![]() 'I made Jackie happy by teaching her how to dance', writes Hart, 'she was gyrating in front of me' ![]() The book also describes the former couple's friendship with Jackie Onassis (above). ![]() It was a tantalizing story to Hart – the secret passageway part thrilled him 'thinking how handy a secret passage might be.'one within my own psyche that I could travel between for my own unfulfilled desires'. Getting together at her apartment on Manhattan's Central Park West, Carly, now 71, told Jim Hart the story of her mother who moved a young lover into her home while her husband was dying.Ī secret passageway connected her bedroom to her lover's, a man also guilty of ogling the three fetching teenage Simon girls. With Carly, 'I had achieved something I had never dreamt of: I had accidentally changed everything in the twinkling of an eye'. It took Carly years to sort through Hart's idiosyncrasies and addictions and confront him with being gay. We both seemed to instantly comprehend that we belonged together,' Hart writes. 'None of the obvious imbalances in our lives seemed to impress us. Recently divorced, he was tired of the insurance business and wanted to escape the dreary, unrelenting middle-class obsession with making a living.Įnter Carly who invited him into her life drenched in fame and famous people that included Jackie Onassis and the Clintons and many celebrities from the literary world. With a therapist, he was trying to sort out what the gay life might mean for him. James Hart's new book, 'Lucky Jim', details his violent childhood, struggle with addiction his and sexuality, and his marriage to 'neurotic' singer Carly Simon The beat had taken her and she had let go' 'I made Jackie happy by teaching her how to dance', writes Hart, 'she was gyrating in front of me.The book also describes the former couple's friendship with Jackie Onassis.Carly was close to the Clintons and she and Hart spent some 'odd nights' at Camp David while awaiting the final impeachment vote over the Monica Lewinsky affair.Carly hated the way Hart kissed and her husband wasn’t surprised given his predilection for dialing up gay phone lines and going to gay cruising spots.The book details his struggle with addiction, his sexuality and his 20-year marriage to the You're So Vain singer following her split from James Taylor.Jim Hart tells of his life with 'neurotic' wife in upcoming memoir, 'Lucky Jim' and has a sneak peek of the revealing book.EXCLUSIVE: Carly Simon's ex-husband tells how he hid his secret gay life from the singer, 'odd nights' with the Clintons at Camp David, teaching Jackie O 'gyrating' dance moves and fixing her up with Alec Baldwin
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