Biography
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Betty
[Mother]
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Sidney Lawford.
[Father]
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Trivia
 Fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Italian. He and the other members of the Rat Pack were banned from Marilyn Monroe`s funeral by Joe DiMaggio.
He was a year old before his parents were married. His parents were married to other people when he was conceived (he was given his mother`s husband`s surname Aylen on his birth certificate). He did not learn of his illegitimacy until he was 27 years old.
His mother`s childhood nickname for him was Pierrot.
In his 20s, he worked at a country club. A prestigious member of the club once complained to the management that Lawford was eating lunch and fraternizing with the black employees, and that he should be fired. This member was Joseph P. Kennedy, who years later became his father-in-law!
Largely due to political reasons, he and former friend Frank Sinatra were estranged after the mid-1960s. In fact, when Lawford came to attend a Sinatra performance at Caeser`s Palace in Las Vegas some years later, Sinatra reportedly found out about it and refused to go on until after Lawford had left.
Never obtained a formal education; educated through tutors.
Uncle of Maria Shriver.
Was the first member of the Rat Pack to pass away.
When he was child he fell through a French door and cut his right arm very badly; consequently, he never regained full use of his right arm and hand. Thus, he was turned down as unfit for military duty and did not serve during World War II.
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