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He stole Clint Eastwood's woman, had nonstop sex with Gilligan's Island actress Tina Louise and yukked it up with President Obama - of course, he did, he's The Most Interesting Man in the World and he tells all in a new memoir: Jonathan Goldsmith played the debonair Most Interesting Man in the World in the Dos Equis beer commercials After failing to make it big as an actor the Bronx-born Goldsmith excelled at the art of seduction and he writes about his many conquests in the upcoming memoir Actress Tina Louise would always be naked by the time he arrived at her home He writes: 'She was the most beautiful woman I had ever been with' and so demanding he thought he would die He hung out at the Pink Turtle Cafe at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and would pick up the starlets waiting for Warren Beatty His one date with Judy Garland left him disturbed He was invited to Camp David for President Obama's 50th, played a trick on him, and they became fast friends TV Confidential He played the debonair Most Interesting Man in the World in the Dos Equis beer commercials. But in real life, Jonathan Goldsmith lived a life that would impress even his onscreen persona. After failing to make it big as an actor the Bronx-born Goldsmith excelled at the art of seduction and became so good at it that his conquests recommended him to other women. Goldsmith brags about his bawdy escapades in his new memoir - Stay Interesting: I Don't Always Tell Stories About My Life, But When I Do, They're True and Amazing - including the time he slept with Henry Fonda's mistress and broke her bed because they had so much sex. Scroll down for video He played the debonair Most Interesting Man in the World in the Dos Equis beer commercials. But in real life, Jonathan Goldsmith lived a life that would impress even his onscreen persona (DailyMail courtesy of Dos Equis) Broadway legend Elaine Stritch seduced him in a mink coat and heels and nothing else and he had a fling with the 'insatiable' Tina Louise who played Ginger on 'Gilligan's Island'. Goldsmith once tried being a gigolo but quit after dating a woman in her 70s because he found himself trying to steal her diamond ring. Goldsmith and Obama share a laugh at Camp David after the actor played a joke on the president pretending to get a bunch of arrows in the bull's eye of the target (DailyMail) Goldsmith, now 78, eventually fell on hard times, went bankrupt and was sleeping in his pickup until the Dos Equis part came up. He channeled a suave Argentinian friend of his to create an Ernest Hemingway-type character that turned him into a pop culture sensation. The invitation to President Obama's 50th birthday party started with a call from the Secret Service. Goldsmith could not believe his luck as he walked around the Presidential retreat (Daily Mail) His legion of fans included Barack Obama and in 2011 he was invited to Camp David for a surprise 50th birthday party for the President and his closest friends. Goldsmith charts his unlikely success in his upcoming memoir. which will be published June 13 by Dutton Books. Jonathan Goldsmith, Michael Nader, Joan Collins in an episode of Dynasty in 1984 (DailyMail) Goldsmith writes that he knocked around Hollywood for decades, sleeping with any woman he could get his hands on. 'The attention, approval, and warmth I always craved from my mother and never received have forced me to look for approval in other places, namely women. If I couldn't conquer my professional life I had to conquer something'. Click NEXT and continue reading... Kathy Shower as Claudia Torrell and Jonathan Goldsmith as Ronald Becker in an episode of Knight Rider (DailyMail) Goldsmith lost his virginity in high school to a prostitute, arranged by his friend Anthony Hatzenberg, a Jewish kid who went by the name Tony Mambo. The Puerto Rican woman invited Goldsmith up to her apartment and complained about her bladder and internal problems and told him she needed an operation. She took his $5 and sat on the bed which was covered in damp T-shirts. Goldsmith delivered lines that his friend Tony had given him: 'Edie honey, I'm new at this game. You've got to show me the ropes'. She did and he writes that he 'felt powerful' and that Edie had 'made me a man'. While at Boston University Goldsmith became obsessed with a woman who lived opposite his dorm and used to undress naked in the window. After running into her at a laundromat, they ended up in bed at her place. Goldsmith knew he was on his way to becoming a legend among his friends as he made sure they could all see what we were doing from their dorm window. He writes that he pulled the woman's underwear off and as they had sex he was 'exhilarated to learn I could make a grown woman moan'. Wait, there's more on the NEXT page. Goldsmith thought he was a 'superstud' but he hadn't penetrated her - and he ejaculated immediately when he did. He writes that he felt 'ashamed and embarrassed' but when he got back to his dorm he gave his friends high fives and bragged: 'She was a great f***' Goldsmith on the set of the television series Gunsmoke. He appeared in 16 episodes (DailyMail courtesy of Jonathan Goldsmith) In the book, Goldsmith says that conquests included 18 nurses, six teachers, countless receptionists - including one at an abortion clinic where he had gone with another woman - and a runner-up in the Miss Florida competition. Goldsmith dated a French woman called Mona while he was working as a garbageman. Her previous paramour was the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of 15 million Ismaili Muslims. Goldsmith's early publicity photos after graduating from the Neighborhood Playhouse and making his debut on Broadway in 1961 (DailyMail) One night he was about to get into a threesome with Mona and another woman called Debbie when she asked him to take out the trash - and got locked out of the apartment without his clothes. The women laughed as they refused to let him back in so he scuttled off to his car using a newspaper as a loincloth. Goldsmith's day got even worse when his car ran out of gas on the highway home and he was nearly arrested when police came to move him. Luckily he knew the officer who helped him get off the exit. One of Goldsmith's best roles was in in 1968 western 'Hang 'Em High' alongside Clint Eastwood - but he claims he blew that break after sleeping with the star's girlfriend. After he arrived in Hollywood Goldsmith says that he used to hang around a cafe called the Pink Turtle inside the Beverly Wilshire Hotel because it was packed with 'the most beautiful array of starlets'. He discovered that they were all there hoping to see Warren Beatty as he lived in an apartment upstairs, so used it for his own purposes. Goldsmith would walk up to the women and say: 'Hi! Are you waiting to see Warren?' Well, Warren's tied up at the moment. But he asked me to buy you a drink'. Elaine Stritch seems to be one of his favorite girlfriends and when she wasn't parading around in her mink coat she cooked Goldsmith lamb chops with Roquefort sauce at 4 am, he writes. Goldsmith describes flame-haired Tina Louise in prose that The Most Interesting Man In the World would be proud of. She would always be naked by the time he arrived at her home just down the hill from Marlon Brando's Los Angeles house and was so demanding he thought he would die. He writes:: 'She was the most beautiful woman I had ever been with. 'She had such great stamina I was afraid I would have a heart attack by the third or fourth round...she refused to stop. 'She was a true beauty, tall, elegant, with a cool distance and complete, unfettered surrender'. Actress Tina Louise would always be naked by the time he arrived at her home, he writes: 'She was the most beautiful woman I had ever been with' and so demanding he thought he would die (Daily Mail) Click NEXT for more... Goldsmith writes that his other lovers included 'Jack Warner's much younger girlfriend, one of Groucho Marx's wives and two congressmen's wives'. His one date with Garland, the star of The Wizard of Oz, left him disturbed. He writes: As a child actress, she would suffer abuse at the hands of studio executives, who passed her around like chattel...she and the other actors were frequently drugged up'. Goldsmith appeared in more than 500 TV shows including Dallas and Dynasty, countless TV films and commercials but he never cracked Hollywood. Goldsmith appeared in Hang 'Em High with Clint Eastwood. But after he stole Clint's girl his career was sidelined (DailyMail) The low point was in 1987 when he played an actor who ends up dead in the short-lived CBS crime drama 'The Law & Harry McGraw'. The producers rented a rundown funeral home and opened a coffin they wanted Goldsmith to climb into - only to find a woman's corpse in there already. The director told him to 'just get in the f****** coffin' so the crew hauled the woman out and Goldsmith clambered in, the stench of death and formaldehyde overwhelming him. Notey During his journeyman career, Goldsmith became so broke that he spent one night working as a gigolo after a woman he slept with suggested he would be good at it. Goldsmith writes that he met Beth, the wealthy wife of a mobster casino mogul, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel where she stuck her leg out of the door frame to entice him in. Goldsmith describes it as looking like an 'atrophied chicken drumstick'. They went out for dinner when Goldsmith noticed the 33 karat diamond ring on her finger. He admits: 'After driving a garbage truck and hauling insulation for three dollars and hour, a fortune like that was powerfully seductive'. After dinner, they went for a walk where Beth put her hand inside Goldsmith's raincoat pocket. He began to caress her fingers to try and ease the ring off of her finger but it wouldn't budge. He writes: 'I tried harder and she started massaging my hand, digging deeper into my pocket, and she continued to confuse my efforts for advances of ardor. 'Then her hand and ring were out of mine as she continued through my pocket and proceeded to grab my balls'. Goldsmith escaped into a taxi - ending his brief career as a gigolo. Goldsmith was born in The Bronx in New York in 1938 and was a contemporary of Dustin Hoffman at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan. There was tension between the two as they often competed for roles and one day Goldsmith brought things to a head at a restaurant. Goldsmith writes that he shouted: 'I know why you don't like me. Hoffman sat there, dumbfounded. 'Because I'm going to make it and you're not,' I stated defiantly, and stood up and left the restaurant. I didn't return to that lunch. But over the next 40 years, I would have those words to eat'. Stay Interesting: I Don't Always Tell Stories About My Life, but When I Do They're True and Amazing Click NEXT and see the rest Time Magazine Goldsmith quit Hollywood in his 50s and started a marketing company that at one point had 100 employees and earned $150 million but it went bankrupt. By the time 2005 came round, Goldsmith was living in the camper of his 1965 diesel pickup at a campsite in Malibu. He writes that he was 'in survival mode, conserving every dollar' and was 'living like a hobo',. 'The sports jacket that I wore on special occasions was folded in the back, with a camping stove and other gear. Sitting on the opened tailgate, I put on my pants, socks, and loafers. 'I thought back to my first days in Hollywood, hauling around industrial waste to earn a few extra dollars and changing into my suit in my garbage truck, which I also used to get around to auditions. Jonathan Goldsmith's agent called him to say she had a beer commercial for him and they wanted 'a Hemingway kind of guy'. There was no script and he had to improvise, ending with the line: And that's how I arm-wrestled Fidel Castro.' Here he attends the 42nd Annual Village Halloween Parade in 2015 in New York City 'Now, I leaned in front of the side mirror with my razor, trimming a few spots on my beard line without shaving cream or water. After more than 40 years, had anything changed?' Goldsmith's agent called him and told him she had a beer commercial for him and they wanted 'a Hemingway kind of guy'. There was no script and he had to improvise, ending with the line: And that's how I arm-wrestled Fidel Castro'. Washington Post When Goldsmith went along everyone was decades younger than him and they were all Latino. He left, called his agent who ordered him to go back. When it was his turn to be called in he got frustrated and took off his sock and his shoe. The crew asked him why he had done this, and in a moment of inspiration, he decided to ape his good friend Fernando Lamas. Click NEXT to read more... The Argentine actor always dressed impeccably, had been a middleweight boxing champion back home and had slept through the other half of Hollywood that Goldsmith had not. BoatUS Goldsmith mimicked his friend's accent and said: 'Don't you peoples know? This is what's called an icebreaker. See, amigo? You asked me, didn't you?' He heard laughter coming from the booth and realized he had them. He writes: 'Months later, I was in an LA studio, speaking the line: 'Stay thirsty, my friends''. The invitation to President Obama's 50th birthday party started with a call from the Secret Service. Goldsmith could not believe his luck as he walked around Camp David, the Presidential retreat. Goldsmith decided to set up a joke playing on his on-screen persona as a way of breaking the ice with the President. Nowadays he lives in a remote house near Manchester, Vermont with his wife Barbara and their dog He writes: 'Wanting to make a strong impression, I quickly picked up five or six shafts and went over to the target and stuck them together in a tight cluster near the bull's eye. 'William Tell couldn't have done better. Then, I went back to the shooting position and stood with a bow and a single notched shaft, admiring my 'work'. The gag worked and the President creased up when he saw it. Goldsmith describes the party as 'two unforgettable days' and the start of a friendship with the President that would last during his whole time in office. Goldsmith retired from being The Most Interesting Man In The World last March and in his final episode, he was sent on a one-way trip to Mars. Adweek Nowadays he lives in a remote house near Manchester, Vermont with his wife Barbara and their dog. He enjoys gardening and has a smoker in his backyard where he cooks up smoked meats. Recently he judged a beard competition at a local event - and lives a life far more interesting than the rest of us. The Boston Globe In the book, he says: 'As I approach my eighth decade, with more fans and adulation than I could ever deserve, I can say with certainty that to be interesting you have to be interested. 'You can watch the parade that is life - and live vicariously through others, as many do - or you can get in and participate in your own journey. And the best time to go for broke is when you're already there'. pipesmagazine.com (Source: DailyMail)