Denial of Justice by Mark Shaw

Author:Mark Shaw [Shaw, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2018-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

Kilgallen and son Kerry at the townhouse.

In 2017, when Brenda DeJourdan was interviewed by this author and informed there was evidence that Kerry was Johnnie Ray’s son, DeJourdan said, “So that’s where the red hair came from.” If one compares childhood photos of Kerry with childhood photos of Johnnie Ray, there appears to be significant similarities between their respective noses. While Dorothy and Richard’s noses have some sharp curvature, neither Kerry’s nor Ray’s has that feature but instead a more rounded shape.

Providing more information about Kerry being Johnnie Ray’s son, Sinclaire said, “And I think that [Ray being Kerry’s father] is what she was referring to when she said she couldn’t divorce Richard because Richard had done too much for her.” Queried as to whether Richard had to pretend to be Kerry’s father, Sinclaire replied, “No, she never said that. And this was at the very end of her life that she told me this,” while admitting later that Kilgallen told him Richard had performed a “fatherly acting job.” As to whether Kilgallen would have ever wanted the truth to be told, Sinclaire said, “Oh, no, I would never have repeated it, and I’m very long in repeating it now. I’m not really sure why she told me that.”

Several factors may be evaluated as to the likelihood that Richard was not Kerry’s birth father. They include:

• Kilgallen’s friend Marlin Swing stating that she was “smitten, overwhelmed by the electricity of [Ray’s] new [musical] style” as early as 1952.

• There being little likelihood, based on the marital problems the couple had, Kilgallen’s lack of respect for her husband, and the common knowledge there were no sexual relations between them that Richard could have been Kerry’s father.

• Sinclaire stating in his videotaped interview: “I would imagine that anyone coming [into the home] would think Richard and Dorothy led a married life which they had ceased to do long before [the 1960s].”

• Sinclaire stating that he believed Kilgallen’s affair with Ray began at the same time Sinclaire first moved to New York City at the “end of 1952.”

• Sinclaire stating that “Since Ray was gay and Sinclaire’s gay friends on Fire Island were proud of Ray’s accomplishments, they were quick to tell Sinclaire the couple was meeting in hotels while keeping the affair secret.”

Stand-up comedian George Hopkins, a friend of Johnnie Ray, reported that Kilgallen met Ray at a 1952 press party for the singer at the New York Sheraton-Astor Hotel near Times Square and “asked others what they thought of Johnnie.” The date of the party is uncertain but apparently was in close proximity to Kilgallen’s “Voice of Broadway” column where she praised Ray’s hit song, “Please Mr. Sun.”

Based on his conversations with Ray for the book Cry, author Jonny Whiteside wrote, “Dick had shied away from performing his husbandly duties for years resulting in a pent-up yearning which Dorothy released with stupendous, and increasingly careless, ardor.” Whiteside added that Ray told him, “God, she was starved for affection. Sometimes I didn’t know how to handle it.”

Since Kerry was born in March 1954, Kilgallen’s pregnancy likely would have begun during June 1953.

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