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LIKE THE SINGER, perhaps more so, the junior senator from Massachusetts suffered from an acute case of satyriasis. He liked partying in the Las Vegas casino where there were “blow jobs on the house.” Following one of his performances at the Sands, Sinatra introduced candidate John F. Kennedy to Judith Campbell. It happened during the filming of Ocean’s Eleven. Sinatra arranged a room-service lunch for Kennedy and Campbell in his private suite, and thus began a secret, torrid two-year affair that continued after Kennedy occupied the White House and despite the president’s awareness that Campbell was sleeping not only with him but with Sam Giancana, head of the Chicago mob. All this we know from the FBI files that Sinatra obtained in 1981 under the Freedom of Information Act and which were edited for book publication under the title The Sinatra Files: The Secret FBI Dossier (2000) by journalists Tom and Phil Kuntz. According to Giancana’s brother and son, “Frank reported to Mooney [i.e., Giancana] that Jack was immediately taken by this woman who reminded people of his wife, Jackie.” Giancana was reportedly close to ecstatic. He would adopt her as a moll. It would all work out to his advantage even if the dashing new president reneged on his father’s word.