Carole Mallory, the model/actress who had a nine-year affair with Norman Mailer, chronicles their kinky sexcapades in “Loving Mailer,” due next month from Phoenix Books.
Mallory graced the covers of Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Esquire in the ’70s and stole scenes in “The Stepford Wives” and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar.” Along the way, she dated Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Rod Stewart, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and Richard Gere.
“I wanted to have sex with Warren Beatty,” the book starts. Mallory then describes a 1971 dinner at Elaine’s with Beatty and director Robert Altman that led to a heavy make-out session in the back of a cab and sex on a swiveling Lucite bar stool and then atop a table.
But the love of her life was Mailer, whom she met at Elaine’s in 1983. “Norman was an oxymoron — an overweight senior citizen who was one of the best lovers I ever had.”
Mallory writes that Mailer never had erectile dysfunction: “Not once. Not in nine years . . . He’d look at me naked in one of those not-so-trashy lingerie get-ups . . . G-strings, corsets, teddies, suspenders and nothing else . . . Each week I’d surprise him with a new outfit.
“Each week he’d want to play a new game . . . doctor, manicurist, masseur, Hollywood director (that was his favorite).”
The relationship had started to go downhill by 1990, when Mailer — who was married to his sixth wife, Norris Church Mailer — gave Mallory a VCR for Christmas so they could watch porn together: “My Christmas present from Norman had been for Norman.”
Mallory had hoped Mailer would mentor her and teach her how to write but ultimately felt exploited: “When our relationship ended, I realized that . . . Norman had never been on my team and had been slandering my writing and me behind my back.”