Kim Novak, she was under contract with Columbia Studios. The head of Columbia Studios at the time, Harry Cohn, was worried about the negative effect their interracial relationship would have on the studio.

So Harry allegedly called his friend, mobster Johnny Roselli, and asked Johnny to inform Sammy that he had to end the relationship with Novak. Roselli arranged for Davis to be kidnapped for a few hours to scare him a lil’ bit and in a 2014 BBC documentary, it was disclosed that Cohn arranged for Davis to be threatened with having his other eye put out, or his leg broken if he did not marry a black woman within 48 hours. That’s why Sammy hastily arranged his marriage to Loray White in 1958, in an attempt to quiet the controversy and he allegedly offered Loray $10,000 to marry him. The marriage only lasted 9 months.

But wait, there’s more, there was drama with actress, Lola Folana…

In 1960, Davis stirred up the pot again when he married white