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John Stompanato
Stompanato with Lana Turner
Birth name
John Stompanato Jr.
Nickname(s)
Johnny, Jack, Handsome Harry, Johnny Stomp, John Steele, Oscar
Born
(1925-10-10)October 10, 1925 Woodstock, Illinois, U.S.
Died
April 4, 1958(1958-04-04) (aged 32) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Place of burial
Oakland Cemetery
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Marine Corps
Years of service
1943–1946
Rank
Private
Unit
Service Battalion, 1st Marine Division
Battles/wars
World War II
Battle of Peleliu
Battle of Okinawa
Spouse(s)
Sara Utush
(m. 1946; div. 1949)
Helen Gilbert
(m. 1949; div. 1949)
Helene Stanley
(m. 1953; div. 1955)
Other work
Mob Bodyguard
John Stompanato Jr. (October 10, 1925 – April 4, 1958) was a United States Marine and gangster who became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen.
In the mid-1950s, he began an abusive relationship with actress Lana Turner. In 1958, he was stabbed to death by Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, who said she did it to defend her mother from a vicious beating by Stompanato. His death was ruled as justifiable homicide because he had been killed in self-defense.
his mother died of peritonitis. Johnny's father soon married a woman named Verena Freitag. In 1940, after Stompanato's freshman year at Woodstock High...
32-year-old JohnnyStompanato, the boyfriend of her mother, actress Lana Turner, at Turner's rented home in Beverly Hills, California. Stompanato, an ex-Marine...
at fourteen years old, she stabbed to death her mother's lover, JohnnyStompanato, during a domestic struggle; she was not charged, and his death was...
In 1958, intense media scrutiny surrounded Turner when her lover JohnnyStompanato was stabbed to death by her teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane, during...
Helene Stanley was married to JohnnyStompanato on January 17, 1953, with their divorce dated February 10, 1955. After Stompanato, Stanley married a physician...
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Crane's 14-year-old daughter, Cheryl, killed Lana Turner's boyfriend, JohnnyStompanato. Sensationalized in the press, the case brought attention to Crane...
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homicide. JohnnyStompanato homicide. After four hours of testimony and approximately 25 minutes of deliberation, the jury deemed Stompanato's killing a...
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