SCREEN heartthrob Rock Hudson married Phyllis Gates to cover up his homosexuality and then cruelly tried to cut her off with barely a cent — until she secretly recorded his gay confession and threatened to use it to ruin his career.
That’s the explosive revelation about the Hollywood hunk who played romantic leads in classic rom-coms like Pillow Talk with Doris Day from the ’50s until his shocking death from AIDS at age 59 in 1985.
Rock’s notorious secret gay life was about to be exposed by Confidential Magazine when his agent Henry Willson ordered him to get a wife, according to The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars and Marilyn, a bio about private eye Fred Otash, by Josh Young and Manfred Westphal.
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