She's a sexy woman, and she's also a talented actress nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Men long for her, women long to be her. However, she has a collection of thousands of pampered people, and she actually has many unhappy emotional lives. There seemed to be a spell on her that any man she fell in love with was destined to be a jerk.
The bloody case caused by the quarrel
At 9:20 p.m. on April 4, 1958, at 730 North Bedford Street, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, USA, a debate intensified at the home of the famous Hollywood actress Lana Turner.
Lana and her boyfriend Johnny got into an argument in the bedroom, and their argument grew louder and louder, even a fight. Lana's 14-year-old daughter, Cheryl, was in her room and could clearly hear the quarrel in the next room. Unable to bear such endless noise, she came to her mother's door and asked her to open it. No one opened the door for her, only to hear Lana's voice inside become hoarse, and Johnny angrily threatened Lana with a knife and destroyed Lana and killed their entire family.
Cheryl was frightened and worried about her mother's safety. She ran downstairs to the kitchen, took a knife and went back upstairs to beg her mother to open the door. Lana opened the door this time. Johnny was behind her mother, and Cheryl saw his hand rise high again, so she raised the knife in her hand and stabbed Johnny in the abdomen. Johnny was stabbed, took a sharp step back, and stumbled to the ground, his blood immediately staining a large carpet red.
The mother and daughter were stunned by such a scene. Soon, Lana calmed down and called her mother. A few minutes later, Lana's mother arrived at Lana's house with the doctor. Although the doctor gave Johnny a shot in the arm, the dying Johnny went to the west.
Lana called Jerry Geisler, a big-name lawyer in Hollywood at the time, and Geisler brought a private investigator to Lana's house and reported the case to the police. Geisler later described his entry into the room: as soon as he entered the room, he saw a corpse lying on the ground, a knife inserted in his body, and a carpet covered with blood. Not long after, the police station people also rushed to Lana's house, followed by a large group of reporters. As a result, the murder case of Lana's family entered the eyes of Americans as quickly as possible, and became the talk of people in the streets and alleys.
Lana and Johnny
Lana was a popular American movie star, born on February 8, 1921 in Idaho, usa, and had 8 failed marriages. The life of the deceased Johnny is even more legendary, he has worked as a naval soldier, a personal bodyguard, and a nightclub, but he is a shameless person who squeezes the women around him. He's still a gangster.
In 1938, Lana entered the film industry and has played roles in films such as "The End of the World", "Slut's Grudge", "Green Whale Street", and "The New Three Musketeers". In 1957, she starred in "Cold and Warm World" and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress that year, and shortly after the Oscars, Johnny died under the knife of Lana's daughter. The tragedy of all this stems from a romantic love story.
In early 1957, Johnny breaks into Lana's life, and Lana is immediately mesmerized by Johnny's handsomeness, and she has never met anyone like him. But as the two deepen their relationship, Lana also becomes more and more aware of Johnny's rogue nature, and even discovers that he is a member of the underworld, but cannot get rid of Johnny's entanglement. Later, Lana admitted in her autobiography that she had a strange interest in men, that is, dangerous people like Johnny, but lana could not be separated from him more and more.
Johnny was a former Navy veteran and married a Turkish woman. After World War II, he came to China, lived in China for a few years, and then returned to Los Angeles. He found a job as a nightclub bouncer in Los Angeles, and although he wasn't paid much, his main source of livelihood was women. Thanks to her tall, burly figure and personable demeanor, Johnny didn't have to attract the attention of some women. He uses his charm to attract some women who are late and golden. He has been commented that as soon as he spends all the money on a golden woman, his loyalty will decrease and he will become interested in other women. He often haunts some high-end clubs, playing tricks and waiting for women to take the bait.
Lana was often beaten by Johnny after her association with Johnny. By then, Lana had already had the idea of leaving Johnny, and when she was filming a movie with Sean Connery, she had a scandal with Connery. In fact, Lana is very lonely in England and finds Johnny and wants him to accompany her. Because of her affair with Connery, Johnny got into an argument with her, and it was at this time that Johnny began to be violent to her.
Lana later recalled: "I reached for the phone, but he knocked me down and choked me by the neck. I used all my strength and roared loudly before he let go of his hands." Later, Johnny and Lana get into an argument.
At the 1958 Academy Awards, The nominated Lana did not let Johnny attend with her, which led to a fierce conflict between the two sides. After the ceremony, After Lana was brutally beaten by Johnny, Johnny died in Lana's home.
After the tragedy is over
On May 6, 1958, a Los Angeles jury tried whether Cheryl was guilty of homicide. Lana testified in court. She has a gray silk suit, white gloves, and her hair is not messy, and the best makeup artists have carefully dressed her up to make her look flawless.
Over the next hour, Lana was interrogated by the coroner and Geisler, answering slowly and collapsing in her seat during the adjournment due to nervousness. The court finally found Cheryl justified in self-defense and that Cheryl was not convicted of homicide. Although it was later pointed out that there were many doubts in the case, it was only speculation, and many even believed that the mother and daughter conspired to kill Johnny, because both mother and daughter fell in love with someone they should not love.
Later, the police raised a number of doubts about the case:
First, the clothes worn by Lana's mother and daughter were very clean and did not show a trace of blood.
Second, the knife in Lana's daughter's hand is said to have been newly bought, and it is also marked with a price tag, but it is suspicious that the blade has many cracks and definitely does not look like a newly bought knife. On the knife, the police also found a lot of fingerprints and fibers, which could not be identified due to the technical conditions at the time.
In court, an emotional man suddenly stood up in the crowd and asked to testify. The court police, in order to maintain order, decided to take him away. At this point, he shouted, "Lies, all lies!" Mother and daughter are deeply in love with Johnny! Johnny was a true gentleman. "No one knows the man's identity. After he was taken away, he never appeared again.
It seems that a case that has come out of nowhere, due to the fame of the parties, has spawned all kinds of complicated things. What the truth is, only Lana's mother and daughter know.
Later, the court gave Lana custody of her daughter Cheryl, but the relationship between mother and daughter did not seem to be very good. At one point, her relationship with her mother deteriorated, and the two reconciled, eventually living with her grandmother. Cheryl also seems to have put down the past, running the family restaurant with her father, and not stepping into the entertainment industry. Only later, together with American Cable TV, a documentary about Lana was made.
As for Lana, neither her career nor her life has been affected by this case. She went on to work in the film industry and made a lot of amazing films. After filming her last TV series in 1981, she began a public welfare undertaking and won people's love and respect. It was not until 1995 that she died of illness.
Whether before or after her death, she is still popular with many people. To this day, many people come to her former apartment with flowers in their hands and say that they love her deeply. Despite Lana's death, people are happy to talk about her and her story with Johnny.
Rumors have been rife about the past. One private detective even said that a close friend of Lana's, after the incident, saw that Lana's bed was covered in blood, like someone had slaughtered a livestock on it, and he was ordered to clean up the scene, and then he and others made a lot of fingerprints on the knife to confuse the police eye.
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