willie windsor

Willie Windsor, r.i.p.
Jeez, I just resurrected the story three weeks ago as one of my weekly News of the Weird Classics (from 2005), but maybe you missed it:
Willie Windsor, 54, of Phoenix, Ariz., has for several years lived as a full-time baby, wearing frilly dresses, diapers, and bonnets, sucking on a pacifier, eating Gerber cuisine, and habitually clutching a rag doll, in a home filled with oversized baby furniture. According to a long Phoenix New Times profile in June, the diaper is not just a prop. Windsor said he worked hard to learn to become incontinent, even chaining the commode shut to avoid temptation, and the reporter admitted feeling “disconcert[ed]” that Windsor might be relieving himself at the very moment he was describing his un-toilet training. Apparently, Windsor’s brother, ex-wife, girlfriend, and a neighbor tolerate his lifestyle (though no girlfriend has yet been willing to change his diapers). Windsor is a semi-retired singer-actor and said he’s been celibate for 9 years. [Phoenix New Times, 6-9-05]

Last month, Willie, 57, went to the great bassinet in the sky. His body was found on the 30th, but it was decomposed, so he could have died any time after his last public sighting, attending a musical in Phoenix in January in full baby regalia. (Actually, referring to Willie as "he" is improper, in that his infantile name was "HeidiLynn.") Phoenix New Times
     Posted By: Chuck - Wed Feb 11, 2009
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So he was into infantilism and transvestitism. Damn. This would definitely fall into the weirdo transvestite category and not the executive transvestite.
Posted by DownCrisis on 02/11/09 at 09:58 AM
DownCrisis - thanks for the Eddie Izzard reference. I had forgotten about his bit on the executive transvestite. :lol:

This dude was a definite freak. How in the hell did he even have a girlfriend?
Posted by Madd Maxx on 02/11/09 at 10:27 AM
Maxx, I'd guess that the emphasis is/was on "friend" and "inheritance".
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/11/09 at 10:38 AM
"heir to the Popular Mechanics fortune"
See, even the rich have their screwballs.
Posted by AGFH on 02/11/09 at 10:55 AM
AGFH, the rich have excentrics. Us po'folk have screwballs.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/11/09 at 10:59 AM
Now, I'm no psychiatrist, but I'm pretty sure the diagnosis is (was): cray-zay!
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 02/11/09 at 11:12 AM
Wow - Thanks Chuck! Having lived in Phoenix after moving from Cali in 1997 ~ means I've been here 12 years and not once have I ever heard of "Phoenix's own Beloved Baby Man".. just goes to show, everything you need to know is right here at WU....
Posted by Skitt in SW USA on 02/11/09 at 04:43 PM
Très bien!
Posted by DownCrisis on 02/11/09 at 11:19 PM
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