At a family dinner another night, my father informed my sisters and me that he was the father of Anna Nicole's baby..... sure Dad and Brad Pitt is leaving Angelina for me personally. While my father's statement was said in jest, it got me to thinking about the infatuation we being a culture experienced with Anna Nicole since her death (and also before). If my dad, a sixty-five year old man (sorry Dad, After all a forty-five yr old man) is abreast to the latest Anna Nicole news, then who isn't?
The jury, or rather the autopsy, is still from precisely how Anna Nicole died. All we really know is always that she died young and, no matter your identiity, this is a tragedy. Anna's death may be the results of numerous things. Though foul play is not suspected, her death is suspicious which is enough to help make the ears in our culture improve: not merely am i enthusiastic about celebrities, but we become much more obsessed if they are involved with a suspicious death, their own or another person's.
Anna isn't first celebrity to become involved in an untimely, strange death and, sadly, she will most likely not function as the last. Deaths laden in suspicion nearly manage to include celebrity territory, packaged in the Styrofoam peanuts of stardom.
O.J. Simpson
O.J. Simpson was acquitted with the 1994 deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a friend of hers, Ronald Goldman. For that reason, I can't say that O.J. can be a murderer, but permit me to label this part of my article: If He Made it happen.
Ahead of being a murder suspect, O.J. was loved as a Hall of Fame running back, a Hertz spokesman, an actress, along with a man using a big smile. That fell apart when he had become the prime suspect in a brutal murder: it was a suspicion that led the authorities on the world's slowest very fast chase down a California highway.
Though a jury did not convict him, the throngs of guilt still surround him and his name is becoming symbolic of the phrase "murderer." Hertz, doesn't it O.J.?
Many people believe he was acquitted because of his celebrity status, while some accept it was because of mistakes the prosecution made during the trial. Regardless of the causes of his acquittal through the criminal trial, they didn't stick inside the civil trial. Last month 5, 1997, O.J. was found guilty inside a wrongful death suit and ordered to pay for over 33 million dollars in damages. With pensions protected from seizure, he could be rumored to nevertheless be capable of live his acquired lifestyle leaving those that believe he could be guilty angry and of the perception how the justice system is a contradiction.
Robert Blake
From an Our Gang character to a Baretta icon to a murder suspect, Robert Blake can be a man of numerous faces. In 2000, he married a lady named Bonnie Lee Bakley after tests proved that they was pregnant together with his child. It was his second marriage and her - introducing the adage no bridesmaid and always a bride - tenth.
In May of 2001, Bakely was murdered by gun shot in a car while waiting for Blake to go back from the restaurant where that they had just dined. Blake was eventually arrested for murder, not accused of actually pulling the trigger but of hiring the one that did. After going on trial, Blake was acquitted.
Like O.J. Simson, an acquittal inside the criminal trial didn't endure within the civil suit. At the end of November of 2005, a jury agreed with all the manslaughter suit filed against Blake. He was ordered to pay $ 30 million dollars. Several months later, Blake found himself filing for bankruptcy.
Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer
Only 21 years old when she was shot and killed n 1989, Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer had a career that has been just getting started. Most widely known for her role inside the sitcom My Sister Sam, Schaeffer was shot by Robert Bardo, a 19-year-old who was a crazed fan. After stalking her for several years, writing letters and trying to get access on the set of My Sister Sam, Bardo hired an exclusive investigator to locate her place of residence. The PI surely could locate it through DMV records.
Bardo clothed being a flower delivery man and approached Schaeffer's doorway. When she answered, he shot her once inside the heart. He was arrested the next day.
The death of Schaeffer set the ball moving for California's anti-stalking laws. In addition, it helped change the law regarding the launch of information with the DMV.
Natalie Wood
A child-turned-adult-actress, Natalie Wood was the face of a generation. Known for her roles in Rebel With no Cause and West Side Story in addition to her social interaction - your life that saw her court the kind of Elvis, Raymond Burr, Warren Beauty, and Dennis Hopper - her death was also not without any drama. Even today, mysteries still remain.
Three decades ago, in the chronilogical age of 45, Wood drowned while onboard a yacht along with her husband, Robert Wagner, and Christopher Walken. No one knows for many what went down and also the reports varied. One theory shows that Wagner and Walken experienced a quarrel and, while they argued, Wood fell overboard. Though a witness on shore reported hearing Wood cry for help - plus the two men reasurring her that they were coming - Wagner, Walken, anf the husband piloting the yacht all said they never heard anything.
Wood was legally drunk during the time which likely compromised her capability to swim. Bruises were also found on her body, however, these were ambigious, possibly being a result of her fall.
Brandon Bruce Lee
The son of the greatest martial artist of all time, Brandon Lee, much like his father, met an untimely death. In 1994, while filiming the movie The Crow, Lee was shot by a gun that has been supposed to be a harmless prop. Instead, a bullet was lodged inside the revolver. Once the trigger was pulled - as written in the script - the reverberation of the blanks make the bullet to propel, ultimatley shooting Lee within the abdomen. Despite a five hour try to save him, Lee was pronounced dead in the ages of 28. The footage of his fictional-turned-real death scene was destroyed nevertheless the movie was eventually finished.
Some people suspect that Lee fell for foul play; the freak accident that claimed his life just seemed a little too implausible. Others, however, think that his death was section of the Bruce Lee curse. Bruce Lee also died young, struggling with brain swelling at the age of 32.