page_title: Jayne Mansfield
section_title: Third marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Jayne Mansfield / Personal life / Third marriage
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Jayne Mansfield and her lawyer-boyfriend Sam Brody posing for a photo before a trip to Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where Mansfield was to do some television work. This photo was taken at Chicago's O'Hare airport; Mansfield and Brody arrived from Los Angeles to make their transatlantic air connection. About six weeks after this photo was taken, Mansfield and Brody died, along with the driver of their car, in an auto-truck crash in Louisiana. This is probably one of the last photos of Mansfield.
context_page_description: Jayne Mansfield was an American film, theater, and television actress. She was also a singer and nightclub entertainer as well as one of the early Playboy Playmates. She was a major Hollywood sex symbol during the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox. She was also known for her well-publicized personal life and publicity stunts, such as "wardrobe malfunctions".
  Mansfield's film career was short-lived, but she had several box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe. She enjoyed success in the role of fictional actress Rita Marlowe, both in the 1955–1956 Broadway version and the 1957 film version of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Her other major movie performances were in The Girl Can't Help It, The Wayward Bus, and Too Hot to Handle. She became the first major American actress in a post-silent Hollywood film to have a nude scene in Promises! Promises!.
  Mansfield took her professional name from her first husband, public-relations professional Paul Mansfield. She was married and divorced three times and had five children. She allegedly was intimately involved with numerous men, including Robert and John F.
context_section_description: Mansfield became involved with Matt Cimber (a.k.a. Matteo Ottaviano, né Thomas Vitale Ottaviano), an Italian-born film director, when he directed her in a stage production of Bus Stop in Yonkers, New York, costarring Hargitay. She married him on September 24, 1964, in Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The couple separated on July 11, 1965, and filed for divorce on July 20, 1966. Cimber took over managing her career during their marriage, and guided her through a series of increasingly tawdry projects like Promises, Promises and The Las Vegas Hillbillys. Mansfield's marriage to Cimber began to collapse in the wake of her alcohol abuse, open infidelities, and her disclosure to Cimber that she had been happy only with her former lover, Nelson Sardelli. Work on Mansfield's film, Single Room Furnished directed by Cimber (1966), was suspended. The couple had one son, Antonio Raphael Ottaviano (a.k.a. Tony Cimber, born October 18, 1965).  Cimber, and his third wife dress designer Christy Hilliard Hanak, whom he married on December 2, 1967, raised Tony, Mansfield's youngest child. Cimber later worked as an announcer for Married... with Children and a producer for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
  At the time, Mansfield had degenerated into alcoholism, drunken brawls, and performing at cheap burlesque shows. By July 1966, she started living with her attorney, Sam Brody, who had frequent drunken brawls with her and mistreated her eldest daughter, Jayne Marie. Sam's wife, Beverly Brody, filed a divorce suit naming Mansfield the "41st other woman" in Sam's life.
  Two weeks before her mother's death in 1967, 16-year-old Jayne Marie accused Sam Brody of beating her. The girl's statement to officers of the Los Angeles Police Department the following morning implicated her mother in encouraging the abuse, and days later a juvenile court judge awarded temporary custody of Jayne Marie to Paul's uncle William W. Pigue and his wife Mary.
caption: Mansfield with attorney and boyfriend Sam Brody, Germany, 1967
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