Lana Turner, glamorous movie queen of the 1940’s had an affair with a small time hood named Johnny Stompanato in the late 1950’s. On the very night that she was nominated to get an Oscar for her role in Peyton Place, she and Stompanato quarreled loudly in the bedroom of her Beverly Hills home. When Turner’s 14-year-old daughter, Cheryl Crane, overheard Stompanato threaten her mother, the young girl grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen and ran upstairs. In the struggled, the eight-inch blade severed Stompanato’s aorta and he died in the bedroom. The killing was ruled a justifiable homicide but became one of Hollywoods most talked-about crimes.
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