Memoir - Hollywood Rent Boy 1940's - 1980's

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The [I]Daily Mail[/I] reports, 30 Jan 2012:

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A former Marine turned rent boy for some of Hollywood's biggest names in the 1940s claims to have had threesomes with the abdicated King of England Edward VIII and his wife Wallis Simpson.

Scotty Bowers, now 88, has opened up his little black book in a tell-all shedding light on his prostitution ring catering for the royal couple as well as gay and bisexual A-listers such as Cary Grant, George Cukor and Rock Hudson.

'Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars' opens the doors of the closeted, x-rated under world of old Hollywood over three decades.

Stories in the 286 page book tell of arranging bedroom partners for actresses like Rita Hayworth and Katherine Hepburn, the latter of which he says he set up sexual encounters for with 'over 150 different women', reports the New York Times.

His own lovers he claims included Edith Piaf, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh and Cary Grant.

Mr Bowers also says he serviced Edward VIII and his wife Wallis, allegedly sharing a series of three in the bed romps with the couple.

He has been inundated with book and film offers but has until know remain tight-lipped over the secret lives of his famous clients.

'Iâ??ve kept silent all these years because I didnâ??t want to hurt any of these people,' Mr Bowers told the Times in an interview, adding that he doesn't need the money.

'And I never saw the fascination. So they liked sex how they liked it. Who cares?'

'I finally said yes because Iâ??m not getting any younger and all of my famous tricks are dead by now. The truth canâ??t hurt them anymore.' Mr Bowers told the Times.

However, Mr Bower's chronicle of old Hollywood's sexual underground is likely to upset the relatives and fans of some of those exposed.

Mr Bowers, who now lives in Hollywood Hills with his wife of 27 years Lois, said it all started in 1946, when he was just 23.

Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II he got a job at a gas station near Paramount Pictures, reports the Times.

He was pumping gas one day when actor Walter Pidgeon drove up and propositioned him with a $20 bill.

He accepted, and soon the word spread and, according to Mr Bowers, he stumbled into a business that he ran from his base at the gas station servicing clients himself as well as setting them up with his handsome marine friends.

Mr Bowers, whose striking good looks attracted Hollywood's biggest icons, said the station was a 'safer hangout' then gay bars, which were often raided as it was the time of the vice squad., reports the Times.

'Sometimes police would come around, sure. But I think I never got caught partly because I kept everything in my head. There was no little black book.' He told the Times.

However, he quit his job in 1950 and told the Times he supported himself for the next 20 years through prostitution, bar work and working as a handyman.

In his book, Mr Bowers writes that, in addition to his gay clients, he also gained a following among heterosexual actors like Desi Arnaz, who used him as a matchmaking service.

Mr Bowers claims he never accepted payment for organising sexual encounters, reports the Times.

'I wasnâ??t a pimp,' he said.

Mr Bowers, who told the Times that he prefers the sexual company of women, said he continued his unorthodox life until the onset of AIDS in the 1980s and he got married in 1984.

The disease 'brought an end to the sexual freedoms that had defined much of life in Tinseltown ever since the birth of movies,' Mr. Bowers writes according to the Times.

'It was obvious that my days of arranging tricks for others were over. It was too unsafe a game to play anymore.'

His story is set to be published by Grove Press on February 14 and is written with Lionel Friedberg, an award-winning producer of documentaries.

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