Sheehan dated and married George von Duuglas-Ittu on January 9, 1951, in Carson City, Nevada.

[1][2] Pat Sheehan began appearing on Queen for a Day and the Colgate Comedy Hour in the early 1950s, as well as modeling for various magazines.

She was in movies such as Kismet, Man with the Gun, Daddy Long Legs, and The Adventures of Hajji Baba.

Shortly after Bing Crosby's first wife, Dixie Lee, died of ovarian cancer, he started dating Sheehan.

After surviving cancer, she died of a heart attack on January 14, 2006, in Beverly Hills, aged 74 and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

She was known as one of Hollywood's most beautiful women, often being labeled as "Television's Marilyn Monroe" and "The Blonde Rita Hayworth."

Mike Connolly described her as "The Rich Man's Jayne Mansfield" while they performed alongside each other in The Tropicana Holiday.

Her authorized biography, Top Models by Samuel Claesson was published by Sequoia Press on March 31, 2023.