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  Jennifer Chiba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jennifer Chiba was the girlfriend of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith at the time of his death at their home in Echo Park, California on 21 October 2003.
Chiba initially told LAPD detectives that, during a heated fight with Smith, she locked herself inside of a bathroom.
Jennifer Chiba has publicly stated that she was in no way involved in Smith's death.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jennifer_Chiba   (278 words)

  
 The Smoking Gun: Archive
In addition, the actions of Smith's live-in girlfriend, musician Jennifer Chiba, were of concern to investigators.
Chiba initially told cops that she had argued with Smith, 34, in their home and, at one point, locked herself in the bathroom.
Chiba emerged when she heard Smith scream, and saw him standing with "a knife sticking out of his chest." The medical examiner noted that Chiba's "reported removal of the knife and subsequent refusal to speak with detectives are all of concern." (5 pages)
www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/esmithaut1.html   (170 words)

  
 Guardian | The mysterious death of Mr Misery
Many friends claimed his new-found optimism was the result of his year-long relationship with Jennifer Chiba, a member of a local punk band, Happy Ending, who Smith had taken under his wing, touring with them as his support act, paying their expenses and producing their debut single.
It claimed that Chiba's "reported removal of the knife" from Smith and "subsequent refusal to speak with detectives" were "all of concern".
Chiba had declined all interview requests in the wake of Smith's death, but on January 9, four days after The Smoking Gun published the coroner's report, she made a statement to MTV News.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4882767-110432,00.html   (2327 words)

  
 The Global Telegraph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Chiba, the marathon bronze medalist at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, completed the course in near record time of 2:26:50.
For Chiba, who was an alternate for the Athens Olympic marathon team, it was her second win at the Hokkaido Marathon, having also won the 2001 edition.
Chiba ran the next 5Km in 17:16, followed by 17:03 for the 5Km between 35Km to 40Km.
www.runtheplanet.com /pages/newsletter/glob0904.php   (1500 words)

  
 mtv.com - News - Elliott Smith's Girlfriend Insists No Involvement In Death
The medical examiner wrote that those facts, along with live-in girlfriend Jennifer Chiba's "subsequent refusal to speak with detectives" are of concern and raise the possibility of homicide.
Chiba said she was physically sick when she realized that the complete report — made public Tuesday, six days after the inconclusive findings were announced (see "Cause of Elliott Smith's Death Still Unclear, Coroner Says; No Illegal Drugs Found") — was online.
When speaking with police, Chiba noted Smith's history of addiction to heroin and crack, though she claimed he was clean for more than a year, a claim also made by many of Smith's friends.
www.mtv.com /news/articles/1484246/20040109/story.jhtml   (1129 words)

  
 Sonny Chiba Pics - Sonny Chiba News - Sonny Chiba Information
Sonny Chiba, a fourth-degree fl belt in karate and trained in judo, ninjutsu, kendo, and kempo has enjoyed a successful film career spanning 40 years.
Chiba, originally Sadao Maeda was the second of five children born to...
Chiba has starred in more than 125 films at Toei Studios and has won numerous acting awards in Japan for his dramatic film roles.
www.tv.com /sonny-chiba/person/261378/summary.html   (222 words)

  
 Gone At Last :: In remembrance of Elliott Smith--- Ambitious-Outsiders.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Jennifer Chiba, his girlfriend at the time found his lifeless body and immediately called for help.
The eeriest one being that his girlfriend Jennifer Chiba had something to do with his death.
Spin Magazine is about to publish an interview with Jennifer in which she talks about Elliott's last days on earth.
www.ambitious-outsiders.com /features/elliottsmith.html   (744 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Jennifer chiba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/jennifer_chiba   (892 words)

  
 Sonny Chiba Bio, News and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
And the sonorous Biblical speeches delivered by Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction were inspired by the assassin-for-hire character played by Chiba on the Japanese television series Shadow Warriors, a formative influence on the future filmmaker when it was shown with subtitles on LA’s International Channel.
Chiba made a strong impression in the title role as the ruthless mercenary Terry Surugy.
Apart from his appearances as the Streetfighter, Sonny Chiba is probably best known in the US for his role as a tough talking space caption in Message From Space (1978), director Kinji Fukasaku’s Japanese Star Wars clone.
www.ropeofsilicon.com /profile.php?varProfile=1561   (406 words)

  
 Virginmega.com - NEWS - Soundcheck - Elliott Smith's Death Not a Suicide?
Smith, 34, was found dead on the day of the incident at his Echo Park apartment by his girlfriend, Jennifer Chiba.
Friends reported that the rather morose songwriter had been in good spirits while working on a new album in the weeks leading up to his death and that for the first time in his adult life, he was clean (“he and Jennifer weren't even drinking coffee,” reported one).
The report confirmed that Smith had no illegal drugs in his system when he died and that perscription medications he was taking to treat depression and attention deficit disorder "were at therapeutic or lower levels...
www.virginmegamagazine.com /?aid=B82   (192 words)

  
 West Virginia Wesleyan College: Women's Soccer
Jennifer Morrill (Tucson, Ariz.) and Kelly Schaults (Pittsburgh, Pa.) put the pressure on Davis and Elkins.
Jennifer Morrill (Tucson, Ariz.) took the shot, and Golden Eagle keeper tallied her first save of the game.
Jennifer Morrill (Tucson, Ariz.) initiated the offensive attack for the Lady ‘Cats, taking their first shot.
www.wvwc.edu /ath/fall0405/wsoctop.asp   (4247 words)

  
 Cincinnati CityBeat : 01/14/2004 : Minimum Gauge: Music News, Tid-Bits and Other Morsels
Smith's girlfriend, musician Jennifer Chiba, appears to now be at the center of the controversy.
The police report says that Chiba claims to have argued with Smith and then locked herself in the bathroom, only to emerge to find the singer/songwriter with a knife sticking out of his chest.
Police appear to be interested in Chiba's involvement because of her prints on the knife (Chiba says it was from removing it) and her alleged refusal to speak to police (Chiba says she talked to them several times).
www.citybeat.com /2004-01-14/minimumgauge.shtml   (760 words)

  
 PLAYLOUDER | NEWS | Smith's Girlfriend Speaks Out
Jennifer Chiba discovered the body, after it was thought Smith killed himself by stabbing himself last year, although a coroner in the US said police had not supplied sufficient evidence for him to conclusively conclude Smith's death was, in fact, suicide.
Among that evidence are small lacerations on his palms which could have been caused as the singer tried to defend himself against an attacker.
Regarding the fact she'd not spoken to detectives, Chiba hit back with the following remark: "The media are just looking for some sort of sensationalistic angle that will sell their publications.
www.playlouder.com /news/~smithsgirlfriend   (258 words)

  
 New for Bands of the Ninties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
According to the January 6 report, Smith's girlfriend, Jennifer Chiba, told police that she and Smith were arguing when she locked herself in the bathroom.
Chiba told police that Smith often talked about committing suicide and had a history of addictions, including heroin, crack and alcohol.
Chiba told authorities that Smith had been drug-free for one year.
www.muzikfiendz.net /NewsfortheNinites.html   (2072 words)

  
 Jennifer Hanson at Music Crawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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Jennifer talks about life on the road with Jeff Beck.
Jennifer Chiba responds to the coroner's report being made public.
www.musiccrawler.net /artist/jennifer-hanson.html   (209 words)

  
 Portland Mercury - News - City - More Answers, More Questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Here are the facts so far: On October 21 at a few minutes past midnight, Smith's live-in girlfriend, Jennifer Chiba, called 911 to report that the maudlin indie singer was bleeding from two chest wounds.
Although detectives and the coroner's report have stopped short of directly implicating Chiba, Dr. Scheinin does write, "Additionally, the girlfriend's reported removal of the knife, and subsequent refusal to speak with the detectives are all of concern."
According to witness statements recorded by Detective King (which seem to counter the coroner's report that Chiba refused to speak with detectives), Smith's girlfriend provided a suicide note for the detectives.
www.portlandmercury.com /portland/Content?oid=30529&category=22101   (633 words)

  
 Pitchfork: Daily Music News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Around noon on October 21st, 2003, Smith and his girlfriend, Jennifer Chiba, were having an argument in which Chiba locked herself in the bathroom, according to the investigator's report: "While she was in the bathroom, she heard the decedent [Smith] scream and she came out and found the decedent standing with his back to her.
When [Smith] turned around Jennifer saw a knife sticking out of his chest." Chiba removed the knife from Smith's chest and called 911, "performing citizen CPR and first aid with operator assistance" until paramedics arrived, according to the report.
In addition to his continuing battle with depression for which he was being treated with "multiple prescription drugs," Smith "engaged in self-mutilating behavior and would burn himself with cigarettes," according to the investigator's narrative.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /news/04-01/12.shtml   (1770 words)

  
 bvs_theblogproject: Elliott Smith's Uneasy Afterlife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
But it was cemented last Oct. 21, when Elliott Smith died of knife wounds to his chest, in his apartment in the Echo Park neighborhood in Los Angeles.
In addition to a passionately devoted army of the shy, and a girlfriend, Jennifer Chiba, Smith left behind dozens of songs recorded in the last four years of his life and meant for a double CD titled "From a Basement on the Hill." Over the last few months, Mr.
Meanwhile, conspiracy theories flourish regarding the role of his girlfriend, Jennifer Chiba: Smith adored the Beatles, and his followers have obligingly cast her in the role of Yoko Ono, destroyer of their hero.
www.blueverticalstudio.com /05/archives/001227.html   (1441 words)

  
 Hotei Popup - Learn More about Hotei
Reiko Chiba, author of The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan, adds that he is also seen carrying a large bag over his shoulder that is said to contain gifts and fortunes for those who believe in his virtues.
According to Chiba, his Chinese name was Kaishi.
It is said that once he slept outside during a snowstorm, and people were amazed when he did not get cold or wet (Chiba 21).
www.onmarkproductions.com /html/hotei_by_jennifer_polden.htm   (518 words)

  
 Blender :: guide
According to the Los Angeles county coroner’s office, Smith was found bleeding and barely coherent by his girlfriend, Jennifer Chiba, at around noon in their one-story house on Lemoyne Street in the city’s Echo Park neighborhood.
He had been with Chiba, a former member of the indie band Happy Ending, for about a year, and among the sad aftershocks of his death are rumblings among his friends and fellow musicians about her culpability.
Recently, however, Crane had gotten a call from Jennifer Chiba asking if he’d come to L.A. to work on new material with Smith.
www.blender.com /guide/articles.aspx?id=627   (2824 words)

  
 PLAYLOUDER | NEWS | Elliott Family Issue Statement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The late Elliott Smith's family have issued a statement that suggests they are not as committed to girfriend Jennifer Chiba as she recently suggested in an interview.
Since the coroner's report declared they could not determine whether Smith took his own life or if foulplay was involved, fingers have pointed at Chiba, who was in the house at the time of the singers death.
She told MTV last week: "If I was a suspect, I would have heard from the investigators, for one thing.
playlouder.com /news/~elliottfamilyiss/?key=2248d2-207d02   (214 words)

  
 Elliott Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These include the absence of hesitation wounds, stabbing through clothing, and the presence of small incised wounds on the right arm and left hand (possible defensive wounds).
Additionally, the girlfriend's [Jennifer Chiba's] reported removal of the knife and subsequent refusal to speak with detectives are all of concern.
Rivers Cuomo wrote a song called "The Other Way" about wanting to console Jennifer Chiba about Smith's death on Weezer's fifth album Make Believe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elliott_Smith   (1246 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Smith's girlfriend speaks...
His girlfriend Jennifer Chiba, who discovered the body, reportedly told friends that less than an hour before his death Smith had threatened to kill himself.
but i can see how if jennifer did kill him, she would panic and call an ambulance and it is a perfect way to cover up finger prints on the knife by saying that you pulled the knife out that he injected on his own.
And you same people who are bashing and insist that Jennifer did it are probably the same people who led to the suicide/murder.
blogcritics.org /archives/2004/01/12/080503.php   (2371 words)

  
 Guardian | Elliott Smith, From a Basement on a Hill
And speculating on the contents of his last lyrics looks fairly harmless when compared with the internet rumours that Smith may have been murdered by his girlfriend, Jennifer Chiba.
Anyone searching From a Basement on a Hill for clues as to Smith's state of mind does not have to look too far.
"You're keeping me around, until I finally drag us both down," runs Coast to Coast, summing up the second: clinging, diseased relationships, which rather suggests Smith's life with Chiba was not the bed of roses depicted immediately after his death.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5038982-110430,00.html   (797 words)

  
 Under the Radar - News - Elliott Smith - Better Off Than Dead, Elliott Smith Comes Clean
His girlfriend Jennifer Chiba, of the band Happy Endings, later admits that he is uncomfortable with money, which is one of the reasons why he began the foundation.
Although Smith claims he did not physically assault any of the officers, he was assaulted and arrested without probable cause, and he was not read his Miranda rights.
Both he and Jennifer Chiba spent the night in jail without the benefit of even seeing Beck’s set.
www.undertheradarmag.com /es.html   (6186 words)

  
 Sonny Chiba
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Sonny Chiba to receive a rating.
When it comes to hot martial arts action, there are few proponents of the discipline as proficient as Sonny Chiba.
With fans ranging from aficionados of the genre, to mainstream Hollywood directors like Quentin Tarantino (whose two KILL BILL movies are positively Chiba-like in their outlook), Sonny manages to appeal to a broad spectrum of viewers.
www.rottentomatoes.com /p/sonny_chiba   (278 words)

  
 AFWJ Chiba | News and Events
Chiba ladies at the Yokohama Convention in January
The Kanto Luncheon was held on June 29, 2003 in Odaiba and hosted by the Chiba Chapter!
Welcome to new and rejoining members Leslie K., Gayle O., and Eugenia F. Also welcome back to Japan to Rita S., who has been living overseas for several years.
www.geocities.com /afwjchibachapter   (181 words)

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