July 22, 2023, published at 5 a.m. ET
Years before Tony BennettAfter his death, his ex-wife called the crooner a drug-dazed “old fool” — who married a woman young enough to be his daughter just days after their divorce was final. RadarOnline.com can reveal.
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“The Tony I knew is not the same smiley that Mr. Nice Guy knows the world,” his scored ex, Sandra Grant Bennettsaid just four years before his death at age 96.
“He’s been a star for three generations, but there’s another side to this great singer.”
Tony Bennett with his ex-wife Sandra
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Sandra counted the I left my heart in San Francisco legend rejected her raising their two daughters – even though she saved him from his death a drug overdose.
“Once we had the kids, I couldn’t travel with him much, which annoyed him,” said Sandra. “And I became very concerned about it his drug usewhich seemed to make him paranoid.”
Tony Bennett with his ex-wife Sandra and daughters
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Bennett is devastated by the death of his beloved mother in 1977 and barely has any work outside of Las Vegas. OD’d on cocaine and passed out in a bathtub. Fortunately, Sandra came home and rushed him to a hospital.
“Tony will be outraged by Sandra’s accusations,” a friend warned at the time. “He has admitted that he used drugs in the 1970s and stopped.”
Bennett started seeing Sandra when he was still married to his first wife, Patricia Beech, the mother of his two sons. He and Patricia divorced in 1971 – after Sandra gave birth to Bennett’s daughter Joanna in 1970.
Bennett and Sandra eventually married and had a second daughter, Antonia, in 1974.
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But Sandra claimed that Bennett ruined her financially because he owed back taxes and he “allowed our family home to be sold below us, even though his daughters and I had nowhere else to live.”
They separated in 1979, but didn’t officially divorce until 2007 — and Bennett quickly tied the knot with four decades his junior Susan Crow.
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At that point, Sandra snapped, “I’m very happy to finally be free, and good luck to his current wife. But maybe it’s the opposite and I should wish him luck. There’s no fool like an old fool.”
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Tony Bennett with third wife Susan Crow
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Bennett was still married to 56-year-old Crow when he died. As RadarOnline.com reported, the legendary singer’s longtime publicist, Sylvia Weiner, confirmed his death on Friday morning.
Bennett suffered from Alzheimer’s disease to the end. He kept his fight against the degenerative brain disease a secret until 2021.
The news of his diagnosis was revealed in AARP The Magazine. It was later confirmed on Bennett’s official tweet.
“Life is a gift – even with Alzheimer’s disease. Thank you to Susan and my family for their support, and AARP The Magazine for telling my story,” the post read.