According to Leigh he became ‘adept at playing London’s gay elite’.Ī Bowie acquaintance from those years put it more bluntly, saying: ‘I said he would either be a gigantic star or make a lot of money in the Piccadilly men’s loo.’ Leigh describes how Bowie and his first wife, Angie, ‘were notorious about weaving a sexual web around those who took their fancy’ and met while they were having an affair with the same man.īowie, born in Brixton and raised in modest circumstances in the London suburb of Bromley, was determined to break into London’s music scene. However, according to extracts of the new book published in the New York Daily News, Leigh believes that Bowie was only ready to settle down after satisfying a voracious sexual appetite. Nowadays, Bowie, 67, is a father and lives in conventional matrimony with his Somali supermodel second wife, Iman. In a new book, Bowie, author Wendy Leigh spoke to the singer's friends, ex-lovers, business associates and industry insiders to ask whether he was a sex addict or a show business star who was keen to make himself seem more exciting to fans. This was the first occasion the pair - who had an 'amorous friendship' - had metĭavid Bowie was a sex fanatic who became obsessed with bedding as many partners - men or women - as possible, a new book claims.īowie's colourful, gender-bending sex life has included rumored relationships with Elizabeth Taylor and Bianca Jagger as well as ones - which the women have themselves confirmed - with Marianne Faithfull and Susan Sarandon.īut he has also been linked with a string of men including Mick Jagger - rumours that were encouraged by Bowie's past claims to have been both gay and bi-sexual.
David Bowie sharing a cigarette with Elizabeth Taylor in 1975.