Paul Novak, Mae West's companion of 26 years and the acknowledged love of her life, died Wednesday morning at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, where he was undergoing treatment for advanced prostate cancer.
Paul Novak , Mae West 's companion of 26 years and the acknowledged love of her life, died Wednesday morning at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, where he was undergoing treatment for advanced prostate cancer . He was 76. One of the musclemen in the chorus line of West's fabled 1950s nightclub act that played Las Vegas and toured the country over five years, Novak soon fell in love with West, who was nearly 30 years his senior. She died in 1980.
The epitome of the strong, silent type and an intensely private man to the end, Novak tried always to stay in the background, content to let the public believe he was merely West's bodyguard, when in fact he became her husband in everything but name. The only time Novak found himself in the headlines was when he punched out another member of West's beef trust, Mickey Hargitay, the Hungarian-born Mr. Universe who had become romantically involved with Jayne Mansfield. Mansfield had made some unkind remarks about the 60-plus West, who nevertheless managed to make it seem in the press that the two men were fighting over he
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