Greed, desire and my 130 lovers! He says he's painfully shy and looks like a pig. So how has Michael Winner charmed so many women into bed? As the Mail serialises his uproarious new memoirs, he shares the secrets of his heart and harem

From: Daily Mail | Date: September 11, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

MICHAEL WINNER once made a list of all the women he'd slept with.

There were 130-odd names typed on an old-fashioned typewriter. He found the list in his desk two or three months ago, photocopied it six times and gave one of the copies to his dear friend John Fraser for safekeeping.

'I put the photocopies everywhere in case I lost the original,' he says.

'Not because I want to gloat, but because they are friends. They're people with whom I had great pleasure, sometimes for a night, sometimes for weeks and sometimes for years. Why should I not wish to remember them? I'm 69. How else can I ...