Arnaz was a passionate sort of man
But working together on the television show from 1951 until 1957 wasn’t enough to fix their problems. Ball knew about Arnaz’s affection for women. He hired sex workers, according to Associated Press writer Jim Bacon, who saw Arnaz singing his signature song “Babaloo” to a cadre of women surrounding him. Arnaz had extramarital affairs. When Arnaz’s affairs made the paper, Ball reportedly responded to one article, “Oh, hell, I could tell them worse than that.” Yet the couple kept their arguments off-set. The couple’s daughter Lucie recalls fighting and anger as she grew up. Arnaz built a guest house on their property so he could retreat from the couple’s home without having to pay for a hotel stay. For a time, they were able to make up and return to normalcy – until the next fight. In 1960, the fiery couple had enough and filed for divorce.