Molly Parkin Tried to Steal George When He Was Alive - and Now She's Tarnished His Death with Her Shameless Lies ; Writer Molly Parkin Claims George Melly Tried to Seduce Her On His Deathbed. Here the Jazzman's Livid Wife has Her Say...

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If George Melly personified an era of excess, here was an amusing vignette to sum up the man, his mores and his legendary appetites. As he lay dying, destroyed by lung cancer and all but speechless in the upstairs drawing room of his rambling London house, it seemed the much-loved jazz musician still hoped for one last dalliance with a lady visitor.

The writer Molly Parkin was by his side, paying her last respects, yet somehow he found the energy to ask if she might join him between the sheets. 'George lay there smiling sweetly and then invited me into his bed,' she recalls in her shocking memoir Welcome To Mollywood, published last week. 'Moll,' he is said to have told her, 'let's have a last cuddle at least, to relive the old times.'

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Molly Parkin Tried to Steal George When He Was Alive - and Now She's Tarnished His Death with Her Shameless Lies ; Writer Molly Parkin Claims George Melly Tried to Seduce Her On His Deathbed. Here the Jazzman's Livid Wife has Her Say...

The 78-year-old writer, almost Melly's equal in flamboyance, says she felt it proper to decline.

Parkin's anecdote is as tasteless as it is improbable and many of her regular readers will think it harmless, too. By the standards of her uncompromisingly sex-fuelled books - including Fast And Loose, Up Tight and Full Up - her account of Melly's final proposition is mild, to say the least, and her memoir shrugs the episode aside as little more than a risque moment from her long and frisson-filled life.

Besides, Melly, who died aged 80 in July 2007 having refused all treatment for ...

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