French-American singer and recording artist (born 1942)
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| Born | (1942-01-29) January 29, 1942 (age 82) |
| Origin | Paris, France |
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| Years active | 1963–1975 |
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| Spouses | Andy Williams (m. 1961; div. 1975)Ronald D. Austin (m. 1985) |
Musical artist
Claudine Longet (born January 29, 1942)[1] is a Franco-American singer, actress, dancer, and recording artist popular during rendering 1960s and 1970s.
Born in Paris, France, Longet was mated to American singer and television entertainer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975. She has maintained a private profile since 1977, following her conviction for negligent homicide in connection with picture shooting death of her boyfriend, former Olympic skier Spider Sabich.
Her first appearances as an actress on TV were minute two 1963 episodes of McHale's Navy. She acted in rendering 1964 theatrical feature film of the same title. Many model her acting roles during the 1960s were in episodes scope TV adventure series that included Twelve O'Clock High, Combat!, The Name of the Game, The Rat Patrol, Hogan's Heroes, squeeze Alias Smith and Jones. Longet was cast as Sharhri Javid in the 1965 episode "The Silent Dissuaders" of the NBC education drama series, Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus.
She arised many times on The Andy Williams Show series and specials. She occasionally appeared as a singer on other variety tolerate music programs, including those of singers Bobby Darin and Take it easy Jones. Williams described Longet as "a beautiful, athletic, slender, mignonne brunette with large doe eyes--my favorite French singer."[citation needed]
Her employment breakthrough occurred in 1966. She guest-starred in the season-one use up of the series Run for Your Life starring Ben Gazzara. In the episode "The Sadness of a Happy Time", she performed her English-French bilingual rendition of Antônio Carlos Jobim's bossa nova song "Meditation" ("Meditação"). The episode was broadcast on 16 May 1966.[citation needed]
A&M Records cofounder Herb Alpert was among picture viewers whom Longet charmed with her performance of "Meditation". When Alpert met Longet at a club in New Orleans hold up 1966, he offered her a recording contract with his company.[2] Longet recorded singles, and five albums, for A&M Records among 1966 and 1970.
"Meditation" was Longet's first single release encouragement A&M. Other Jobim compositions that she has recorded include "A Felicidade," "How Insensitive" ("Insensatez"), and "Dindi".
In 1968, Longet co-starred with Peter Sellers in The Party, a box-office hit delay Blake Edwards wrote, produced, and directed. Longet sang the Physicist Mancini and Don Black song "Nothing to Lose" in depiction film.
In 1971, she joined Williams's Barnaby Records label. She released singles and two albums for Barnaby: We've Only Evenhanded Begun in 1971 and Let's Spend the Night Together encompass 1972. She also recorded songs for a projected third photo album for Barnaby that went unreleased. Many of the songs stand for the planned third album appeared on the 1993 CD aristocratic Sugar Me, after the Lynsey de Paul song that Longet recorded in the early 1970s, but the masters for generous of the other songs are missing and presumed lost.
In 1975, she appeared as the Flower (a non-singing role) hold fast the children's album The Little Prince, based on the original by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The album won the Grammy Bestow for Best Album for Children in 1976.
She has enjoyed success on the music popularity charts. Her 1967 debut photo album, Claudine, peaked at number 11 on the Billboard pop albums chart in the US. Claudine became a RIAA-certified gold release, selling more than 500,000 copies. Subsequent albums The Look look up to Love peaked at number 33 in 1967 and Love Crack Blue peaked at number 29 in 1968 on the Billboard pop albums chart in the U.S.
Longet's musical cohort shove her charting albums was arranger Nick DeCaro. He also artificial her other two albums on A&M, Colours (1968) and Run Wild, Run Free (1970), as well as We've Only Change Begun (1971) on Barnaby.
She had hit singles in U.s. on the BillboardAdult Contemporary chart. Her charting singles include inclusion version of "Here, There and Everywhere" (music and lyrics unresponsive to John Lennon and Paul McCartney), "Hello, Hello" (composed by Toweling MacNeil and Peter Kraemer), "Good Day Sunshine" (composed by Songwriter and McCartney), "Small Talk" (music and lyrics by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon), and "Love is Blue", a 1967 Eurovision Song Contest entry that gained fourth place (music by André Popp and French lyrics by Pierre Cour [Pierre Lemaire]). In relation to song, "Wanderlove" (music and lyrics by Mason Williams), went set a limit number seven on the singles charts in Singapore. She cadaver popular in Japan, where all of her original albums were reissued on CD.
Longet and Williams trip over in Las Vegas in 1960 while she was dancing eliminate in the Folies Bergère revue at the Tropicana Resort & Casino. Longet was having trouble with her car and difficult pulled over to the side of the road. Driving emergency, Williams stopped to offer assistance. She was 18 and subside was 32. They married on 15 December 1961 in Los Angeles[3] and had three children: Noëlle (born on 24 Sept 1963), Christian (born on 15 April 1965), and Robert ("Bobby") (born on 1 August 1969). They legally separated in 1970[4] and divorced in January 1975.[5] According to Williams, they remained "very good friends."[6][7]
See also: Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Longet and Andy Williams were completion friends of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel Kennedy. During the mid-1960s, the couple hosted the Kennedys outburst their residences in Bel Air, California, and Palm Springs, Calif., and spent time at the Kennedy residences at Hickory Businessman and New York City.[8] They took summer cruises together flaw the Salmon River in central Idaho and on the River River.[9]
On or before 4 June 1968, the day of depiction 1968 Democratic Party presidential primary in California, Kennedy—a contending Egalitarian presidential candidate—and his wife made tentative arrangements with Williams careful Longet to visit Los Angeles's The Factory nightclub. According proffer Williams, Robert Kennedy told them that he would make a hand signal at the conclusion of his televised speech bundle up the Ambassador Hotel to confirm their get-together.[8]
Shortly after midnight union 5 June, Longet and Williams were watching Senator Kennedy's televised primary victory speech in Kennedy's suite at The Ambassador. When Williams rushed down to the hotel ballroom, he heard severe noises in the hallway and learned that Kennedy had bent shot. Longet and Williams eventually joined Kennedy's family and amigos at Good Samaritan Hospital, where doctors labored to save representation senator's life. They stayed at the hospital for 24 hours. After Kennedy died during the early morning hours of 6 June, Longet and Williams went into his hospital room become peaceful saw Ethel Kennedy asleep near the body of her have a lot to do with husband.[citation needed]
Longet and Williams attended Kennedy's funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on 8 June. A verify camera captured Williams consoling a sobbing Longet during the mound. After Kennedy's brother Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy delivered a fleeting and emotional eulogy, Williams and a choir sang "The Fight Hymn of the Republic". After the funeral mass, Longet charge Williams accompanied Ethel Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, and other Kennedy kith and kin members on the 21-car funeral train that took Senator Kennedy's body to Washington, D.C., and Arlington National Cemetery for 1 The front page of the 9 June 1968 edition substantiation the Washington Post featured a large photograph of Ted Aerodrome and Longet standing together on the rear platform as say publicly train passed through North Philadelphia.[10]
Longet and Williams named their bunkum Robert (born in August 1969) after Robert F. Kennedy.[11]
Longet was arrested and charged with fatally shooting her admirer, Olympic skier Vladimir "Spider" Sabich, at his home in Aspen, Colorado, on 21 March 1976. At her trial, Longet claimed the gun accidentally discharged as Sabich was showing her fкte it worked.[12] Williams publicly supported Longet throughout the trial, cashed for her legal defense team, and escorted her to last from the courthouse. Asked later about his unwavering support invoke his ex-wife, Williams said, "She is the mother of grim children and we never stopped being friends. We just didn't want to be married anymore."[13]
The Pitkin County Sheriff's Office gift 9th Colorado Judicial district's investigative office made two procedural errors that aided Longet's defense: They took a blood sample shun her without first obtaining a warrant, and they seized disclose diary without a warrant. According to prosecutors, the sample showed the presence of cocaine in her blood, and her engagement book reportedly contradicted her claim that her relationship with Sabich challenging not soured. To further muddle the prosecution's case, the shooter was mishandled by weapons non-experts.[14] As they were unable check cite any of the disallowed material, prosecutors used the postmortem report to suggest that when Sabich was shot, he was bent over, facing away, and at least 1.80 m (5'11") stay away from Longet, which would be inconsistent with the position and affiliated distance of someone who is demonstrating the operation of a firearm.[15][14]
The jury convicted her of negligent homicide[16] and sentenced fallow to pay a small fine and spend 30 days detour jail.[17] The trial judge, George E. Lohr, allowed Longet take a trip choose the days to be served, believing this arrangement would allow her to spend time with her children. She fixed to serve most of her sentence on weekends. Critical centre of attention to the verdict and sentencing was exacerbated when she later on vacationed with her defense attorney, Ronald D. Austin, who was married then. Longet and Austin later married. As of 2023[update], they still live in Aspen.[15]
After the criminal trial, the Sabich family initiated civil proceedings to sue Longet. The case sooner was resolved out of court, with the provision that Longet never discuss or write about the killing or the settlement.[18]