The 10 greatest Womanizers in History
It is believed that popular people enjoy the greatest success among women: actors, musicians, and so on. But this does not always happen. In the list below you can see people who are not related to art, but they have gone down in history as notable ladies' men.
You probably thought our list of the world's greatest womanizers would start with an actor or a pop star, but you're wrong. Cuban dictator Fidel Castro allegedly slept with 35 thousand women during his life. According to one official from the Castro administration, he had at least two women a day for four decades: one for lunch, one for dinner, and sometimes he even ordered one for breakfast. Although there may be doubts about the accuracy of the above figure, there is no doubt that Castro's partners number in the thousands. When Anna Louise Bardach asked him in 1993 for her article how many children he had, he replied: "Almost a tribe."
In the course of research for her book, Bardach learned about Castro's strong attraction to the opposite sex, in the years before and after the 1959 revolution. According to media reports, female fans fainted after he arrived in Havana in triumph after early trips to the United States. Castro explained to Bardah that he views sex as an inalienable right. Bardach said: "I was never able to explain to him why there was a scandal with Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. He was really puzzled that the abundance of girlfriends could lead to some political consequences."
In his 1991 book titled "The View from Above," NBA superstar Wilt Chamberlain stated that he had 20,000 women during his lifetime. Shy and insecure as a teenager, the adult Wilt became a successful pick-up truck driver. Some remember him as a respectful and charming person, while others reproach him for rudeness and sexism.
Where did the number 20,000 come from? Wilt's friend Rod Roddevig stayed with Wilt in his penthouse for 10 days in the late 80s. During these 10 days, Rod celebrated every "trophy" of his friend. At the end of this check, 23 women were recorded, or 2.3 women per day. This figure was divided in half, then multiplied by the number of years that Wilt lived, minus the first 15 years of his life.
In 1999, just before his death at the age of 62, Wilt regretted not explaining his escapade at the time of the book's release, and begged other men not to admire his exploits. He felt that being with one woman for a long period of time was ultimately more satisfying.
Before his death in 2000, the eccentric blues singer "Screaming" Jay Hawkins told his close friends and his biographer Maral Nigolian that he was the father of 57 children. Known for his stunning stage antics and for the hit "I Charmed You", Hawkins led a legendary life of a ladies' man, which was not without drama: once one of his friends stabbed Hawkins in the back after learning that he was cheating on her. Hawkins lived to the age of 70 and performed on stage until the very end.
He said that the biggest regret in his life is that he does not know exactly how many sons he managed to conceive. When Hawkins died, Nigolian took action and first opened his website in an attempt to locate the Hawkins children and bring them together. At the moment, 33 officially confirmed descendants of the "Screaming" Jay Hawkins have been discovered. Others will probably be found later.
John Holmes, the star of more than 2,250 porn films and movies shot in the 70s and 80s, was perhaps the most prolific male porn actor of all time. By the end of the 70s, Holmes was already earning $3,000 a day as a porn actor, but his drug addiction was becoming an increasingly serious problem. At the end of the decade, in an attempt to improve his faded image, Holmes boasted to Hustler magazine that he had had sex with 14,000 women during his life. Some of them acted in films with him, some just paid him for his services. Pornography historian Luke Ford insists that this number is closer to 3,000, that is, 2.7 new women per week.
In 1986, Holmes died of HIV-related complications at the age of 43. Later, a film was made called "Boogie Night", based on his biography.
Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has slept with 5,000 women throughout his life, and he has photos that confirm this. In 2010, when Simmons was interviewed on one of the morning TV shows, he stated that he had photos of all the women who "decorated the bed in his bedroom" during all 37 years of his touring with Kiss. These photos were taken by Polaroid.
No one knows if he is telling the truth or if he created his own myth, but one thing is for sure: he led an exclusively "rock and roll" lifestyle. Simmons and his partner Shannon Tweed tied the knot only after 28 years of marriage. This happened in 2011. Their son Nick, who was 25 at the time, was the best man at their wedding, and their daughter Sophie, who was 22, was their bridesmaid at their wedding.
In 2010, Peter Biskind estimated that actor Warren Beatty had slept with 13,000 women. He wrote about it in his book "The Star: how Warren Beatty seduced America."
Beatty's PR team quickly denied a number of "victories", stating that the collection of information for a biographical book about Beatty was carried out without his permission. All these things are still the subject of legal disputes, but one thing is indisputable: Beatty was associated with many of the most desirable women in Hollywood, including Natalie Wood, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Joanne Collins, Carly Simon (it is assumed that it was Beatty who was the main character of Simon's song "You're wrong"). And Beatty married only in 1992 to the actress Annette Bening.
Although Casanova's numbers are much smaller than those mentioned in this list earlier, it is his name that is synonymous with the art of seduction today. Giacomo Casanova was born in 1725 and was the son of Venetian actors. He wanted to become a priest and entered a seminary, but was expelled from it after he was caught in bed with another student. Casanova had many professions: he was a secretary, a soldier, a preacher, an alchemist, a professional player, a violinist and even a spy. He rode well, was an intelligent and successful man, but his luck ended in 1755, when he was sentenced to 5 years in prison, accused of witchcraft. A year later, he managed to escape from prison and settle in Paris, where he wrote a pamphlet about his exploits, which became a real sensation.
Casanova traveled a lot and lived off his card winnings and endless charm, but it didn't last long. At the end of his life, full of bitterness and finally broken, Casanova wrote his autobiography, which was called Histoire de Ma Vie, in which he described in detail his numerous sexual exploits and thereby finally secured the fame of the greatest ladies' man in Italy.
The Mongol commander Genghis Khan was so prolific at one time that about 16 million men on our planet plus an unaccounted number of women are his direct descendants. In 2003, geneticists published a study that clearly showed that almost 8% of men living in the area of the former Mongolian Empire have almost identical Y chromosomes (that is, chromosomes transmitted from father to son). Researchers explain this phenomenon by the legendary activity of Genghis Khan. His empire stretched from the Caspian Sea to Pacific Ocean. He killed everyone who opposed him and took their women as his own. This fact has become a limiter of genetic diversity. Although researchers do not have a sample of Genghis Khan's tissue to examine his DNA (Khan's grave has not been found), the search in this direction continues.
Where did Lord Byron find the time? During his relatively short life (1788-1824), he managed to write thousands of poems, he traveled to Europe and the Middle East, communicated with many friends, often participated in boxing matches and engaged in fencing. He owned many animals: monkeys, parrots, dogs, goats, herons. And while he was a student at Cambridge, he even had a bear. In addition, he was probably an alcoholic and suffered from depression, paranoia and physical malaise.
We don't have exact data, but Byron is rumored to have slept with 250 women over the course of a year. He moved in high society, among aristocrats, actresses, their maids, various employees. Plus, he had endless one-time sexual relations with prostitutes of all stripes. He was also in a terrible marriage, and finally, he had an incestuous relationship with his half-sister.
Actor Jack Nicholson will always be remembered for his Oscar-winning roles in the films "Flying over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Words of Tenderness". But this glory can be overshadowed by his victories on the love front. Nicholson is rumored to have slept with 2,000 women. He had an affair with Anjelica Huston, Janice Dickinson, Michelle Phillips, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joni Mitchell, Melanie Griffith, Meryl Streep. But when he turned 77, he slowed down a bit: "If someone says, "Jack, you're a womanizer," I don't deny it. However, the life of a gigolo always ends very badly. This is one of the reasons why I feel uncomfortable being called a sex legend. I just don't have the strength anymore, I can't combine work and mischief anymore."