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Terry Moogan lived a life of poverty before meeting Hollywood’s royalty.
The author is currently writing his memoirs, “Liverpool Bank Robber a Hollywood Butler” Which details his trip to become a butler for several stars of the golden era of Hollywood.
Moogan told Fox News Digital that before landing in California, he fought to find his way in his native Liverpool.
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Terry Moogan (left) had no idea how much his life would change after meeting Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (right). (Terry Moogan/Getty Images)
“All children are very hard children in the city, and we all hang on gangs,” Moogan explained. “Liverpool has a story of gangs, very powerful men … we simply left the war in England and we had nothing. We didn’t believe anyone. We had to survive.”
Moogan described how, when he grows up, he and his team of maladaptive would spend the dock time, steal whiskey and vodka of the stores and sell it to local pubs. School and theft would also skip.
Moogan said that at 16, he was doing “banks fragments” with his friends.
Terry Moogan’s book, “Bank Robber to Hollywood Butler,” is now available. (Shaun Attwood/Nielsen)
“We had no money,” said Moogan. “We had some food. My father was absent and they left my own devices to do what I wanted.”
In 1975, Moogan received an offer that he could not reject. His brother said he took him to Southampton. There, I could find work at the Line Ocean de Queen Elizabeth 2.
“I am absolutely lost,” Moogan recalled. “I didn’t know what to do. The only impulse I had was to go out and steal again. But my brother gives me money and says: ‘I am taking you to Southampton.’
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Terry Moogan found work at Queen Elizabeth 2, where he met Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. (Terry model)
“Finally, they brought me to Queen Elizabeth 2. I am on the ship working in the galley with all the chefs, but I could not cook. I was pretending it. Then a friend of mine says: ‘Why don’t you become a waiter?’ So, first I became a waiter, and then learned to be a waiter.
Terry Moogan said he had no interest in continuing to act while he was in Hollywood. (Terry model)
“He came to the ship one day and the chief butler tells me: ‘Teddy, there is a job for you up in the attic. Would you like that job?'”
Moogan was promoted to the attic room, where the stars mixed. It was there that he met Power Pare Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor arrive on August 19, 1968 aboard Queen Elizabeth 2 in New York City. (Ron Galella, Ltd./ron Galella Collection through Getty Images)
“I committed to Elizabeth Taylor when Richard was down in the casino,” Moogan recalled. “I wanted to be educated. Then look at me and say: ‘Have you ever thought about being a movie star?’ I say no.
“I laughed. I, an actor? I am a hard guy. That was not for me.” She tells me: ‘At least you should be a butler in California. They will love you there. She didn’t judge me. She really wanted to meet me. It was a simple gesture, but she gave me the hope that there was a better life for me. “
Elizabeth Taylor showing one of her precious jewels that Richard Burton gave her. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone through Getty Images)
Moogan admitted that he was tempted to steal Taylor’s precious jewels. He took his advice instead.
“I couldn’t steal Elizabeth Taylor,” said Moogan. “It was so beautiful; I just couldn’t do this to someone like her. My mind also began to think about redemption and have a life that I didn’t know, a life that I couldn’t imagine for me (if I stole Taylor), they would come behind me and probably would have obtained from 10 to 20 years if they caught me.”
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Terry Moogan took Elizabeth Taylor’s advice and addressed Los Angeles. (Terry model)
In 1980, at 23, Moogan went to Los Angeles. When he arrived, he went to the National Agency International to assume Butler’s role in Beverly Hills.
Terry Moogan said Lucille Ball reminded his mother. (Ron Galella collection through Getty Images)
“My first job was in Jack Benny’s old house Next to Lucille Ball“Moogan said.” I got to know her. I used to get the garbage for her. I would joke with her, and she made me a cup of tea so that we could chat.
“I used to say: ‘You look like my mother because my mother also had red hair!’ I pretended not to know who she was.
In 1982, Moogan began working for Maggie Eastwood, Clint Eastwood’s wife.
Clint Eastwood at home with his wife, Maggie Eastwood. The couple divorced in 1984. (CBS through Getty Images)
“They had two children,” said Moogan. “Clint was divorcing at that time, but … I remember that the home felt like a genuine home. Very lived, comfortable, clean. The children were very friendly and educated. It was nothing that I expected from the house of a movie star.
“Clint was very reserved and quiet. He came and would give him a beer. He sat in the courtyard to relax and always spend time with the children. And they worshiped him. I realized that he was a fantastic father, one who was really interested in his lives and wanted to be with them.”
Terry Moogan said he learned why Frederick R. Weisman was not a fan of Frank Sinatra’s music. (Terry model)
Moogan worked for Eastwood’s home for four months. According to the author, he was assigned to work for Frederick R. Weisman. Wanting to cause a good impression in the prominent collector of art and businessman, he played “My way” by Frank Sinatra while attending his home. In his book, Moogan said Weisman “exploded.”
The details surrounding Frank Sinatra’s bars fight have been discussed for years. (Martin Mills/Getty images)
Moogan wrote that Weismen talked about his infamous bars fight that took place in the Lounge Polo in 1966, claiming that it had happened because the track and anything else for Sinatra gave him a sore place.
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According to multiple reports, Sinatra and Dean Martin were present, along with the bodyguard Jilly Rizzo and other friends. At that time, Weisman felt that men were being “noisy” at the street of Celebrities and “shouted to shut up.” Sinatra supposedly responded with an anti -Semitic comment.
Terry Moogan told Liverpool echo that Joan Rivers once asked him to cook “because Sir Laurence Olivier was going to dinner.” (Ron Galella collection through Getty Images)
“I couldn’t control me, Terry,” Weisman is cited as if telling Moogan. “I jumped from my seat and hit him from his chair. My fist landed perfectly in his nose …
“He was a fairly fascinating guy,” Moogan told Fox News Digital.
Terry Moogan said George Segal reminded his friends in the United Kingdom (Ray Fisher/Getty Images)
And then there was George Segal. Moogan worked for him between 1985 and 1986.
“He was lovely,” said Moogan. “He and his wife were quite friendly. He loved to entertain his guests and I would have to do my Irish stew. He and his friends, between raw jokes and chest blows, were really not different from Liverpool’s men who knew about my youth … I loved working for him.”
Terry Moogan still resides in California. (Terry model)
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Moogan retired in 1992. He still resides in California. Looking back, Moogan said he is grateful for Taylor’s encouraging words.
Life today is good, he said.
“Now I am a great believer of God,” said Moogan. “I walk along the way of the Lord … I am grateful for the opportunities they gave me … my life (changed) for the better.”
