He had most sporting success as a bobsledder in the late 1930s, winning several medals including three golds at the FIBT World Championships.

He teamed up with Black, Olympic team-mate Charles Green, and David Looker in the four-man, again winning the gold medal.

[7][8] McEvoy came sixth in the American Automobile Association (AAA) sanctioned 1936 Vanderbilt Cup, held at Roosevelt Raceway near New York City, and "considered by European road veterans to be probably the most severe test for man and car in the world".

[25][26] McEvoy considered himself, along with Rubirosa, the "Playboy of the Western World" and was rumoured to be very well endowed which may have been part of the allure to his female conquests.

Beatrice Cartwright, a member of the Pratt family and heir to a fortune from Standard Oil, was twice his age and had lived with McEvoy for several years before their marriage.

McEvoy was not present for the decision as he was embroiled in a statutory rape case that had been opened against close friend Errol Flynn.

Hutton was warned to stay away from McEvoy by friends and relatives and they assumed that the pair would marry as soon as he "legally divorces penniless Irene".

[5] Errol Flynn married Patrice Wymore at a ceremony in Monte Carlo in 1950 with McEvoy as his best man and Filatre as the matron of honour.

Just off the coast of Morocco a storm wrecked the ship and McEvoy swam to shore to look for help, leaving Claude Stephanie afloat on the mast.

[5] One of the three survivors gave the name of Walter Praxmarer but was identified as Manfred Lenther, an Austrian man charged with murdering a woman in Berlin in 1945.