Bought his protégé Bobby Sherman a set of drums when he helped Sherman break into the music industry in 1963-64 (Mineo had learned to play the drums for his role of Gene Krupa in Ritmo diabolico (1959)). In 1970, when Mineo was broke and Sherman was riding high after appearing in the TV series Arrivano le spose (1968) and scoring big as a pop star, Mineo's lover Courtney Burr contacted Sherman and requested that he reimburse his former mentor for the drums. Sherman's manager sent Mineo $3,000 (approximately $20,000 in 2019 dollars, when adjusted for inflation).
