Marlon Brando
After Quincy Jones’ allegation that the late actor Marlon Brando and comedian Richard Pryor had a sexual relationship, Pryor’s widow Jennifer confirmed the gender-bending tryst.
“It was the ’70s! Drugs were still good, especially Quaaludes,” Jennifer recently told TMZ. “If you did enough cocaine, you’d f**k a radiator and send it flowers in the morning.”
Her late husband, she said, wrote about his activities with men in diaries that she is planning to release.
While family members of both the deceased entertainers issued responses denying the trysts, other evidence has surfaced, in the form of a standup performance where Pryor talked and joked about engaging in sex with other men.
Another quote, alluding to Brando’s bisexuality, was unearthed last week. “Homosexuality is so much in fashion it no longer makes news,” the “Apocalypse Now” actor told Gary Carey in 1976, for the biography “Marlon Brando: The Only Contender.” “Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences, and I am not ashamed [of them]. I have never paid much attention to what people think about me.”—OLIVER PULUMBARIT
Richard Pryor