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Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero; December 12, 1937) is an American pop singer, actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. She is estimated to have sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
Apr 2, 2014 · Following a November 1974 performance at the Westbury Music Fair in Westbury, New York, Francis was the victim of a brutal rape and robbery after an intruder broke into her hotel room and held...
Jan 26, 2018 · She was terrorized for nearly three hours at knife-point, raped and robbed. The crime led to a nervous breakdown, a crumbling marriage and it nearly ended her career. Fox News spoke with...
Mar 23, 2023 · Depression, a miscarriage and a brutal attack in 1974 after a concert at the Westbury Music Fair where she was robbed, beaten and raped made her a recluse.
May 6, 2024 · Connie Francis, American singer whose recordings in the 1950s and ’60s encompassed country, rock and roll, and traditional pop. She was known for her pursuit of non-Anglophone audiences, which made her an international star, and for her tortured personal life. Learn more about her life and career.
Jan 15, 2018 · While appearing at the Westbury Music Fairin New York, on November 8, 1974, Francis was raped at the Jericho Turnpike Howard Johnson’s Lodge in Jericho, New York, and nearly suffocated to death by a heavy mattress that her assailant had thrown upon her.
Connie Francis. Actress: When the Boys Meet the Girls. Singer, composer, actress, entertainer and publisher Connie Francis was educated at Arts High School and was a music student of her father. At age 11 she appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (1948) as a singer and accordionist.
Jan 14, 2018 · Her brother was killed by mob hit men, she was raped, she lost her voice requiring years to recuperate and she was diagnosed with manic depression. Along the way, there was also a miscarriage and four failed marriages. “I tried to see humor in everything, even when I was in a mental institution.
Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero; December 12, 1937) is an American pop singer, actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. She is estimated to have sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
Dec 1, 2017 · Her brother was killed by mob hitmen, she was raped, she lost her voice requiring years to recuperate, and she was diagnosed with manic depression. Along the way, there was also a miscarriage and four failed marriages. "I tried to see humor in everything, even when I was in a mental institution.
