A new book on the life of screen legend Elizabeth Taylor makes some shocking claims, including an alleged threesome with JFK and actor Robert Stack. INSIDE EDITION talks to the author of the book.
She was one of the biggest movie stars of all time. But one author says Elizabeth Taylor took shockingly lurid secrets to her grave.
Darwin Porter is the author of Elizabeth Taylor: There Is Nothing Like A Dame. Porter told INSIDE EDITION, "She was a tabloid headline, but there were so many things going on behind-the-scenes."
Some of his bombshell allegations are that Taylor was sexually insatiable and that she had a threesome with John F. Kennedy and the actor Robert Stack.
"When she went over to Robert Stack's house, she found JFK swimming nude in the pool and one thing led to another. The affair ended up in the bedroom—the three of them," said Porter.
Porter says Kennedy and Stack were notorious ladies men, saying, "Robert Stack and Johnny Kennedy had a long history of seducing Hollywood starlets together."
The book also claims that Taylor used sex to get parts in movies, including hooking up with a young Ronald Reagan when she was a young starlet.
Porter said, "It wasn't like she was in love with Ronald Reagan. She wanted to play that adult role. She was an ambitious young lady."
He also alleges that Frank Sinatra forced Taylor to have an abortion after their eight month affair.
"She regretted that. She really wanted to have the son of Old Blue Eyes," said Porter.
Porter says Taylor cheated during six of her eight marriages, but that all of her husbands cheated on her too.
He's been criticized because almost everyone he's writing about is dead and so are his two main sources.
"My two main sources were Roddy McDowell, who was Taylor's best friend and Dick Henley who was her personal secretary," said Porter.
Taylor spent a part of her career competing with Marilyn Monroe for men and for parts. In what's sure to get attention, the book claims that the two screen icons had a lesbian fling in Las Vegas in 1961 when both women were there to see Dean Martin of the famous Rat Pack.
Taylor died at the age of 79 in 2011.
"There were many aspects of her life that were kept secret," said Porter.
