Jos-Daily: Frank Sinatra Jnr: 3 Mistresses Named Mary, 4 Children, 3 Named Francis

...kept it simple, 3 Mary's and 3 Francis's.Well done. Sharp guy

Youngest: Michael Francis Sinatra, 29, is likely to inherit his father's fortune, estimated at up to $50 million. He has taught in Japan and is now pursuing a post-graduate degree.

...married once had 4 children, 2 boys, 2 girls
...had three other romances with women named Mary
...had three children called Francis (in some way) Francine Sinatra Anderson ,43 Natalie Oglesby Skalla, 38, Francis Wayne Sinatra, 37, Michael Francis Sinatra

Frank Sinatra Junior was fiercely proud of his 29-year-old son Michael and made sure they spent plenty of time together, saying: 'I want him to have what I didn't.'
Yet the only son of showbiz legend Frank Sinatra had three other children, who he totally snubbed.

Sinatra Jr, who died of a heart attack last week aged 72, was married just once briefly and had a long relationship with Michael's mother Patricia Ward.

But he had three other romances - with women who were all named Mary - that produced two daughters and another son.

All four of his love children were cut out of their grandfather's will, which stipulated only those 'born in wedlock or lawfully adopted' could inherit.

But Michael is now expected to receive the bulk of Sinatra Jr's $50 million estate.

Disputed: Although Frank Sinatra Jr did not acknowledge them initially, Francine Sinatra Anderson (left) and Natalie Oglesby Skalla (right)

Name is a clue: Francis Wayne Sinatra carried his father's name. He is now 37 and was not included in his father's obituaries

As he came to grips with the sudden loss of his father, Michael tells Daily Mail Online in an exclusive interview: 'He was very aware of his own flaws and he was the first person to say he would never win father of the year.

'But he was a kind and generous man to so many people and he was an inspiration.'

However, that kindness and generosity did not spill over to his other unacknowledged children.

At 43, Francine Sinatra Anderson is the eldest, followed by Natalie Oglesby Skalla, 38, and 37-year-old Francis Wayne Sinatra.

Michael, the baby of the group at 29, spent years working as a college professor in Japan before recently returning to the US to do a post-graduate history degree.

He reveals to Daily Mail Online he had spent four days with his father in Palm Desert, California, last month.

'He was doing a concert there and I was backstage. We spent a lot of time together then, four days,' he says.

'He was all right, he seemed tired but he was fine. That's why it's such a shock.'

Michael says his mother Patricia Ward, a long-time Sinatra family employee, had taken the news of his death badly.

'It hit her very hard as well but she is fine, she will be all right,' he says.

But when asked by Daily Mail Online about his half-siblings, Michael snipped: 'I am not aware of other children.'

Indeed, in an interview Sinatra Jr gave to the Guardian in 2012, he said: 'I have one son and his name is Michael.'

Pushed further about the other children, he said: 'There are certain people who make all sorts of claims.'

Yet Sinatra has paid alimony for his offspring, although in the case of Natalie he waited until she was due to attend college before striking a deal with her mother Mary Sue Oglesby.

In court documents seen by Daily Mail Online, Oglesby was forced to petition for child support in 1995 when Natalie was 17.

Oglesby, the manager of an apartment complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma, told the Tulsa District Court that her relationship with Sinatra lasted several years and he flew her around the country - using the name 'Mrs. Sinatra' - for trysts when he was working.

'Natalie was deliberately conceived by Sinatra and Ms. Oglesby in Room 147 of the Holiday Inn at Chicago's O'Hare Airport in November 1976,' the court documents state.

She even kept the room receipt, scribbling on the side of it: 'The weekend we made Natalie' and attached that to the court documents, as well as the receipt for her plane ticket.

Oglesby, who died of cancer aged 63 in 2011, said Sinatra paid $1,500 in pregnancy-related medical bills but 'chose not to attend' Natalie's birth.

But the following month he flew them both to Wichita, Kansas, 'for the purpose of viewing his daughter for the first time.'

Afterwards, according to Oglesby's suit, he 'failed to adequately provide for the education, support and maintenance as required' by law.

According to friends of the family, Sinatra then agreed to pay Natalie's college fees in exchange for Mary dropping the lawsuit.

Crucial evidence: 'The weekend we made Natalie' was scribbled on the side of this Holiday Inn receipt. It was produced in court in a paternity suit

Legal proof: Mary Sue Oglesby dropped the case against Sinatra Jr. Friends said he had agreed to pay his unacknowledged daughter's college fees

Ogeslby's hopes that the notorious bachelor would make a go of their relationship were dashed just six months after Natalie's birth, when another girlfriend Mary Fleming gave birth to his first son Francis Wayne Sinatra.

Sinatra agreed to pay $250 a month child support but had no wish to see the son who was named after him.

His eldest daughter Francine was conceived towards the end of a four-year affair with Mary Wallner in 1972.

Again he paid child support but Wallner was so angry that he refused to publicly acknowledge their child that she contacted his father.

'I wrote to Frank Sr and told him I didn't want anything from him,' she said, years later. 'I wanted him to know about Francine.

'Frank Jr was furious. To this day, I think that's the first Frank Sr knew about his grandchild.'

As a child, Sinatra Jr barely saw his father, who was at the height of his fame and constantly on the road.

He was just six when his long-suffering mother Nancy finally agreed to a divorce so that Sinatra could marry actress Ava Gardner.

At 19, he was kidnapped by three hoodlums in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, who demanded a $240,000 ransom.

His father conducted the negotiations via public pay phones and was so mortified when he ran out of money that he carried a roll of dimes in his pocket for the rest of life – and was even buried with them.

After four days, Sinatra Jr was released onto a highway and forced to walk several miles before he managed to flag down a police car.

The first words he said when he returned to his anxious parents were: 'I'm sorry Dad.'

The three kidnappers were quickly caught but for years both father and son were forced to deny rumors that they had been in on the crime to promote Junior's music career.

It wasn't helped by the fact that the ring leader Barry Kennan was a childhood friend of Sinatra Junior's sister Nancy and claimed he had simply 'borrowed' him to raise money for his own showbiz plans.

The kidnapping failed to bring the two men closer together and for years Sinatra Jr lived in the shadow of his famous father.

Family: Frank Sinatra Jr and his older sister Nancy (center) and younger sister Tina (right)

Like father: He is pictured with his famed father in Manhattan, New York, in September 1963. Frank Sr also died of a heart attack in 1998

But in the last 10 years of his life Sinatra Sr, who had outlived all of his musical arrangers, invited his son to become his director and conductor.

During this time Sinatra Jr started dating the family's lawyer Cynthia McMurrey – marrying her five months after his father died, aged 82, in 1998.

But the marriage lasted just over a year, although the two remained close until his death last week.

He was found dead in a Daytona Beach, Florida, hotel room just before he was due to go on stage. His obituary stated that he was survived by his mother Nancy, sisters Nancy and Tina and his son Michael.

Michael is expected to receive the bulk of his estate but it is not known at this stage if Francine, Natalie and Francis plan to challenge the will.

None of them has ever spoken at length about their father, although Natalie, a talented amateur actress, said after her mother's court action: 'I learned long ago not to have expectations when it came to my dad.'

Natalie, Francine and Francis did not return phone calls from Daily Mail Online.

But a friend of Natalie's mother tells Daily Mail Online: 'All Mary Sue really cared about was getting money from Frank Jr so Natalie could go to a good college.

'By then she was not seeking anything more and once she agreed to drop the court action that was done.

'Natalie went to a great school, she was a tremendous student and did her mom proud. And if Frank Jr had bothered to get to know her, he would have been very proud too.'

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