Classic Hollywood Marriages the Studios Fought to Keep Secret

Mobsters and studio bosses delivered a clear threat to Sammy Davis Jr. in 1958: stop dating white actress Kim Novak, or else. For his own safety, Davis was forced into paying Black singer Loray White $10,000 to enter a fake, secret marriage. The union worked and calmed the threats of violence. Months later, the marriage was dissolved just as quietly as it began.