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Which male or female stars had sugar daddies supporting them before they got famous?
by Anonymous | reply 127 | March 19, 2023 8:44 PM |
Don Johnson
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 8, 2023 10:04 PM |
Halle Berry had one but I forgot his name OP.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 8, 2023 10:05 PM |
Don't look at me, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 8, 2023 10:24 PM |
Wasn't Halle sued by her sugar daddy? I think once she got famous he sued her to get the $$$ back that he'd spent on her
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 8, 2023 10:26 PM |
I have no idea what you are talking about.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 8, 2023 10:27 PM |
Pia Zadora
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 8, 2023 10:31 PM |
Cate Blanchett
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 8, 2023 10:47 PM |
Clint was supposedly kept by gay director Arthur Lubin. Lubin acknowledged that Clint lived with him
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 8, 2023 10:52 PM |
Bitch, I prefer the term "mentor" to sugar daddy!
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 8, 2023 10:57 PM |
Usher, you might want to remain quiet.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 8, 2023 11:02 PM |
How many guys have been "mentored" by David Geffen or Sandy Gallin?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 8, 2023 11:33 PM |
I’d heard of Geffen and Keanu for years, but probably heard it here.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 8, 2023 11:39 PM |
Mia Farrow.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 8, 2023 11:55 PM |
Didn't Brad Pitt have one?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 9, 2023 3:58 AM |
I'd say half of the Wolf Pack cast.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 9, 2023 2:50 PM |
Travolta
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 9, 2023 2:52 PM |
Aaron Carter and all of the members of the "Boy Bands from Orlando"
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 9, 2023 2:56 PM |
R15 Yes! A soap opera producer. Brad was his "assistant." *wink* *wink*
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 9, 2023 2:57 PM |
Lee Majors.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 9, 2023 3:02 PM |
I remember reading "Brenda Dickson was invited by Bob Hope to join our USO tour. Apparently, she was asked because of what she could do in front of Hope on her knees not what she could do in front of an audience on our stage."
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 9, 2023 3:23 PM |
Timmy
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 9, 2023 3:27 PM |
Robert Urich was discovered by Burt Reynolds
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 9, 2023 5:18 PM |
Colto
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 9, 2023 5:21 PM |
Victoria Principal was with some old millionaire at the beginning.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 9, 2023 5:29 PM |
Tom Cruise was “mentored” by David Geffen.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 9, 2023 5:31 PM |
Lil Wayne with daddy Birdman.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 9, 2023 6:10 PM |
Shakira... Melissa Etheridge
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 9, 2023 6:13 PM |
Johnny Galecki.... Roseanne
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 9, 2023 6:14 PM |
John Cena was “taken care of” by Ed Connors, the founder of Gold’s Gym, before he started pro wrestling and lived with him for a time.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 9, 2023 7:50 PM |
r28 and r29, say WHAT?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 9, 2023 7:52 PM |
R30, I can buy it
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 9, 2023 8:05 PM |
James van der Beek, supposedly by Kevin Williamson
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 9, 2023 8:05 PM |
I thought it was John Wesley Shipp that the Beek had an affair with?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 9, 2023 8:09 PM |
He was only capable of having an affair with one guy?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 9, 2023 8:14 PM |
r31 Well, those are some of hte more public ones you can verify.
Etheridge was largely responsible for Shakira's crossover the states (it didn't work out so well... but there were a lot of rumours surrounding them because of how aggressively Etheridge tried to foist her upon the American public.)
While Johnny had Roseanne's support before the show, though once he got on... she's the one that fought to keep him there and they did that tv movie together as well. (Now, it likely wasn't sexual... but she did seem rather obsessed with giving him a leg up. So, it's an interesting relationship to explore. Albeit, more difficult now that everyone rightly wants to distance themselves from Roseanne.)
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 9, 2023 8:30 PM |
[Quote] James van der Beek, supposedly by Kevin Williamson
Really? I thought it was just Greg Berlanti 🤔
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 9, 2023 10:42 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 38 | March 9, 2023 10:49 PM |
When French movie star Alain Delon was in his early twenties he was a middle aged gangster’s moll but would only get sucked off by him.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 9, 2023 10:57 PM |
Alain Delon also had Visconti to "help" him
by Anonymous | reply 40 | March 9, 2023 11:05 PM |
Keanu Reeves, when he was a waiter in Toronto.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | March 9, 2023 11:06 PM |
Eiza Gonzalez
Ana De Armas
Matt Lanter
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 9, 2023 11:12 PM |
Ryan Seacrest was Merv Griffin’s boyfriend and housemate.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | March 9, 2023 11:14 PM |
Carson Daly with someone at NBC. That's how that late night show he used to have stayed on the air for so long.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 9, 2023 11:18 PM |
Merv was just my mentor! I swear!
by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 9, 2023 11:21 PM |
R28 If I may. Shakira was a star in South America from the time she was a teenager and was signed with Sony Latin when she was 13 or so. Emilio and Gloria Estefan brought her to the states for her crossover to the U.S. market. I'm originally from Barranquilla, Colombia and that's how I know.
I don't really like her anymore so your fibbing should stand really.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | March 9, 2023 11:32 PM |
r40 Who?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | March 10, 2023 12:58 AM |
Ryan Adams... Elton John.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | March 10, 2023 1:03 AM |
Was gonna say Jonathan Rhys Meyers, but wasn't that just a Daddy? Like the fella had a farm but no major wealth or connections.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | March 10, 2023 1:31 AM |
R11 Y'all just leave your cameras out in the open like that? What y'all, some freaks?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 10, 2023 1:35 AM |
Vanna White was paid for sex or kept by Sylvester Stallone. He made some crass comment about not ranking her high enough to rehire.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 10, 2023 1:58 AM |
T47/LizBien - I knew when I saw Shakira on Sábado Gigante in1995 that she was going to be a star.
When did you sour on her?
by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 10, 2023 3:58 AM |
r52 there's many worldwide talents that was never able to crossover into the U.S. charts, especially the english charts. . . when the attempt was first made, Shakira's english was incredibly bad - that hurt anything that could be said about her quite a bit. It wasn't even up to spanglish quality yet.
So, Etheridge was sacrificing her credibility at the height of her fame with extending her own star power trying to make her a thing in this way, when Shakira wasn't quite ready for the American market yet, especially the English speaking music. Not even karaoke ready.
It would take her almost a decade to even make a dent and she would still largely be mocked for it because she wasn't even up to Charo level yet, and so the only thing she was really relying on was sex appeal... she is par the course for most pop singers but the album did stay in the charts for several months. So, there's that.
Etheridge's push comes almost a decade before that. . . and it was bad, really, really bad. That would have been enough to kill her chances without having that support (frankly, even with support as it had for better foreign language artists) And for the record, there are several latin performers that crossed over without attempting english.. some that were quite successful despite the language barrier.
So, it's worth pointing out this arguable sugar mama influence that was pushing her at the top of her game before she was market ready and what was an investment killer it was at the time. She put millions of her own earnings into someone that was a bust at the time she was initially introduced.
But this is the DL and delusion reigns high when it comes to certain stans.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 10, 2023 5:12 AM |
Abe Vigoda.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | March 10, 2023 5:18 AM |
R55, love it
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 10, 2023 5:32 AM |
Marion Davies
Lucille Bremer
by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 10, 2023 5:33 AM |
Lassie
by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 10, 2023 6:00 AM |
Brigitte Nielsen sent an envelope full of nude pictures of herself to Arnold Schwarzenegger's hotel room. Schwarzenegger took the bait (duh), started fucking her and got her starring movie roles. When Schwarzenegger got tired of her, he passed her on to Sylvester Stallone.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 10, 2023 6:36 AM |
The more i hear about Arnold, the worse he sounds.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 10, 2023 9:59 AM |
R62 I heard some awful rumours years ago about Nick Stahl’s experience working with Arnold on that panned Terminator threequel. Apparently, poor Nick saw or found out something he shouldn’t, Arnold made his shoot hell, and Nick got run off from making more movies thereafter and starting using again. That’s as much as I’ll say.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 10, 2023 12:53 PM |
J-Lo was living with a much older man (thirties?) when she was 18 and had been kicked out of the house by her mother. I wouldn't say it was a sugar daddy situation exactly (more like she was taken advantage of) but it's a detail she omits from her bios and accounts of her life. She makes her upbringing sound squeaky clean and wholesome when it really wasn't at all. Not her fault, obviously, but some of her life choices make more sense when you know what her childhood was actually like.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 10, 2023 1:02 PM |
R64 "I'm just Jenny from the Cock"
by Anonymous | reply 65 | March 10, 2023 2:26 PM |
Kevin Sessums...although he calls it 'being mentored.' Classic Sesshie...
by Anonymous | reply 66 | March 10, 2023 2:44 PM |
Any Bryan Singer "protege"
by Anonymous | reply 67 | March 10, 2023 4:40 PM |
I had a sugar daddy. Now I have money and I’m his sugar son.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | March 10, 2023 5:04 PM |
^ Ryan, are you still grieving the loss of Merv? He's gone, you must move on.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | March 10, 2023 5:12 PM |
r67 Ben Hardy?
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 10, 2023 6:00 PM |
R63 well Arnold supposedly wasn't very nice to Linda Hamilton either. And i heard there were issues with the director on Genisys which is why Emilia Clarke didn't want to return.
R70 I'd also add Lucas Till and Tye Sheridan.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | March 11, 2023 1:38 AM |
Didn't Arnold himself have a sugar daddy in his bodybuilding days?
by Anonymous | reply 72 | March 11, 2023 1:40 AM |
r71 I need to google Lucas Till because I thought he was just an instahoe going by memory but clearly not!
by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 11, 2023 2:36 AM |
R73 he was in the MacGyver reboot.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 11, 2023 2:40 AM |
r74 Thanks. Genuinely thought he was an LA Reno Gold.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | March 11, 2023 2:47 AM |
r74 Just realised i am confusing him with Lucas Dell who is an instahoe! Ooops a daisy!
by Anonymous | reply 76 | March 11, 2023 2:48 AM |
R76 LOL
by Anonymous | reply 77 | March 11, 2023 2:49 AM |
Wasn't Rock Hudson one of Lee Majors's sugar daddies?
by Anonymous | reply 78 | March 11, 2023 2:51 AM |
Tony Danza was another of Merv Griffin's "protegés."
by Anonymous | reply 79 | March 11, 2023 2:52 AM |
Jean Marais had Jean Cocteau.
Helmut Berger, Udo Kier, and Franco Zeffirelli all had Luchino Visconti.
Marais, Visconti, and boxer Primo Carnera were all rumored to be lovers of Umberto II, the last King of Italy. Carnera even named his son Umberto.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | March 11, 2023 3:00 AM |
"Marais, Visconti, and boxer Primo Carnera were all rumored to be lovers of Umberto II, the last King of Italy. Carnera even named his son Umberto."
I've been undressed by kings.....
by Anonymous | reply 81 | March 11, 2023 3:06 AM |
Ridley Cooper’s sugar mamma was Greta Garbo.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | March 11, 2023 3:13 AM |
William Holden was Barbara Stanwyck's sugar baby.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | March 11, 2023 5:46 AM |
Struggling actor Danny Travanti was apparently a favorite of James Daly.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | March 11, 2023 6:11 AM |
^^^ I should have spelled it "Travanty" as he was known back then.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | March 11, 2023 6:12 AM |
R19, interesting that Brad’s first role is in a soap opera that his sugar daddy worked on and it’s kinda homoerotic.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | March 11, 2023 1:44 PM |
Always windered about David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) and Merv who was credited with finding him and he had him on his show as a singer well before his fame.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | March 11, 2023 3:29 PM |
Young, blond Lee Majors bares a passing resemblance to Rock's former beau, Lee Garlington. Rock certainly had a type.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | March 11, 2023 6:16 PM |
Colin Farrell - Kevin Spacey and Joel Schumacher
by Anonymous | reply 91 | March 14, 2023 11:01 PM |
r91 He had two sugar daddies??Greedy!! I wonder how common that is in showbiz and outside of it?
by Anonymous | reply 92 | March 15, 2023 12:56 AM |
Didn't Steve Antin "befriend" Geffen?
by Anonymous | reply 93 | March 15, 2023 12:58 AM |
Oops wrong thread but hey, it's a gossip board.
Without an edit feature
by Anonymous | reply 94 | March 15, 2023 1:25 AM |
Paul Mescal
by Anonymous | reply 95 | March 15, 2023 1:28 AM |
Is Harry Hamlin considered a star?
by Anonymous | reply 96 | March 15, 2023 2:24 AM |
R63 You're no fun! SPILL!
by Anonymous | reply 97 | March 15, 2023 2:49 AM |
Stephanie Powers > William Holden
by Anonymous | reply 98 | March 15, 2023 3:05 AM |
[Quote] Colin Farrell - Kevin Spacey and Joel Schumacher
I wonder if Kevin tried anything on Brandon during Superman Returns? Or was he too coked out to care 🤔
by Anonymous | reply 99 | March 15, 2023 3:09 AM |
r99, yes, he stole Brandon from me like he stole my bf on the set of The Usual Suspects
by Anonymous | reply 100 | March 15, 2023 3:28 AM |
R100 stole or shared?
by Anonymous | reply 101 | March 15, 2023 4:07 AM |
Shania Twain! She ended up marrying her sugar daddy.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | March 15, 2023 5:41 AM |
Celine Dion and her questionable manager/hubby/sugar daddy. They met when she was 12.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | March 15, 2023 5:49 AM |
Bea Arthur
by Anonymous | reply 104 | March 15, 2023 6:11 AM |
David Geffen's new husband!
by Anonymous | reply 105 | March 15, 2023 3:18 PM |
r101 Good question!
by Anonymous | reply 106 | March 18, 2023 1:59 AM |
Sal Mineo "mentored" Bobby Sherman.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | March 18, 2023 2:11 AM |
r92 centuries old common.... most people require a patron to even attempt entertainment as a career. Most starting gigs will be low or non-paying, and uni programs, even those highly competitive programs, still don't compare with good one on one training... You typically have to travel the world just to find the right teachers for more specialized training as well. And frankly, for better gigs, wider access, more opportunities. Which given the nature of the biz tends to expensive. Coordinators and other peripheral gigs don't earn star money, so they have to price 'training' high enough to support themselves thru dry spells. And the fact that only a handful of students will ever seek them out. Stunt schools, circus arts, specialty tech, exotic instruments, whatever... covid took several out of play but really, just a stiff wind is enough to do that to most... so, while you might be able tof ind a small school to fake it... certified (well, as close to it as it may be. Not every country has "certified" programs and many small biz are fly by night schools), so training may be difficult tor acquire at all but the most established schools.
So, either you sacrifice and often through unscrupulous means; i.e. (intentional) homelessness is frequent, thus so is sex work, drugs, etc... or you find yourself someone willing to invest in (or trade) you. There's limited financial aid options for those without the proper savings.. and as most don't have money to burn, even their parents/guardians, so alternatives are sought out. It's frequent that artists will live/squat with other artists. sometimes bonds are formed and those that progress will open up doors ro windows.
The better route, of course, is doing a gap year to pick up a professional certificate or associate degree in a flexible high paying field... something you can do remotely or seasonally to live on a restricted budget while pursuing these "hobbies" -- the entertainment field is not really a career until you make it or at least, secure stable employment. So, even with more 'technical' positions, it should be viewed as a hobby with lotto chances of finding lasting success. . . unless you're aiming to be a slave wage position with a studio. Temporary contracts are better for the possibilities of something greater but it's a high risk gamble vs maintaining stable employment via a studio, etc. . . a little ant on the farm.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | March 18, 2023 3:41 PM |
Didn't Sal Mineo "mentor" Don Johnson?
by Anonymous | reply 109 | March 18, 2023 5:05 PM |
Johnny Galecki did a TV movie in which he played Roseanne's son. She liked working with him and asked him to be on "Roseanne." I don't know if that makes her a "sugarmomma." She also made it possible for Sara Gilbert to go to college and stay on the show and for Lecy Goranson to come back even though the Becky role had gone to someone else.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | March 18, 2023 5:27 PM |
According to the link, Sal Mineo gave David Cassidy his first drum kit. David payed for his funeral. No wonder Shaun went by Sal's apartment the morning when he heard Sal was murdered.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | March 18, 2023 8:10 PM |
[quote] Shania Twain! She ended up marrying her sugar daddy.
Who? Mutt Lange? If she did marry a sugar daddy, it's understandable. She was a teenager with several younger siblings when both her parents died. She ended up being the parent figure to all her younger siblings.
The Melissa Etheridge / Shakira connection is something I had never heard of. Interesting.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | March 18, 2023 8:32 PM |
Well, in my case I was the sugar baby and he was the daddy.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | March 18, 2023 8:55 PM |
Sal Mineo "mentored" Bobby Sherman right up the ass.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | March 18, 2023 8:58 PM |
Mariah Carey. (Tommy Mottola.)
by Anonymous | reply 115 | March 18, 2023 8:59 PM |
What’s with all these posts with young, beautiful actors as “sugar-daddies”? Wishful thinking? Yeah, it must have been such a chore to have to sleep with Sal Mineo or Rock Hudson!
by Anonymous | reply 116 | March 18, 2023 11:25 PM |
What about someone like Kimberly Guilfoyle BEFORE Gavin? A Getty?
by Anonymous | reply 117 | March 18, 2023 11:31 PM |
Have to seriously wonder if Getty passed her on. For all the skeletons in her closet back then or for serious known character/personality disordered problems about the cute sexy DA who also happened to be a Northern California underwear model, she went off Scot Free to ravage democracy with her cocaine needs.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | March 19, 2023 1:05 AM |
r118 Which Getty was this?
by Anonymous | reply 119 | March 19, 2023 1:15 AM |
Let's not forget our current Vice-President.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | March 19, 2023 1:21 AM |
Any one of them, SA, R119. The Gettys *made* Gavin Newsome, et al. Newsome was the learning disordered son of the family congsignierle who delivered ransom money to the Red Brigade in Italy after patriarch casually ignoring them as his grandson's ear got sliced off by terrorists because Grandpa was initially cheap.
The Gettys always had and still do have *strong* Democratic party leanings and funding. By any accounts, for all of his accommodations given by the Getty family, Newsome was lucky because he has a serious learning disability and was admitted to U of Santa Clara instead of U of San Francisco (patriarch Gordon Alma mater). He was TOTALLY funded by the Gettys, if even through guilt, because Gavin's parents died relatively young and his father paid service to the family.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | March 19, 2023 2:09 AM |
R155 and JLow followed suit by sucking Tommy's dick.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | March 19, 2023 7:36 AM |
R122 did that actually happen?
by Anonymous | reply 123 | March 19, 2023 9:50 AM |
R123 why do you think Mariah hates her so much?
by Anonymous | reply 124 | March 19, 2023 1:30 PM |
r121 Thank you for your detailed reply- I was totally unaware of any of that background. Information.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | March 19, 2023 2:46 PM |
r124 because Tommy tried to ruin her life by using J-Lo as a puppet to release songs with the samples Mariah wanted to use on her own album.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | March 19, 2023 8:43 PM |
Why would Mariah hate J-Lo for sucking Mottola's dick? Mariah was long divorced for him by that time.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | March 19, 2023 8:44 PM |