Someone who didn’t necessarily believe in monogamy was Peter O’Toole.  According to Peter O’Toole: Hellraiser, Sexual Outlaw, Irish Rebel, the acclaimed actor had 1,033 lovers – give or take.  The book includes quite juicy exploits.  One of the most outrageous is about an evening he shared with Richard Burton and Ava Gardner while they were filming Night of the Iguana near O’Toole’s home in Puerto Vallarta.  After a night of heavy drinking, Gardner allegedly said to the duo, “There’s a fire raging inside me.  And I think that it will take two stout-hearted men, a Welshman and an Irishman, to extinguish the flame.”  O’Toole later told his business partner, “She was right.  It took the both of us to satisfy her that night.”  What makes the book even more timely is the inclusion of an affair Peter had with one of my dear friends.  Lady April Ashley is noted as being one of the first Brits to have gender reassignment surgery.  As a woman with an unknown past, April was a successful model and actress in the ’60s and was wooed by O’Toole.  She didn’t share her secret until they were at the height of passion.  “I was born a boy,” she told him.  “Peter was too far gone at that point to worry about what sex I had been born,” says Ashley.