Lennie Hayton

Lena Horne died Sunday night in a New York hospital. She was 92. She is survived by her daughter Gail Buckley.

While she broke racial barriers and saw huge success in her professional life, Horne had a stormy personal life.

At age 19 in 1937, she married Louis J. Jones, a preacher's son and friend of her father's. They had two children, Gail and Edwin, before the marriage ended in 1944.

In 1947, she married white conductor and bandleader Lennie Hayton, to advance her career because "he could get me into places no black manager could," she once said.

Her son died in 1970, at 29, from a kidney ailment. Hayton, from whom she had long been separated, died in 1971. Other men in her life included prize fighter Joe Louis, bandleader Artie Shaw and filmmaker Orson Welles. But her one true, lasting, relationship was with openly gay Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington's arranger and pianist.