- Was a secretary for influential Hollywood agent Henry Willson when she agreed to marry actor Rock Hudson, whom she had been a fan of. The marriage was not a happy one, and Gates claimed that he struck her on several occasions. They divorced a few years later.
- Henry Willson, an influential Hollywood agent, had arranged the secret wedding but minutes after the ceremony ended he called Hollywood gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons.
- Put her spin on the whole marriage "coverup" in the book "My Husband, Rock Hudson," which was published two years after Hudson's death from AIDS in 1985. During his lifetime, Phyllis never revealed Hudson's homosexuality.
- Ex-wife of Rock Hudson.
- Is a successful interior decorator who has had several celebrity clients. (2005)
- Married Hollywood heartthrob Rock Hudson in the 1950's and later insisted that she married him out of love and not to cover up his homosexuality. However some of Hudson's friends said Gates was a lesbian who married Hudson for his money.
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