Miles Davis & Juliette Greco
‘Sartre asked Miles why we weren’t married. He said he loved me too much to make me unhappy’
Miles Davis was just 22 when he met the actor, and later singer, Juliette Greco. From 2006, in the week Davis would have turned 80, Greco celebrates their love in her own words -
…So I met this man, who was very young, as I was. We went out for dinner in a group, with people I didn’t know. And there it was. I didn’t speak English, he didn’t speak French. I haven’t a clue how we managed. The miracle of love.
…Miles didn’t hear me sing until much later in New York, at the Waldorf-Astoria. Before that, to him, I was just me, a girl with a strange face, and it was me he loved, which made me happy.
…At four o’clock in the morning I got a call from Miles, who was in tears. “I couldn’t come by myself,” he said. “I don’t ever want to see you again here, in a country where this kind of relationship is impossible.” I suddenly understood that I’d made a terrible mistake, from which came a strange feeling of humiliation that I’ll never forget.
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