Eliot Weisman: ‘I was terrified Frank Sinatra would shoot someone’

Frank Sinatra with his longtime manager and pal Eliot Weisman

Sinatra was a suave, swaggering crooner quick with his fists who loved to carry a glass of Jack Daniel’s, a pack of Camel cigarettes and a pack of cherry-flavour Life Saver sweets with him. But unknown to his fans, Sinatra often carried a loaded gun when he performed on stage and kept an Uzi sub-machine gun in his private jet, a shocking new memoir reveals.And when the entertainer showed signs of confusion and memory loss in later years aides were terrified he might start shooting at concerts.