Scotty Bowers, ‘male madame’ to [Golden Age Hollywood’s] stars, dies at 96 (hollywoodreporter.com).
Scotty Bowers, whose explicit, best-selling 2012 memoir revealed a covert realm of Golden Age Hollywood sexuality, died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Laurel Canyon, documentary director Matt Tyrnauer told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 96.
The former U.S. Marine and gas station attendant turned erotic fixer to the stars (including, he said, Katharine Hepburn and Rock Hudson) was the subject of an acclaimed 2017 documentary, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood.
With licentious anecdotes of all it seems in the closeted post-war tail end of the Golden Age when conglomerate studios were PR obsessed pseudo-city states subject to the Hays Code censorship rules, controlled the lives of performers and covertly picking up the scandalous pieces when necessary depicted in his salacious memoir, Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars.
Among Bowers’ claims: He once hooked up closeted actors Grant and Hudson at the gas station for $20; he arranged more than 100 get-togethers for Hepburn over five decades; he personally slept with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover while the latter was dressed in drag; he organized orgies for composer Cole Porter; and he participated in numerous studies with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, who was keen to learn more about Bowers’ pansexuality.
#RIPScottyBowers (Toxic Twitter).
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