Editing Gloria Swanson (section)

====William Dufty====
Swanson's final marriage occurred in 1976 and lasted until her death. Her sixth husband [[William Dufty]] was a writer who worked for many years at the ''[[New York Post]],'' where he was assistant to the editor from 1951 to 1960. He was the co-author (ghostwriter) of [[Billie Holiday]]'s autobiography ''[[Lady Sings the Blues (book)|Lady Sings the Blues]],'' the author of ''[[Sugar Blues]]'', a 1975 best-selling health book still in print, and the author of the English version of [[Georges Ohsawa]]'s ''You Are All Sanpaku.''<ref name=LAT/> They met in the mid-1960s and moved in together.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|p=363}}{{sfn|Dufty|1993|pp=12, 23}} Swanson shared her husband's enthusiasm for [[macrobiotic diet]]s, and they traveled widely together to speak about nutrition.<ref name=PalmBeachPost/> Swanson and her husband first got to know [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] because they were fans of Dufty's work.{{sfn|Welsch|2013|p=381}} Swanson testified on Lennon's behalf at his immigration hearing in New York City, which led to his becoming a permanent US resident.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Robinson |first1=Lisa |title=CONVERSATIONS WITH LENNON |date=November 2001 |magazine=Vanity Fair |url=https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2001/11/01/conversations-with-lennon}}</ref> Besides her [[Fifth Avenue]] apartment, she and Dufty spent time at their homes in Beverly Hills, California; [[Colares (Sintra)|Colares, Portugal]]; [[Croton-on-Hudson, New York]]; and Palm Springs, California.<ref name="Harry Ransom Center" >{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00154/hrc-00154.html|title=An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center|work=University Texas Website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504071541/https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00154/hrc-00154.html |archive-date=May 4, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> After Swanson's death, Dufty returned to his former home in [[Birmingham, Michigan]]. He died of cancer in 2002.<ref name=LAT>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jul-04-me-dufty4-story.html|title=William F. Dufty, 86; Wrote 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Sugar Blues'|date=July 4, 2002|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>