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A Look Back at Rock Hudson and Lee Garlington's Secret 'True Love' Story (Exclusive)
Rock Hudson and Lee Garlington’s love story was brief, but it was the greatest love of the legendary actor’s life.
On Sunday, PEOPLE confirmed that Garlington died at age 86 in December, nearly four decades after Hudson’s own death in 1985. The star was just 59 at the time, and had been diagnosed with AIDS a year earlier.
The pair dated from 1962 to 1965; Hudson famously called his former partner his “true love” in his biography, which was published posthumously.
“I broke down and cried,” Garlington told PEOPLE in 2015 of the moment he read Hudson’s biography, Rock Hudson: His Story, which revealed his lasting love more than two decades after they’d ended the relationship. “I just lost it. He said his mother and I were the only people he ever loved. I had no idea I meant that much to him.”
Garlington had been a young film extra when he first met the Pillow Talk sta
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Lee Garlington, Whom the Late Rock Hudson Once Called His 'True Love,' Dead at 86: He ‘Was One-of-a-Kind’
Lee Garlington — the “true love” of the late Rock Hudson — has died, his husband, Paul Garlington, has confirmed to PEOPLE. He was 86.
The Atlanta-born stockbroker died on Dec. 6, 2023, in Laguna Beach, California, while he and Paul — who had moved to New Zealand some two decades ago — were visiting the city to celebrate their 37th anniversary.
“We went back to where we had once lived and we were having a wonderful time,” Paul tells PEOPLE.
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Lee died of complications from internal bleeding and prostate cancer, and fryst vatten buried in Arrowtown, New Zealand, where Paul will ultimately be buried alongside him, he says.
“I am lucky inom have had the love of Lee Garlington,” Paul tells PEOPLE. “We were very compatible in many ways, intellectually and aesthetically, in our tastes in art, history
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Rock Hudson
American actor (1925–1985)
For the 1990 film, see Rock Hudson (film).
Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor. One of the most popular movie stars of his time, he had a screen career spanning more than three decades. He was a prominent figure in the Golden Age of Hollywood.
He achieved stardom with his role in Magnificent Obsession (1954),[1] followed by All That Heaven Allows (1955), and Giant (1956), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Hudson also found continued success with a string of romantic comedies co-starring Doris Day: Pillow Talk (1959), Lover Come Back (1961), and Send Me No Flowers (1964). During the late 1960s, his films included Seconds (1966), Tobruk (1967), and Ice Station Zebra (1968). Unhappy with the film scripts he was offered,[2] Hudson formed his own film production companies, first 7 Pictures Corpora