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Phyllis Jean McGuire (February 14, 1931 – December 29, 2020)

Phyllis McGuire, Lead Singer And Last Of Pop Trio McGuire Sisters Dead at 89

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December 31, 2020
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Phyllis McGuire, the youngest of the harmonizing, chart-topping trio The McGuire Sisters, died Tuesday at her estate in Las Vegas. She was 89.

McGuire lived a storied life. Discovered when she and her sisters tried out for Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts in 1952, Phyllis and the older Christine and Dorothy McGuire epitomized a certain sweet image of America in the 1950s. Through multiple appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and the variety shows of Milton Berle, Perry Como, Andy Williams, and Red Skelton, the sisters offered a sugary counterpoint to the burgeoning wave of rock ‘n’ roll acts.

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The trio, who matched their hairstyles and dresses, sold millions of records. They toured extensively throughout the ’50s and ’60s, released chart-topping renditions of “Sincerely” and “Sugartime,” and sang for five U.S. presidents. The group broke up in 1968.

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Phyllis, who sang lead, launched a successful solo career and often played in Vegas, where she also settled. Her 26,000-square-foot home there was the stuff of legend, boasting an Arc de Triomphe, a structurally integrated 45-foot version of the Eiffel Tower, and a moat with swans in it. In 1989, Phyllis McGuire gave Barbara Walters a look at her estate and jewelry collection, including a 34-karat diamond.

Her love life was the stuff of legend, as well. In 1961, McGuire met and began seeing mobster Sam Giancana. The public revelation of their relationship damaged her girl-next-door image.

She was compelled to testify about the relationship before a grand jury in Chicago in 1965. McGuire told the jury she traveled worldwide with Giancana, and she knew he was rumored to be a mobster but knew nothing about that side of his life.

“It makes me look terrible,” Phyllis McGuire later told the press. “It would be different if I were on my own, but I’m not a single —- I’m part of a trio. My sisters and my parents — they’re brokenhearted about this.” Giancana was killed at his home in 1975.

Her relationship with Giancana was the subject of HBO’s Sugartime in 1995. Mary-Louise Parker played the singer, and John Turturro played Giancana.

McGuire was married only once, very early in life. She told Walters, “It was a horrible mistake.” While her sisters mostly retired, married, and had children, Phyllis sang on.

The trio reunited in 1986 and toured nightclubs and played casinos in Vegas. The sisters were inducted into the National Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame seven years later. In 2004 they performed on the PBS special Magic Moments: Best of 50’s Pop.

Outside of singing, McGuire acted opposite her friend Frank Sinatra in 1963’s “Come Blow Your Horn.”

Phyllis, born in Middletown, Ohio, on Feb. 14, 1931, was preceded in death by Dorothy in 2012 and Christine in 2018. She shared her lavish estate with longtime companion Mike Davis, an oil tycoon who died in 2016.

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