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Lana Turner: New Questions Arise About the Stabbing Death of Her Mobster Boyfriend
New questions have arisen about late Hollywood star Lana Turner's mobster boyfriend's 1958 stabbing death, the authors of a new book tell Closer exclusively.
“Her daughter was a minor at that point, so she wouldn’t have suffered the same consequences in a prosecution,” Josh Young, one of the authors of The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars and Marilyn, a recent book on Hollywood detective Fred Otash, tells Closer exclusively. “The fact that Stompanato was looking back toward Turner, carrying clothes on hangers over his shoulder and leaving the room, made the self-defense theory a bit shaky,” wrote Bill Higgins in a 2011 The Hollywood Reporter story. “Let’s just say it conflicts with the official version.” Sherman, who interviewed witnesses and received access to the original police files, goes a step further: “I strongly believe Lana Turner killed Johnny Stompanato, but I think she did so in the ultimate attempt to protect her family, her mother and her daughter,” he says.
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