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On the evening of April 4, 1958, 14-year-old Cheryl Crane fatally stabbed 32-year-old Johnny Stompanato, the boyfriend of her mother, actress Lana Turner, at Turner's rented home in Beverly Hills, California.
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. In the mid-1950s, he began an abusive relationship with actress Lana Turner .
10 de may. de 2024 · The bodyguard of Mickey Cohen, Johnny Stompanato was a notorious L.A. mobster before he was stabbed to death in Lana Turner's home on April 4, 1958. Turner's daughter has always maintained that she killed Stompanato in her mother's defense, but rumors have swirled that Turned killed him herself.
La hija de Turner, de 14 años, la cual mantenía una pésima relación con Stompanato, harta del maltrato hacia ella y su madre, en un ataque de enajenación mental y en defensa de su madre, lo apuñaló en el estómago, lo que le causó la muerte poco después.
10 de ago. de 2015 · Stompanato had been stabbed in the abdomen with a butcher knife. Before the night was out, Turner’s 14-year-old daughter confessed to delivering the fatal wounds.
28 de ene. de 2024 · In his new book A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown’s Most Shocking Crime, out Feb. 13 from Sourcebooks, the author examines the infamous 1958 murder of gangster Johnny Stompanato...
The body of Johnny Stompanato lies in Lana Turner's all-pink bedroom after he was stabbed to death by the actress's daughter, Cheryl Crane. Turner says she couldn't believe what she was seeing. She thought Crane was just poking Stompanato with her finger, but a knife was buried in his abdomen.
