Fidel's Infidelity

Greatest Studs of All-Time
The Daily Beast

A new biography claims Warren Beatty slept with 13,000 women—placing him beneath Fidel Castro and Wilt Chamberlain, but above Jack Nicholson and Charlie Sheen. VIEW OUR GALLERY.

For many A-listers, sleeping around comes as naturally as receiving a huge paycheck. Some have serious game—like Wilt Chamberlain, whose claim that he bedded 20,000 women inspired a sketch on In Living Color, and others, like Magic Johnson, were merely hitting the sheets to live up to their names. Combing through quotes, sources, and interviews with the infamous men leads to a list of men with astonishing career statistics. The usual suspects are all there: Porn stars, rock stars, Hugh Hefner—who bedded thousands of bunnies since founding Playboy in 1953. But money and status aren’t all it takes to woo the ladies—an unknown hotel porter at the Venetian in Las Vegas has reportedly slept with 8,000 women. (It probably helps to have instant access to suites.)

Tabloids are quick to christen the next generation of young Casanovas, but the modern-day prospects are looking a little thin. No less a stud than John Mayer recently admitted, “I should be having sex with more girls.”

Fidel Castro
NUMBER OF NOTCHES: 35,000

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Eight children by four women.

According to documentary filmmaker Ian Halperin, a Cuban official named “Ramon” claimed that Fidel Castro slept with an astonishing (though mathematically questionable) 35,000 women. Castro’s security would comb Havana’s beaches every day to recruit the hottest sunbathers. This enabled the Cuban dictator to sleep with at least two women a day for 40 years—“one for lunch and one for supper." Sometimes he even ordered one for breakfast.” It’s good to be El Presidente.

Wilt Chamberlain
NUMBER OF NOTCHES: 20,000

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Claims he never seduced a married lady, and rarely an ugly one.

“Nobody roots for Goliath,” Chamberlain once lamented, and though he was talking about fickle basketball fans, the same could go for critics of his sexual conquests. The late basketball star devoted an entire chapter of his 1991 autobiography to sex, and in it made his infamous claim that he made love to 20,000 ladies, a claim that drew much derision and number-crunching. (A skit on In Living Color featured a mother and daughter looking at a Vietnam Wall-esque monument listing Wilt’s 20,000 lovers and finding both their names on it.) But through it all, Chamberlain maintained his integrity: "I'm sure plenty who read the numbers will no doubt think my taste is not particularly high or that I am 'easy’… I am a man of distinctive taste and most of the women I have encountered, the average Joe would have proposed marriage to on the first date."

I was never one to believe that Wilt Chamberlain actually slept with 20,000 women. That's like 10 a day or something. And as we all know with sex, men are the gas and women are the breaks. So even if Wilt was the greatest stud ever there's still got to be some time factored in for seduction and midless after sex chatter. His sexual account is like a school bus on a Sunday or a Longhorn sweater, I ain't buying it.

But I'm going to believe Fidel Castro. That guy was a dictator. He could have banged 20 women a day. It's not like they could say no unless they enjoyed the prospect of a firing squad. Not to mention the guy lived to be like 85 so even with dwindling numbers in his later years, he was probably still getting some action. I think 35,000 is well within reason. I'd say the only one with a chance to catch him has to be Rick Fox even with all that time he wasted on Vanessa Williams.