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Frank Sinatra, Jr. Has Died

Frank Sinatra, Jr. has died. The son of the famous Sinatra, Sr., who followed in his father’s footsteps, died at the age of 72. Sinatra Jr.’s bizarre kidnapping added a very bizarre chapter to his father’s legacy. The New York Times writes of Frank Sinatra Jr.’s death: The younger Mr. Sinatra died of cardiac arrest while on tour in Daytona Beach, Fla., the Sinatra family said in a statement to The Associated Press. The statement said the family mourned the untimely passing of their son, brother, father and uncle. No other details were provided. His real name was Francis Wayne Sinatra — his father’s full name was Francis Albert Sinatra — but he went professionally by Frank Sinatra Jr. Mr. Sinatra was the middle child of the elder Mr. Sinatra and Nancy Barbato Sinatra, who was the senior Mr. Sinatra’s first wife and the mother of all three of his children. Mr. Sinatra’s older sister was Nancy Sinatra, who had a successful musical career of her own, and his younger sister was the TV producer Tina Sinatra. He was born in Jersey City in 1944, just as his father’s career was getting started, and he would watch him become one [...]