Carly Simon ex husband tells his secret gay life with 'neurotic' wife

By editorial board on October 22, 2023

Carly’s terapist once told her:  "You are not the first patient of the day who spent the night with Warren Beatty last night."

Carly Simon's ex-husband tells how he hid his from the singer, 'odd nights' with the Clintons at Camp David, teaching Jackie O 'gyrating' dance moves and fixing her up with Alec Baldwin 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.(Dailymail)

Jim Hart was married to singer Carly Simon for almost 20 years, and in his new memoir Lucky Jim he reveals a marriage filled with kinky sex and mutual jealousy. Ultimately, their union ended with his addiction to crack cocaine and not-so-secret homosexuality.

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Carly hated the way Hart kissed and her husband  was given his predilection for dialing up gay phone lines and going to gay cruising spots. 

Getting together at her apartment on Manhattan's Central Park West, Carly, now 72, told Jim Hart the story of her mother who moved a young lover into her home while her husband was dying.

Carly, while emotionally generous and interested in others' sensibilities, was riddled with panic and anxiety attacks, Hart writes.

She experienced a panic attack prior to going on stage for an HBO special and called Hart in Manhattan.

'I can't go on; I'm having a heart attack. I'm terrified. I have to cancel'. The concert was a success. She panicked on airplanes; if she heard a loud unexpected noise she freaked.

Carly Simon and JamesTaylor had two children and many happy years together, but their relationship would end up seesawing between ecstasy and agony, and foundering on infidelity, ego and drug use. Simon recalls the time that Taylor shot up in front of her: "Chemistry was in the making, and somehow all the components made their way into the syringe, and as he pulled the rubber tight on his arm the veins became purple and frightening."

Taylor told her, "I can't have you and the habit at the same time. I can't. I've got to get rid of this. Maybe if you see me do it, it will take away the cat-and-mouse game. You have to watch me. I have to let it all go."

When Simon was recording the backing vocals for her greatest hit, "You're So Vain," she was being watched by an intimidating collection of talent: Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, George Martin, Bonnie Bramlett and Harry Nilsson. (The McCartneys were working at the same London studio; Bramlett and Nilsson had just dropped in.)

Then Mick Jagger called up the studio phone: He was pursuing Simon and had tracked her down. Minutes later, he was at the microphone with her. "It was shortly after midnight," Simon writes. "Mick and I, we were close together — the same height, same coloring, same lips. I felt as if I were trying to stay within a pink gravity that was starting to loosen its silky grip on me. I was thrilled by the proximity, remembering all the times I had spent imitating him in front of my closet mirror."

And the subject of the song, one of the most enduring rock & roll mysteries? Simon had previously denied that it was Warren Beatty, but here she says that the second verse is about him, but that the first and third verses are about other people.

 

 

 

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