Get Mahoney!: A Hollywood Insider's Memoir

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Frank left the house, made his way to the phone booth at a gas station on Little Santa Monica Boulevard, and waited. The call came. The instructions were that the courier was go to another public phone, this time in the Western Airlines terminal of Los Angeles International Airport. He was to wait for a call at 11 p.m. with new instructions. All had to be ready to go by early that evening. There was no real explanation given as to why the variety of cash, but we all presumed it was so it couldn’t be traced. As for Frank, they told him he should proceed to the home of his ex-wife Nancy on Nimes Road in Bel Air to wait for further instructions. Al Hart, Frank’s good friend and banker, would eventually assure Frank there would be no problem putting the ransom money together. One problem solved. Ironically, years later I would be partnered up with Al Hart at Tamarisk Country Club in Palm Springs, and it was one of my most memorable golf outings. (Please see Chapter 31: Putting My Putter Where My Mouth Was.)

‘A left-right combo by Frank dropped the man’

I didn’t have much to do with him. My partner, Paul Wasserman, handled some of these people — The Rolling Stones, U2. Who else, Sean? By the time we got to Nancy Sr’s house, the FBI had already set up a communications system in one of the guest bedrooms. It was a war room.

Sam, I said. It’s Jim Mahoney, I was at the party with Dean Martin and Frank in Chicago. I need to put you on hold.

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While all this was going on, Frank, Nancy, and their daughters Nancy and Tina, as well as Rudin, myself, and a few FBI men were squeezed into the makeshift control room in one of the bedrooms, listening to every exchange between the kidnappers and our agent courier.

You start the book with an amazing story about how Sinatra summoned you to Lake Tahoe after Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped. Tyra Banks reveals the SECRET behind her ageless appearance as she avoids Botox ahead of turning 50 - and claims her partner LOVES her gray hair Viewers left in tears at a Christmas advert for a pub in Northern Ireland featuring a lonely elderly man who finally finds company I went to the William Morris Agency. The problem is, when I submitted the book 10 years ago, more often than not the publisher would assign the reviewing process to some kid that was an hour-and-a-half out of college. They didn’t know Alan Ladd. They didn’t know Gary Cooper. I was fortunate to handle some real characters. Lee Marvin, George C. Scott, Fred Astaire.

In fact, he calmed down enough to have the common sense to string the kidnappers along. He got them to talk and kept them talking with the hope of being able to trace the call. Was this a cause for celebration? You bet! And celebrate we did, but it was a not-so-happy ending for the kidnappers. The three of them—John Irwin, Joe Amsler, and ringleader Barry Keenan—were apprehended by the FBI and taken into custody within days. Now, he said, Saks has a couple of hundred dollars in marked bills and the kidnappers have been shorted? Olivia Colman cuts a chic figure in a dark green jumpsuit as she joins Timothee Chalamet and Hugh Grant for the Wonka photocall He walked inside, leaving me alone to smoke and ruminate. The words echoed in my brain. Everyone would understand.