Humbert Humbert again IRL.

[Mark Kohut]

The real Sinatra: "Kaplan admits that Sinatra’s affairs with underage
women are “disturbing,” but then quickly adds that “a kind of amoral
sense can be made of them.” When he hooked up with Diane McCue (who
was, in Kaplan’s odd circumlocution, “just about, but not quite,
fifteen” when Sinatra was fifty-two), the singer was suffering from
his own emotional turmoil and needed, in our biographer’s words, “a
kind of re-set with a fantasy virgin. It was a brand of consolation
that his power could afford him.” Surely a candid observer ought to
take a stronger stance than this."
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