Johnny Stompanato
John Stompanato Jr. was a United States Marine who became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen and the Cohen crime family. 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. His death was ruled as justifiable homicide because he had been killed in...
