Barbara Marx Sinatra


 Barbara Marx Sinatra (March 10, 1927 – July 25, 2017)

She was born in Missouri to Charles and Irene Blakeley, and went to High school in Kansas. At 18, she moved to California. Blakeley married Robert Oliver in September 1948 and had a son, Bobby on October 10, 1950. She divorced Oliver in 1952 and married Zeppo Marx on September 18, 1959. That union ended in divorce in 1973. Then she became the fourth and final wife of Frank Sinatra from 1976 until his death in 1998. It was the longest lasting marriage for either of them. She converted to Catholicism. According to her book, Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank, "He [Frank] never asked me to change faith for him, but I could tell he was pleased that I'd consider it." The Sinatras founded the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center in Rancho Mirage, California, in 1986. The non-profit facility provides individual and group therapy for young victims of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Upon his death, Frank Sinatra left her $3.5 million in assets, along with mansions in Beverly Hills, Malibu, and Palm Springs. She also inherited the rights to Sinatra's Trilogy recordings, most of his material possessions and control over his name and likeness. Barbara died on July 25, 2017, in Rancho Mirage, California of natural causes at the age of 90. She is buried next to Frank at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.

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