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One of the most incredible stories to get Hollywood in the late 1950s was that of the death of Lana Turner boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato . On April 4, 1958, Turner's 14 -year -old daughter, Cheryl Crane ,, Stompanato stabbed to death During an incident of domestic violence, in which Crane defended his mother. When the case was tried, the murder was tried "a justifiable homicide" and Crane was acquitted. However, the media remained fascinated by the case for years, and Turner and Crane wrote on this subject in their respective memories. Now the story is told again in the book A murder in Hollywood: the unprecedented story of Tinseltown's most shocking crime by Casey Sherman . The author says that he discovered new information on Stompanato's intentions with Turner-and argues that it may be Turner herself that was missing the knife.

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Sherman's book claims that not only stompanato was abusive towards Turner, but that he was also trying to extort it. As indicated by the New York Post, The author writes that Stompanato Worked with gangster Mickey Cohen , and that they planned to capture images of Turner involved in a sexual act in order to make it sing.

"The two gangsters did the search for the classic honey trap scheme, using Stompanato as a bait to attract Lana to the bed," writes Sherman. "They would need to stage a trio of a kind while Cohen's men were surreptitiously spitting sex. They would then use this fear, the suspended on the head of the actress while siphoning heaps of money from his his bank account, "continues the book. But, Stompanato actually fell to Turner, according to Sherman. "The game had changed. It was no longer interested in blackmail or sex movies."

Sherman explained At Fox News Digital, "I tell in the book that Lana's lawyer, after Johnny Stompanato's death, had discovered Lana films in compromise situations. Lana thought that Johnny Stompanato had drugged her and put her In bed with other women and would have used it as extortion to make him pay for Mickey Cohen of big sums of money to keep him silent. But I don't think Johnny ever realized that Lana would have done anything for protect your family. " AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Sherman believes what has become a conspiracy theory on the case, namely that Turner was the one who actually killed Stompanato, but Crane took the blame because she was a minor and would not be condemned as harshly. The story told in court was that Crane had heard Stompanato fighting with her mother, so she caught a knife from their kitchen. Crane said that Stompanato then entered the knife during the dispute due to the position of his position. "From a single push, the blade penetrated her abdomen, moving into one of his kidneys, hitting a vertebra and perforating his aorta," writes Sherman. "A few seconds later, Johnny Stompanato, Gangster, Conman and Assressor, was dead."

Sherman said People In a recent interview, "I firmly believe that Lana Turner killed Johnny Stompanato, but I think she did it in the ultimate attempts to protect her family, her mother and daughter." The author claims that Stompanato said he would kill Turner, as well as his family.

"I think that when Johnny Stompanato threatened to kill Cheryl, as you read in the book, and kill [mother] Mildred [Cowan] Lana was painted in a corner and Lana had to retaliate, "said Sherman at the exit.

Turner died in 1995 at the age of 74. Crane, who Turner welcomed with her second husband Steve Crane , is still alive and is now 80 years old.