Personal Life
Smith is of Irish and Native American ancestry. Smith married Louis Prima in 1953 and divorced him in 1961. They had three children. In 1965, she married Jimmy Bowen. The couple divorced in 1969.
Smith married musician Bobby Milano in 1975 in Palm Springs. Frank Sinatra gave the bride away.
In 1986 she faced legal problems for failing to withhold employee personal income and disability insurance taxes in connection with vending companies she owned in Palm Springs.
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