Nancy Kovack

A native of Flint Michigan Nancy Kovack was a student at the University of Michigan at 15 a radio deejay at 16 a college graduate at 19 and the holder of eight beauty titles by 20 Her professional acting career began on television in New York first as one of Jackie Gleasons Glea Girls and then more prominently on The Dave Garroway Show 1953 Today 1952 and Beat the Clock 1950 A stage role opened Hollywood doors for Kovack who signed with Columbia She later racked up an impressive list of episodic television credits and was Emmynominated for a 1969 guest shot on Mannix 1967 The wife of worldrenowned maestro Zubin Mehta of New York Philharmonic fame Kovack publicly alleges that she was recently bamboozled to the tune of 150000 by Susan McDougal a central figure in the Whitewater scandal