Carly Simon discovered that Warren Beatty was cheating on her therapist

She was going to write a verse of "you are so vain" about the female film star.


While most pop music is ephemeral, some songs are designed to last generations. Example:
"You are so vain" Carly Simon , celebrated the 50th anniversary of its release in November 1972 last year and recently trend on tiktok . With this shy hit, the famous singer-songwriter has become the first of the confessional pop songs today that Taylor Swift Prosper on. But well before fans to analyze Swift's words for clues on the celebrity of her boyfriend on whom she wrote, Simon had already perfected this art.

Fans have been debating for years, from which man Simon came out which would be so vain to think that this song was talking about him. Range of theories Since Mick Jagger For David Bowie For James Taylor For Cat Stevens . In 2015, the star revealed the song was not a single man , but three, and this part was inspired by his affair with the actor Warren Beatty . Beatty was a famous fertiler at the time, and Simon learned in a rather painful way that he had slept with other women when they were together. The 79 -year -old man wrote in her memoirs that she discovered that Beatty had deceived her own therapist. Ouch. Read the rest to find out more.

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Carly Simon's solo career started after a meeting with Sean Connery.

Carly and Lucy Simon performing in 1964
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Before going solo in 1970, Carly played with her sister, Lucy Simon , as Simon Sisters, singing mainly children's songs. As girls in half of the founding team behind Simon and Schuster, the two used their connections to visit. But their act of duo all managed to crash, according to the 2015 autobiography of Carly, Boys in trees , when they met the actor Sean Connery , at the height of his renown of James Bond in 1965, on a boat. She writes ( via The Hollywood Reporter ) that he proposed a trio, but the sisters refused it. Carly was shocked when Lucy decided to meet the film star alone the following night, leaving Carly alone in their room. She signed an agreement of solo artists when returned to their hometown of New York. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Warren Beatty had all the reputation of Playboy.

Joan Collins and Warren Beatty in 1959
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Beatty's acting career took off for the first time in 1960 with The many lives of Dobie Gillis And exploited his fame in his romantic life. The many loves of Warren Beatty include (but without limiting themselves) Natalie Wood ,, Jane Funda ,, Joan Collins (photo with him above), and Madonna . Dear, who was 16 when their paths crossed, said Vanity in 1990, "Warren has probably been with everyone I know, and unfortunately, I'm one of them." Whether or not the actor slept with nearly 13,000 women ( an accusation that he denies ) is not the point, however. What matters is that one of them was Carly Simon.

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Simon called Beatty a "glorious man specimen".

Warren Beatty in Kaleidoscope in 1966
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In his autobiography, Simon tells the first time that Beatty decided to visit her behind the scenes after a concert, in the early 1970s. "He approached me, looked at my face and lowered my breasts", she writes. "He said," Can I see you? "" The singer was amazed by his audacity and his sex appeal. "What a glorious specimen of man," she recalls in her book, according The New York Post . "He made them all ashamed, if the looks and the charm were what you were looking for. He dressed as a follow -up dog." Despite the speed with which she fell in love, Simon knew that it would not last.

She had an enlightening conversation with her therapist.

Carly Simon in 1976
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Simon tells in his book one evening, about a month in their relationship, Beatty called her from Los Angeles to say that he was flying to New York and "must see her" before heading for a set early in the morning . She said (via The New York Daily News ) that when the actor arrived shortly after midnight, they " Make love as in a movie "Until he left before sunrise. The singer" nobody does better "was later released this morning for her regular therapy appointment.

When her therapist asked Simon why she looked so tired, she started to get out of Beatty, their sex life and how he had been with her all night. And he didn't have the answer she expected. "In the circumstances, I cannot refuse this," said the therapist, "but] you are not the first patient of the day that spent the night with Warren Beatty last night." Whether or not Simon learned from his doctor who was the other person, she does not name them in his memories. All she says is that when she confronted Beatty on this subject, he laughs so hard at the irony that she forgave her.

The second verse of "you are so vain" concerns Beatty.

In 1972, Simon had gone from Beatty and was engaged to get married James Taylor , which would be her husband from 1972 to 1983. (Her autobiography notes that Beatty disapproved and pushed her to break him.) She also released "you are so vain", an instant sensation at a time when the lives of celebrities Were not usually, the subject of pop songs. Beatty apparently supposed that the whole song was talking about him, proving Simon Correct. However, he was only partially right - each of the verse about another man with whom Simon had been. Beatty was only the subject of the second verse, with the words: "You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive / Well, you said that we had made such a pretty pair and that You never leave / but you gave the things you love / and one of them was me. "


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