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Stompanato was Cohen's moneyman and twice when he was arrested he was found to be carrying more than $50,000 cash. Having a flunky carry all the money was typical in the syndicate. Since the top guys were often harassed by police and arrested on trumped-up charges such as vagrancy, it would be difficult for a flower shop owner like Mickey Cohen to explain why he had so much cash.
Added: Apr 25, 1998. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 1226. Source citation. Organized Crime and Hollywood Scandal Figure. He was a United States Marine who became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen and the Cohen crime family. In the mid-1950s, he began an abusive relationship with actress Lana Turner. On April 4, 1958, Stompanato was ...
John Stompanato Jr. (October 10, 1925 – April 4, 1958), was a United States Marine and gangster who became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen...
Cheryl Christina Crane (born July 25, 1943) is an American former model, retired real estate broker, author, and the only child of actress Lana Turner.Her father was Turner's second husband, actor-turned-restaurateur Steve Crane.She was the subject of significant media attention in 1958 when, at fourteen years old, she stabbed to death her mother's lover, Johnny Stompanato, during a domestic ...
John Stompanato Jr., was a United States Marine who became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen and the Cohen crime family.
The TRUTH About Lana Turner: (Death Of Mobster Johnny Stompanato)Lana Turner's discovery at a Hollywood drug store is a show-business legend. As a sixteen-ye...
Johnny's father soon remarried a woman named Verena Freitag. In 1940, after Stompanato's freshman year at Woodstock High School, his father sent him to Kemper Military School for boys in Boonville, Missouri. In 1942 he graduated at the age of 17. In 1943, Stompanato joined the U.S. Marines serving with the 1st Service Battalion, 1st Marine ...
