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By the time Arnold was 19, and had come to England to compete in the Mr Universe contest, his appetite for women was well-developed as was his crude approach to them. Newcastle bodybuilder John Citrone told me: Any time we were in hotels or bars, hed ask girls straight out: Do you want to come to bed with me? Women fell for Arnold like ninepins, and his success with them was legendary. When Arnold attained fame as a bodybuilder, his celebrity made it easy for him to indulge his desires. He won 13 bodybuilding titles, including becoming the youngest Mr Universe in history when he was only 20, and going on to win Mr Olympia an unprecedented seven times. This success only served to boost his arrogance and disrespect for women. His mentor, publisher Joe Weider, said that when a woman asked Arnold for an autograph, he would say Only if you let me touch your breast. Despite the fact that Arnolds crudeness around women is an open secret in the film business, it hasnt hindered his career one iota. His ability to carry on behaving badly while escaping censure has perhaps only served to encourage him. St Lucian bodybuilder Rick Wayne once saw Arnold, in the days before his relationship with Maria, approach a black restaurant employee, ask her why she worked so hard and then, in the next breath, invite her to come home with him for sex. The next morning, according to Wayne, Arnold made a point of saying to him: The girl said I was better than any black guy she ever had. He is a man with a burning desire to be the best at everything and that drive applied to his performance in bed as well as his professional career. By the time Arnold met Maria Shriver, in 1977, he had already starred in a documentary called Pumping Iron, developed a taste for country music and grasped the concept of the American Dream, through his first American girlfriend, a teacher named Barbara Outland. So when he met Maria, he instantly knew that she was his passport to the top echelons of American society. The daughter of Jack Kennedys favourite sister, Eunice, and her husband, Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver, Maria was highly eligible, intelligent and pretty, but also convent-educated, innocent and naive. Her naivety made it extremely easy for Arnold to maintain a relationship with her reaping all the rewards of being allied to a Kennedy princess while indulging his appetites for wild sex with another woman. At 25, she was four years younger than Arnold when they met on the beach in Venice, California. True to form, he made no bones about his sexual proclivities, telling her that he wanted an open relationship with her. Part of that relationship, according to Sue, included revealing the details of sexual liaisons they each had outside of their relationship. All he ever said about Maria was that she was just a friend, but I didnt believe him. Arnold managed to sustain simultaneous relationships with Sue and Maria for more than a year, also dallying with other women along the way. Arnold just said: Look, what if I came and gave you a cold would you be outraged? He turned it on me, telling me that I was outrageous even thinking there was anything wrong about getting a venereal disease from him. Despite his infidelities to Maria, Arnold artfully maintained the fiction that he was besotted by her, and faithful. His performance was so successful that, although he was a Republican, he was accepted by the Kennedy clan, gaining the approval of matriarch Rose Kennedy, JFKS mother. Maria, now a celebrated American TV journalist, seemed on the verge of becoming Mrs Arnold Schwarzenegger. But in 1984, Arnold embarked on a passionate sexual affair with Red Sonja co- star Brigitte Nielsen, and even took her home to meet his mother, Aurelia, in Graz. When Maria learned of Arnolds infidelity, she issued an ultimatum and, in August 1985, he proposed marriage to her Brigitte Nielsen, meanwhile, went on to marry, then divorce, Sylvester Stallone. In April 1986, in a romantic Cape Cod ceremony attended by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Grace Jones and countless Kennedy cousins, Arnold married Maria. He was now a fully-fledged member of Americas aristocracy and, it seemed, destined to live happily ever after with Maria. Starting with the 1982 blockbuster Conan The Barbarian, followed by Conan The Destroyer in 1984, he starred in Commando in 1985, and was soon earning $10million a film. However, forever reckless and arrogant, Arnold continued in his wild, womanising ways. According to Premiere journalist John Connolly, there were rumours that Arnold had an affair with co-star Rachel Ticotin during the 1990 making of the film Total Recall. Connolly quotes a journalist who accompanied the-then married Ticotin and Arnold on an evening out as saying: When I left them, they were making out and were all over each other on a banquette. The next day, I saw Arnold and Maria strolling out of the elevator. Maria gave me the look a married woman does when she knows that you know her husband is cheating on her. More recently, Arnold conducted a seven-year extra-marital affair with former Little House On The Prairie actress Gigi Goyette. According to an American magazine, Arnold and Gigi first met when she was 16 and he was 28 and unmarried. Last week, Gigi revealed that she had been Arnolds secret mistress for seven years. Although Gigis revelations were publicised throughout America, as were other revelations that Arnold was interrupted in his trailer while giving another woman oral sex, Maria Shriver steadfastly ignored all the evidence, standing by her man no matter what. Arnolds representatives, meanwhile, have constantly denied all such stories. But while Marias loyalty may well be prompted by her love for Arnold, as well as the four children they have together, in ignoring her husbands infidelity and inappropriate sexual approaches to other women Maria is simply acting like a classic Kennedy woman. JFKs mother, Rose Kennedy the matriarch whom Maria adored was the model, enduring infidelity in exchange for marriage to a rich and powerful man. Joe Kennedys affairs were legendary, and he even went so far as to take one mistress, Sunset Boulevard star Gloria Swanson, on a European cruise with him and Rose. The late columnist Doris Lilly was propositioned by Joe, and later one of his showgirl mistresses confided in her that Rose didnt care how many women Joe kept, as long as she had her family. Doris once said: The only time Rose had sexual relations with her husband was for the purpose of reproduction. Rose didnt object to Joes women as long as they didnt interfere with her personal life or her family. Roses daughter-in-law, Jacqueline Bouvier, who married JFK, followed her example. After she became aware of Jacks rampant womanising, she took her revenge by spending a fortune on clothes, and on redecorating the White House and finally, when she could no longer tolerate his affairs, accepting $1 million from Joe Kennedy to stay with Jack. Jacks brother, Bobby, followed in his footsteps so much so that they even had extra-marital affairs with the same women, sharing Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. True to Kennedy protocol, Bobbys wife Ethel never batted an eyelid. Clearly, Maria has learned from the other Kennedy women exactly how to grin and bear it while her husband gropes womens breasts, makes salacious sexual suggestions to them and, now and again, indulges in an extra-marital fling. Born and bred to endure the infidelity of a powerful husband, Maria will no doubt take solace in his wealth and prestige, and carry on being a classic Kennedy wife all the way to the Governors mansion.
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