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 Jazz-Ekstase (1959)). In 1970, when Mineo was broke and Sherman was riding high after appearing in the TV series Here Come the Brides (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).
