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  All about Lana Turner and Johnny Stompanato, by Mark Gribben
Lana and Johnny were fighting and Lana would later say she knew this fight was going to be a bad one.
Johnny was unconscious by the time he hit the floor.
Johnny Stompanato, military hero, wannabe actor, small-time hood, gigolo and abuser was dead.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/lana_turner/8.html   (849 words)

  
  CalendarHome.com - Johnny Stompanato - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John "Jackie" R. Stompanato was born to one of the few Italian-American families in the predominantly Irish-American Woodstock, Illinois.
Johnny Stompanato was stabbed to death on the night of April 4 (Good Friday), 1958, apparently by Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, who claimed she was protecting her mother from him at her mother's home in Beverly Hills.
After Stompanato's death, there were rumors that organized crime mobsters believed Connery had helped bring on the eventual demise of Stompanato, and Connery is alleged to have laid low for a time.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Johnny_Stompanato   (859 words)

  
 STOMPANATO, LANA , AND CHERYL:JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Johnny Stompanato, Lana Turner, and Cheryl Crane: Justifiable Homicide
Stompanato was the 32 year old ex-bodyguard of gangster Mickey Cohen.
According to the statement given to police, Cheryl Crane heard Stompanato threaten her mother, took a knife from the kitchen, and stabbed him in the stomach.
www.usc.edu /isd/archives/la/scandals/stompanato.html   (166 words)

  
 Johnny Stompanato Summary
Stompanato was especially angry because Turner refused to let him escort her to that year's Academy Awards.
Johnny Stompanato was stabbed to death on the night of April 4 (Good Friday), 1958, apparently by Lana's daughter, Cheryl Crane, who claimed she was protecting her mother from him at her mother's home in Hollywood.
Johnny Stompanato is interred at Oakland Cemetery, Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois.
www.bookrags.com /Johnny_Stompanato   (474 words)

  
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He wished him a happy birthday and explained that he knew Johnny would be rejoining the service, and he wouldn't want him to work on his birthday.
Stompanato was urged by Parismo to enter the ring for a final time before returning to base, and he found a willing opponent in the Crisco Kid.
Stompanato came running out, but he was not in time, and one Diamond Dust sealed the defeat for Dark Horse.
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 IGN: Is Sharon Stone Doing Johnny Stompanato?
The Hollywood Reporter, director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club) is in "early negotiations" to helm a biopic of infamous L.A. Mafioso Johnny Stompanato.
Turner's affair with Stompanato became the stuff of tabloid heaven, and further exposed the ties between Hollywood and the underworld.
Since his death, Johnny Stompanato, once L.A. mob lord Mickey Cohen's bodyguard, has become a fixture of crime films and novels, most notably in the works of James Ellroy.
movies.ign.com /articles/036/036697p1.html   (560 words)

  
 KeanuWeb: The Vine: A-list leads eyeing 'Stompanato'
Stompanato, a World War II vet-turned-small-time hood and wannabe actor, was killed on Good Friday 1958 in the Beverly Hills home of Turner by 14-year-old Crane.
The death was ruled as justifiable homicide, but rumors flew that Crane and Stompanato had been lovers, while other rumors flew that Turner actually killed Stompanato and let her underage daughter take the rap.
The Vine: A-list leads eyeing 'Stompanato' - "Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta-Jones are circling 'Stompanato,' a biopic about Johnny Stompanato, the boyfriend of actress Lana Turner who was killed by her young daughter, Cheryl Crane.
keanuweb.com /fr/reports/display_krcdb551.html   (285 words)

  
 Stompanato at WorstPreviews™   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
February 24, 2006 - Johnny Stompanato (Keanu Reeves), the hoodlum killed by the teen daughter of his girlfriend, actress Lana Turner (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
Stompanato, a World War II vet-turned-small-time hood and wannabe actor, was killed on Good Friday 1958 in the Beverly Hills home of Turner by 14-year-old Cheryl Crane.
The death was ruled as justifiable homicide, but rumors flew that Crane and Stompanato had been lovers, while other rumors flew that Turner actually killed Stompanato and let her daughter take the rap.
www.worstpreviews.com /printer.php?id=227   (83 words)

  
 The Bad & the Beautiful | TIME
Lana's fear was clear, and it led to Johnny Stompanato's death a month later.
Cheryl, detained in juvenile prison, testified by deposition that the last fight between Johnny and her mother arose after Lana learned that Johnny had lied about his age: he was really 32, not 42, as he had said.
Stompanato was behind me all the time saying some very bad things...
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,810264-2,00.html   (670 words)

  
 KeanuWeb: Stompanato
A biopic about Johnny Stompanato (Keanu Reeves), the boyfriend of actress Lana Turner (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who was killed by her young daughter, Cheryl Crane.
The Johnny Stompanato character was earlier portrayed by actor Paolo Seganti in the feature film "L.A. Confidential" (1997).
Stompanato - A biopic about Johnny Stompanato (to be played by Keanu Reeves), the boyfriend of actress Lana Turner (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who was killed by her young daughter, Cheryl Crane.
keanuweb.com /en/reports/display_kr7e59da.html   (133 words)

  
 Lana Turner FBI Files
Johnny Stompanato was a mobster who ran with Mickey Cohen.
Cheryl Crane said she feared that Stompanato was going to harm her mother, so she stabbed him with an eight inch carving knife.
Examples of the press coverage given to the incident involving Turner, Cheryl Crane, and Johnny Stompanato, which resulted in his death.
www.paperlessarchives.com /lana_turner_fbi_files.html   (483 words)

  
 Granta: 'In Lana Turner's Bedroom' by Gaby Wood
Johnny Stompanato was a suave, well-known gangster who had escorted other stars around town and had once been Mickey Cohen's bodyguard.
Two weeks earlier, Stompanato and Lana had had a violent fight because she refused to take him with her to the Oscars (she had been nominated for the first time, for her role in Peyton Place).
After Stompanato's death there was a coroner's inquest instead of a trial, and Cheryl was found guilty of 'justifiable homicide'.
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 Zap2it.com - Movie news - Reeves, ZetaJones May Take a Stab at Stompanato
Stompanato was a petty hoodlum, at best a bodyguard to famed LA mobster Mickey Cohen, at worst a lowly gigolo.
Despite his liabilities, Stompanato -- famous for his large, um, endowment -- ran with a fast and wealthy crowd, wooing a number of beautiful women, including Turner, who was five years his senior.
In April of 1958, Turner's 14-year-old daughter Cheryl Crane stabbed Stompanato to death with a butcher knife.
movies.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---26609,00.html   (276 words)

  
 Lana: Johnny Stompanato
When she found out he was actually dangerous mob associate Johnny Stompanato, the two had dated for several months.
Lana fought to end the relationship and regain a normal life, but Stompanato became abusive, vowing she would never leave him and live.
During one such violent argument, daughter Cheryl walked in and feared Stompanato would kill her mother.
www.lycos.com /info/lana--johnny-stompanato.html   (221 words)

  
 Johnny Stompanato movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
Stompanato, a World War II vet-turned-small-time hood and wannabe actor, was killed on Good Friday 1958 in the Beverly Hills home of Turner by 14-year-old Cheryl Crane.
Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta Jones are thought to be starring in a biopic based on the life of gangster Johnny Stompanato.
The death was ruled as justifiable homicide, but rumors flew that Crane and Stompanato had been lovers, while other rumors flew that Turner actually killed Stompanato and let her daughter take the rap.
www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/j/johnnystompanato.htm   (313 words)

  
 Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta-Jones for Stompanato? - Movies
Stompanato, who was a WWII vet and had acting ambitions, was killed in 1958 at Turner's Beverly Hills home.
Cheryl Crane, Turners' 14-year-old daughter killed Stompanato but the deth was later ruled as justifiable homicide...however rumors included that the two were in fact lovers or that Turner murdered him and let her daughter take the blame.
Stompanato, who was a WWII vet and had acting ambitions, was killed in 1958 at Lana Turner's Beverly Hills home.
movies.monstersandcritics.com /news/article_1043467.php   (253 words)

  
 Cheryl Crane at AllExperts
At age of 14, on 5 April 1958, Cheryl apparently stabbed her mother's gangster boyfriend Johnny Stompanato to death.
[2] Stompanato was well known to have been abusive, extremely jealous of Turner, and had previously pointed a gun at actor Sean Connery, her costar in Another Time, Another Place, only to have Connery take the gun from him, beat him, and force him from the movie set.
Following Stompanato's death, Crane was made a ward of the State of California and sent to a home for problem girls, from which she escaped in 1960, recaptured and then released in 1961.
en.allexperts.com /e/c/ch/cheryl_crane.htm   (272 words)

  
 Death on the Pink Carpet | TIME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But in this case the doll was not too easy to throw away: he was hairily handsome Johnny Stompanato, 32, a bum-around-Hollywood whose main claim to fame was a record as a pal of six-bit Gangster Mickey Cohen.
Johnny and Lana had traveled Europe together, spent two months in Mexico.
Last week Johnny Stompanato whisked up to Lana's Beverly Hills home in his Thunderbird, went raging in for a showdown.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,864244,00.html   (555 words)

  
 Lana Turner FBI Files
Johnny Stompanato was a mobster who ran with Mickey Cohen.
Cheryl Crane said she feared that Stompanato was going to harm her mother, so she stabbed him with an eight inch carving knife.
Examples of the press coverage given to the incident involving Turner, Cheryl Crane, and Johnny Stompanato, which resulted in his death.
paperlessarchives.com /lana_turner_fbi_files.html   (483 words)

  
 The Two Faces of Mickey Cohen
Johnny Stompanato was a good-looking, aspiring Italian gangster, the kind that filled Los Angeles in those days: gangster wannabees.
While Connery was n "Another Time, Another Place" with Lana Turner, her lover small-time hood Johnny Stompanato, stormed into the studio after hearing rumors that Lana was cheating on him with Sean.
But "James Bond" didn't stick around after Lana's daughter Cheryl stabbed Stompanato to death -in a killing a jury found to be justifiable He was warned that gangster Mickey Cohen Stompanato's boss was out to get him.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/81924   (600 words)

  
 Lana Turner Bio - Lana Turner Biography - Lana Turner Stories
She made the tabloids in the late 1950's along with her daughter Cheryl when Cheryl stabbed Lana's mobster lover, Johnny Stompanato, to death after he reportedly hit Lana.
Keanu Reaves is slated to portray Johnny Stompanato.
Lana originally wanted to tell the police that it was her, not daughter Cheryl, who had stabbed Johnny Stompanato to death but was dissuaded from doing so by her attorney.
www.tv.com /lana-turner/person/65730/biography.html   (999 words)

  
 Stompanato on Hollywood.com
The gorgeous, raven-haired Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones first came to prominence in the United Kingdom with her co-starring role as the eldest daughter in a boisterous farm family in the British TV series "The Darling Buds of May" (Yorkshire TV, 1991-93).
Stompanato had already lived a life of adventure by the time he got to...
Stompanato was Cohen's moneyman and twice when he was arrested he was...
search.hollywood.com /movies/Stompanato   (527 words)

  
 Welcome Friends and Lovers of Hollywood - Home
As she bursts in the room., Stompanato turns toward her and somehow, the knife accidentally plunges into his stomach.
The rumor that won’t die is that Lana killed Johnny and Geisler convinced her to let Cheryl, a minor, take the fall.
The press build-up was pure Hollywood: Stompanato's funeral; Turner's insistence that the hoodlum was an "unwelcome" presence in her life; his brother's announcement that Johnny was stabbed while lying down.
www.lauriejacobson.com /dishing_hollywood_ex.php   (1116 words)

  
 Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta-Jones to co-star in Stompanato - Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta-Jones might star in a ...
Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta-Jones to co-star in Stompanato - Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta-Jones might star in a movie about Johnny Stompanato, the L.A. mobster killed by the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, actress Lana Turner, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta-Jones to co-star in Stompanato
The Unfaithful filmmaker Adrian Lyne is attached to direct "Stompanato," which has landed on the steps of Warner Bros. Pictures but has not yet made the studio its home, according to The Hollwood Reporter.
news.softpedia.com /news/Keanu-Reeves-and-Catherine-Zeta-Jones-to-co-star-in-Stompanato-6805.shtml   (341 words)

  
 That's Hollywood!
Stompanato ignored her plea and witnessed the filming of a scene where Connery and Turner were embracing on a couch.
He was shocked to hear that Stompanato was stabbed to death in Turner's rented Beverly Hills home, apparently by her fifteen-year-old daughter Cheryl.
Los Angeles mob boss Mickey Cohen was convinced that Lana had actually murdered Johnny because he had threatened to leave her.
www.strongsville-ohio.net /data/columns/entertainment/archive/0011.html   (1333 words)

  
 Double Agent | DoubleAgent Article
The flick (to be directed by UNFAITHFUL director Arian Lynn) will star Zeta-Jones as the famous 1940’s actress, Lana Turner, with Reeves cast in the role as her mobster husband, Johnny Stompanato.
As the story goes, Stompanato was an abusive husband, who after years of threats was killed by Turner’s 14 year old daughter (from another marriage).
STOMPANATO is to begin production sometime in January of next year.
www.doubleagent.com /article.php?a=1089   (901 words)

  
 Moviehole.net - Duo to take a stab at Stompanato
The unlikely union of Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta-Jones might be present for a film on Johnny Stompanato, the boyfriend of actress Lana Turner who was killed by her young daughter, Cheryl Crane.
Adrian Lyne is set to direct "Stompanato", David and Janet Peoples ("12 Monkeys") and Sebastian Gutierrez ("Snakes on a Plane") will collect a cheque for writing the script, and Warner are responsible for sending the movie out to theatres in cans.
Crane grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen and ran upstairs, where she either plunged the eight-inch blade into Stompanato or he ran into it.
www.moviehole.net /news/6152.html   (302 words)

  
 STOMPANATO
The Hollywood Reporter skriver at Keanu Reeves og Catherine Zeta-Jones begge er varme på en film om Johnny Stompanato, gangsteren blev dræbt af hans kæreste, Hollywood skuespilleren Lana Turners teenage datter.
Mordet blev erklæret som selvforsvar, men rygterne gik på at Crane og Stompanato havde være elskere, mens andre rygter gik på, at Turner faktisk selv dræbte ham og lod sin datter tage skylden.
The Hollywood Reporter says Keanu Reeves and Catherine Zeta-Jones are circling a movie about Johnny Stompanato, the hoodlum killed by the teen daughter of his girlfriend, actress Lana Turner.
sorenz.dk /STOMPANATO.htm   (296 words)

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