Australian actor Jack Thompson has been questioned about his infamous three-way affair with two sisters back in the 1970s and 1980s.
The 84-year-old was in a polyamorous relationship with siblings Leona and Bunkie King, before Bunkie, who was just 15 when the romance began, ran away when she was 30, leaving Leona to continue alone with Thompson.
Jack was quick to shut down presenter Michael Usher while appearing on Seven Spotlight on Sunday night when asked about the unusual deal, which spanned 15 years.
‘You had come out of a period of your own life, conflictive, in a relationship that was not the norm at all. Tell me about that,’ Usher ventured.
‘I won’t do it. I don’t dispute it. It’s like, can I talk to you about a failed marriage? No, I won’t. I don’t want to’ Thompson was decisive in his response.
However, the actor was drawn to what the polyamorous experience taught him and how it has led to a long life with his now wife, Leona.
‘He taught me about love. “He taught me to be true to your heart,” Thompson said.
And I have been. I’m still there with one of those women, who loves me and I love her.’
Australian actor Jack Thompson (interrogated) has been questioned about his infamous three-way affair with two sisters back in the 1970s and 1980s.
The 84-year-old was in a polyamorous relationship with sisters Leona (left) and Bunkie King (right), before Bunkie ran away when she was 30, leaving Leona to continue the romantic relationship.
In 2015, after many years of speculation, Bunkie put to rest rumors about the nature of the relationship with Thompson and her older sister, Leona.
King surprised and intrigued Australian audiences when he entered into a relationship with Thompson, who was twice his age, while he was also involved with Leona, nicknamed Le.
The 68-year-old’s first encounter with Thompson was when she was a 15-year-old Sydney schoolgirl, and she later revealed the salacious details of their 15-year romance and unconventional arrangement.
talking to A current issue About his book, Someone I Used to Know: Love, Loss, and Jack Thompson, King said he decided to write a novel during an argument with his son.
King also appeared with Thompson in the 1975 film Scobie Malone, having a 15-year affair with the womanizing actor.
At one point, he shouted, “I’m not proud that my mother had sex with her sister.”
This was the moment when King realized that there were many misconceptions about her relationship with the womanizing actor.
“That really surprised me because that wasn’t our relationship,” she said.
“It never crossed my mind (that’s what people thought), so I left it warts and all.”
King, who has two children with her ex-husband, also revealed how she shared a man with her sister, who was 20 at the time.
‘I won’t do it. I don’t dispute it. It’s like, can I talk to you about a failed marriage? No, I won’t. ‘I don’t want to’ Thompson was blunt in his response
From the beginning the brothers made it clear that they were not going to sleep with him in the same bed.
When King first moved in with Le and Thompson, she was “assigned one night a week” with the actor.
They then moved to Collaroy, on Sydney’s north shore, and the sisters saw him on alternate nights.
King said she had never been close to Le and there were times when she felt her sister, from whom she is now estranged, wanted to have Thompson to herself.
It was all or nothing with Thompson, who starred in Spyforce, an action series that follows Australian Military Intelligence agents in the South West Pacific during World War II.
The actor was drawn to what the experience taught him and how it has led to a long life with his now wife, Leona. ‘He taught me about love. “She taught me to be true to your heart,” Thompson said. And I have been. I’m still there with one of those women, who loves me and I love her.’
In 2015, after many years of speculation, Bunkie (pictured in 2015) put an end to rumors about the nature of the relationship with Thompson and her older sister, Leona.
“I was happy because of the crumbs that fell from the table. It caused problems with jealousy and things like that. “I don’t think any of us would have chosen it that way,” King said.
talking to new ideaKing said their relationship was in many ways “pretty old-fashioned.”
‘We had separate bedrooms. “He just slept with the two of us,” she said.
In her interview with ACA, King said their relationship was not a “unique situation.”
“It is like that in Western society, but it is not a unique situation for a man to have more than one wife,” he said.
“In Western society, a man usually has a wife and a mistress or perhaps a couple of lovers.”
Despite his commitment to two women, King claims that Thompson still had time to be unfaithful to her and Le.
When King first moved in with Leona and Thompson, she was “allocated one night a week” with the actor. Photographed in 1980
As Jack’s fame grew, journalists clamored for details about the nature of their threesome relationship.
She said what hurt her the most about his alleged infidelities was the fact that he was not open, honest and direct about it.
King also revealed that her sister did not know about Thompson’s regular afternoon visits to her mother’s house when he began courting her.
She writes: “One night he and I were kissing and hugging in his room when Le (Leona) bursts through the door screaming, ‘What the hell are you doing?’
‘He jumps out of bed and tries to calm her down. I run out of the room, down the stairs, through the front door and out onto the street.
‘I know there’s something wrong with what we’ve been doing. He’s obviously Le’s boyfriend and I feel bad for her, but I don’t know how to give him up.
The same thing happened to Jack too and, with his popularity at its peak in the mid-1970s, the Wake In Fright star bought a farm in the hills above Coffs Harbour, on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, and convinced the sisters to share an “open” and “honest” relationship with him.
They moved in together, King confined to the smaller room, while Leona shared the master bedroom with the actor, now dubbed ‘Jack The Lady Killer’ by the media.
In his book, he also talks candidly about his drug use, from marijuana to acid to heroin.
But she didn’t classify her drug use as “hardcore.”
‘For me, hardcore is someone who is basically in the mainline. “It was the ’60s and ’70s,” King said.
They moved in together, King confined to the smaller room, while Leona shared the master bedroom with the actor, now dubbed ‘Jack The Lady Killer’ by the media.
Jack stated that at times he felt “like two dogs fighting over a bone.”
During the early years of their relationship, Cleo magazine featured Thompson reclining on a couch in a pose that emulated a classic nude, Titian’s Venus of Urbino, catapulting him to sex symbol status overnight.
In 1972, King revealed that she became pregnant for the first time, forgot to take the pill, and underwent the first of three abortions in 15 years.
As Jack’s fame grew, journalists clamored for details about the nature of their threesome relationship and, in October 1974, he gave an interview to Sydney’s Daily Telegraph.
Published under the title “Jack and his Jills”, he stated that from time to time he felt “like a bone being fought between two dogs”.
The truth, however, undoubtedly lies somewhere in between.
King says that a serious confrontation in Spain finally forced her to flee and maintains that throughout her 15 years as Jack’s lover, she never knew if she was really wanted or if she was “just an intruder.”
Today she works in nursing, is divorced, has a son, Stephan, and a daughter, and lives a quiet life south of Sydney.
And for his part, Jack remains with Leona, with whom he shares a son, Billy, and the couple leads a lonely life in Ulong, New South Wales.
Visits in the 1970s increased to three a week, and after months of spending time together, she fell madly in love knowing he was with Le.
King has revealed in her memoir how, as a virgin, she struggled to calm her feelings for the blonde, tanned heartthrob and desperately longed for his love even after her sister caught them kissing.
