Clive Davis Speaks About Being Bisexual In New Book

Clive Davis is a legendary music exec; 80 years old at the moment. He actually discovered Whitney Houston when she was just 20 back in the 80s. In his memoirs, he reveals to the world for the first time that he is bisexual.

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Music industry legend Clive Davis, the man who discovered or signed countless multi-platinum recording artists including Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen and Alicia Keys has revealed he is bisexual.

In his new memoir The Soundtrack of My Life, the 80-year-old record executive, who has been married and divorced twice, says he has been involved in two monogamous relationships with menover the past 20 years. 

Davis, who has never before publicly addressed his sexuality, writes that his first sexual encounter with a man was during ‘the era of Studio 54’ in the late '70s. 

‘On this night, after imbibing enough alcohol, I was open to responding to his sexual overtures,’ he writes. Prior to that he had only been with women and he writes that being with a man provided ‘welcome relief.’

Davis separated from his second wife in 1985 after a period of ‘soul searching and self-analysis’ and says that he went on to have simultaneous relationships with two women and a man.  

Then in 1990 he entered into a ‘monogamous relationship’ with an unnamed male doctor. That relationship ended in 2004, but Davis says he has been in a relationship with another man ever since. 

Davis said his current partner attends industry events and travels with him, but he declined to reveal his identity in order to protect his privacy

Father of four Davis also writes that his coming out deeply affected his ties with one of his three sons, Mitchell.

However after ‘one very trying year’ they managed to work out their differences, he writes.

Speaking on The Katie Couric Show on Tuesday, Davis said that despite his experience with a man in the late '70s, he didn't consider himself bisexual until after the end of his second marriage in 1985. 

‘It didn’t affect either of my marriages,' he told Couric. 'But when my second marriage ended I opened myself up to the possibility that I could have a relationship with a man as well as the two that I had with a woman.’

‘I'm still attracted to women. … You don't have to be only one thing or another. For me, it's the person.’

Davis also hopes that his coming out might lead to a 'greater understanding' of bisexuality.

'I’m not lying,' he told ABC News. '[Bisexuality] does exist. For over 50 years I never had sex with a male. It wasn’t repressed. I had very good sexual relationships with women. (dailymail.co.uk)