Real creator of Barbie cut out by Mattel because of kinky sexual past, daughter claims

Was the real creator of Barbie banished by Mattel because of his kinky sexual past?

That’s what Ann Ryan, the daughter of Jack Ryan, claims.

Ann Ryan told DailyMail.com that Jack, who killed himself in 1991, didn’t keep his lifestyle much of a secret and Mattel clearly didn’t like it. She said her father was a sexual swinger who hosted orgies at his home.

She claims that’s why Mattel has claimed the dolls were invented by company co-founder Ruth Handler — even though she was a convicted felon who was kicked out of the company for accounting issues, according to the report.

Ryan, 67, claims that letters and emails she has sent to the company seeking access to internal records and archives that she said would prove her father’s role as the inventor of the world’s most famous doll have consistently been ignored.

“It’s time to set the record straight,” she said, about her father’s paternity of Barbie, the 11-inch doll born 63 years ago that he designed with long legs, a thin waist and perky breasts, and that have sold in the billions for Mattel.

Ryan was married five times, including to Zsa Zsa Gabor. His daughter says Handler was embarrassed by this and thought it could tarnish Barbie’s reputation.

“My father is absolutely the father of Barbie,” she said. “What isn’t mentioned in the corporate history,’ asserts Ann Ryan, ‘is that my father’s role in Barbie’s development began way before he even came to Mattel.

“When he was growing up, he was obsessed with the female form, studying and tracing pinups by famous artists, and for years he had been promoting to Ruth the idea of a fully developed female doll.”

Mattel has not responded to DailyMail.com’s request for comment on this story, they said.