Silver Screen Stabbing: Did a Starlet Cover Up a Gangster's Murder?
The 1958 murder of Lana Turner’s mobster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, by her 14-year-old daughter Cheryl Crane, is re-examined as a possible cover-up orchestrated by Hollywood fixers and the mob, raising enduring questions about truth, abuse, and the price of fame. The official story of
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