Lana Turner

The Starmaker · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 682

I'm not sure if I seen her movies but
I just cannot believe the stoies I heard about her...

She was hanging out with this gangster guy boyfriend of hers
and he started slaping her around, and her 14 year old daughter
stabbed him on his stomach to death!

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williamhubbard · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 4

On Nov 9, 4:08 pm, The Starmaker wrote:
> I'm not sure if I seen her movies but
> I just cannot believe the stoies I heard about her...
>
> She was hanging out with this gangster guy boyfriend of hers
> and he started slaping her around, and her 14 year old daughter
> stabbed him on his stomach to death!

True. His name was Johnny Stompanato..

AKA · Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 3

wrote in message @y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
> On Nov 9, 4:08 pm, The Starmaker wrote:
>> I'm not sure if I seen her movies but
>> I just cannot believe the stoies I heard about her...
>>
>> She was hanging out with this gangster guy boyfriend of hers
>> and he started slaping her around, and her 14 year old daughter
>> stabbed him on his stomach to death!
>
> True. His name was Johnny Stompanato..

Yeah. The daughter stabbed Johnny. Even you can't believe that's the way
it happened.

williamhubbard · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 4

On Nov 10, 11:03 am, "AKA" wrote:
> wrote in message
>
> @y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Nov 9, 4:08 pm, The Starmaker wrote:
> >> I'm not sure if I seen her movies but
> >> I just cannot believe the stoies I heard about her...
>
> >> She was hanging out with this gangster guy boyfriend of hers
> >> and he started slaping her around, and her 14 year old daughter
> >> stabbed him on his stomach to death!
>
> > True. His name was Johnny Stompanato..
>
> Yeah. The daughter stabbed Johnny. Even you can't believe that's the way
> it happened.

another theory is that mum did the deed, but the daughter being a
minor would probably get away with it..

CliffB · Joined: 11 Nov 2007 Posts: 1

On Nov 9, 7:08 pm, The Starmaker wrote:
> I'm not sure if I seen her movies but
> I just cannot believe the stoies I heard about her...
>

She was a nymphomaniac, no?

williamhubbard · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 4

On Nov 11, 9:34 am, CliffB wrote:
> On Nov 9, 7:08 pm, The Starmaker wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure if I seen her movies but
> > I just cannot believe the stoies I heard about her...
>
> She was a nymphomaniac, no?

She was always internaly grateful..

Gregory Morrow · Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 1

The Starmaker wrote:

> I'm not sure if I seen her movies but
> I just cannot believe the stoies I heard about her...
>
> She was hanging out with this gangster guy boyfriend of hers
> and he started slaping her around, and her 14 year old daughter
> stabbed him on his stomach to death!

Here's a detailed chronology of the whole thing, including pix. I've
included some excerpts about Lana's appearance on the stand - the most
skilled Hollywood screenwriters could not have cooked up such a
scenario, it's PURE show - bizz...!!! :

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/lana_turner/1.html

"Role of a Lifetime

The coroner's inquest into the death of Johnny Stompanato was the most
anticipated television event ever. This was no Peyton Place; it was
the real thing. Depending on how Lana played it, her daughter was
either going to walk away a free woman or be charged with the death of
her mother's boyfriend.

In the Hall of Records in downtown Beverly Hills the largest courtroom
was reserved for the inquest. Of the 160 seats, 120 were reserved for
the press. CBS and ABC announced that they were going to broadcast the
inquest live and it would go out over radio, as well.

Interest in the case was overwhelming. Peyton Place, already a popular
movie, saw its box office receipts jump by a third the week after
Johnny's death. Coincidentally, one of Lana's key scenes in the
melodrama was a courtroom interrogation, where she was questioned
about crimes committed by her daughter.

The lines formed for the 40 public seats at 6 a.m. Shortly before
9:00, under a merciless sun made all the hotter by the television
lights and flashbulbs, Lana, Stephan Crane (Cheryl's father) and Jerry
Geisler (Lana's attorney) entered the building and quickly made their
way to the courtroom.

Mickey Cohen was the first person called to testify, since he had
identified Johnny's body at the morgue. Ever the showman, he caused a
stir by refusing "to identify the body on the grounds I may be accused
of this murder." He spent all of two minutes on the stand and left the
building shortly thereafter.

The coroner introduced the autopsy report that showed how "a whole
team of doctors" could not have saved Johnny's life. He had been
stabbed once in the abdomen. The knife had sliced a kidney, struck a
vertebra and twisted upward, puncturing his aorta. The medical
examiner also announced that Johnny probably wouldn't have lived
another 10 years because of his bad liver.

Then it was time for Lana.

Dressed in a gray silk suit, white gloves and hat, Lana was ready for
her close-up. Her platinum hair was impeccable, not a strand out of
place, and the best makeup artists had made her look as beautiful as
she had ever been. Even though she had not slept at all the night
before, Lana's high cheekbones glowed a healthy pale rose that only
accented her crystal clear blue eyes, long doe lashes and pencil-thin
eyebrows.

She sat down at the witness stand, removed her gloves and took a deep
breath. For the next hour, Lana answered questions from the coroner,
his deputy and Geisler while a 10-man, two-woman jury watched
intently. She barely made eye contact with her questioners, instead
staring at the back of the courtroom, where the wall met the ceiling.
She broke down twice on the stand.

Speaking quietly, she tried to explain why she stayed with a man who
beat her, something she said in her autobiography that she didn't
herself understand. Under Geisler's gentle questioning she recounted a
moment-by-moment recap of the argument that led to the stabbing.

When she had finished, the coroner asked for a recess and the press
immediately surrounded Lana. She was on the verge of fainting when
Jerry Geisler moved her out of the center of the crowd. Reporters
talked among themselves about the quality of Lana's performance.

The inquest wasn't over after Lana left the stand, but most of the
drama was gone. Police investigators testified that they were confused
by some of the details. First, the knife was new, but it was scratched
and chipped as if it had seen significant use before. Second, there
were no fingerprints on the knife. Third, there was no blood in the
bedroom or on Lana Turner's clothes and the bedroom was not in any
sort of disarray. Finally, the blood on the knife contained "several
light and dark fibers or hairs," which could not be identified.

As the inquest concluded, a mysterious man jumped up from the gallery
and shouted that he needed to testify. As he was escorted from the
room, he shouted, "Lies! All lies! This mother and daughter were both
in love with Stompanato! Johnny was a gentleman!" Whether the man was
a nutcase, a publicity hound or a Cohen plant was never determined,
but regardless, he was taken away and disappeared.

The jurors retreated to deliberate and took less than a half-hour to
decide that John Stompanato's death was justifiable homicide. Acting
out of fear for her life and for her mother's life, Cheryl Crane was
justified in using deadly force to stop Johnny, they ruled. The
decision was not unanimous, nor did it have to be.

The inquest verdict was not binding on the prosecutor, but the next
day McKesson decided not to pursue charges. He did, however, initiate
court proceedings to determine Lana's fitness as a parent.

Mickey Cohen was outraged at the coroner's verdict and immediately
went to the press. "It's the first time in my life I've ever seen a
dead man convicted of his own murder," he said. "So far as that jury's
concerned, Johnny just walked too close to that knife."

Johnny Stompanato's family brought a wrongful death lawsuit against
Lana Turner and Stephan Crane (Cheryl's father). The case was settled
out of court.

In 1962, Mickey Cohen was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for
income tax violations. He was released in 1972 and began a campaign
for prison reform. In 1974, Mickey made headlines again when he said
he had had contact with people holding Patty Hearst for ransom. He
died in 1976 of natural causes.

Cheryl Crane eventually went to live with her grandmother, Lana's
mother. There were many years of hardship ahead for this young woman,
including more alienation from her mother, but overcoming those
obstacles, Cheryl went into the restaurant business with her father.
Today Cheryl is a successful businesswoman. She recently helped
produce a Lana Turner retrospective on cable television.

Lana Turner's career, which hit a plateau before Johnny's death, was
rejuvenated in 1958. She went on to make many more movies and starred
on television in "Falcon Crest." Lana and Cheryl mended fences and
reconciled long before her death in 1995. Well-respected and honored
until the end, the "Sweater Girl" proved to be a survivor who had more
than enough mettle to stand up to the curse of the Hollywood
bombshell..."

williamhubbard · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 4

On Nov 12, 9:00 am, Gregory Morrow
wrote:
> The Starmaker wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I seen her movies but
> > I just cannot believe the stoies I heard about her...
>
> > She was hanging out with this gangster guy boyfriend of hers
> > and he started slaping her around, and her 14 year old daughter
> > stabbed him on his stomach to death!
>
> Here's a detailed chronology of the whole thing, including pix. I've
> included some excerpts about Lana's appearance on the stand - the most
> skilled Hollywood screenwriters could not have cooked up such a
> scenario, it's PURE show - bizz...!!! :
>
> http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/lana_turner/1.html
>
> "Role of a Lifetime
>
> The coroner's inquest into the death of Johnny Stompanato was the most
> anticipated television event ever. This was no Peyton Place; it was
> the real thing. Depending on how Lana played it, her daughter was
> either going to walk away a free woman or be charged with the death of
> her mother's boyfriend.
>
> In the Hall of Records in downtown Beverly Hills the largest courtroom
> was reserved for the inquest. Of the 160 seats, 120 were reserved for
> the press. CBS and ABC announced that they were going to broadcast the
> inquest live and it would go out over radio, as well.
>
> Interest in the case was overwhelming. Peyton Place, already a popular
> movie, saw its box office receipts jump by a third the week after
> Johnny's death. Coincidentally, one of Lana's key scenes in the
> melodrama was a courtroom interrogation, where she was questioned
> about crimes committed by her daughter.
>
> The lines formed for the 40 public seats at 6 a.m. Shortly before
> 9:00, under a merciless sun made all the hotter by the television
> lights and flashbulbs, Lana, Stephan Crane (Cheryl's father) and Jerry
> Geisler (Lana's attorney) entered the building and quickly made their
> way to the courtroom.
>
> Mickey Cohen was the first person called to testify, since he had
> identified Johnny's body at the morgue. Ever the showman, he caused a
> stir by refusing "to identify the body on the grounds I may be accused
> of this murder." He spent all of two minutes on the stand and left the
> building shortly thereafter.
>
> The coroner introduced the autopsy report that showed how "a whole
> team of doctors" could not have saved Johnny's life. He had been
> stabbed once in the abdomen. The knife had sliced a kidney, struck a
> vertebra and twisted upward, puncturing his aorta. The medical
> examiner also announced that Johnny probably wouldn't have lived
> another 10 years because of his bad liver.
>
> Then it was time for Lana.
>
> Dressed in a gray silk suit, white gloves and hat, Lana was ready for
> her close-up. Her platinum hair was impeccable, not a strand out of
> place, and the best makeup artists had made her look as beautiful as
> she had ever been. Even though she had not slept at all the night
> before, Lana's high cheekbones glowed a healthy pale rose that only
> accented her crystal clear blue eyes, long doe lashes and pencil-thin
> eyebrows.
>
> She sat down at the witness stand, removed her gloves and took a deep
> breath. For the next hour, Lana answered questions from the coroner,
> his deputy and Geisler while a 10-man, two-woman jury watched
> intently. She barely made eye contact with her questioners, instead
> staring at the back of the courtroom, where the wall met the ceiling.
> She broke down twice on the stand.
>
> Speaking quietly, she tried to explain why she stayed with a man who
> beat her, something she said in her autobiography that she didn't
> herself understand. Under Geisler's gentle questioning she recounted a
> moment-by-moment recap of the argument that led to the stabbing.
>
> When she had finished, the coroner asked for a recess and the press
> immediately surrounded Lana. She was on the verge of fainting when
> Jerry Geisler moved her out of the center of the crowd. Reporters
> talked among themselves about the quality of Lana's performance.
>
> The inquest wasn't over after Lana left the stand, but most of the
> drama was gone. Police investigators testified that they were confused
> by some of the details. First, the knife was new, but it was scratched
> and chipped as if it had seen significant use before. Second, there
> were no fingerprints on the knife. Third, there was no blood in the
> bedroom or on Lana Turner's clothes and the bedroom was not in any
> sort of disarray. Finally, the blood on the knife contained "several
> light and dark fibers or hairs," which could not be identified.
>
> As the inquest concluded, a mysterious man jumped up from the gallery
> and shouted that he needed to testify. As he was escorted from the
> room, he shouted, "Lies! All lies! This mother and daughter were both
> in love with Stompanato! Johnny was a gentleman!" Whether the man was
> a nutcase, a publicity hound or a Cohen plant was never determined,
> but regardless, he was taken away and disappeared.
>
> The jurors retreated to deliberate and took less than a half-hour to
> decide that John Stompanato's death was justifiable homicide. Acting
> out of fear for her life and for her mother's life, Cheryl Crane was
> justified in using deadly force to stop Johnny, they ruled. The
> decision was not unanimous, nor did it have to be.
>
> The inquest verdict was not binding on the prosecutor, but the next
> day McKesson decided not to pursue charges. He did, however, initiate
> court proceedings to determine Lana's fitness as a parent.
>
> Mickey Cohen was outraged at the coroner's verdict and immediately
> went to the press. "It's the first time in my life I've ever seen a
> dead man convicted of his own murder," he said. "So far as that jury's
> concerned, Johnny just walked too close to that knife."
>
> Johnny Stompanato's family brought a wrongful death lawsuit against
> Lana Turner and Stephan Crane (Cheryl's father). The case was settled
> out of court.
>
> In 1962, Mickey Cohen was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for
> income tax violations. He was released in 1972 and began a campaign
> for prison reform. In 1974, Mickey made headlines again when he said
> he had had contact with people holding Patty Hearst for ransom. He
> died in 1976 of natural causes.
>
> Cheryl Crane eventually went to live with her grandmother, Lana's
> mother. There were many years of hardship ahead for this young woman,
> including more alienation from her mother, but overcoming those
> obstacles, Cheryl went into the restaurant business with her father.
> Today Cheryl is a successful businesswoman. She recently helped
> produce a Lana Turner retrospective on cable television.
>
> Lana Turner's career, which hit a plateau before Johnny's death, was
> rejuvenated in 1958. She went on to make many more movies and starred
> on television in "Falcon Crest." Lana and Cheryl mended fences and
> reconciled long before her death in 1995. Well-respected and honored
> until the end, the "Sweater Girl" proved to be a survivor who had more
> than enough mettle to stand up to the curse of the Hollywood
> bombshell..."

Stoponato, in his last miments may have thought "If you cooze, you
lose."

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