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