When McQueen’s downstairs neighbour James Garner won the lead in Grand Prix (1966), a role Steve had desperately wanted himself, he began urinating on Garner’s balcony below every evening. These included co-stars Jacqueline Bisset and Lee Remick, not to mention a host of starlets, hookers and fans. ‘Lita would be the first in a long line of flings’, Neile acknowledged later. Immediately, he seduced the picture’s leading lady, Lita Milan and could scarcely wait to tell his new bride about it. Hopelessly devoted to him, she agreed to tie the knot in 1956 just before he landed a role in Never Love a Stranger. In their early years, before fame button-holed him, he would spend her earnings on booze and women. With his 1st wife Neile Adams Maximilian Schell He refused to believe the child was his so she flew to London for an abortion. Soon afterwards Neile found out she was pregnant. McQueen beat her that night and several subsequent nights when he was high on cocaine. With the gun pressed against her temple she admitted having had sex with Oscar-winning actor Maximilian Schell, in retaliation for her husband’s continual philandering. On one occasion he actually pulled it on his first wife, Neile Adams, demanding to know if she had slept with anyone during his absences. With Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski Jay Sebring and Sharon Tate Jay and McQueenĪfter the killings, McQueen took to carrying a loaded Magnum pistol at all times. While he spent the night with her, Sebring, Tate and the other guests were systematically tortured and butchered by the Manson Gang at Sharon’s home in Cielo Drive. As luck would have it the actor got a call from one of his eager young women that evening and she convinced him they could have more fun, just the two of them, in a hotel room. Since all three are now dead it is impossible to verify this, but we do know that it was Sebring who invited McQueen to dinner at Sharon’s home that night. McQueen later confided to friends that he used to have ‘threesomes’ with hairdresser Jay Sebring and Sharon Tate, even after Sharon wed Polanski. Roman Polanski, the director, was away in Europe that evening. Unbeknown to him, McQueen’s name was at the top of Charles Manson’s hit list on 8 August 1969, the night he accepted an invitation to have dinner at the Polanski-Tate home. McQueen and Robert Vaughn in the 1960 classic western The Magnificent 7 While on location making The Magnificent Seven in 1960, McQueen and co-star Robert Vaughn spent the whole of Good Friday in a Mexican brothel entertaining seven hookers in their double bed. The billionaire could easily have had him ‘dealt with’, but that was not how he operated. Hughes continued to hassle her after the volatile McQueen threatened to break his nose if he did not desist. Both men had been involved with sex siren Mamie Van Doren. It was in the mid-sixties that McQueen publicly threatened billionaire Howard Hughes. It all sounds a little difficult to believe, although Frank did have a massive ego and an unpredictable short fuse. In the interview he stated that he was a better singer than Frank (possibly in jest), but, apparently, ‘Ole Blue Eyes’ took umbrage to it and had him fired from the picture. The story goes that the role had been promised to Sammy Davis Junior, but Sinatra had fallen out with him over a radio interview Sammy had recently given. In 1959 he landed a breakthrough role in a Frank Sinatra film titled Never So Few. It was his years at the garage that formulated his life-long passion for motorcycles. McQueen was the mechanic who worked on the bike. Coincidentally, the two had met previously when Landau, on the back of James Dean’s motorcycle, pulled into a garage for repairs. Only two were accepted – Steve was one and Martin Landau the other. In 1955, after getting out of the Corps, he used his G I Bill to join over 2,000 aspiring actors auditioning for Lee Strasberg’s exclusive Actor’s Studio. From there he went into the US Marine Corps. He said it was the best thing that ever happened to him that it straightened him out. Shoplifting and stealing hubcaps would land him in Chino Reformatory in California for five years between 19. At 16 he was a towel boy in a brothel and encouraged to sample the wares on offer. He lost his virginity at 13 to an obese teenaged hooker who accepted candy for sex. Steve McQueen’s mother was a prostitute, his father a circus stuntman and neither cared a fig about their boy.
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