He loved to show off the young men he was mentoring.

There is a coffee table book that has been in the works for ages.

It has been completed, but I don’t think it will ever find a publisher.

It contains photos of generally half naked men.

Sometimes completely naked and sometimes fully clothed, but for the most part looking like a Studio 54 busboy.

The photos were all taken at parties hosted by this former A+ list talk show host and game show creator.

He loved to show off the young men he was mentoring. The thing is, the photos from these parties that are included in the coffee table book are dozens of current and former A list celebrities who would probably not want to be viewed in that light.

I know this former A+ list mostly television actor from a defunct long running hit network show is one who has voiced his opposition to being included.

Merv Griffin

Merv Griffin’s Se.xual Relations with Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, and All of Tinseltown

Two years ago, Merv Griffin died, leaving behind a legacy that included Wheel Of Fortune, Jeopardy, hotels, side business ventures, and more than a billion dollars. Also: speculation. Rumors about Griffin being a big ‘mo aren’t new, and they weren’t helped by two lawsuits (a palimony claim, and a se.xual harassment charge) by two dudes in the 90s. Though dismissed, the lawsuits put Griffin on the spot, and while he never denied being gay, he didn’t own it either. Now, someone else is doing it for him.

Author Darwin Porter’s niche is posthumously outing celebrities. He did it for Marlon Brandon. He did it for Katharine Hepburn. And now he’s doing it to Griffin with Merv Griffin: a Life in the Closet. Having just hit bookstores, Porter is on a media tour — a stop that includes Cindy Adam’s column.

Of Griffin, Porter says, “We met in ’59 when he sang for my senior prom and the student committee paid him $500. What he made then was a far cry from the billionaire he was at the end.”

But what about the se.x? “He lost his virginity, to a female, that is, when Judy Garland seduced him. His first crush was Errol Flynn, whom he saw passed out naked on a couch. His roommate a year and a half was Montgomery Clift. He lived with Roddy McDowall here at the Dakota, where he introduced Eddie Fisher to Elizabeth Taylor. He maintained a virtual male harem and a pimp who supplied porn stars, but I don’t go into his pay-for-gay guys. I keep it to his A-list dates like Rock Hudson, whom he met through Henry Wilson, Rock’s agent, and who advised him to keep his se.xuality quiet. And there was a young James Dean selling his se.x for cash. Plus Judy Garland’s ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ boy next door, Tom Drake, who, by the way, ended up a used car salesman. There was Peter Lawford, Robert Walker, Gordon Scott the then-Tarzan. And lots about Merv’s prolonged se.xual tryst with Marlon Brando. There are his experiences at Liberace’s all-male orgies. His first encounter, a boyhood friend he grew up with, later tried writing a book about Merv. This being an era when male actors felt homose.xuality was a danger to their career, lawyers shot down that book fast.”

And if that wasn’t scandalous enough: “I write that friends who went to school with him in San Mateo say, when he was a young homose.xual growing up, he was se.xually molested” by a priest. Source