Some reports stated that John was alone in the house when Mansfield turned up, while others mentioned that Ringo was there watching television. At the time Paul and George were at Burt Lancaster’s house watching the Peter Sellers film ‘A Shot in The Dark.’
There was also the suggestion that John and Jayne were canoodling in the car on their way to the club, yet this would be unlikely if he had thrown her and her husband (or ‘male friend’) out of the house and she turned up at the club after he’d joined George. There was also mention that John got nervous in the club when Mansfield started putting her hand on his leg.
A rendezvous between the star and the group took place at the Whiskey A Go Go on Sunset Strip. Mann further claims that John was annoyed when Jayne brought her husband along and said, “I just wanted to be alone with Jayne. I’ve dreamed about it.”
the Beatles were staying at the Hollywood suburb of Bel Air it was Jayne, dressed in a mauve cat suit, who dropped in to see them on Tuesday August 25 1964. John was said to be the only member of the group present and she tugged John’s hair and squealed, “Is this real?” to which John replied, dropping his eyes to her most famous features, “Well, are those real?” “There’s one way to find out,” she said.
Hutchins was with John at the time and reports that John offered to make cocktails. Out of the sight of Jayne and a male friend she’d brought along, he poured in gin, vodka, red wine, various liqueurs into a mixer – and then peed into it.
Jayne Mansfield suddenly entered and squeezed her way into the middle of them, allowing cameramen to take photographs. George was angry and threw a scotch and coke at a photographer, but an ice cube hit another actress, Mamie van Doren, in the face. George had said, “I finally decided to baptize him by chucking the ice-water at the bottom of my glass over him.” A picture of the incident appeared in a newspaper the following day.
George himself was to recall the incident: “Somebody conned us into going to the Whiskey A Go Go. It seemed to take us twenty minutes to get from the door to the table and instantly the whole of Hollywood paparazzi descended. It was a total set up by Jayne Mansfield to have pictures taken with us. John and I were sitting either side of her and she had her hands on our legs, by our groins – at least she did on mine. We’d been sitting there for hours, waiting to get a drink, we had glasses with ice in them, and the ice had all melted. A photographer came and tried to get a picture and I threw the glass of water at him. He took a photo of the water coming out of the glass and soaking the actress Mamie Van Doren, who just happened to be passing. We got out of there, it was hell. We left town and the next day, I remember sitting on the plane, reading the paper and there was the photo of me throwing the water.”
