Frankie Valli

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Frankie Valli has been a supporter of heritage-related causes, particularly the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF).

In 2006, he received the NIAF Lifetime Achievement Award at the foundation’s Anniversary Gala. In 2008, NIAF presented a scholarship in his name to an Italian-American music student during the foundation’s East Coast Gala.

In May 2012, Frankie Valli received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his commitment to many humanitarian causes.

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Frankie Valli Interview

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Interesting Facts

In October 2007, Valli released “Romancing the ’60s“, an album containing covers of his favorite songs from the 1960s, two of which—”Sunny” and “Any Day Now”—he had previously recorded.

Valli has had three marriages. He married his first wife, Mary Mandel, who already had a two-year-old daughter, when he was in his early twenties; they had two daughters together and divorced thirteen years later in 1971.

He remarried in 1974 to MaryAnn Hannagan, and that marriage lasted eight years. In 1984 he married Randy Clohessy, 26 years his junior; the couple had three sons and separated in 2004.

In 1980 his stepdaughter, Celia, was killed when she fell off a fire escape and then six months later a drug overdose claimed the life of his youngest daughter Francine.