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When the Beatles came to the U.S. and were asked which American celebrity they'd like to meet they cited Jayne Mansfield. Jayne hooked up with them at the Whiskey A-Go-Go. When she first met John, and saw his shag haircut she asked him if it was real. John quipped, while looking at her breasts, "Are those real?" Supposedly the meeting ended when George Harrison sloshed his glass of Scotch at an inebriated Jayne, and instead hit Mamie Van Doren square in the face.
Jayne and Matt Cimber married in 1964, and he became her new publicist. He attempted to get her into the "A" roles she had longed for again, and he set up many television appearances. Jayne turned down a contract for the television show "Gilligan's Island" which was later taken by Tina Louise.
She opened in New York City's Latin Quarter with a nightclub act, and even during one of the worst winters in the city, she played to packed houses every night. Filled with insecurities about her future, she poured herself into a Cimber role "Single Room Furnished," which did not even get distributed in her lifetime. She recognized the position she was in, and although this was certainly not one of the best roles, she said, "it is a role that will make people sit up and take notice about what I can do."
It was now 1966. Her marriage to Matt was on a rocky decline, and she filed for divorce. She toured South America for two months during the summer performing, and was trapped there, when she refused to pay exit charges for the money she had made while she was there. She contacted lawyer Sam Brody, an associate of Melvin Belli who had represented Jack Ruby. Sam Brody helped her skillfully sort out her finances, and that only seemed to be good reason to Jayne to start a wild affair with him. During their short and abusive relationship many tragedies would come to Jayne. Her son Zoltan was mauled by a lion on their visit to "Jungleland." The press was actually kind to Jayne during her vigil to the hospital for Zoltan.