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from www.nydailynews.com – Margaret Whiting, who made her musical reputation with golden-age popular songs and startled her friends and fans years later when she took gay porn star Jack Wrangler as her fourth husband [they were married in 1979; Wrangler died in 2009], died Monday.

One of the last chanteuses from the commercial prime of popular standards, she was 86 and living at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J.

She became a popular cabaret singer in later years and performed into her 80s.

She recorded more than 700 songs, a dozen of which went gold. Her signature tunes included “Moonlight in Vermont,” “A Tree in the Meadow,” “It Might as Well be Spring” and “Far Away Places.”

Whiting married four times: to CBS executive Hubbell Robinson, to ragtime pianist Joe “Fingers” Carr, to Panavision founder John Richard Moore and to Wrangler.

She and Wrangler, who was 22 years younger, married in 1994 and remained together until his death in 2009.

He had always described himself as gay, but Whiting said he was bisexual. They met in 1976 when he saw her in a New York nightclub and thought to himself, he later said, “That’s New York. That’s glamour.”

Their relationship began soon thereafter and they lived together for years before marrying.

At her urging he gave up his porn movie career and turned respectable, becoming her manager and co-creating the 1997 Broadway show “Dream,” in which she starred and which featured Mercer’s music.

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