TMZ reports that he cancelled his show after complaining of feeling lightheaded and was later admitted to hospital where he suffered cardiac arrest.
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“Sinatra, Jr. might have had an easier time establishing himself had he gone into real estate”.
He also spoke with the Daytona Beach News-Journal, saying that he was not upset that he never came close to matching the success of his father. “I didn’t want anybody to know my father was my father”, Jones said. “That kept him alive”.
Frank Sinatra Jr. has passed away following a heart attack.
In 1988, Frank, Jr. took over as his father’s musical director and conductor and, the following year, appeared on the Was (Not Was) album What Up, Dog? singing the track Wedding Vows in Vegas. There aren’t too many singers around with Sinatra’s depth of experience in big band music, or his knowledge of the classic American songbook. “I never knew what was going to happen, what he was going to do”. “But that is something that pleases me because my father’s music is so magnificent”. A year ago he sang the National Anthem at a New York Yankees game in front of a cheering audience.
After 3 days, 2 men collected $240,000 ransom which was paid by his father after the abductor set his son free. Both of them, including a fellow co-conspirator John Irwin, were eventually caught and sent to prison. Over the next forty years, he would record five more LPs.
Sinatra Jr was the middle child of Sinatra and Nancy Barbato Sinatra, who was the elder Sinatra’s first wife and the mother of all three of his children.
According to the Daily News, Sinatra Jr. was the younger brother of actress Nancy Sinatra and older brother of Tina Sinatra, a television producer. Sinatra Jr. was married in 1998, but that marriage ended in a divorce in 2000. He is survived by a son, Michael.
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Meanwhile Seth MacFarlane, who in the past has turned Frank Jr. into a character on his show Family Guy, described him as a “friend”.
