[Jefferson]

True, Sinatra also leveraged his tough guy Jilly in confrontations, however, there is an account of how Sinatra went to the Sands Casino and sought out the Manager, Carl Cohen, a very tall mafia man known to be a fighter to start a fight. Granted Cohen punched him in the mouth, but clearly Sinatra did NOT first ask his security, Jilly, to attack Cohen. Sinatra was the one who was in the fight. He tried to get Jilly to attack Cohen afterwards, but even Jilly passed given Cohen's reputation as a mob guy. But this says a lot about Sinatra essentially not being afraid of confrontation.

And it is smart to hide when you think the mob is after you, in those days the mob did kill people.

I'm not falling for any myth, I am reading the most detailed biography on Sinatra ever written. He was of course a singer, a fan of the mob, true, who played on his mob connections, but he was a pretty tough guy as well. He was in jail, he had multiple fights with different people, but it's more than that. He was known to always want to be in command in any social situation, in recording studios, in meet ups with male friends, he was the leader of the Rat Pack. The Chairman of the Board. Justin Bieber does not command in the same way, no Rat Pack for him, ie guys of equal stature who defer to him.

Sinatra was an Alpha male, there is no doubt about it.