case of the State vs. Frank Sinatra, indicates a complaint was filed on December 21, 1938, byNew Jersey, charging Sinatra with adultery in that he “… on the second and ninth days of November, 1938, … committed adultery with the said complainant, a married woman and wife of
Docket 18540, for the Prosecutor of Bills, Bergen County, reveals that no bill was returned on January 17, 1939, by the grand jury, and the complaint charging adultery was dismissed in open court for quarter sessions on January 24, 1939….
2. That Sinatra was arrested and convicted of assault around the same time (presumably the 1930’s).
COMMENT: There is no information in Bufiles [bureau files] or the records of the Identification Division to substantiate such an arrest. News articles, however, reflect that Sinatra was arrested on April 9, 1947, in Hollywood on a battery warrant based upon a complaint by Lee Mortimer, New York columnist. Sinatra entered a plea of not guilty and was released on a $500 bail. No disposition of this case appears in the file.
3. That Mrs. Natalie Sinatra, his mother, was arrested 6 or 7 times for operating an abortion mill in Hoboken between the years 1930 and 1950 and that she might have been convicted once.
COMMENT: “Time” magazine, … a copy of which is attached, reported that Sinatra’s mother, known generally as Dolly Sinatra, started out as a practical nurse and helped her husband run a little barroom at the corner of Jefferson and Fourth in Hoboken. She allegedly was active in Democratic ward politics and acted as a midwife at a number of neighborhood births. According to the article, she was a “power” in her part of town, and in 1909 was made a district leader. In 1926, the Mayor of Hoboken appointed her husband to a captaincy in the fire department. The records of the Identification Division contain a single card reflecting a criminal arrest on November 15, 1937, of Mrs. Natalie Sinatra, with alias Dolly Sinatra, on a charge of abortion. Her residence was given as 841 Garden Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, and the card was received from the Hoboken, New Jersey, Police Department. No disposition of the case is given, and the incident is not mentioned in Bufiles….
4. That Sinatra’s uncles, Champ and Lawrence Garavente, were arrested and perhaps convicted of bootlegging in Hoboken in the 1920’s and early 1930’s.
COMMENT: There are no references in Bufiles or the records of the Identification Division identical with Champ Garavente. There is no information in Bufiles to the effect that Lawrence Garavente is related to Frank Sinatra.
Not all journalists were treated well by the FBI. In this excerpt from a heavily censored memo dated September 17, 1963, the Los Angeles office reports to the director on information provided by a “sensationalist” journalist, whose name the FBI blotted out. The memo recounts threats the journalist received that invoked the name of the reputed mobster Sam Giancana, a Sinatra friend. The journalist also mentions an encounter he’d had with Sinatra at the restaurant the singer owned in Beverly Hills with the actor Peter Lawford, Jack Kennedy’s brother-in-law, and other investors
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said that SINATRA does not like him as he had written up some articles unfavorable to SINATRA several years ago at a time when SINATRA was a part owner of Puccini’s Restaurant.stated he had a date one night and his girl friend insisted on going to Puccini’s and he finally agreed to reluctantly. Whilewas at the restaurant SINATRA came in and surveyed the customers and thereafterwas paged to the telephone. When he answered the telephone it was dead and as he hung it up SINATRA appeared and called him all kinds of dirty names.
told SINATRA in effect, “I am not going to hit you since I see you have a number of your hoodlum friends around you. Give me my check and I will get out of here.” SINATRA allegedly replied, “I don’t want your money … it is dirty
Docket 18540, for the Prosecutor of Bills, Bergen County, reveals that no bill was returned on January 17, 1939, by the grand jury, and the complaint charging adultery was dismissed in open court for quarter sessions on January 24, 1939….
2. That Sinatra was arrested and convicted of assault around the same time (presumably the 1930’s).
COMMENT: There is no information in Bufiles [bureau files] or the records of the Identification Division to substantiate such an arrest. News articles, however, reflect that Sinatra was arrested on April 9, 1947, in Hollywood on a battery warrant based upon a complaint by Lee Mortimer, New York columnist. Sinatra entered a plea of not guilty and was released on a $500 bail. No disposition of this case appears in the file.
3. That Mrs. Natalie Sinatra, his mother, was arrested 6 or 7 times for operating an abortion mill in Hoboken between the years 1930 and 1950 and that she might have been convicted once.
COMMENT: “Time” magazine, … a copy of which is attached, reported that Sinatra’s mother, known generally as Dolly Sinatra, started out as a practical nurse and helped her husband run a little barroom at the corner of Jefferson and Fourth in Hoboken. She allegedly was active in Democratic ward politics and acted as a midwife at a number of neighborhood births. According to the article, she was a “power” in her part of town, and in 1909 was made a district leader. In 1926, the Mayor of Hoboken appointed her husband to a captaincy in the fire department. The records of the Identification Division contain a single card reflecting a criminal arrest on November 15, 1937, of Mrs. Natalie Sinatra, with alias Dolly Sinatra, on a charge of abortion. Her residence was given as 841 Garden Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, and the card was received from the Hoboken, New Jersey, Police Department. No disposition of the case is given, and the incident is not mentioned in Bufiles….
4. That Sinatra’s uncles, Champ and Lawrence Garavente, were arrested and perhaps convicted of bootlegging in Hoboken in the 1920’s and early 1930’s.
COMMENT: There are no references in Bufiles or the records of the Identification Division identical with Champ Garavente. There is no information in Bufiles to the effect that Lawrence Garavente is related to Frank Sinatra.
Not all journalists were treated well by the FBI. In this excerpt from a heavily censored memo dated September 17, 1963, the Los Angeles office reports to the director on information provided by a “sensationalist” journalist, whose name the FBI blotted out. The memo recounts threats the journalist received that invoked the name of the reputed mobster Sam Giancana, a Sinatra friend. The journalist also mentions an encounter he’d had with Sinatra at the restaurant the singer owned in Beverly Hills with the actor Peter Lawford, Jack Kennedy’s brother-in-law, and other investors
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said that SINATRA does not like him as he had written up some articles unfavorable to SINATRA several years ago at a time when SINATRA was a part owner of Puccini’s Restaurant.stated he had a date one night and his girl friend insisted on going to Puccini’s and he finally agreed to reluctantly. Whilewas at the restaurant SINATRA came in and surveyed the customers and thereafterwas paged to the telephone. When he answered the telephone it was dead and as he hung it up SINATRA appeared and called him all kinds of dirty names.
told SINATRA in effect, “I am not going to hit you since I see you have a number of your hoodlum friends around you. Give me my check and I will get out of here.” SINATRA allegedly replied, “I don’t want your money … it is dirty
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