Turner's daughter has always maintained that she killed Stompanato in her mother's defence, but rumours have swirled that Turned killed him herself.
Turner appeared in over 50 films throughout her storied career and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1958.
When Stompanato met Turner around 1957, she was in the middle of filming a movie. One of her previous projects had flopped and she was just divorced from her fifth husband. Under the alias “John Steele,” Stompanato courted Turner on set, leaving her constant phone calls, letters, flowers, jewellery, and even a commissioned portrait of her.
When Turner eventually learned who her admirer was, she confronted Stompanato who reportedly told her: “If I’d revealed who I really was, you would not have had anything to do with me… Now that I have you, I’ll never let you go.”
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