Is Paul Novak Dead or Still Alive? Paul Novak Birthday and Date of Death

Paul Novak Death

Paul passed away on July 7, 1999 at the age of 76 in Santa Monica, CA.

Paul Novak Birthday and Date of Death

Paul Novak was born on June 10, 1923 and died on July 7, 1999. Paul was 76 years old at the time of death.

Birthday: June 10, 1923
Date of Death: July 7, 1999
Age at Death: 76

Paul Novak - Biography

Among the many men who used to call by Mae West's house in Santa Monica, California, after working out on nearby Muscle Beach was a wrestler called Mr Baltimore, who has died aged 76. Otherwise known as Chester Krauser, he had been in the chorus line of West's mid-50s nightclub act. West was 62 and had currently been involved with two other hunks from her stage act. But as West recalled, the 32-year-old Mr Baltimore 'had an air of serious liveliness about him one day that I supposed conveyed his happiness at having me all alone.'Mr Baltimore became Paul Novak during his long liaison with Mae West. Of Polish origins, he had been born Chester Ribowsky in Baltimore, and had served in the merchant navy as a gunner in the second world war and in Korea.Chester and Mae remained together to the end - their union cemented by his new name. It appears that he decided to change it after the publicity generated by a punch-up with Mr Universe, one Mickey Hargitay. Jayne Mansfield had not only become smitten by Hargitay but, mindful of publicity, had tried to suggest she had saved him from Miss West's clutches.Apart from this fracas, which resulted in a three-day court case thrown out by the judge, Novak kept out of the public eye but was steadfast in his support of Mae West for 25 years.According to the ragtime expert Ian Whitcomb, visitors to her apartment were always greeted at the door by an eyeball in the spyglass, then a shuffling and then Paul Novak, in blue blazer and black trousers. Novak then led visitors in to await Miss West in the sitting-room. Whitcomb thought Novak decent, kind, very shy.Once he mentioned in print that Novak carried in some groceries. 'A star does not mention groceries,' she told him. But the only time that he saw Novak upset was during the making of her album Great Balls Of Fire. When Whitcomb said 'Cut!' during a vocal take, Novak was offended on her behalf and pulled out the gun he always carried. Novak was certainly always glad to see her, and she daily performed fellatio upon him because she thought it good for her skin.She and Novak never married. West had been married in 1911 and did not divorce until 1942 when her husband, a fellow vaudevillian, by then billing himself as 'Mae West's husband', scented millions but was sent packing by the divorce judge.That she found happiness with Novak might be given undue spin by arch-moralists but her public persona was having none of that. She was once alarmed at his getting up early and sneaking away; she feared another woman, but in fact he was only going sailing.When she died in 1980, he was left only $10,000 - not out of parsimony, but because, being superstitious, he had always resisted her suggestion that it was high time she revised her will. Diamonds had not been her best friend, but Novak had.