Cheryl Christina Crane Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Cheryl Christina Crane (born July 25, 1943) is the only child of actress Lana Turner, from her marriage to actor-restaurateur Stephen Crane, her second husband.On April 4, 1958, at age 14, Cheryl Crane stabbed her mother's boyfriend Johnny Stompanato to death. The killing was ruled a justifiable homicide: Crane was deemed to have been protecting her mother. Stompanato was well-known to have been abusive, extremely jealous of Turner and had previously pointed a gun at actor Sean Connery, her co-star in Another Time, Another Place, only to have Connery take the gun from him, beat him and force him from the movie set.Following Stompanato's death, Crane was made a ward of the State of California and sent to an all-girls boarding school, from which she escaped in 1960. She was captured and then released in 1961. In 1969, Crane was detained by the Los Angeles Police Department when three half-grown marijuana plants were discovered in the back seat of her car.Years later, Cheryl publicly revealed that she was a lesbian to her mother, who accepted the news well. Turner said she regarded Cheryl's partner, Jocelyn "Josh" LeRoy, "as a second daughter".In her autobiography, Detour: a Hollywood Tragedy - My Life With Lana Turner, My Mother (1988), Crane discussed the Stompanato killing publicly for the first time and admitted to the stabbing. She further alleged that she was subject to a series of sexual assaults at the hands of her stepfather and her mother's fourth husband, actor Lex Barker.
Full Name
Cheryl Christina Crane
Net Worth
$12 Million
Date Of Birth
July 25, 1943
Place Of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation
Writer, real estate broker
Profession
American writer
Nicknames
Cheryl Christina Crane, Cheryl Crane, Crane, Cheryl Christina
Star Sign
Leo
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Quote
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Even when I was a toddler, I knew there were certain rules I had to observe regarding mother's profession. I was on the set of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). I knew then not to tug on her hair as babies do or mess her up. It became so ingrained that it was just a natural act for me not to do.
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Fact
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According to the blurb in the August 2nd 1943 Milestone's column of time magazine Cheryl weighed 3.572069 kilos or 7 lbs 14 oz at birth.
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Married her longtime partner, Joyce "Josh" Leroy on November 14, 2014.
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Release of her book, "Detour: A Hollywood Tragedy - My Life with Lana Turner, My Mother" by Cheryl with Cliff Jahr. [1988]
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Release of her book, "Lana: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies". [October 2008]
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Real estate agent in the Palm Springs, California area. [November 2005]
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Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998 and underwent a mastectomy and was treated with radiation and chemotherapy. She has since been in remission.
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Her mother's real name was Julia and her father's real name was Joseph.
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In 1958, at the age of 14, she fatally stabbed her mother's lover, gangster Johnny Stompanato, during a quarrel. Jerry Giesler represented her. The murder was deemed justifiable homicide at a coroner's inquest.
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Works as a real-estate agent in Palm Springs, California with her partner of thirty-seven years, Jocelyn "Josh" LeRoy [November 2005].
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Was a childhood friend of Liza Minnelli as they grew up in the same neighborhood together during Liza's mother Judy Garland's marriage to Sidney Luft in the 1950s.
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Her parents, Lana Turner and Stephen Crane, were married twice. Their first marriage was annulled after only seven months, but they remarried the following month when Lana discovered that she was four months pregnant. However, her parents divorced permanently in 1944 when Cheryl was just one year old.
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Cheryl wrote a book about her life with her mother Lana Turner, her mother's 7 husbands and numerous boyfriends and living in Hollywood. It was entitled "Detour: A Hollywood Story" and was published in 1988 when Cheryl was 45.
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons
2011
TV Series documentary
Herself - Lana Turner's Daughter
Larry King Live
2001
TV Series
Herself
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
2001
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Archive Footage
Known for movies
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir (2001) as Herself
Larry King Live (2001) as Herself
James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons (2011) as Herself - Lana Turner's Daughter