Frank Sinatra’s 4th Wife Barbara Dies At Age 90

Barbara Sinatra, the fourth wife of singer Frank Sinatra, died Tuesday at the age of 90.

John Thoresen, director of the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center in Rancho Mirage, California, said in a statement that Sinatra died of natural causes, surrounded by her family and friends at her home in the desert city.

She was born in Bosworth, Missouri in 1927 and did not move out to California until her late teens, settling with her mother in Long Beach after being accepted to the Robert Edward School of Professional Modeling.

Born Barbara Blakely, she was a former model and Las Vegas showgirl who married the famed singer and actor in 1976.


She had been married to him for 22 years when he died of a heart attack in 1998.

She leveraged the fame afforded to her by way of her marriage to raise funds and rally support for a number of charitable causes, most notably the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center at Eisenhower Medical Center.

She had previously been married to Zeppo Marx, the youngest of the Marx Brothers comedy team.

It was the longest of Frank Sinatra’s marriages, which included unions with actresses Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow, and teenage sweetheart Nancy Barbato.