On January 15, 1947 a woman walking on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of Norton St., in Liemert Park, Los Angeles caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a department store mannequin lying in the weeds...
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Brian Keith, who became known to millions of Americans in the late '60s as Uncle Bill, was born on November 14, 1921, in Bayonne, New Jersey. The son of Robert Keith and Helena Shipman, Keith eventually went on...
Herve Jean Pierre Villechaize was born on April 23, 1943 in Paris, France. His father, a doctor and resistance fighter during the German occupation of France during World War II, noticed early on that something wasn't...
Against his wishes and in spite of his best intentions, Brandon Lee will always be known as the son of martial arts movie star Bruce Lee, who starred in more than 20 films, including The Big Boss (1971), Fists of Fury (1971) and...
Natalie Gurdin was born in San Francisco in 1938, to Russian immigrants Nikolai and Maria. When she was just 4 years old she appeared as an extra in her first movie, Happy Land, with her mother. Convinced her daughter...
On November 13, 1974, the peace in the tiny Long Island town of Amityville, New York, an upper-middle-income community of 10,000, was shattered when 23 year-old Ronald DeFeo returned from a night of drinking and shot...
Mary Anissa Jones was born in West Lafayette, Indiana to Purdue students John P. Jones and Mary P. Tweel on March 11, 1958. Pronounced (Uh-nee-suh), her name is Lebanese and means "Little Friend."...
James Dean was arguably one of the freshest young faces on the Hollywood scene in the 1950s. But because he died at such a young age he was probably known more for the films he didn't make, than the ones he did...
John Franklin Candy was born on October 31, 1950 in New Market, Ontario, Canada to Sidney James Candy And Evangeline Candy. Within five years of his birth, John's father would die leaving his mother, aunt...
Dominique Dunne was a beautiful and promising young actress most known for her performance as the older sister on the hit movie Poltergeist (1982). Five months after the release of the movie, with her career beginning...
On June 16, 1959, George Reeves gave millions of children worldwide firm evidence of why it's important to separate fantasy from reality ... because on that day, in the world of make-believe, Superman was not faster than...
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Few actresses conjure up as much admiration, emulation and yet anguish and accusations as a troubled young starlet the world would come to know as Marilyn Monroe. Born Norma Jean Mortenson...
The Marilyn Monroe Death Bed Photo - WARNING: Graphic Photo
Below is the well-known police investigatory forensics photo showing Marilyn Monroe deceased on her bed. A policeman, to theft of the photo, is pointing to an empty Nembutal bottle on Marilyn's night stand, next to where she was found dead ...
The Marilyn Monroe Morgue Autopsy Photo
The below photo is widely known and accepted to be that of Marilyn Monroe upon the conclusion of her autopsy performed by L.A. County Coroner Thomas Naguchi, the so-called coroner to the stars. Dr. Noguchi also performed the same procedures on Natalie Wood, Robert F. Kennedy, Janis Joplin, John Belushi, Sharon Tate and others. Basically if you died in Los Angeles during the '60s, '70s, or '80s, you were ...
Marilyn Monroe Nude Photos - Graphic Warning: The photos below are not safe for work
Throughout her career, Marilyn Monroe participated in several nude photography shoots, including the now famous Tom Kelley "Red Velvet" Calendar shoot and the Vogue Magazine "Last Sitting" session with Bert Stern at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles in 1962. In that shoot, the actress posed for some 2500 photos behind a semi-see-through, silky cloth that did little to mask the seductress's beauty.
Of all the notorious celebrity deaths, suicides, and murders that have occurred throughout the annals of Hollywood history, none was as bizarre and gruesome as the murders that occurred on a warm night...
A Collection of Sharon Tate Photos - GRAPHIC WARNING: Contains some minor nudity
Crime Scene Photos of the Tate and LaBianca Murders - GRAPHIC WARNING: Contains Gruesome Photos!
Below are the police investigation photos of the horrible offense that went down at the Tate and LaBianca Residences at the hands of the wacked-out Manson family on August 8 and 9, 1969. Many horrific things happened...
Of all musicians of the '60s, none would embody the tumultuous spirit and self-destructive nature of that era more than Janis Lyn Joplin. The oldest of three children, she was born in Port Arthur Texas...
If only walls could talk, they'd tell the truth about what went down during the early morning hours of July 1, 1981 at the modest house located at 8763 Wonderland Avenue. It was a very seedy place inhabited by...
Crime Scene Photos of The Wonderland Murders and Pictures of John Holmes's Penis - GRAPHIC WARNING: Contains Gruesome Photos!
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Jayne Mansfield Crash Scene Photos and Nude Pictures
After a June 28, 1967 evening engagement, actress Jayne Mansfield and the occupants of her car were traveling down a winding, narrow stretch of US Hwy 90 in rural Louisiana when the car would plow into the back of a stopped big rig...
Although already attached to such fair-haired sexpots as Alice Faye, Betty Grable, and Marilyn Monroe, the term Blond Bombshell wouldn't become fully defined until the arrival of Jayne Mansfield on...
Listen to the 911 phone call made by Joaquin Phoenix from a pay phone after his brother, River, overdosed in the bathroom of The Viper Room. GRAPHIC WARNING: Contains disturbing content!
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Dana Michelle Plato led quite an interesting life, full of dizzying heights and earth-shattering lows. She came to fame as a child star but found out soon enough that early fame often has its own pitfalls. Best known as Kimberly Drummond, the older sister on TV's "Diff'rent Strokes," Dana went through a lot while never quite escaping the scrutiny of the media and fans ...
Few princesses live happily ever after. And few fairy tales ever end up quite as imagined. This was surely the case with film actress Grace Kelly who would marry into European royalty before eventually meeting...
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Hollywood sex symbol and legendary pin-up girl Jane Russell has died from respiratory failure. She was 89. Jane Russell died in her Malibu home yesterday, February 28, 2011. She is survived by her children, Thomas K. Waterfield, Tracy Foundas and Robert "Buck" Waterfield, six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren...
She Was Late to Her Own Funeral
Elizabeth Taylor, one of the most popular and desired actresses of the 20th century has died at 79. Taylor "died peacefully today at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles," said a publicist. The two-time academy award winner (Butterfield 8 and ...
Injuries and Deaths in California’s Disneyland Theme Park
Though we all associate the “Happiest Place on Earth” with good, wholesome family entertainment in a safe place that’s far, far away from death, pain and danger, accidents do happen at Disneyland… actually relatively frequently. And many of them are even deadly.
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The Black Dahlia Death Photos - Graphic Warning: Seriously, this is some gruesome shit. Enter at your own risk. On January 15, 1947 a woman walking on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of Norton St., in Liemert Park, Los Angeles caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a department store mannequin lying in the weeds; the top half separated from the lower half. As she approached the mannequin, the woman realized it was actually the unclothed body of a dead woman...
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Where we feature the events, places, and timelines of many of Hollywood's Most Notorious Deaths... Including all the Morbid Details!
America loves her movie stars. We adore the movies they bring to life. We enjoy dreaming of one day becoming a movie star and living the jet-set lifestyle. But most of all, we love it when their wheels come off and they crash back down to earth like a skeleton hitting a gym floor.
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- Colorado Street Suicide Bridge
- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman