Born on April 22, 1937, in Neptune, New Jersey. He was raised believing that his grandmother was his mother, and that his mother was his older sister. He discovered the truth in 1975 from a Time magazine journalist who was researching a profile on him. His real father is believed to have been either an Italian American showman, or Eddie King, also in show business. Jack’s mother’s ancestry was Irish, and smaller amounts of English, German, Scottish, and Welsh.