Lana Turner's 14-year-old daughter (Cheryl Crane) stabbed Lana?s lover, mobster Johnny Stompanato, to death - 730 N. Mezzaluna Restaurant where Ronald Goldman worked - 11750 San Vicente Blvd BrentwoodĤ. Nicole Simpson residence and murder scene - 3875 Bundy.ģC. Bugsy Siegel - murder victim (for once) - 810 Linden Drive, Beverly HillsģA. Short lived at 1851 Ivar Street, Alto Nido Aparments.Ģ. Norton Avenue (just south of 39th Street) ? unsolved ? no appeal. The Black Dahlia, Elizabeth Short, no pun intended, as she was cut in half, was found at 3925 S. The list of suspects included many showbiz figures, including silent film actress Mabel Normand (Mack Sennett's leading lady). The first big crime to dominate the headlines of the period ? the birth of Hollywood ? the birth of Hollywood crime. As notorious in its day as any other crime scene, even as history fades our memories, this location must hold a special place in our crime-scandal ridden hearts.Īt the northeast corner of Alvarado & Maryland in Los Angeles, it was the location of the 1922 death of Paramount film director William Desmond Taylor. The Oscar for Hollywood crime scenes goes to 404-B South Alvarado, as the location of the first big Hollywood crime. What other moments of Bad Star Behavior will you be looking into? A pilgrimage to the Viper Room (where poor River Phoenix OD'd) is always in order. I have made a pit stop in the very Beverly Hills park bathroom George Michael got busted in (which I now call the George Michael Performing Arts Center), so there you have my moment of scandal-mongering. I would have loved the Graveline Tour, but. I don't know about the tours themselves, since I live outside of LA and just go places when I feel like it. The cemetery in Westwood where you find Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood is hard to find (behind the Avco Cinema on Wilshire), but you'll see some notable names there on the crypts. The Hollywood Forever Cemetery, I believe, will give you a high hit ratio vis-à-vis Hollywood celebrity stiffs. The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has a lot of history (and, it seems, ghosts), so that's a great choice in that town. I would strongly suggest staying in Beverly Hills or on Sunset in West Hollywood. If you want to go wild, stay at the Chateau Marmont- where John Belushi checked in and never checked out. It went out of business, last I heard.įirst of all, you will need a jumping-off point- NOT the Hollywood sign!- (sorry, couldn't resist), that is, a centrally-located hotel. There used to be a ghoulish little tour company called Graveline Tours, that would ferry you to the check-out points of various Hollywood figures in an old hearse.
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