Good Morning POU! This week we’ll take a look at some notorious affairs among celebrities from back in the day at their peaks!
There is a reason Eartha Kitt has that look in this picture with Harry Belafonte. She wrote in her autobiography “Confessions of a Sex Kitten” her encounter with Harry.
“During the time I was at the Village Vanguard I met Harry Belafonte. I thought he was handsome and at the time our relationship remained quite formal. He seemed busy catching little white flies, as he proved to me later in Philadelphia, where getting up from my bed, he said, “I don’t want you to take this seriously. No black woman can do anything for me.” There went my heart into my feet.”
Here’s more of what Eartha Kitt had to say about Harry Belafonte:
To be fair, he couldn’t have handled her anyway:
“I don’t think I ever want to fit in. I want them to fit into me” pic.twitter.com/SC942W0hfj
— Big Country (@Jordan_Elise) November 11, 2023