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Warren Beatty denies claim he slept with 12755 women
by Natalie James - January 4, 2010 - comments
Beatty’s attorney, Bertram Fields, released a statement to the Huffington Post on behalf of the actor, in which he abruptly denied that Beatty ever gave his seal of approval to a new tell-all that claims the actor bedded nearly enormous number of women
Los Angeles, January 4 -- Hollywood actor and legendary lothario, Warren Beatty, has slept with nearly 13,000 women! Longtime Hollywood writer Peter Biskind has dished these dirty details in the actor's new, authorized biography, “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America.”
"Using simple arithmetic," author Biskind estimates, according to New York Post, the 72-year-old actor bedded "12,775 women, give or take, a figure that does not include daytime quickies, drive-bys, casual gropings, stolen kisses and so on."
However, the legendary screen star has refuted the author’s claims.
Beatty seduced several women
In “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced Ameria,” author Biskind details Beatty’s alleged dalliances with such entertainers as Jane Fonda, Joan Collins, Julie Christie, Madonna Diane Keaton and many others.
Biskind claims in the book to have befriended the “Shampoo” star and convinced many of Beatty’s high profile former lovers to open up about their flings with the actor, according to the Post.
"I wasn't the Warren Beatty type, but there I was," Keaton tells the author, according to the Post. "He was just so . . . overwhelming in every way. I remember looking at his face and going, 'How am I here with this?' The brilliance and the talent, you get caught up in it."
The Post further quotes Biskind as writing in the book that Beatty was an equal-opportunity seducer, who would have sex at the drop of a hat and for an ever-expanding number of reasons.
"Late in 1971, he implored singer-songwriter Carole King, who was pregnant at the time, to sleep with him because, he explained, he'd never been with a late-term woman and wanted to see what it was like. (She refused.)
One night he got a phone call from a woman he didn't remember, who was married and lived in Colorado. She'd had breast cancer and a mastectomy. Her husband didn't want to sleep with her anymore. Beatty was outraged, told her 'I'd f- - - you in a second. Fly out here,'" Biskind wrote in the book.
"Beatty, a man who was accustomed to being worshipped by women, was on dangerous ground with Madonna……He would tell director Glenn Gordon Caron a few years later, 'Never, ever f- - - your leading lady. And if you do, don't stop till the picture's finished,'" the author writes.
Beatty disallows book’s allegations
Meanwhile, the "Bonnie and Clyde" star has vehemently denied all those claims and even contended that the book was, in fact, sanctioned by him.
Beatty’s attorney, Bertram Fields, released a statement to the Huffington Post on behalf of the actor in which he abruptly denied that Beatty ever gave his seal of approval to a new tell-all that claims the actor bedded nearly enormous number of women.
In a statement to the Huffington Post, Beatty’s lawyer, Bertram Fields, denied his client ever gave his okay to Beskin’s biography.
"Mr. Biskind's tedious and boring book on Mr. Beatty was not authorized by Mr. Beatty and should not be published as an authorized biography," Fields said. "It contains many false assertions and purportedly quotes Mr. Beatty as saying things he never said. Other media should not repeat things from the book on the assumption that they are true or that the book is an authorized biography."