with gay men. She has interesting family.

Her daughter is odd as in stunned.

I am flawed. I want Chloe to look more like her mom. If I was her surgeon, I'd be like "Smaller breasts and less injectables Let's tweek the nose a little bit. Here's a free bottle of blonde hair dye and some literature on modesty clothing options ."

I’m intrigued by this Matt Lattanzi/ Chris Thompson thing. If it’s true it would make a good, trashy movie or book. The secret gay UNDERBELLY of Hollywood in the 1980’s.!

Two good looking ner-do-well brothers/cousins go to Hollywood. One goes the gay Hollywood casting couch route, gets cast in a big budget movie, becomes a sexualized teen-idol, then marries well and is set up for life. The other tries to follow his relative’s path, but falls into the clutches of the porn-merchants, changes his name and then becomes a “star” in his own right in gay fuck-flicks. They can never acknowledge each other’s existence so as not to give away the whole seedy charade. Gold I tell you!

I wonder how their Daughter Chloe is doing. She seems to have struggled with who her Mother was. Her Mom seems to have been supportive of her, though. At least it seems that way.

Did Chris Thompson make it out of the 80s?

The daughter looks mildly retarded. Trying to match mother's success will kill u.

I don't think Matt is too bright so ...

R135 Olivia was not too bright either but her daughter looks special

Chloe is a mess. She gives me Brendad Ickson vibes.

R133 If I recall correctly as recently as the early 2000s Chris Thompson had ads in pay LA paper as a massage and spiritual healing therapist.

R138 - for $100 he would tease and release your chakras

Olivia‘s grandfather was a Nobel prize winning physicist and she remained famous for 50 years. She was smarter than you’re giving her credit for. Now Chloe on the other hand …

Matt Lattanzi high school pic from 1976 (Portland, OR).

And from the year before.

Some people should just not have long hair.

I remember reading awhile back that Olivia had tremendous guilt about Chloe being raised by nanny’s for a period of time because Olivia and Matt were going on spiritual retreats and got into a lot of new age stuff.

Chloe news.

I feel she is not long for this world.

Are you suggesting she might do a Debbie Reynolds to rejoin her mother?

My god, both Matt and Chris were exquisite!

I came across this interesting comment yesterday at Kenneth in the 212:

"Anonymous said... You do know Matt is gay, right?

Here in LA back in the day when he was married to ONJ, everyone knew he was gay."

A backup dancer?! She don't live herself.

I have been following Chloe on IG since the death of her mother. I like her. She has a good heart.

I like Chloe. Her song Tastes Like You is on Apple Music. Love her dark wave pop.

Chloe is gonna have her breast and cheek implants removed.

Hi, I'm Matt

Thx for that Matt Lattanzi link, r153.

my first celeb crush was on him circa 1981-1982. I was like 8 yrs old and into Olivia big time.

R58 I knew someone who was one of the jugglers in a big dance number. She said they met on the set. So not hitchhiking. Also said everyone was fucking everyone on that set—except for Gene Kelly.

R153's pic proves Matt wasnt gay.No self respecting gay man ,closeted or not,would have let Olivia leave the house in that DOG of a dress !

R155 - Well that's a shame. A college friend of mine (female) dates Kelly's son briefly and said that not only was the son hung like a horse but that apparently it runs in the family.

the dress looks Pilgrimish.

Big time fibromyalgia.

Oops wrong thread

R1555 " She said they met on the set. So not hitchhiking. '"

That was the narrative they created on the set of Xanada. Acting like they were newly introduced, but she was the force in getting him the plum role as a lead dancer. Matt had no experience in entertainment whatsoever. With thousands of experienced dancers available, how do you think that happens?

[quote] Handsome is a words old people use

If you object to words older people use, what the fuck are you doing on Datalounge of all places?

I’m sorry that hit you in the balls but it’s true. Stop focusing on it and MOVE ON!

Not buying ONJ picked up any hitchhiker whether in Malibu or East LA in 1979. She was super famous and would have NEVER EVER done that. Matt was a professional dancer who studied in Portland and is quoted as saying he danced 8-10 hrs a day, 7-days a week, in hopes of breaking into the business.

He was in construction and ad-hoc jobs since high school. The dancing bio is BS PR nonsense.

I've told this story before, but here goes... About 25 years ago I was in a jewellery shop when two older guys walked in and started to chat up the young and pretty assistant. She went along with it, just being friendly. The guy eventually said to her "Would you like to have a drink after work with me and my buddy Matt?". I looked up and there was Matt Lattanzi, at the time married to Olivia, wearing a beret and looking rather handsome, although not at his peak. Taller than I had expected but very buff. He looked at me and could tell that I knew who he was. We nodded, they left and I asked the girl at the counter if she knew who he was and she had no idea.

I always thought it must have been so hard to be known as a great beauty, the object of admiration by a generation of men, only to marry a man who can't keep it in his pants.

An employee of mine was Operations Manager for Koala Blue. Her take is that Mat was "awfull" to Livvy.

Not buying the hitchhiker story either.

[quote] About 25 years ago I was in a jewellery shop when two older guys walked in.... I looked up and there was Matt Lattanzi, at the time married to Olivia

Matt and Olivia were divorced in 1995. Your story's math doesn't add up, R166.

two older guys walked in and started to chat up the young and pretty assistant...Hmm.

R169 Take note of the word "about" at the beginning of that sentence.

The babysitter that broke up Olivia’s marriage is training to be a marriage and relationship therapist?!

The babysitter who broke up Olivia’s marriage is training to be a marriage and relationship therapist?!

Matt was gorgeous but his voice was too high and girlish. I preferred Rob Camiletti.