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  1. Killing of Johnny Stompanato. 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, United States. Stompanato, a former Marine and an associate of the Cohen crime family, had been in a year ...

  2. Johnny Stompanato. 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. In 1958, he was stabbed to death by Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, who said she did it ...

  3. May 10, 2024 · Published May 10, 2024. An enforcer and bodyguard in the L.A. mafia, Johnny Stompanato was stabbed to death in the Beverly Hills home of his girlfriend, Lana Turner, in April 1958. For years, Lana Turner was the movie star every aspiring actress wanted to be, in part for her magical beginnings. As the daughter of working-class parents born in ...

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  4. Aug 10, 2015 · Deputy Dist. Atty. William McGinley, holding the knife used to kill Johnny Stompanato, questions Lana Turner during the April 11, 1958, inquest into the slaying. On the night that Beverly Hills ...

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  5. Jan 28, 2024 · The infamous 1958 killing of actress Lana Turner's then-boyfriend Johnny Stompanato by Turner's 14-year-old daughter Cheryl Crane gets a new look in this exclusive excerpt from Casey Sherman's 'A ...

  6. Jul 13, 2018 · Crane, now 74, married female model Jocelyn "Josh" LeRoy in 2014 and works as a real estate agent. Turner continued her Hollywood acting career following Stompanato's death. In her final years ...

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  8. Feb 13, 2024 · Learn about the shocking crime that involved Lana Turner, a Hollywood star, and Johnny Stompanato, a mobster and gigolo, in 1958. The book explores the connections between the film industry and the mob, and the personal and professional struggles of Turner and her daughter Cheryl.