Sammy Davis Jr .: Daughter of Rat Pack Star has died

The only daughter of the Rat Pack legend Sammy Davis Jr. is dead. She died in early November at the age of 59.

The author Tracey Davis (1961-2020, "A Personal Journey with My Father"), daughter of the entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990), is already on November 2nd at the age of 59 in the city of Franklin, im Tennessee, United States, died. This is reported by the US media, citing a statement from her ex-husband. The cause of death is unknown.

Davis was the only daughter of Davis Jr., who was part of the legendary Rat Pack alongside Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) and Dean Martin (1917-1995). In addition to Tracey, who was from a marriage (1960-1968) to actress May Britt (87), Sammy Davis Jr. had three adopted sons – Jeff, Mark and Manny.

Your father was an "extraordinary man"

It was only in mid-October that the industry magazine "Variety" reported that a biopic about Sammy Davis Jr. was to be shot, based on the book "Sammy Davis Jr .: My Father", which was published in 1996 and was written by Tracey Davis together with Dolores A Barclay was written. "I'm overjoyed that my father's private and public life is coming to the big screen through this team of storytellers," the author explained at the time. She described Davis Jr., among other things, as an "extraordinary man" who was allowed to experience "enormous joys", but also had to face "hard fights".

"He and my mother May Britt stood up to the world and chose love and compassion instead of hate and bigotry – and I am the product of that choice," she said. The African-American entertainer and the Swedish actress married in 1960 at a time when so-called mixed marriages were still forbidden by law in many US states.