Toujours Pur.

fuckyeahthevoice:

Even in a mug shot it is an astonishing face. The extravagantly sensual lower lip. The intelligence of the pale, wide-set eyes. The greasy hank of hair over the left eyebrow—he could have flicked it out of the way; he chose not to—is a rebellious 1930s touch worthy of a Dillinger or Pretty Boy Floyd. It is a sensitive face, but one of a man with full knowledge of his own importance. -James Kaplan, Frank: The Voice

Frank Sinatra was arrested at the Rustic Cabin nightclub where he worked in New Jersey on November 27, 1938. The original arrest warrant stated that on November 2 and 9, 1938, Frank Sinatra, ‘being then and there a single man over the age of eighteen years, under the promise of marriage, did then and there have sexual intercourse with the said complainant who was then and there a single female of good repute for chastity whereby she became pregnant.’ In other words—seduction. The single female of good repute who Frank had been carrying on with was Antoinette “Toni” Della Penta. She and Frank’s future wife, Nancy Barbato, had gotten into a fight at the Rustic Cabin two days prior, Toni unable to accept that her momentary affair with Frank was just that. There was a problem, though, with the arrest warrant: the single female of good repute was not single, but married and legally separated. There was also the question of her pregnancy, as the dates given for their trysts came less than a month before his arrest. There was little truth to her claims, and Toni dropped the charges. However, due to a tense relationship with Sinatra’s mother Dolly, she swore out a second warrant against Frank Sinatra, this time for adultery. He was arrested again three days before Christmas and released on bail—again, nothing came of it. It all fell apart slowly over a period of a couple months, but the image of Sinatra’s mug shot is iconic. 

(via bawnjourno)