The State - News from Feb. 27, 1985

Frank Sinatra sued the National Enquirer over an article claiming the entertainer went to a clinic in Switzerland for injections of a youth serum made from sheep cells. The $22-million suit, filed in Indio Superior Court, named the tabloid, Clinic La Prairie and its New Jersey subsidiary, La Prairie Inc. The suit said the Enquirer article, published in October, stated that Sinatra stayed at the Swiss clinic--registered under the pseudonym John Smith--for six days, paying $5,000 for the sheep cell serum treatments. Sinatra, 69, was quoted in the story as saying, “I hate getting old. I wish to God I could start all over again.” Susan Reynolds, a spokeswoman for Sinatra’s publicist, Lee Solters, confirmed that the suit had been filed. The attorneys who filed it, Peter Clinco and Thomas Slovack, were unavailable for comment. The suit said Sinatra, who lives in Palm Springs, had unsuccessfully demanded a retraction.