![]() Thusly the scope of my project was transformed. Tiny had filled the ledgers and margins of accounting books with his thoughts, and I filled my own notebooks with new insights. After I mastered reading Tiny’s handwriting (entries written with either his right or left hand or-I am not kidding-left hand AND backwards), my understanding of Tiny took on a much more personal nature. had nineteen of Tiny’s personal diaries dating intermittently between 19.Īnd so began a relationship with Tiny’s personal thoughts. The sweet-sweet, strange-strange secrets of Tiny TimĪnd so began a relationship with Tiny’s personal thoughtsĪfter years, I tracked down the nephew of Jimmy “Get Lost” Cappy, who revealed that he had Tiny’s diaries in a corner of his (thankfully dry) basement in Arkansas.The media had largely focused their efforts on tabloidal exposés of Tiny’s already fairly well-known eccentricities, and had long since admitted defeated in their attempts to “ferret out the secrets of Tiny Tim’s bizarre origin”. Many of Tiny’s associates who I interviewed seemed to have come to terms with his peculiarities, and offered the interview equivalent of shrugged shoulders in regards to his inconsistencies. Though he was often shockingly forthright about his personal habits and sex life, he also routinely contradicted himself on a wide variety of topics. Tiny once described himself as the “master of confusion”, which was, I discovered, an apt description. Though I did not get everyone on my list, persistence paid off and and, between 20, I conducted over 100 interviews with Tiny's friends and associates including his first wife, Miss Vicki, and his widow, Miss Sue. Famed producer Richard Perry told me, “I had to turn down an interview with the BBC, so I certainly don't have time for you.” Tiny's second wife Miss Jan called New York TV / radio host Joe Franklin and demanded that he not speak to me. ![]() “GET LOST!” barked Jimmy Cappy, Tiny's thumb-breaker road manager from 1969-1976. They live in Savannah, Tn.Others on the hit list, however, proved elusive - and some hostile. She was profiled in a Februarticle in the Chicago Tribune at that point, she was running a boutique in Maple Shade Township, New Jersey.She was married to a high-school sweetheart (Jon Benson) in the summer of 2006. She gained notoriety when she posed nude for the October 1975 issue of Oui Magazine.She made headlines (as Victoria Lombardi) in 2002 as the girlfriend of Rabbi Fred Neulander, who was on trial for the murder of his wife, and was living in Haddonfield, New Jersey at the time. She filed for divorce on Mathe divorce was granted in 1977. Against Tim's wishes, Miss Vicki struck out on a modeling career, and began an affair with male model John Carmen. Johnny Carson invited him to have the wedding televised.The couple's first child was stillborn, but the couple had a girl, Tulip Victoria, on May 10, 1971. They conducted long-distance relationship by phone as he toured he asked her to marry him in August and announced the engagement on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in September. He was smitten, tracked her down and arranged another meeting. The couple honeymooned in Bermuda.The couple met when Budinger, a fan, asked Tiny Tim to sign a book of his poetry at Wanamaker's Department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 3, 1969. The cake was seven feet tall, and 10, 000 tulips were used as decoration. Victoria May "Miss Vicki" Budinger (born 1952), briefly famous as Tiny Tim's wife, was seventeen years old when she married the singer, who was more than twice her age, on The Tonight Show on December 17, 1969.The wedding was seen by an estimated 40 million viewers.
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