Warren Beatty
© AFP/Getty Images/FileNew York, Oct 1: He was Hollywood’s quintessential lady’s man who dated and broke countless hearts before finally finding true love and settling down into married life, but there’s not one disgruntled ex who has anything bad to say about Hollywood legend Warren Beatty.
Robert Benton, who was an untested writer when Beatty hired him to write the screen-play of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’, revealed that unlike a lot of celebrity couples who badmouth each other in the press after an acrimonious split, Beatty’s relationships had never turned bitter when they ended, and that the women in his life all thought of him as one of their “greatest friends”.
"[They] all think he's one of the greatest friends they'll ever have," the New York Daily News quoted Benton, as telling Premiere magazine.
As for why the women in Beatty’s past only have good things to say about the actor, well Hollywood leading lady Goldie Hawn revealed that it was because they were sure that any secrets of theirs would never find their way to the papers or the media.
"You can tell him your deepest, darkest secrets, and you can be sure that he will take that with him," said Hawn.
Beatty’s career as a lady’s man has been marked by a series of well publicized romances with Madonna, Isabelle Adjani, Candice Bergen, Leslie Caron, Julie Christie, Joan Collins, Catherine Deneuve, Janice Dickinson, Faye Dunaway, Britt Ekland, Jane Fonda, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Goldie Hawn, Margaux Hemingway, Barbara Hershey, Bianca Jagger, Diane Keaton, Elle Macpherson, Joni Mitchell, Michelle Phillips, Diana Ross, Jessica Savitch, Diane Sawyer, Stephanie Seymour, Carly Simon, Inger Stevens, Barbra Streisand, Liv Ullmann, Natalie Wood, and Susannah York among others.
Beatty’s days on Hollywood’s most eligible bachelors came to an end when he met actress Annette Bening on the sets of the movie Bugsy in 1991. The couple kept their romance under wraps, before tying the knot in 1992. (ANI)