Among the first interviews to be performed was mine, wherein one man recounts to another the story of the day he arrived at an airport, on business, to find a near-hysterical woman in the gate area.

Mr Knievel bought a fleet of yachts and bragged—though he had been married for years to his childhood sweetheart—of many women.

The Mafia wanted the women supplied by Sinatra's associates to 'be placed in compromising situations' with Robert and Edward Kennedy and Hollywood actor Lawford, it was alleged.