'Beyond Belief'

Interview | Bobby Darin’s half-brother, Gary Walden, speaks out about Kevin Spacey’s Beyond the Sea, a movie that he says paints an ugly and inaccurate view of his family | Arsenio Orteza

It's not exactly entertaining angels unaware, but everyday residents of Toms River, N.J., receive their mail from the half-brother of the legendary pop singer Bobby Darin. Gary Walden, 49, a U.S. Postal Service employee since 1981, is the son of the late Charlie Maffia and Nina Cassotto Maffia, the latter of whom gave birth to Robert Walden Cassotto—aka Bobby Darin—out of wedlock as a teenager.

To prevent the undesirable involvement of the father, she conspired with her mother Vivian to raise the boy as if Vivian were his mother and she [Nina] his sister. Mr. Darin was 32 and considering political office when Nina told him the truth. Until his death in 1973 at age 37 from heart failure, he never forgave her.