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DEVILISH: David Niven bedded many famous stars and starlets
He slurred his words so badly that viewers assumed he must be drunk but the problem was far more serious.
Shortly afterwards, Niven was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and had two years to live.
That much we have always known about the sad end to his career. However, a startling new biography – based on a set of candid interviews conducted shortly before the actor’s death 26 years ago but only now published – reveals he had for years suffered from a different kind of disease.
He was addicted to sex.
It began during his school holidays at 14, when he fell in love with a 17-year-old prostitute he’d picked up at Piccadilly Circus.
“I’ve been addicted to sex ever since,” he told Michael Munn, the trusted biographer he summoned in his dying years.
In his time he romanced actresses Loretta Young, Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Merle Oberon, as well as the beautiful Princess Marina and even Princes