New
York
(ANI):
Academy
award
winner
Oscar
Vivien
Leigh
was
a
bisexual
who
fought
mental
illness
throughout
her
adult
life,
a
new
biography
has
revealed.
'Damn
You,
Scarlett
O'Hara'-
co-authored
by
Darwin
Porter
and
Roy
Moseley-documents
at
least
three
of
Leigh's
lesbian
lovers.
It
also
describes
her
unquenchable
desire
for
"rough
trade".
"In
the
1940s,
the
world's
most
recognizable
star
would
drive
down
to
Scotty's
with
her
friend
George
Cukor,
the
initial
director
of
'Gone
With
The
Wind',
and
they
would
both
pick
out
young
men
for
the
night," the
New
York
Post
quoted
a
publishing
source
as
telling
the
Sunday
Times.
"They
would
pay
the
men
with
gifts
such
as
cigarette
cases,
jewels,
or
even
stocks
and
bonds.
She
depended
on
the
professional
discretion
of
men
not
to
boast
they
had
just
serviced
Scarlett
O'Hara,"
added
the
source.
Leigh
was
seeing
another
rising
star,
Laurence
Olivier,
who
left
his
lesbian
wife
for
her.
However,
unpublished
memoirs
and
witness
accounts
have
suggested
that
within
months
of
becoming
lovers
in
1937,
they
were
both
"playing
away
from
home,"
claim
Porter,
who
knew
the
actress
in
the
''60s,
and
Moseley,
who
was
Olivier''s
personal
assistant.
Apart
from
an
affair
with
Brit
actress
Isabel
Jeans
and
at
least
two
other
women,
the
book
claims
Leigh
slept
with
a
couple
of
handsome
co-stars
like
Marlon
Brando
and
Rex
Harrison.