Personal Life
Harvey was married three times: in 1957 to actress Margaret Leighton, whom he divorced in 1961; in 1968 to Joan Perry Cohn, the widow of film mogul Harry Cohn of (Columbia Pictures); and to Paulene Stone. Harvey met Stone on the set of A Dandy in Aspic, and while still married to Cohn he became a father for the first time when Stone gave birth to a daughter, Domino, in 1969. Eventually, Harvey divorced Cohn (who was 17 years his senior) and married Stone in 1972.
Numerous accounts contend Harvey was bisexual. In his account of being Frank Sinatra's valet, Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra (2003), George Jacobs writes that Harvey often made passes at him while visiting Sinatra. According to Jacobs, Sinatra was aware of Harvey's sexuality. In his autobiography Close Up (2004), British actor John Fraser claimed that Harvey was gay and that his long-term lover was his manager James Woolf, who "discovered" Harvey in the 1950s.
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