What Happened, Miss Simone? Page #4

and it was really cute.

Then I recorded

seven or eight tunes

that I had been doing all of those years,

and of course, the public

picked out "I Loves You Porgy."

It was not pushed or promoted

to be a hit at all.

- Girls! Guys! Hi.

- Hi, Hugh, nice to see you.

Real good.

Eleanor, you want to, uh,

take Don's coat here,

and maybe you can show the girls

where the powder room is and bedroom.

Hello, there.

Very nice to have you with us

this evening.

This is Playboy's Penthouse,

and I'm Hugh Hefner,

editor/publisher of Playboy magazine.

I'd like you to meet someone that

I think most of you know, Nina Simone.

She came out of nowhere

in the last year as a recording star.

Now has a very, very big record in "Porgy"

that is breaking

all kinds of sales records.

We're very happy she could join us

- tonight on Playboy's Penthouse...

- Thanks.

And she's going to play and sing

a little bit for us now with her group.

Do you want to hear "Porgy"?

- Very much!

- Right!

Good, that's what we'll do.

Nina, there's a man

named Andy Stroud.

He walked into your life

and became a permanent part.

How did you meet your husband?

He came to see me at a nightclub

and a mutual friend introduced us.

Nina came to the table and sat,

and I was eating a hamburger plate,

and there were fries,

and she dipped into them.

And she wanted to know if it was okay.

I said, "All right."

We got cute and then she gave me

that card with a note on it.

Then I went over to see her at her place

in the next day or two.

How did you know that

Andy Stroud was to be your husband

and not just another guy

out for a date or something else?

That's a hard question.

He told me that he had

wanted to meet me for a long time.

And he had come for me.

I fell in love with him.

Then later, he scared me to death.

He was so, you know...

He knew what he wanted

and he just took over.

He abandoned his own career

as a sergeant of the police department

to manage me,

and for the first time, I knew what it was

not to be just floundering out there.

I just remember meeting Andy.

Here was a tough, New York,

you know, vice squad cop,

that when he stepped out

of his car uptown, people ran.

And he had... he had a way

of just saying one word...

"Hey."

and that could put

a lot of fear in people.

But Andy and Nina married in 1961.

He retired from the police force

and became her manager,

and he did well for her.

They bought a beautiful house

in Mount Vernon, New York.

We had a 13-room house,

four acres of land, lot of trees.

And Lisa was born

nine months later.

The first three hours after Lisa was born

were the most peaceful in my life,

and I was in love with the world.

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