Music icon Clive Davis reveals he’s ‘bisexual’

Clive Davis has confirmed for the first time he is bisexual.

Eighty-year-old Davis, who has been married and divorced twice, has never before addressed his sexuality.

Rolling Stone reports that Davis writes candidly about his personal life in a five-page section toward the end of his new memoir, “The Soundtrack of My Life,” out today.

In the book, he talks about his long-term relationship with a man during “the era of Studio 54” after he separated from his second wife in 1985.

“On this night, after imbibing enough alcohol, I was open to responding to his sexual overtures,” writes Davis, who says he had only been with women before.

After a period of “soul searching and self-analysis,” Davis went on to have simultaneous relationships with two women and a man.

Davis writes, “After my second marriage failed, I met a man who was also grounded in music. Having only had loving relationships and sexual intimacy with women, I opened myself up to the possibility that I could have that with a male, and found that I could.”

The legendary mogul recalls that coming out deeply affected his relationship with one of his sons, Mitchell. After what Davis calls “one very trying year,” they worked out their differences.

Davis recently discussed his sexuality with ABC News. Since the end of his second marriage in 1985, he has been sexually involved with both men and women, but for the past 20 years with two male partners – a doctor for 13 years and for the past seven, with another man he does not name.

He told ABC News that bisexuality is “maligned and misunderstood.”

On why he decided to come out for the first time, he said it was time for him to say so publicly.

His 500-page autobiography chronicles his Brooklyn childhood, the loss of his parents when he was still a teen and his education at NYU and then Harvard Law School.

Davis, who now acts as the chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment, recalls his illustrious career in the book and includes insider stories with Janice Joplin, John Lennon and the false accusations of embezzlement that ended his career as the president of the CBS Records.

The music icon has helped make the careers of Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Kelly Clarkson and many others.