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Celebrities, tragically, rarely die of old age in their own beds, surrounded by loving relatives - much more often they die from accidents, illness or car accidents.
These are just some of them.
car crashes
Princess Diana
August 31, 1997 will forever go down in history as the day of the tragic death of Princess Diana of Wales: the 36-year-old princess, her friend Dodi al-Fayed and the driver died in an accident in the tunnel in front of the Alma bridge on the Seine embankment in Paris. The reasons for the accident are still unclear - presumably, trying to elude the paparazzi chasing Diana's car, the driver of the princess lost control. There is, however, a much more scandalous explanation for the tragedy - Dodi's father, billionaire Mohammed al-Fayed, among others, is sure that the car accident that claimed the lives of Princess Diana and his son was rigged.
Jane Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield, the actress and prototype of the Barbie doll, died in a car accident in 1967, at the age of 34, along with her friend Sam Brody. It was rumored that Jane's head was blown off in this accident. In the back seats of the car were her three children, who received minor injuries and survived.
Françoise Dorléac
French actress, sister of Catherine Deneuve and daughter of French actor Maurice Dorléac.
On June 26, 1967, she was heading to Nice airport. The car in which she was driving had a terrible accident, as a result of which the 25-year-old actress died.
And yet, despite the fact that this girl died so early and had so little time, she is still known not only as the sister of Catherine Deneuve, who later became famous throughout the world, but as a real star of French cinema of the second half of the last century.
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly, former Hollywood actress and wife of Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Due to a heart attack, Princess Grace lost control, and the car, which was her daughter Stephanie, fell off a sharp turn, falling into a ravine. Daughter Grace Kelly, despite the injuries received, survived, and the doctors could not save the princess.
James Dean
On September 30, 1955, a car accident claimed the life of Hollywood actor James Dean. Despite the fact that Dean starred in only three major films, he was 24 years old, the actor became a real "icon" of the lost generation, a role model for thousands of fans. James Dean himself was guilty of a fatal accident, losing control of his Porsche Spider 550 sports car at high speed. Dean's car crashed into a tree, and the actor himself died, breaking his neck.
Falco
In February 1998, pop singer Falco, a native of Germany and the only German singer who managed to conquer the US charts with a composition on German. Outside of his native Germany, Falco is known for his song "Body Next to Body", recorded with popular actress Brigitte Nielsen. The singer himself was the culprit of the accident: on February 6, 1998, Falco got behind the wheel of his Mitsubishi Pajero while intoxicated and at high speed collided with a bus near the city of Puerto Plata in Dominican Republic. Falco died at the scene from his injuries.
Helmut Newton
In 2004, the world of fashion lost another luminary: the legendary fashion photographer Helmut Newton, who worked for Vogue for four decades and created portraits of many Hollywood celebrities and supermodels, died in a car accident in California. 83-year-old Newton, leaving the parking lot of the Chateau Marmont Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, lost control of his Cadillac limousine and crashed into a wall. An hour later, the famous photographer died in the hospital.
Lisa Lopez
She was one of three members of the American group TLC, which became known far beyond the United States thanks to the hits Waterfalls and No scrubs. The nickname "left eye" - the left eye - Lisa took for herself, because one day she was told that she had beautiful eyes, especially the left one. At concerts, she put a condom on the left lens of her glasses, thus promoting safe sex. Lisa died in a car accident in Honduras in 2002. At this time, her second solo album and the fourth album of the group TLC were being prepared for release.
Viktor Tsoi
August 15, 1990 at 12:28 pm Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident. The accident occurred at the 35th kilometer of the Sloka-Talsi highway near Tukums in Latvia, a few dozen kilometers from Riga. According to the most plausible official version, Tsoi fell asleep at the wheel, after which his light gray Moskvich-2141 flew into the oncoming lane and collided with the Ikarus-250 bus
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell, author of the acclaimed book Gone with the Wind, has lived most of her life in Atlanta. On August 11, 1949, she was crossing a street in Atlanta on her way to a theater when she was hit by a speeding taxi. She died of her injuries five days later.
Plane crashes
Aaliya
Aaliyah is an American actress, singer and model. In an interview with an American publication, Aaliya spoke about the origin of her name. "Aaliya is an Arabic name with great power," she said. As an actress, Aaliya starred in the films Romeo Must Die and Queen of the Damned. The singer died on August 25, 2001, as a result of a plane crash on which she was returning from the island of Abaco, where she was filming her new video. None of the eight people on board survived.
Carol Lombard
Carol Lombard is a famous actress. Lombard was married to actor Clark Gable from 1939 until her death in a plane crash. Carol Lombard used her celebrity charm to let her, her mother, and her secretary stay on the plane, from which the rest of the passengers were disembarked to accommodate military personnel. After taking off from Las Vegas, the pilot failed to gain sufficient altitude, and the plane crashed into Table Rock, breaking in two. The front section where Carol sat was practically flattened out.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French writer, poet and professional pilot. (author of the book "The Little Prince"). July 31, 1944, Saint-Exupery went from the Borgo airfield on the island of Corsica on a reconnaissance flight and did not return. According to press publications from March 2008, the German Luftwaffe veteran, 88-year-old Horst Rippert, stated that it was he who shot down the plane of Antoine de Saint-Exupery. According to his statements, he did not know who was at the controls of the enemy aircraft.
John F. Kennedy Jr.
An American journalist and lawyer, the third child and first son of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy. On July 16, 1999, John F. Saratoga". Kennedy himself flew the plane and was heading to Massachusetts for the wedding of his cousin Rory Kennedy, the youngest daughter of Robert Kennedy (born after his assassination). The plane crashed, falling into the Atlantic Ocean at high speed. As shown by the investigation, the disaster occurred due to disorientation in space and due to poor visibility.
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly (22 years old). American singer-songwriter, one of the pioneers of rock and roll. According to Rolling Stone magazine, he is ranked 13th in the list of "Greatest Artists of All Time". On February 3, 1959, while on tour, he abandoned a boring bus and decided to get to his next destination by plane. The plane got into a storm and crashed.
Murders
Sharon Tate
Sharon Tate, a Golden Globe nominee and director Roman Polanski's wife, was everyone's favorite thanks to her kindness and cheerful disposition. The actress, who was eight months pregnant, and her four friends were killed by members of the Charles Manson gang. Despite the fact that Tate begged for the life of her unborn child, the killers stabbed Sharon 16 times.
John Lennon
On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was assassinated by US citizen Mark David Chapman. On the day of his death, Lennon gave his last interview to American journalists, and at 22:50, when John and Yoko entered under the arch of their house, returning from the Hit Factory recording studio, Chapman, who earlier that day took Lennon's autograph on the cover of the new album Double Fantasy, which came out three weeks earlier, fired five shots into his back, four of which landed. Lennon was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital in just a few minutes by a police car called by the doorman of the Dakota. But the doctors' attempts to save Lennon were in vain - due to a large loss of blood, he died, the official time of death was 23 hours and 15 minutes. He was cremated in New York and Lennon's ashes were given to Yoko Ono.
Selena
Selena was called the "Mexican Madonna", she was the main singer in the Latin American scene. Selena became famous at a fairly young age and during her short but vibrant life she managed to release about a dozen albums. Selena was killed by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar. In addition to working at the fan club, Saldivar was the manager of Selena's stores in Texas, but she was fired for theft. In March 1995, Selena and Saldívar met at a hotel in the Texas city of Corpus Christi to settle their final financial issues. When the meeting ended and Selena was about to leave the hotel, Yolanda Saldívar shot her in the back. The singer was able to get to the reception, but later died in the hospital from blood loss.
Dorothy Stratten
Dorothy Stratten was one of Playboy magazine's most famous models. She became "Girl of the Month" in August 1979 and "Girl of the Year" in 1980. Dorothy was shot by her husband Paul Snyder, with whom they were at that time in a state of divorce and the model lived with her friend, director Peter Bogdanovich. Stratten and Snyder met to discuss the financial side of the divorce, later the girl was found shot in the head in her husband's bedroom. Snyder killed Dorothy and then committed suicide.
Dominic Dunn
Dominique Dunn is an American actress (22 years old), best known for her role in the horror film Poltergeist (1982). Shortly after the film's release, the actress was strangled to death by her jealous boyfriend, the chef at Ma Maison, outside her Hollywood home. She was taken to the hospital in a coma, where she died five days later.
Tupac Shakur
In 1996, the rapper received 4 more bullets - in the chest, in the pelvis and one in each thigh, and one of the bullets ricocheted into the chest of the musician. Tupac died 6 days later in intensive care.
Robert Knox
Robert Knox, who played a cameo role as Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, has died from a stab wound sustained during a pub brawl. The murder took place on May 24, 2008 in the London suburb of Sidcup. Rob Knox died outside a bar he used to go to on Fridays. Death was recorded by doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolich.
Adrienne Shelley
American actress, film director and screenwriter.
Adrienne, 40, was found dead in her Manhattan office. Her husband, Andy Sharp, found her hanging from a sheet in the bathroom. Initially, the cause of death was considered a version of suicide. Later, 19-year-old construction worker Diego Pillco was arrested in New York. Under interrogation by the police, he made a confession about the staging. Pillko was renovating the house, and Shelley complained about the noise from his work. As a result of a quarrel, an angry worker attacked the actress. Adrienne Shelley is survived by her three-year-old daughter Sophie.
Gianni Versace
An Italian fashion designer who founded the Gianni Versace brand in 1978, under which luxury clothing, accessories, cosmetics, perfumes and furniture were produced. After the death of the couturier, the brand was renamed "Versace".
Gianni Versace: in 1997, the fashion designer was shot and killed during his morning walk, serial killer homosexual orientation by Andrew Cunanan without any apparent reason. The shooter committed suicide immediately after the assassination attempt.
Brandon Lee
American actor, son of Bruce Lee. Like his father, he died at a young age (28 years old), on the set.
February 1, 1993 in Wilmington, Brandon turned 28 years old. Near the end of filming, in one of the scenes where the main character is shot with a gun, at 00:30 the actor was shot with a .44 caliber revolver by actor Michael Massey, who played one of the villains (Fanboy). The plug stuck in the barrel was not noticed by the crew members and flew out of the barrel when fired with a blank cartridge. The actor was wounded in the stomach, a foreign body stuck in the spine, causing extensive blood loss. Brandon Lee died 12 hours later in a hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas; while the presidential motorcade was moving through the streets of the city, shots were heard. The first bullet hit the president in the back of the neck and exited the throat from the front, the second hit the head and caused the destruction of the bones of the skull in the back of the head, as well as damage to the medulla. President Kennedy was taken to the operating room, where, half an hour after the assassination attempt, he was pronounced dead. In addition, Texas Governor Connolly, who was riding in the same car, was seriously injured, and one of the passers-by was also slightly injured.
Lee Harvey Oswald, arrested on suspicion of murder, was shot and killed two days later at a police station by Dallas resident Jack Ruby, who also later died in prison.
Marvin Gaye
American singer-songwriter, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer who, along with Stevie Wonder, was one of the pioneers of modern rhythm and blues. He died during a family quarrel at the hands of his father the day before his forty-fifth birthday. When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was created (1987), the name of Marvin Gaye was also immortalized in it.
Mia Zapata
American rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Soloist of the band "The Gits"
Late on the evening of July 7, 1993, Mia left the recording studio and visited her friend, she was last seen alive around 2:00 am. Zapata was severely beaten, raped and strangled to death on her way home.
It is known that on the day of the murder, the singer had a headset with her, which confirms the version that she did not know about the persecution.
It took 7 years until new data appeared in the investigation. A random DNA test by the Seattle police led to the arrest of fisherman Jesús Mescuya, a Cuban who had been living in Seattle at the time Mia was killed. His DNA matched samples taken from saliva found on Zapata's body. The sample remained in storage until the STR technology was developed, which made it possible to completely extract information from DNA. Mesquia's DNA was entered into the DNA database following his arrest for a burglary in Florida in 2002.
Jesús Mescuya was convicted of the singer's murder and received a 36-year prison sentence on March 25, 2004.
Marie Trintignant
French actress.
Marie Trintignant is the daughter of famous parents. Her father is actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, and her mother is screenwriter and director Nadine Trintignant.
In July 2003, Marie Trintignant was in Vilnius filming a television film by Nadine Trintignant about the life of the writer Sidonie Colette. There was also a friend of Marie Bertrand Canta, the lead singer of the French group "Noir Désir", with whom she had love relationship for a year and a half now. On July 27, 2003, out of jealousy, he beat her, causing severe head injuries. Marie was in a coma for several days, on July 31, 2003 she was transferred to the Artman clinic in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly and died a day later. An autopsy showed that the cause of death was a traumatic brain injury caused by blows to the face.
Lana Clarkson
American actress and fashion model.
Lana Clarkson, 40, was shot in the mouth by producer Phil Spector in his mansion.
In the early hours of the morning, Clarkson met Spector while working at the House of Blues. Clarkson went with Spector to his mansion, while Spector's driver was outside in the car. About an hour later, the driver heard a shot.
Spector says Clarkson accidentally shot herself
He was sentenced to 19 years in prison on May 29, 2009, 15 years for the murder of an actress, and 4 years for illegal possession of a weapon.
Maple Batalia
Actress and model.
She was shot dead in Surrey at the age of 19.
Rob Knox
In the London suburb of Sidcup, 18-year-old actor Rob Knox, who played the cameo role of Marcus Belby in the film "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", died from a knife wound in a street fight.
Accidents, unexplained circumstances or suicides
Natalie Wood
An American actress of Russian origin, three times nominated for an Oscar. On the night of November 29-30, Natalie Wood, her husband Robert Wagner and family friend Christopher Walken went on a sea cruise on the Shine yacht. According to the generally accepted version, being in a state of intoxication, Wood decided to fix the rope and, unable to stay on her feet, fell into the water, from which she drowned. But this is doubtful, because, as a result of a tragedy experienced in childhood, Natalie was afraid of water. Another interesting fact is that the life of the actress was insured for thirteen million dollars, which in the event of her death should have been received by her husband. What really happened that night remains unclear to this day.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe died on the night of August 5, 1962 in Brentwood at the age of 36 from a lethal dose of sleeping pills. There are five versions of the cause of her death - a murder committed by special services on the orders of the Kennedy brothers in order to avoid publicity of their sexual relations; a murder committed by the mafia; a drug overdose; suicide; the tragic mistake of psychoanalyst actress Ralph Greenson, who ordered the patient to take chloral hydrate shortly after taking Nembutal.
Edie Sedgwick
Edie Sedgwick - American actress, socialite and the muse of Andy Warhol. Sedgwick became famous thanks to the filming of Warhol's underground films and participation in his Factory project. Sedgwick has struggled with drug addiction for most of her adult life. In 1971, she was no longer using drugs, but her doctor prescribed barbiturates to stop her physical pain. On the night of November 15, 1971, Sedgwick drank the prescribed amount of medicine and went to bed, in the morning Edie never woke up.
Ruslana Korshunova
In New York, 20-year-old model Ruslana Korshunova jumped out of the window of her apartment, located on the ninth floor of a skyscraper in Manhattan. The girl who arrived from Kazakhstan three years ago made an enchanting modeling career in America. She had contracts with the most famous fashion houses and trademarks - DKNY, Christian Dior, Nina Ricci and Kenzo ... The unexpected death of Ruslana shocked everyone.
Ernest Hemingway
On July 2, 1961, the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway shot himself in the chest with a gun. This happened a few days after his return from a psychiatric clinic. He did not leave a suicide note, so the motives for his suicide are unknown, but there is speculation that they are related to the writer's alcoholism. Ernest Hemingway's father also committed suicide.
Kurt Cobain
On April 5, 1994, Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain shot himself dead in his Seattle home. His body was discovered by an electrician in a locked greenhouse, next to him on the table lay an allegedly farewell letter from the musician. In this death, however, there are still many obscure moments. During the autopsy, doctors found 225-240 milligrams of heroin in Cobain's blood - a lethal dose from which people usually die before they finish it. One of the articles, citing the results of clinical studies, was called: "The dead do not pull the trigger." Well, in the suicide letter of the musician there is not a single direct statement that he wants to die. "I need to be a little dumb to regain the enthusiasm that I had as a child"; “I no longer have passion, but I remember: it is better to burn out than to dissolve” - these lines can be interpreted in different ways. And the last phrase “Keep going” (here, too, there is no unambiguous translation: either “live” or “keep doing what you are doing”), addressed by Kurt to his wife Courtney Love, generally raises doubts among graphologists about authenticity: in it they found more twenty inconsistencies with the handwriting of the musician.
John Belushi
American comedian, screenwriter.
Older brother of actor James Belushi.
Died of a heart attack caused by an overdose of a speedball at the Chateau Marmont on March 5, 1982. He was buried March 9 at Aubels Hill Cemetery, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Amy Winehouse
An English singer-songwriter known for her powerful contralto vocals and eccentric performance of a mixture of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz, critically acclaimed as one of the leading British female artists of the 2000s.
She died on July 23, 2011 at her home in Camden from alcohol poisoning at the age of 27.
Tony Scott
Tony Scott, director of Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Beverly Hills Cop 2 and Passengers on the 123. Ridley Scott's younger brother committed suicide by jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in California. A suicide note was found in his car, a black Toyota Prius parked on the bridge.
Brian Bianchini
American actor and model.
On March 16, 2004, Brian Bianchini, suffering from severe depression, committed suicide. He was buried in the Italian cemetery in the town of Colma, near San Francisco.
Ambrose Olsen
American model.
On April 22, 2010, Ambrose Olsen committed suicide in his New York City apartment. Body of a 24 year old young man was found by his close friend a couple of days later. According to police reports, Olsen hanged himself.
Corey Haim
Canadian actor who rose to fame as a teenager. For several years he was the most popular teenager in the world
Early popularity brought Haim money and fame, and by the age of 15 he began to take drugs. Drug addiction did not leave Haim until the end of his life.
At the age of 38, the actor died from a drug overdose.
Natasha Richardson
English and American theater, film and voice actress.
On March 16, 2009, the actress suffered a serious head injury at the Mont Tremblant ski resort in Quebec. Representatives said ski resort, she was riding without a helmet on the novice track and after the fall she did not receive visible damage. The victim was offered to see a doctor, but Natasha refused medical assistance. After some time, the actress's condition deteriorated sharply, she fell into a coma and was taken to the Sacré-Coeur hospital in Montreal.
On March 18, Natasha's family decided to disconnect her from the life support system, because. according to doctors, brain death had occurred and life support was meaningless. According to doctors, her death could have been prevented if the actress had sought medical help in time.
Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith "woke up famous" after the publication of her photos in Playboy magazine, and also after her marriage to 89-year-old billionaire James Howard Marshall, who, by the way, died after a year of married life. On February 8, 2007, Anna Nicole was found unconscious in a Florida hotel. Preliminary version - drug overdose. Later, 11 types of drugs were found in her body. An autopsy showed that Anna Nicole suffered from a severe and advanced form of pneumonia. Against the background of a general weakening of the body after childbirth, several plastic surgeries and constant depression, the disease only progressed, which ultimately led to death, and the drugs with which she relieved pain and fought depression only aggravated everything. It was also stipulated that the star's death may have been precipitated by lupus vulgaris (a type of skin tuberculosis).
Lolo Ferrari
French dancer, sex star, pornographic actress, actress and singer, known as "the woman with the largest breasts in the world", although her size was artificially achieved.
On the morning of March 5, 2000, at the age of 37, Lolo Ferrari was found dead by her husband in her home in Grasse on the French Riviera. The first autopsy determined that she died from an overdose of antidepressants and tranquilizers. She was depressed and her death was ruled a suicide. Her parents suspected that her husband was involved in the death and obtained a second autopsy two years later. This second autopsy showed that suffocation could not be ruled out. Her widower was arrested on suspicion of causing death and spent 13 months in prison. After a second medical analysis, he was finally cleared of all charges in 2007.
Heath Ledger
Famous Australian and, later, Hollywood actor. The second actor in history (after Peter Finch) to be awarded an Oscar posthumously. January 22, 2008 at 3:31 pm Heath Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment in Manhattan. An autopsy was unable to establish the exact cause of death, so an additional toxicological examination was required, as a result of which the official cause of Ledger's death was announced - acute intoxication caused by the combined action of painkillers (including narcotic analgesics), sleeping pills and tranquilizers (oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine). Perhaps the actor was suffering from a breakup with Michelle Williams.
Judy Garland
Judy Garland committed suicide at age 47 by taking an overdose of sleeping pills after another quarrel with her husband. He did not find her body until the next day; she sat on the toilet in the locked bathroom, where he had to climb through the window.
Brittany Murphy
The actress died on December 20, 2009 at the age of 32 at her home in Los Angeles from a heart attack.
Forensic experts who carried out all the necessary procedures reported that pneumonia, complicated by an overdose of drugs against the background of iron deficiency anemia, became the cause of the actress's cardiac arrest.
Carol Landis
American actress, best known for her role as Loana in One Million Years B.C. (1940). She has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her accomplishments.
Carol Landis began an affair with actor Rex Harris, who at that time was married to actress Lilly Palmer. After he refused to leave his family for her on July 5, 1948, Carol was crushed and depressed. Unable to bear it, she committed suicide by taking a large dose of medicine.
Vic Morrow
Actor Vic Morrow died on the set of The Twilight Zone (1983) after rotating helicopter blades, which went out of control during a special effects explosion, cut off his head at full speed.
Jeff Buckley
Cult American rock vocalist and guitarist. Played with the band Gods & Monsters. (Jeffrey Scott Buckley, November 17, 1966, Anaheim, California - May 29, 1997). His father, the famous rock musician Tim Buckley (1947-1975), also died in his youth - at the age of 28 (from a drug overdose).
Drowned May 29 in the Wolf River, a tributary of the Mississippi. His body in clothes and shoes was fished downstream on June 4, 1997. No alcohol or drugs were found, so manic depression or suicide was suggested.
Chrissy Taylor
Chrissy Taylor got her modeling pass thanks to her supermodel sister Niki Taylor. From the age of 11, she began to participate in filming with her sister, and soon her career went up. Chrissy was found dead in her parents' apartment by her sister. As it turned out later, the cause of death of the model was an asthma attack complicated by sudden cardiac arrhythmia. It is curious that Chrissy had no heart problems before.
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French actress and model. She was nominated for the Golden Globe (1961). She is best known for her role as Simone Clouseau in The Pink Panther (1963), opposite Peter Sellers. In the USSR, the film "Bluff" (1976) with Adriano Celentano and Anthony Quinn was popular, in which Cappuccine played the role of Belle Duke.
Cappuccine was plagued by mental attacks all her life, during which she sought to commit suicide. She was rescued several times, but in 1990, at the age of 62, she died in Lausanne, jumping out of the window of her apartment on the eighth floor. An obituary in the New York Times stated that her only heirs were her three cats.
Lucy Gordon
British film actress and fashion model.
On May 20, 2009, 2 days before her 29th birthday, the actress hanged herself. Lucy Gordon's body was found in the actress's Paris apartment. Early in the morning, the awakened common-law spouse Gordon - Jerome Almers found the girl hanging herself. In a panic, the young man began to call for help. However, Lucy could no longer be helped.
Delilah
French singer and actress of Italian origin, born and raised in Egypt.
On the night of May 2-3, 1987, Dalida committed suicide by taking a large dose of sleeping pills and drinking his whiskey. There was a note on the table: “Life has become unbearable for me. Forgive me". Her heart stopped on May 3 around 11 am. On May 7, the funeral service and funeral of the singer at the Montmartre cemetery acquired a truly national scale - almost all of Paris came to say goodbye to the legend.
Bruce Lee
Master of martial arts, American and Hong Kong film actor, as well as film director, director of combat scenes, producer and screenwriter.
Bruce Lee died suddenly in Hong Kong, while working on the next film "The Game of Death": he took a headache pill containing aspirin and meprobamate, which led to cerebral edema. An autopsy showed that the cerebral edema was caused by a hypersensitive reaction to the components of the drug.
Isadora Duncan
American dancer, considered the founder of free dance - the forerunner of modern dance. She was married to Sergei Yesenin.
On September 14, 1927, Isadora went for a car ride, tying her long red scarf, which covered her body, neck and hung from the car window. The car was traveling at full speed when Duncan's scarf wrapped around one of the wheels, throwing her onto the road with monstrous force. The car continued on for a few more yards, dragging the body of the dancer behind it. Medical assistance was called and it was soon determined that Isadora Duncan had died instantly, strangled to death by her own scarf.
Michael Jackson
On the morning of June 25, 2009, Michael passed out and fell while in a house he was renting in Holmby Hills, west Los Angeles. At 12:21 local Pacific time, a call to 911 was recorded. Arriving after 3 minutes and 17 seconds, the doctors found Jackson no longer breathing with a stopped heart and immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Efforts to bring Jackson back to life continued along the way and for an hour after arriving at Medical Center University of California at 13:14. These attempts were unsuccessful. Death was pronounced at 14:26 local time. Rumors and news of the death of Michael Jackson broke online records, causing a kind of Internet "traffic jams" and a sharp increase in traffic on sites such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Twitter and Wikipedia.
On August 24, the conclusions of a forensic medical examination were made public - death was due to an overdose of the potent anesthetic propofol. A number of other potent substances (lorazepam, diazepam, midazolam) were also found in the blood.
On August 28, the Los Angeles coroner announced that Michael Jackson's death would be qualified as a homicide.
Sergei Bodrov
Russian director, actor, screenwriter.
He went missing with a film crew during the Kolka glacier descent in the Karmadon Gorge, where the film "The Messenger" was filmed.
Alexander McQueen
English fashion designer. Known for his defiant displays. Commander of the Order of the British Empire, four times recognized as the best British fashion designer of the year.
He was found hanged in his own apartment on February 11, 2010. According to the British news channel Sky News, the preliminary cause of death is suicide. On February 2, McQueen's mother Joyce died, causing Alexander's depression. British police have confirmed that the designer hanged himself in the dressing room of his home, leaving an undisclosed suicide note.
Cliff Burton
The second bass player of the metal band Metallica, in 2011 recognized as one of the best bass players of all time according to a poll conducted by Rolling Stone magazine.
During the European tour in support of the new Master of Puppets album, the musicians were forced to sleep in uncomfortable bunks on their tour bus. At 7:00 in the morning the driver (being intoxicated with alcohol and drugs) lost control, and the bus, after a long skid, collapsed from the embankment onto its side. Cliff, during the fall of the bus, fell halfway out of the window and was crushed by the bus. According to one version, he died instantly, and according to another, he was crushed by the bus after they tried to turn the bus over and lift it, but the cable broke and the bus collapsed, crushing Burton. The driver himself explained this catastrophic event by the fact that he simply ran into a frozen puddle.
Elvis Presley
On August 16, 1977, Presley, as usual, arrived at his estate well after midnight, having returned from the dentist. The rest of the night was spent talking about the upcoming tour in two days, about his bodyguard book, about his engagement plans with his new girlfriend, Ginger Alden. In the morning, Presley took a dose of sedative drugs, but a few hours later, unable to sleep, he took another dose, in this case, apparently, it turned out to be critical. After that, he spent some time reading books in a boudoir-style bathroom. Around 2 p.m. on August 16, Alden, waking up and not finding Elvis in bed, went to the bathroom, where she found his lifeless body on the floor. An ambulance was urgently called, delivering Presley to intensive care, although it was obvious that all efforts were in vain. At four o'clock in the afternoon, an official announcement was made of death - due to heart failure - but an autopsy then showed that the cause of cardiac arrest was precisely an excessive dose of various medications (otherwise, drugs; however, due to the semi-secret nature of the investigation, there are also many other versions of death along with the popular legend that the singer is still alive.
drug overdose
Jim Morrison
American singer, poet, songwriter, leader and vocalist of The Doors.
According to the official version, Morrison died on July 3, 1971 in Paris from a heart attack, however, no one knows the real cause of his death. Among the options were: a heroin overdose in the Parisian club Rock-n-Roll Circus, suicide, staging of suicide by the FBI services, which were then actively fighting members of the hippie movement, and so on. Rumors still circulate around his death. The only person who saw the singer's death was Morrison's girlfriend, Pamela. But she took the secret of his death with her to the grave, as she died of a drug overdose three years later. Jim Morrison is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. His grave has become a place of cult worship for fans who write on neighboring graves with inscriptions about their love for their idol and lines from The Doors songs.
River Phoenix
American actor and teen idol. Older brother of actor Joaquin Phoenix.
River's death was due to a drug overdose. He was in the Hollywood club Viper Room (partly owned by actor Johnny Depp) with his sister Ryan, brother Joaquin and lover - actress Samantha Mathis. When Joaquin saw that River fell and convulsed, he immediately called ambulance. However, the doctors were no longer able to do something, and River died on the way to the hospital.
Janis Joplin
American rock singer, considered the best white blues singer and one of the greatest vocalists in the history of rock music.
On October 4, 1970, after a recording session at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, she locked herself in her room and injected a huge dose of heroin. Janice died quickly, but she was not found until eighteen hours later. The investigator stated that death was the result of an overdose. "The dose is so huge that it is a clear suicide," he said.
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix. The musician swallowed 9 German sleeping pills in his hotel room. They made him nauseous and suffocated. Hendrix passed away on September 18, 1970. At that time he was working on a new song, which contained the lines: "Life will fly by faster than you can blink."
Whitney Houston
American pop, soul and rhythm and blues singer, actress, producer, fashion model. One of the most commercially successful performers in the history of world music. Known for her musical accomplishments, vocal abilities and scandalous personal life.
She died on February 11, 2012 in a hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on the eve of the 54th Grammy ceremony. The singer was found unconscious in the bathroom of her hotel room by her aunt Mary Jones.
On March 23, 2012, the results of a police investigation were made public, which showed that the causes of death of the singer were drowning, atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use.
According to representatives of the investigation, the examination showed that the singer was a chronic cocaine addict. Other drugs found in her blood included marijuana, a sedative (muscle relaxant), and an anti-allergic drug.
Jack London
On November 22, 1916, the famous American writer Jack London took a lethal dose of morphine. It is believed that this was a planned suicide, not an accident. Nothing is known about the reasons that prompted the writer to this act, but they may have been related to the creative crisis in which he was in the last years of his life.
AIDS
Freddie Mercury
On November 23, 1991, Freddie made an official statement that he had AIDS: “Given the rumors that have been circulating in the press for the past two weeks, I want to confirm: my blood test showed the presence of HIV. I have AIDS. I considered it necessary to keep this information a secret in order to keep the peace of my family and friends. However, the time has come to tell the truth to my friends and fans around the world. I hope everyone will join the fight against this terrible disease." He also ordered that all rights to the song "Bohemian Rhapsody" be transferred to the Terence Higgins Foundation, created to fight AIDS and HIV.
The next day, November 24, at about seven o'clock in the evening, Freddie Mercury died at his home in London from bronchial pneumonia that developed on the background of AIDS. After the news of his death became known, thousands of people came to the fence of his Garden Lodge to place bouquets of flowers, postcards, letters and photographs on the paths.
Isaac Asimov
A well-known writer and the largest master of science fiction, the inventor of the word "robotics" (robotics - robotics, robotics). In 1983, when very little was known about AIDS, the writer underwent heart surgery and was infected with HIV through donated blood. A few years later, he needed a second operation, and by chance, HIV was discovered during hospitalization. The operation had to be abandoned. Isaac Asimov died three years later. Ten years later, his wife reported the true cause of the writer's death.
Rock Hudson
Hollywood star of the first magnitude, hero-lover and superman Rock Hudson hid his whole life that he was a homosexual. Only tragic circumstances recent years of his life, when Rock found out he had AIDS forced him to make an unwanted coming-out.
Gia Karanji
Gia Carangi is considered one of the first supermodels, the forerunner of 1980s supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford. Due to the striking resemblance to Karanji, the latter was often called Baby Gia. Gia's condition began to deteriorate in the early 80s, after he was heavily addicted to heroin. By December 1984, Gia had reached rock bottom. After pressure from her family, Gia was enrolled in a recovery program at Eagleville Hospital in Montgomery. She declared herself a beggar and lived on welfare. In 1986, she ended up in the hospital with symptoms of pneumonia. However, after the examination, it turned out that the model had HIV. Karanji is one of the first famous women in the United States, whose cause of death was openly named the immunodeficiency virus.
Anthony Perkins
Actor Anthony Perkins was born in Los Angeles (California, USA). He graduated from Rollins College and studied at Columbia University. His debut took place in 1953 in the film "Actress". By the early 60s, Anthony Perkins had become one of the most popular American actors. Of particular note is the significant and psychologically interesting work of the actor with Alfred Hitchcock in Psychosis, with Orson Welles in The Trial. His roles in the films "Catch-22", "Scandal", "Murder on the Orient Express" became famous.
Tony Richardson
British film director, screenwriter and producer. Oscar winner in 1963.
He was married to actress Vanessa Redgrave from 1962-1967. Both daughters from marriage - Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson became actresses.
He died on November 14, 1991 from AIDS (Los Angeles, USA) at the age of 63. Since then, his daughter, actress Natasha Richardson (1963-2009), has been involved in HIV charity campaigns.
A large number of viewers know and love the actors of the famous series "Capercaillie", which was released in 2008. However, a few years after the painting appeared, many began to consider it cursed. This is due to the fact that under tragic circumstances, three actors who starred in this film died one after another. The purely deceased actors of the series "Capercaillie" included Vyacheslav Titov, Anatoly Otradnov and Sergey Sharoshkin. In this article, you can find out the biography of these movie stars and the cause of their death.
The first deceased actor of the series "Capercaillie"
Vyacheslav Titov was the first of the film's actors to die under unclear circumstances. Vyacheslav was born and raised in the city of Tula. While in high school, he began taking acting classes in the theatre. The talented 12-year-old Vyacheslav was immediately noticed and the boy was invited to the troupe of the Tula theater.
His debut in the world of cinema took place in 1994 in the film "Flowers of the Province", where the actor became the male lead. In the series "Capercaillie" Titov played the role of Oleg Shilkin, a drug dealer. In December 2011 he was killed. The famous actor of the series "Capercaillie" died of strangulation, a plastic bag was put on his head. Only at the end of 2013, the killer of Vyacheslav Titov was caught. It turned out to be a 23-year-old guy who fully admitted his guilt. The court sentenced him to 9 years in prison. Then, in 2011, no one connected Titov's death with the series, until a month later there was another one of the actors of the Capercaillie series. The deceased was Anatoly Otradnov.
Russian actor Anatoly Otradnov was born in 1982 in the city of Revda. Anatoly's parents were not connected with the world of cinema, his father worked as a military man, and his mother worked as a salesman. In 2004, the actor first appeared on television, playing a cameo role in the film "Moth Games". Thanks to his passion for kickboxing, Otradnov took part in films with large quantity fights.
In the series "Capercaillie" Anatoly Otradnov played one of the secondary roles. At the end of January 2012, the actor was found unconscious near the road, but he died on the way to the hospital. It was found that death was due to alcohol poisoning, as well as from a potent medication. A criminal case was initiated in the case of Otradnov. The deceased actor of the series "Capercaillie" has a pregnant wife. Despite the death of two participants in the film, everyone said that this was a mere coincidence, but a couple of months later another actor of the Capercaillie died.
Sergei Sharoshkin is a Russian theater and film actor. Sergei was born in December 1970 in the city of Tashkent. During his life, he managed to act in only two films. The actor of the series "Capercaillie" died in mid-March 2012. At that moment he was at his parents' house. It was blown up because of which Sergei died. Experts argue that such an explosion cannot kill a person, but only cause such harm as temporary loss of vision or hearing. The investigation has not yet opened the case of Sergei Sharoshkin. Since his death, no one has considered these events a mere coincidence.
Another actor of the Capercaillie, who almost said goodbye to his life, is Andrey Vorozheikin. He was attacked, but the doctors were able to deliver him to intensive care in time. It is not known how this tragic series of deaths would have ended if the main actor of the series had not left the project.
According to unconfirmed information, the famous Russian actor Anatoly Pashinin, who fought in the Donbass as part of the punitive troops, died during the shelling. This was told by the writer, militia fighter of the DPR Zakhar Prilepin.
The cultural figure announced the death of Pashinin on his Twitter. “They write that the actor Pashinin was killed as a result of shelling. Whoever starts gloating, I will ban. Don’t be like cattle,” Prilepin said, referring to his subscribers.
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The writer added that he had no idea where and in what battle the actor could have been killed. According to Prilepin, on the day of Pashinin's death, the militia did not fight at all, since "the authorities do not order." "I don't even know where his subsection is," he wrote.
At the same time, the DPR fighter expressed the hope that the death of the actor was just rumors. “Let him live. Only let him live at home. If he died, there is no joy,” Prilepin concluded.
The message about the death of the actor was commented on by its director Yulia Pavlova. According to her, she does not know if Pashinin really died, REN TV reports.
Recall that Anatoly Pashinin became popular in Russia thanks to the films Storm Gates, Admiral and We are from the Future. At the end of August this year, it became known that the 38-year-old actor had volunteered for the Ukrainian army and was fighting in the Donbass.
Upon learning of this, Pashinin’s colleague in the acting department, Mikhail Porechenkov, warned him: “Maybe we will meet again, it’s just, as I said, there will be different sides of the barricades. But we have a good memory and a lot of health. Learn something in their ranks - let's learn!" In turn, the writer Zakhar Prilepin strongly advised Pashinin to avoid meeting with him, especially in battle. “I am not familiar with Pashinin, but this is his personal choice. I would sincerely recommend that he not meet with my unit in battle,” he said.
In everyday life, tragedies happen much more terrible than in even the most violent fantasy of screenwriters. It happened that the protagonists of these dramas were those who had been a victim on the screen more than once - famous actors.
About the actors killed not on the screen, and tells today "RG".
Talgat Nigmatulin
Talgat Nigmatulin, a handsome man with an exotic oriental appearance (the actor was born in 1949 in the Kyrgyz town of Kyzyl-Kie), was remembered by Soviet viewers from the film "Pirates of the 20th Century", where he played not at all a positive, but a bright character.
Talgat had a difficult childhood: due to the fact that his family had many children and his parents could not feed all the kids, Talgat was assigned to Orphanage. The boy was in poor health, moreover, in early childhood he had rickets. Once in a pioneer camp, a pretty girl refused to dance with a bow-legged peer. The offended Talgat fled to the steppe, cried for a long time, and then promised himself to make his body beautiful. Since then, he began playing sports, and later - martial arts.
But then the young man switched not only to sports. He wrote poetry, went to a drama club, was engaged in ballroom dancing, and dreamed of becoming a film director.
He did not immediately enter VGIK. After the first failure, Talgat did not want to leave Moscow and entered the School of Circus and Variety Art. While studying there, he became seriously interested in wrestling. He became the champion of Uzbekistan, took sixth place in the USSR championship. In 1967, he was noticed at Mosfilm, offering the role of a White Guard officer in the film The Ballad of the Commissar. The negative character was a success for Talgat, and subsequently the role of an actor playing villains was assigned to him. A year later, Talgat nevertheless entered VGIK, in the acting workshop of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova. Nikolai Eremenko, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Natalya Bondarchuk, Natalya Gvozdikova studied with him.
After graduating from VGIK, Nigmatulin left for Tashkent and began working at the Uzbekfilm studio. Then his roles appeared in the films "The Seventh Bullet", "Meetings and Partings", "The Legend of Siyavush". Here he began to write and publish a lot. He tried to arrange his personal life by marrying the singer Larisa Kandalova. Soon their daughter Ursula was born in their family. But the marriage did not last long: Talgat was an ardent young man, often fell in love, and his wife could not bear betrayal.
All-Union popularity came to Nigmatulin after the release in 1979 of the film directed by Boris Durov "Pirates of the 20th century", where he played the main pirate who, together with a group of sea robbers, attacked the Soviet cargo ship "Nezhin", which was carrying a cargo of opium for the pharmacological industry. The film became the highest-grossing film in the history of Russian film distribution: in total, over 120 million people watched it in cinemas.
Talgat and his friend, actor Nikolai Eremenko, refused to use understudies and stuntmen and fought "live". Talgat perfectly demonstrated what he had learned over many years of martial arts.
The story that led to the tragic death of the actor began shortly after the resounding triumph of "Pirates". In the early 80s of the twentieth century, countless healers, healers, psychics and other charlatans appeared in the USSR. A sect led by the obvious swindler Abai Borubaev and Murza Kymbatbaev gained great popularity among some of the intelligentsia. From all over the Union, pilgrims came to them in a distant Kyrgyz village. Talgat Nigmatulin was carried away by the sermons of charlatans. Before, according to the testimony of his relatives, he was fond of everything unknown in an attempt to find his true purpose in life.
At the beginning of 1985, a split occurred in the "school" of Mirza and Abai. Several disciples from Vilnius decided to found their own sect. But Abai did not want to allow this. He remembered that among his admirers there is an actor who knows martial arts. And he asked Nigmatulin to come to Vilnius and deal with the recalcitrant. Talgat hesitated for a long time whether he should go. According to the recollections of Talgat's friend Ozoda Akhunova, the actor in life was a very kind and disinterested person. He did not value money at all, distributing it to everyone who asked him for a loan. And he couldn't raise his hand to anyone.
On February 11, 1985, the Vilnius ambulance station received a message that a man had died on Lenin Street. Arriving doctors found on the body of the deceased. 119 wounds, 22 of them in the head area. The owner of the apartment said that her guest was attacked by hooligans on the street. She was not believed. The police quickly found and arrested all the participants in the crime, because even at night the neighbors called the squad, complaining about the noise of the fight. But then the people who were in the apartment were able to convince the law enforcement officers that the drinking buddies had a fight. Talgat, already beaten unconscious, was hidden in the bathroom.
The night before, in the house of one of the "disobedient" Abai started a fight, in which only Talgat did not take part and even tried to separate the fighters. Then he left, and Abay and the others went to look for him. When they met again in the house on Lenin Street, the "guru" commanded the disciples from the threshold: "Beat the traitor!" The beating lasted eight hours. Why didn't the actor-athlete try to resist, didn't call for help? There is still no answer to this question. But, most likely, the attack happened suddenly and one person, even well-trained, is unlikely to be able to defeat five strong men. It's not a movie with special effects and editing.
The court sentenced Abai Borubaev to 14 years, Mirza Kymbatbaev to 10 years, and other participants in the crime to different terms of imprisonment. Abai Borubaev was later killed under unclear circumstances while serving a prison sentence. One of his accomplices went mad during the investigation.
Nigmatulin's son from his second marriage with Khalida Khasanova teaches stage movement, horseback riding and fencing at VGIK. Daughter Linda from the last marriage of the actor with Venera Ibragimova is now acting in films, singing. And Venus remained to live in Kazakhstan.
Sharon Tate
In August 1969, Hollywood froze in horror. Pictures appeared in the press of the monstrous murder of the then-famous actress Sharon Tate, the wife of film director Roman Polanski, and her friends. Sharon was only 26 years old. And she was in her ninth month of pregnancy.
The organizer of the murder and his accomplices were arrested about six months later. At the time it was also quite famous person- Charles Manson, who appropriated the name "Jesus-Satan" and claimed to be the founder of a new religion and philosophy.
Sharon Tate was a beautiful, up-and-coming actress. Prior to her acquaintance with Roman Polanski, she starred mainly in comedies. Polanski later offered her several roles in his horror films. And a year after their wedding, the horrors from the screen stepped over into the life of the actress.
The bloody drama played out late in the evening of August 8, 1969. At the Cielo Drive mansion in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, owned by Polanski and his wife, a friendly party was coming to an end. Sharon Tate was finishing a conversation with her friend Jay Sebring, a former famous hairdresser for Hollywood stars, and was about to go to bed. Viktor Frykovsky, a friend of the owner of the house, Roman Polanski, was already dozing on the couch next to him. Abigail Folger, the coffee king's daughter, was leafing through a book in the next room. In the garden pavilion, eighteen-year-old Steve Perent was saying goodbye to the landlord as he made his way to his house.
Even seasoned policemen, who saw the consequences of the night tragedy the next morning, were horrified. Perent was killed by four bullets in his car, apparently at the very moment he was preparing to leave. Frykovsky had a bullet in his back, thirteen fractures in his skull, and fifty-one stab wounds. Experts counted twenty-one stab wounds on Folger's body. Sharon Tate, stabbed beyond recognition, lay on the floor of her room. Around her neck was a nylon rope slung over a ceiling beam. The other end of the rope tightened the neck of the equally brutally maimed Jay Sebring.
For three months, the police unsuccessfully searched for the perpetrators. Perhaps they would have managed to escape punishment, if not for the case. A certain secretary by the name of Graham, imprisoned in the Los Angeles prison for theft, demanded a meeting with the head of this prison, and said that she had important things to tell. It turned out that the day before, Suzanne Atkins, who was arrested on suspicion of complicity in the murder of Hollywood musician Hinman, was placed in the cell where Graham was sitting. According to the stealing secretary, her new neighbor was behaving strangely, still apparently under the influence of drugs. Perhaps it was the narcotic effect that allowed Atkins to relax so much that when the secretary suddenly remembered the murder of Sharon Tate, Atkins said: "Why, it was we who punished these pigs - me and my friends ..."
Then followed a spate of stories about a "family" in which she and her girlfriends and friends live under the rule of one Charles Miller Manson. According to Atkins, this man possessed supernatural power, because "he is at the same time both Jesus, who returned to earth, and Satan." The "family" lived on the abandoned "Span" ranch, which was once built as a set for shooting cowboy films.
The head of the prison, after listening to the story of the secretary, turned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and soon Manson and his accomplices were arrested.
Subsequently, much has become known about him and his life. Charles Manson was the unwanted child of 16-year-old Kathleen Maddox. Some time after his birth, Charlie's mother married a certain William Manson, who gave his surname to the illegitimate boy.
In 1939, the mother was arrested for armed robbery at a gas station and sentenced to five years in a West Virginia state prison. When she got out of prison, Charlie was 8 years old. After that, the mother began to change lovers, and completely forgot about her son. In 1947, Charlie was sent to an orphanage for boys in Ter-Aut, Indiana. After some time, he ran away from there, but his mother did not accept him. He began to steal and rob. At the age of 16, Manson falls under federal jurisdiction for stealing a car and is sent to a federal reformatory school for boys in Washington. From there, his aunt wanted to take him, but Charles once put a razor to the throat of one of the teenagers who were in the same reform school and raped him. For this, Manson was transferred to the federal corrective labor school in St. Petersburg (Virginia) and enrolled in the category of dangerous. Soon the following entry appeared in his file: "Despite his age, he is already capable of all sorts of sophisticated crimes."
Manson was so accustomed to prison life that when he was released in March 1967, he did not want to leave. But still I had to. And his new - wandering life began. In San Francisco, Manson met hippies and soon became their leader. Hospitable hippies, having learned that he had spent many years in prison, took pity on him, fed him, dressed him, treated him with drugs, taught him to play the guitar and sing. One day, Charles announced that it was no coincidence that his name was Manson - this name means "Son of Man", like Jesus. But he is both Christ and Satan. Therefore, everyone must obey him. Oddly enough, this delusional theory found its followers, and soon a whole "family" formed next to Manson, which began to roam the US West Coast.
Manson continues to learn to play and sing, he even has fans, and he decides to go to Hollywood to try his luck. There, he quickly makes many new acquaintances, mainly because he supplied them with drugs. The first Hollywood victim of Manson was the musician Hinman, from whom Manson asked for money, but he did not give them. Manson and his so-called students tortured the musician for three days, and then stabbed him to death, and wrote on the wall of the house: "Pig". A few days after Hinman's murder, police arrested Robert Beausoleil, Manson's closest associate, trapping him in the deceased's car.
Upon learning of Beausoleil's arrest, Manson began to cover his tracks. He decided that the best proof of Beausoleil's innocence would be to continue the series of brutal murders in the same manner. Villa Sharon Tate was chosen by the killers at random. At least, that's how it appeared in the materials of the investigation.
The trial of Manson and his associates began in June 1970 and lasted nine and a half months. Charles Manson, Susannah Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Guten were sentenced to death. A few months later, another killer of the actress and her friends, Charles Watson, was brought from Texas, where he had fled, and convicted. But in February 1972, the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty as capital punishment. The death penalty for murderers was commuted to life imprisonment.
Sharon Tate was buried in a closed coffin at Holy Cross Cemetery in California with her baby in her arms. The child was posthumously named Paul Richard Polanski.
Yuri Kamorny
The actor with noble and courageous features, who played mostly positive characters, quickly became the favorite of Soviet women.
He began to actively appear on the big screens in the mid-60s of the last century. The first success of the ball was the role in the Soviet-Polish film "Zosya". The film was a big success at the box office. Then there were the films "Liberation" (1968-1971), "Quarantine" (1969), "Kremlin Chimes" (1970), "Everyday Criminal Investigation", "Being Human" (both - 1973), "Arrows of Robin Hood" (1976 ). His first marriage did not work out. And in 1972, he met a law student at Leningrad State University and they began a long romance. Choosing between cinema and theater, Kamorny nevertheless made a choice in favor of the first. And he began to shoot even more. By that time, he already had a dacha in Pine, his own boat, a rich collection of edged weapons, which he began to collect during his student days. And he was quite good at all these weapons.
Kamorny got a job at the Theater-Studio of a film actor at Lenfilm and soon received a new living space: he was given a 12-meter room in a communal apartment in a house on Saltykov-Shchedrin Street. Nearby was the Priboy beer bar, famous in those years, and Yuri became its regular. But, despite his periodic sprees, Kamorny continued to act very actively, and almost every year films with his participation were released on the screens of the country: "Birds of Our Hopes" (1977), "Poseidon" to the rescue "(1978)," Blue Lightning " , TV movie "The Ring of the Outgoing Summer" (both - 1979).
In the early 80s, he starred in two main roles at once: in the feature film "The Truth of Lieutenant Klimov" and the TV movie "Game Without Trumps". While working in the last picture (filming took place in Lithuania), Kamorny met a young make-up artist of a local film studio and brought her to his place in Leningrad. On the last day of his life, it was this girl who was with him in an apartment in a house on Saltykov-Shchedrin Street.
The exact picture of the tragedy that unfolded has not yet been established. And they are unlikely to be installed, given the statute of limitations. Two versions are known last day life of Yuri Kamorny. One was described in his book "Star Tragedies: Riddles, Fate and Death" by Fedor Razzakov, the other by Mikhail Veller in the book "Legends of Nevsky Prospekt".
Here is how Fedor Razzakov describes it. “At noon on November 27, 1981, Kamorny’s neighbors in a communal apartment suddenly heard heart-rending female screams coming from his room. When they opened the door and looked inside, they saw a terrible picture: a girl, clasping her head in her hands, was sitting in a corner, and their neighbor stood on the couch and held a dagger in both hands. His face was disfigured by a terrible grimace, his lips whispered some wild words: "... they will kill you ... you must not come out ... I'd rather kill you myself .. ."
Deciding that the actor fell into a delirium tremens, the neighbors immediately called a narcologist by phone. He, in turn, took with him several policemen from the Dzerzhinsky District Department of Internal Affairs. When they arrived at the scene, Kamorny continued to rage and, waving daggers, did not let anyone near him. Today it is no longer possible to determine exactly what real danger he then represented, and whether it was possible to neutralize him without the use of firearms, but the police decided not to risk it and used the weapon. Moreover, at first, as expected, they fired two warning shots upwards. One of the bullets ricocheted and hit the girl in the arm. She screamed heart-rendingly, and this probably pissed off the policemen. The third shot they fired at the actor. They aimed at the legs, and hit the femoral artery. Blood gushed from the wound. Literally a few seconds later, Kamorny died.
As the examination later established, there was not a single gram of alcohol in the blood of the deceased. They did not find any changes in his brain. Then what happened to the actor that day? This can only be guessed at now.
Mikhail Veller, in his book Legends of Nevsky Prospekt, writes that the actor was very drunk, and the neighbors invited a policeman who was passing by, who, seeing Kamorny holding a knife to the woman's throat, fired a shot that wounded her in the thigh. The second shot hit the actor in the forehead. After that, after some thought, the policeman fired a third shot at the ceiling.
The death of Kamorny went almost unnoticed. The authorities banned the publication of obituaries, given the strange circumstances of the death of the artist. Only a few people came to the morgue of the Botkin hospital, where the artist's body lay, to say goodbye to him. Among them was the actor's mother, who then took her son's body home - to Staraya Russa. There he was buried.
Brandon Lee
Son of famous actor and martial artist Bruce Lee (1940-1973)
Brandon Bruce Lee tragically died on March 31, 1993 while filming The Crow in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Recall that Bruce Lee died suddenly in Hong Kong on July 20, 1973, while working on the film The Game of Death. According to the official version, he took a headache pill containing aspirin and meprobamate, which led to cerebral edema. However, after his death, rumors began to spread that Bruce was killed by another master, but they were not confirmed. Brandon Lee's death under similar circumstances exactly 20 years later sparked even more speculation. For example, even newspapers wrote that the death of a young actor was the revenge of the Triad, the Chinese mafia, which, according to many, was also involved in the death of his father.
Bruce Lee managed to teach his son much of what he himself owned. At the age of five, the boy was already walking on his hands and, in a jump, he reached his father's chin with his foot. While still at school, he performed on the stages of small theaters. Then there was the acting academy and small roles for films. But the young man, as usual, dreamed of playing one of the most difficult psychological roles - to reveal the restless soul of Hamlet. At the beginning of his short career, Brandon Lee was firmly convinced that he would become a dramatic actor. However, the only possible genre for him was a genre firmly associated with the name of his father - the action genre. Brandon made his debut in 1986 in the TV movie Kung Fu: The Movie. That same year, he starred in his first big-screen feature, Legacy of Rage. Then there were the films "Open the Cards in Little Tokyo" (1991), "Rapid Fire" (1992), which brought Brandon Lee real fame.
Fatal for Brandon shot thundered in the spring of 1993 on the set of the film "The Crow". Then they wrote that something was wrong there: one of the actors received severe burns, another seriously injured his hand, the journalist who wrote about the film got into a car accident, and the designer went crazy.
Filming was tough. Brandon, of course, starred without understudies. On his fateful day, he talked a lot about the upcoming wedding with film editor Eliza Hutton, whom he met back in 1990, and called her one of the most charming girls in Hollywood. Their wedding was to take place in Mexico City on April 17, 1993, just after filming of The Crow ended.
The last scene that was filmed that day was the scene where Brandon's hero dies at the hands of the villain Fanbow. The cameras were focused on Brandon. Actor Michael Massey, who played Fanbow, was supposed to shoot him with a revolver from five meters. Lee held a small explosive device, which he had to set off to simulate the sound of a gunshot. The scene was not particularly technically complex compared to many previous ones, where up to fifty shots per take were fired.
The team sounded: "Motor, start!" Massey fired, the explosive device went off, Lee fell, the scene was filmed. Brandon collapsed to the ground, covered in blood, and meanwhile the shooting went on as usual. They stopped them only after someone from the film crew realized that something was wrong. Brandon was taken to the hospital. For twelve and a half hours, the actor struggled with death. But he didn't win. The surgeon who performed the operation later said: "There was too much blood loss. The blood did not clot. It oozed from everywhere." According to doctors, if the actor could have been saved, then, most likely, he would have remained paralyzed for life.
The tragic death of the star was not left without investigation. It was carried out with the utmost care. According to one version, when preparing the revolver for filming, all precautions were not taken, and among the blank cartridges there was a real one. According to another, the plug stuck in the barrel was not noticed by the members of the film crew and flew out when fired with a blank cartridge. As a result, the foreign body pierced Brandon Lee's abdomen and lodged in the spine, causing extensive blood loss.
And although the judge's verdict categorically stated: pure coincidence, few people believed in it. How could a live cartridge even end up on the set? And what was that plug? Why did a fellow actor shoot Brandon point-blank when he should have aimed to the side. When installing, they would still do it the way it should.
These questions remain unanswered. None of the film crew was held accountable. Filming of "The Crow" was continued. But the scenes of the death of the actor were destroyed.
Brandon Lee was buried next to his father in Seattle on the shores of Lake Washington.
Fedor Smirnov
Having starred in more than 70 films and TV shows, actor Fyodor Smirnov died tragically at the age of 52.
Smirnov was born on February 24, 1957 in Moscow. He received an acting education, but was not very lucky with his career: for many years he had to play "steps behind the scenes" in various metropolitan theaters. It has been filmed in films since 1985. But in the films "There Lived a Brave Captain", "Complicity in Murder", he also performed episodes. However, gradually, attention began to be paid to a tall actor with a characteristic textured face. And offers to shoot fell down one after another. In 1990, Fedor Smirnov played in 11 films, and in 1991 already in 13. He most often got the roles of law enforcement officers, security guards, criminals, and intelligence officers. But the actor knew how to portray each of his characters vividly and figuratively.
Smirnov starred in such popular series as Detective Dubrovsky's Dossier, Citizen Chief - 3, Zone, the historical drama Bayazet, dedicated to the heroic episode of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. The last work of the actor was the role of Uncle Kolya - a relative of the main characters in the 8-episode film "District". This film was released in 2009, when Fyodor Smirnov was no longer alive.
He died on December 13, 2008, defending his house in the village of Konakovo, Tver Region, from bandits. Apparently, the criminals were counting on rich booty. But the actor lived very modestly. And he offered the most desperate resistance to the criminals. The forces turned out to be unequal: the bandits broke the head of the actor. He died on the spot. His wife, who was also at home and attacked, miraculously survived.
Fedor Smirnov is buried at the Vostryakovsky cemetery.
Robert Knox
British schoolboy Robert Arthur Knox became an actor at the age of 11. His first film work was a small role in the TV series "Purely English Murder". Then the talented boy was invited to many films and programs. He appeared in the reality show "Trust me I'm a Teenager" and in the comedy "After You're Gone". In 2004, he had a small role in the film "King Arthur". He was also seen in the television magazine "Tonight with Trevor". McDonald's.
The role of Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in the sixth Harry Potter film - "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" - opened up good prospects for the aspiring actor. He had already signed a contract for the filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but could not start them.
On May 24, 2008, Robert and his friends went to the popular English nightclub "Metro Bar" to celebrate the completion of filming for the film about the young wizard. The tragedy broke out after the party. On the street at the exit of the bar, a company of young people was attacked by unknown people. The 18-year-old actor stood up for his 16-year-old brother Jamie, who was threatened by two men, one of whom was armed with two knives. Robert received a fatal blow and four other teenagers were injured. His parents - Sally and Colin Knox - described their son as follows: "Rob was kind and thoughtful and always helped others out - he was always ready to give his last penny for a friend. The heart and soul of parties, he was very fond of noisy companies, sporting events and socializing with people. He respected others, and was adored by his family and friends."
Knox's killer, 21-year-old Carl Norman Bishop, was brought to trial and on March 4, 2009 was sentenced to life imprisonment - he must serve a minimum of twenty years without the right to review the case.
Soviet actors whose lives were cut short due to ridiculous accidents
It's no secret that during the filming of dangerous episodes, actors are most often replaced by stuntmen, and it is their lives that are often at risk. They manage to avoid injuries only thanks to their own professionalism and special training. However, in the history of cinema there have been such tragic cases when the actors themselves took on the performance of complex stunts and paid for it with their lives. This happened to three Soviet actors whose lives ended prematurely and absurdly...
Frame from the film *Ivanna*, 1959
Inna Burduchenko's film career ended as soon as it began. The very first role in the film "Ivanna" (1959) brought her success, and the audience began to call the actress Ivushka by the name of her heroine. She played the daughter of a priest who renounced God, which later became the reason for persistent rumors that this film was anathematized by the Pope. These rumors were born after the Soviet football players visited Rome for the Olympic Games and heard about the anathema there. Decades later, the press again started talking about the curse that allegedly hung over the picture - the death of the 21-year-old actress seemed too ridiculous. 
Inna Burduchenko in the film *Ivanna*, 1959
Actress Inna Burduchenko
Her life was cut short just a year after a successful film debut. On the set of the film “Nobody Loved Like This,” the heroine Burduchenko had to carry the banner out of the house, engulfed in flames. The actress worked without an understudy. They shot several takes, and during the last one a tragedy occurred: Inna's heel got stuck in wooden boards, and at that moment a burning beam collapsed on her. Miner Sergei Ivanov, who starred in the extras, rushed into the house and carried the actress out. Unfortunately, it was too late - she received 78% burns, and it was not possible to save her. The director of the film was sentenced to 4 years in prison and suspended from filming.
The film career of Yevgeny Urbansky was short, but very bright. After the first role, he won popularity and love of the audience. His film debut was the film "Communist" (1957), for participation in which he received the main prizes at festivals in Kyiv and Venice. Two years later, he starred in the title role in the film The Unsent Letter. After 36 years, Francis Ford Coppola undertook the restoration of this painting and financed its distribution in the United States. In 1961, the success of Evgeny Urbansky secured the film "Clear Sky", recognized as the best picture of the year in the USSR. It seemed that a bright future awaited him, but despite all the prerequisites, he did not succeed in becoming one of the first Soviet movie stars. he managed to star in only 9 films. 
Yevgeny Urbansky in the film *Communist*, 1957
Frame from the film *Communist*, 1957
In 1965, on the set of The Director, an accident occurred that took the life of a 33-year-old actor. He had a permanent understudy, a professional athlete, but the actor preferred to perform most of the tricks on his own. The first take was shot without incident, but the director suggested that the stunt be made more difficult by making the car bounce higher and that another take be shot. The truck, driven by Yevgeny Urbansky, jumped up on a sand dune and suddenly overturned. The actor broke his cervical vertebrae and died on the way to the hospital. After the tragic death of Urbansky, the picture was closed, and 4 years later it was re-shot with another actor. 
Frame from the movie *Clear Sky*, 1961
Soviet actor whose life was cut short by a ridiculous accident
The sudden death of Urbansky immediately gave rise to many ridiculous rumors that made his colleagues resent. So, Aleksey Batalov said indignantly: “When they said about Urbansky that he died because he was drunk, nothing more offensive can be imagined. Once I almost quarreled with the audience, which I never do, because the gossip about Urbansky is monstrously unfair. I know that he was the most conscientious actor, that if he climbed into this car, which became his grave, it was only so that these very spectators would believe in his hero ... ".
Andrei Rostotsky in the film *Days of the Turbins*, 1976
Frame from the film *Loop*, 1983
Andrey Rostotsky, the son of the famous director Stanislav Rostotsky, often starred in military and heroic adventure films, staged stunts and participated in them himself, without the help of understudies, since 1997 he worked as an instructor at the Vitalis transnational survival school, deputy general director of the Russian Expeditions and Travels Foundation, conducted expeditions to the Crimean caves, was a member of the jury of the Moscow International Stunt Festival. No one doubted his experience and professionalism. 
Soviet and Russian actor Andrey Rostotsky
In 2002, Rostotsky went to shoot the film "My Border", which took place in the area of a ski resort near Sochi. The places where the tricks were to be filmed, he usually examined himself. Relying on his athletic training, he tried to climb the mountain slope at the Maiden's Tears waterfall without insurance and fell down from a 40-meter height. It was not possible to save the actor - he died in the hospital without regaining consciousness. The widow of Rostotsky said: “And the waterfall is called so for a reason: people died there before. There are many moving stones in this place - it seems that the boulder is firmly on the ground, but in fact it is hanging in the air. Andrey stepped on one of these. After his death, some kind of fence was put up there and a warning sign was hung ... ". 
Actor with wife and daughter