Deaths
Concerning the group's reputation for womanizing and heavy drinking, Joey Bishop stated in a 1998 interview: "I never saw Frank, Dean, Sammy, or Peter drunk during performances. That was only a gag! And do you believe these guys had to chase broads? They had to chase 'em away! "
- Peter Lawford died on December 24, 1984, of cardiac arrest complicated by kidney and liver failure at the age of 61.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. died at the age of 64 on May 16, 1990, of complications from throat cancer.
- Dean Martin died at home on Christmas morning, December 25, 1995, aged 78.
- Frank Sinatra died on May 14, 1998, at the age of 82.
- Joey Bishop, the last surviving and longest-lived (89) Rat Pack member, died on October 17, 2007.
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