Beautiful Corpses (Young Deaths In The Entertainment Industry)
For awhile now I've had an obsession with death and deliverance, particularly in regards to those whose time to leave their print on the world was cut short. It seems that there's an undeniable magical quality that arises from an artist who dies before their time, which can lead us to a special form of obsession when we think of them. I notice this in others as they idolize celebrities like Elvis, James Dean, or Heath Ledger etc. and I see it in myself as I view actresses like Inma De Santis, Katrin Cartlidge or Soledad Miranda.
It's almost as though these people give us the ability to stare directly into immortality, and upon realizing that existence and non existence are an immortal unbreakable bond, one that lasts for alltime, the choices we make appear both evermore grave and evermore fleeting, the ultimate consequence and zero consequence melding into one and the same. In the end, all you can ever have and hope for lies in your acceptance of the reality you make out of your own experience. None of these people were supposed to die when they did; none of them were meant to grow old, and none of them were meant to be born in the first place.
Generally speaking, we're all brought up to believe that we're living in a rat race where we fight and compete against each other, all so we can end up on top, inheritors to a greater position in power, wealth and age until we notice that everyone around us is dying and exiting early as we fight and carry on to the end, an end where everyone finishes right where they started. We who carry on have life and they the fallen have deliverance. Who wins? In the end, these people and their work, in their everlasting youth, beauty, and ambition for success and accomplishment, connect me to humanity in a very special way that I can't get by any other means, which makes me feel like the loser and the winner both at the same time, staring directly into immortality through their eyes as it escapes me.
It's been a little bit difficult to decide what the cut-off age should be for this list, but I definitely find it necessary in the interest of conformity, in that I don't want there to be too large a disparity between the artists on this list who are extremely well-established and well-accomplished vs. artists who clearly died with some of their best work still ahead of them. In addition to this, I'm also considering the fact that certain budding artists may only rise to success by the time they're already middle-aged.
40 seems too young of a cut-off age and 60 seems too old to accommodate the proper balance here. As such, this list operates upon the assumption that by 50, most artists are well-established and have already accomplished some of their best work, so although 55 is still perceived as an early death, in many cases the artist will have produced more than half of their full potential by this time, and therefore can be seen as sufficiently well established that their death did not significantly effect their place in history. In my opinion most artists who've died over 50 can't fairly be viewed in the same light as artists who died in their 20's or earlier. For these reasons, 50 is the cut off age we're sticking with, as imperfect as it still feels. The list is ordered from young deaths to old.
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It's almost as though these people give us the ability to stare directly into immortality, and upon realizing that existence and non existence are an immortal unbreakable bond, one that lasts for alltime, the choices we make appear both evermore grave and evermore fleeting, the ultimate consequence and zero consequence melding into one and the same. In the end, all you can ever have and hope for lies in your acceptance of the reality you make out of your own experience. None of these people were supposed to die when they did; none of them were meant to grow old, and none of them were meant to be born in the first place.
Generally speaking, we're all brought up to believe that we're living in a rat race where we fight and compete against each other, all so we can end up on top, inheritors to a greater position in power, wealth and age until we notice that everyone around us is dying and exiting early as we fight and carry on to the end, an end where everyone finishes right where they started. We who carry on have life and they the fallen have deliverance. Who wins? In the end, these people and their work, in their everlasting youth, beauty, and ambition for success and accomplishment, connect me to humanity in a very special way that I can't get by any other means, which makes me feel like the loser and the winner both at the same time, staring directly into immortality through their eyes as it escapes me.
It's been a little bit difficult to decide what the cut-off age should be for this list, but I definitely find it necessary in the interest of conformity, in that I don't want there to be too large a disparity between the artists on this list who are extremely well-established and well-accomplished vs. artists who clearly died with some of their best work still ahead of them. In addition to this, I'm also considering the fact that certain budding artists may only rise to success by the time they're already middle-aged.
40 seems too young of a cut-off age and 60 seems too old to accommodate the proper balance here. As such, this list operates upon the assumption that by 50, most artists are well-established and have already accomplished some of their best work, so although 55 is still perceived as an early death, in many cases the artist will have produced more than half of their full potential by this time, and therefore can be seen as sufficiently well established that their death did not significantly effect their place in history. In my opinion most artists who've died over 50 can't fairly be viewed in the same light as artists who died in their 20's or earlier. For these reasons, 50 is the cut off age we're sticking with, as imperfect as it still feels. The list is ordered from young deaths to old.
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Unnatural
Suicide
Homicide
Accidental
Natural
Heart Attack
Cancer
Natural
Men
Unnatural
Suicide
Homicide
Accidental
Natural
Heart Attack
Cancer
Natural
Women
Unnatural
Suicide
Homicide
Accidental
Natural
Heart Attack
Cancer
Natural
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- The only child of Jozsef Barsi and Maria Benko, Judith Eva Barsi beat 10,000-to-1 odds when she was discovered at a San Fernando Valley skating rink at age 5 1/2 in 1983 and mistaken for a three-year-old. Her first commercial was for Donald Duck Orange Juice and she went on to appear in anywhere between fifty and a hundred commercials, several episodes of various T.V. series, and three major motion pictures. Her mother Maria was the main thrust of her career as a Hollywood starlet, but also took great pains to try to give her a normal, happy childhood; bringing her Hungarian meals like duck for her school lunch. But this happy childhood did not last long. Beginning in 1985, Jozsef would often be home drunk instead of working as a plumber, and he refused to let Maria work. As a result, the family briefly went on welfare until Judith's career took off in 1986 and 1987. By the time she entered fourth grade, she was pulling in an estimated $100,000 a year, which bought her family a nice four-bedroom house on a quiet street in West Hill. As her career soared, her father became an increasingly abusive recluse who constantly threatened to kill his wife and daughter. In stressful moods Judith bit her nails and plucked out her eyebrows and eyelashes and her cats' whiskers. C.P.S. was called in numerous times, but as Maria was reluctant to press charges and many of the reports/accounts were emotional and not physical abuse, the case was not pursued.
On Wednesday, July 27th, Eunice Daly, a next-door neighbor, heard a loud bang next door while watering her plants. The house had been set on fire, and later the Barsis' bodies were discovered shot dead. All of Judith's toys that were not destroyed by the fire were given to the local Goodwill, and her best friend continued to feed her cats for months afterward.Died at 10: homicide
Shot to death along with her mother, by her father.
(1978-1988) - Heather Michele O'Rourke was born on December 27, 1975 in Santee, San Diego, California, to Kathleen, a seamstress, and Michael O'Rourke, a construction worker. She had German, Danish, English, and Irish ancestry.
Heather entered American cinematic pop-culture before first grade. She was sitting alone in the MGM Commissary waiting for her mother when a stranger approached her asking her name. "My name is Heather O'Rourke," she said. "But you're a stranger, and I can't talk to you". When her mother returned, the stranger introduced himself as Steven Spielberg. She failed her first audition when she laughed at a stuffed animal Spielberg presented her with. He thought she was just too young (she had just turned five), and he was actually looking for a girl at least 6 years old, but he saw something in her and asked her to come in a second time with a scary story book. He asked her to scream a lot. She screamed until she broke down in tears. The next day at the commissary, Spielberg told her and her family, "I don't know what it is about her, but she's got the job." She instantly became a star overnight and was easily recognized at her favorite theme park, Disneyland, and everywhere in California. In the years that followed, Heather was a familiar face on TV in Happy Days (1974) (1982-1983), Webster (1983) (1983-1984), and The New Leave It to Beaver (1983) (1986-1987), three shows in which she had recurring roles. In 1986, the highly anticipated sequel to her first movie, Poltergeist (1982), Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) debuted in theaters; it was her riveting performance in this film that cemented her a place in Hollywood history. In January 1987, Heather began to have flu-like symptoms and her legs and feet swelled. She was taken to Kaiser Hospital, and they confirmed it was only the flu, but when symptoms continued, they diagnosed her as having Crohn's Disease, a chronic inflammation of the intestine. She was on medication throughout the filming of her next project, Poltergeist III (1988), and her cheeks were puffy in some scenes. She never complained during filming and did not appear sick to fellow cast members.
When filming was completed in June, Heather and her family went on a road trip from Chicago, to New Orleans, to Orlando and all the way back to Lakeside where they lived at the time. Heather was well until January 31, 1988, Super Bowl Sunday. She was unable to keep anything in her stomach and crawled into bed with her parents that night, saying that she didn't feel well. The next morning, February 1, sitting at the breakfast table, she couldn't swallow her toast or Gatorade. Her mother noticed her fingers were blue and her hands were cold. Kathleen called the doctor's and was getting ready to put her clothes on when Heather fainted on the kitchen floor. When the paramedics came in, Heather insisted that she was "really okay" and was worried about missing school that day. In the ambulance, Heather suffered cardiac arrest and died on the operating table at 2:43 p.m. at the tender age of 12. Of all her achievements, Heather was proudest of being elected student body president of her 5th grade class in 1985.Died at 12: natural causes
Cardiac arrest and septic shock caused by a misdiagnosed intestinal stenosis.
(1975-1988) - Lucille Ricksen was born Ingeborg Erickson in Chicago, Illinois on August 22, 1910. She worked a child model and made her film debut at age 5. Her parents separated and her mother took her to Hollywood in 1920, and 10-year-old Lucille was offered a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and starred in a series of short films. She often had to work long hours but she always said she was having fun. In 1922 she starred opposite Marie Prevost in "The Married Flapper." The following year she was given a starring role in the drama "The Rendezvous"; although she was only 13, the studio lied that she was actually 16. The press called her "the youngest leading lady in movies". Lucille developed a close relationship with producer Sydney Chaplin (brother of Charlie Chaplin), who was 25 years her senior. She became one of Hollywood's busiest starlets and was chosen as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars.
In 1924 Ricksen made 10 films, including "Vanity's Price," "The Galloping Fish," and "The Valley Of The Wolf." Unfortunately, the 14-year-old started to suffer from exhaustion and malnutrition. She was diagnosed with tuberculosis and became bedfast. Her mother kept a bedside vigil, but the stress brought on a fatal heart attack. Following her mother's death, Lucille was looked after by family friends including actress Lois Wilson. During one of her conscious moments Lucille said "Mother wouldn't want me--die--Mother said--Wonderful future--Going to do big things--Won't die! I won't!" But on March 13, 1925, she passed away from complications of tuberculosis, still at only 14 years old. There were rumors that her death had actually been caused by a botched abortion. Lucille was cremated and she was buried with her mother at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California. Her final film, "The Denial," came out 10 days after her death.14 - Madeleine Desdevises was born on 12 March 1967 in Saint-Lô, Manche, France. She was an actress, known for The Hussy (1979) and Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1975). She died on 16 April 1982 in Caen, Calvados, France.15
- Mya-Lecia Naylor was born on 6 November 2002 in Warwickshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Cloud Atlas (2012), Code Red (2013) and Cartoonito Tales (2011). She died on 7 April 2019 in London, England, UK.16
- Sandra Mozarowsky was born on 17 October 1958 in Tangier, Morocco. She was an actress, known for Ángel negro (1978), Curro Jiménez (1976) and School of Death (1975). She died on 14 September 1977 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.18
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Dorothy Dell was born to Elbert and Lillan Goff in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on January 30, 1915. She won the most beautiful baby in Hattiesburg beauty contest when she was thirteen months old. She lived in New Orleans from the age of ten. She attended the Sophie Wright High School for girls. Winning the Miss New Orleans title, when she was fifteen, she went on a Fanchon and Marco vaudeville tour for six months. She got a job with the Ziegfield Follies of 1931 when she arrived in New York City. She sang a solo, "Was I Drunk?", in the production. All of her films at Paramount were released in 1934. She died that year in an automobile accident on June 8, 1934, She had left an all-night party at an inn in Altadena and was going to Pasadena in the wee hours when the car left the highway, hit a telephone pole, bounced off a palm tree and hit a boulder. Miss Dell was killed instantly. Her date, Dr. Carl Wagner, who was driving, died several hours later.19- Annie Vernay was born on 21 November 1921 in Genève-Plainpalais, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for La principessa Tarakanova (1938), Chantons quand même (1940) and The Novel of Werther (1938). She died on 15 August 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.19
- Born near Mumbai, 19-year-old Maple Batalia was an aspiring actress and attending Simon Fraser University in Surrey (B.C. Canada) when she was shot and killed as she walked to her car in the parkade at SFU Surrey Campus. She had previously graduated from Enver Creek Secondary and was hoping to be a doctor.
A documentary, named "Maple", was made shortly after which followed the events before and after her death.
Her father (Harkirat Batalia) chose her unusual name of Maple when he had visited the U.S. in the autumn, and fell in love with the maple leaf. When his daughter was born, he and his wife, Sarbjit, agreed to call her 'Maple.'
Maple had just been named a finalist in the Central City Model Search, and was to attend auditions in Alberta, at the time of her demise.19 - Dorothy Stratten's story was brief, glorious and tragic. She was born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten on February 28, 1960 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She grew up in a rough neighborhood in Vancouver, but kept out of trouble and went through the motions of school. While not a beauty as a child, nor early teen, Stratten came into her own out of high school and attracted the attention of Paul Snider, a promoter and wannabe star. He started dating her and after seeing an advertisement for Playboy's 25th Anniversary Playmate search in 1978, convinced her to pose for photos. Playboy saw the potential in Stratten and flew her out to Los Angeles, California, where she became a candidate. Although she lost out to Candy Loving, Stratten was made a Playmate in the August 1979 issue of Playboy. Soon after, she was pressured into marrying Snider, who had a Svengali-like influence on her.
After her centerfold came out, Stratten found work in a few movies, notably Americathon (1979) and Skatetown U.S.A. (1979), as well as being the object of Richard Dawson's affection in an ABC-TV special shot at the Playboy mansion. Clearly, her star was on the rise. In 1980, it was revealed that Stratten would be tabbed as the Playmate of the Year by Playboy publisher and founder Hugh Hefner. While this was one of the crowning achievements of her career, things were not going well in her marriage to Snider. He bothered her on the set of the movie Galaxina (1980) and when Snider found out she was developing more than a friendly relationship with director Peter Bogdanovich, Snider grew increasingly frustrated.
After a separation, Snider bought a shotgun and talked Stratten into coming to the apartment they used to share in West Los Angeles. Snider tied her up, sexually assaulted her and put the shotgun next to her face and pulled the trigger. Snider then turned the shotgun on himself to complete the murder-suicide. Since her death, Stratten has become something of a minor cult fixture, and has had two (one a television) movies, a song, and a couple of books written about her. The last movie she was in, They All Laughed (1981), was released after her death.20 - Actor
- Soundtrack
Jackson Odell was born on 2 July 1997 in Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Forever My Girl (2018) and Great Plains (2016). He died on 8 June 2018 in San Fernando, California, USA.20- Lisca Malbran was born on 17 October 1925 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Junge Herzen (1944), Heidesommer (1945) and Das war mein Leben (1944). She died on 6 June 1946 in Copenhagen, Denmark.20
- Music Artist
- Actor
- Composer
XXXTentacion was born on 23 January 1998 in Plantation, Florida, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Exit (2019) and We Are Who We Are (2020). He died on 18 June 2018 in Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA.20- Sammi Kane Kraft was born on 2 April 1992 in Livingston, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Bad News Bears (2005), Today (1952) and Help Her Live (2022). She died on 9 October 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA.20
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Bridgette Andersen was born on July 11, 1975 to Frank Glass and Teresa Andersen in Inglewood, California and grew up in Malibu. She always considered it good luck to have her birthday read as 7-11 rather than as July 11th. She would always kiss the first two fingers on her right hand and then touch any digital clock that read 7:11. As a child star, she played in many films, most notably Savannah Smiles (1982). As a teenager, she became involved with drugs, and, tragically, died in May 1997, aged 21, after overdosing on alcohol and heroin.21- Actor
- Soundtrack
Matthew Garber was a British child actor. Both of his parents were theatrical actors, but neither was particularly famous.
In 1963, Garber came to the attention of actor Roy Dotrice (father of Karen Dotrice) who was seeking potential child actors. Roy recommended Garber to the casting department of the Disney company, where young Garber's "artful dodges, like squinting, screwing up his nose, and brushing his hair back with one hand" were thought likely to make him stand out. He was cast in the film "The Three Lives of Thomasina" (1963), as the character Geordie McNab, a playmate to the Scottish girl Mary MacDhui (played by Karen Dotrice).
Garber next received a bigger role as the character Michael Banks in "Mary Poppins" (1964), one of the two charges of the protagonist nanny. Jane Banks, Michael's sister, was played by Karen Dotrice. The film was the greatest hit of Garber's career and is the role for which he is most remembered.
In 1967, Garber had his third and last film role, as the character Rodney Winthrop in "The Gnome-Mobile". In the film, Rodney and his sister Elizabeth Winthrop (played by Karen Dotrice) are trying to prolong the life of a 943-year-old gnome, who has lost the will to survive.
Following his brief film career, Garber returned to his school studies. He attended first St Paul's Primary School in Winchmore Hill, and then Highgate School in Highgate, North London. He graduated in 1972.
In 1976-1977, Garber was in India and contracted hepatitis. He returned to London in June 1977, seeking better medical treatment. It was too late as the disease had infected his pancreas. He died soon after, the official cause being hemorrhagic necrotizing pancreatitis. He was only 21-years-old. He was single and had no known children.
Garber's remains were cremated at St. Marylebone Crematorium, in East Finchley, London. Both of his parents died within a decade following his death. Fergus Garber, a surviving younger brother of Matthew, was never informed whether there was any memorial erected for his brother. Garber was posthumously named a Disney Legend in 2004.21- Actress
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Rebecca began modeling at the age of 16, going off to New York on her own to begin her career. Four months later, she found herself in Japan, modeling. Eventually, she landed a co-starring role on My Sister Sam (1986), for which she is now best known. In 1989 she also became a spokesperson for Thursday's Child, a charity for at-risk teens.
In April of that same year, having missed a signing due to filming, she reluctantly went to a girls' shelter to sign autographs. "No one will recognize me", she insisted, "or want my autograph," but as it turned out all of them did. In fact, the girls were so in awe that they invited her to the Renaissance Fair in May; Rebecca accepted.
Only two months later, she lay dead on the pavement in front of her new apartment in West Hollywood, having been shot to death by a paranoid schizophrenic fan around her age, Robert John Bardo, who came to her apartment asking for an autograph. She obliged, even though she was busy rehearsing in her apartment for the most important role of her short career. He later said he felt rejected by her because she didn't spend more time with him at her door.
He returned a few minutes later, pressed the buzzer, and when she again opened the door for him, he shot her once in the chest, placing the bullet directly into her heart. Rebecca screamed out, "Why?" then fell backward in the doorway, and was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai hospital within minutes of arriving there by ambulance after the shooting.
The killer fled to Tucson, AZ, and the next morning the previously diagnosed "psychiatric patient" was found walking blindly, appearing to be hoping to be hit and killed by a car or truck on a major highway. He was subsequently arrested, transferred back to Los Angeles, and plea-bargained for a life sentence without the possibility of parole, with a then-young assistant district attorney named Marcia Clark, who later became famous for her failed attempt to convict O.J. Simpson of murder. There was a trial by Judge that lasted a month, because the obsessed fan changed his mind about the plea bargain agreement, and pleaded an 'insanity defense'. He was found guilty, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.21- Ilse Korseck was born on 12 May 1911 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier (1930), Madame hat Ausgang (1931) and Wie werde ich reich und glücklich? (1930). She died on 22 February 1933 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.21
- Peggy O'Neill was born Barbara Jeanne O'Neill in San Francisco, California. When she was eighteen she won a beauty contest and moved to Hollywood. She met producer Charles Rogers who helped her get a screen test. Peggy was given a starring role in the 1944 comedy Song Of The Open Road. Columnist Louella Parsons called her "Hollywood's newest Cinderella". During the Summer of 1944 Peggy went in a bond selling tour of Texas with Adele Mera and Gale Storm. She had small parts in the movies It's A Pleasure and The Hoodlum Saint.
Peggy impulsively married Lloyd Miner, an Army officer, on January 16 1945. They separated shortly after the wedding and Peggy moved in with her mother. In the Spring of 1945 Peggy was offered a long term contract with Paramount. She started a serious romance with screenwriter Albert Mannheimer. On April 12, 1945 Peggy had an argument with Albert. That evening she committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. She was only twenty-one years old. Peggy was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles.21 - Jessica Madison Wright was born in Cincinnati on July 29th 1984, the eldest of four children. A pretty youngster who enjoyed dressing up and was very much a 'girlie' child, Madison began modeling at the age of five. Her interest in modeling and acting - something she shared with her younger sister Victoria - led the Wright family to relocate to Los Angeles and, in 1994, Madison had her acting debut aged nine in the comedy Grace Under Fire (1993), where she ironically played a small role as a snotty child model. Madison's big break came a few months later when she won the role of ten-year-old True Danziger in the science-fiction show Earth 2 (1994). Although the show was short-lived, Madison thoroughly enjoyed the chance of playing such an interesting character (and try her hand at being a tomboy!) and it also led to a friendship between her mother and the mother of her eight-year-old co-star Joey Zimmerman.
After 'Earth 2', Madison went on to portray a sick child in an Emmy-nominated episode of ER (1994) as well as have a co-starring role in the family film Shiloh (1996). She also had a role in the science-fiction film The Osiris Chronicles (1998), which was the pilot of a possible series that was never picked up.
By 1999, Madison was losing her interest in acting as she entered her mid-teens, and her family decided to move to Kentucky for a fresh start away from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it was then it was discovered she was suffering from cardiomyopathy, a very severe condition that leads to degeneration of the heart muscles, and the only hope of recovery was a heart transplant. Madison and her family were then forced to spend long periods of time in Cleveland where she was being treated although their travelling expenses were eased when they were offered a room at a Ronald McDonald house (a charity which provides a home away from home for families of seriously ill, hospitalized children) near the hospital.
Luckily, after a few months on the donor waiting list, she was admitted to the Cleveland Clinic where she received a heart transplant in March 2000, at the age of fifteen. Clancy Brown, the actor who played the screen father of Madison's character in Earth 2 (1994), led an appeal to raise money to cover the hefty medical bills and to support Madison and her family. He also bought her a laptop for her Christmas in 1999.
Sadly, on 21st July 2006, only a few days after marrying medical student Brent Morris, she died of a heart attack.21 - Music Artist
- Actor
- Composer
Lil Peep was born on 1 November 1996 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for The F**k-It List (2020), Lil Peep Feat. Clams Casino: 4 Gold Chains (2018) and Lil Peep: Drugz (2020). He died on 15 November 2017 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.21- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Skye McCole Bartusiak was an American child actress and child model. She appeared in The Patriot (2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), as Rose Wilder in Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (2002), 24 (2002-03), Boogeyman (2005), and Kill Your Darlings (2006). Bartusiak died at the age of 21 in her apartment behind her parents' home. While her mother, shortly after Bartusiak's death, stated she believed that her daughter's history of epileptic seizures may have had a role in her death, the coroner ruled the death resulted from an accidental drug overdose.21- Actress
- Soundtrack
Dominique Dunne was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Ellen Beatriz Griffin Dunne and Dominick Dunne, a producer, actor, and writer. Actor Griffin Dunne is her brother. After her parents' divorce, she moved first to New York, and then to Beverly Hills. Upon graduation from high school, Dominique went to the University of Colorado to study acting, leaving after one year to pursue her career. Three weeks after arriving in Hollywood, she landed her first gig. Other roles soon followed, notably her role as Dana Freeling, the eldest daughter in Poltergeist (1982), and Dominique was soon well known in the Hollywood social scene. Well-liked by all who knew her, Dominique seemed to be at the top of the world. Then, at a party, she met John Thomas Sweeney, the chef at popular LA nightspot "Ma Maison." The two began a relationship, which turned stormy. Sweeney was uncontrollable and abusive (so abusive that Dominique did not need makeup to play the role of an abuse victim on Hill Street Blues (1981)). Dominique ended the relationship on October 30, 1982. That same night, a distraught Sweeney raced to her house, where she and actor David Packer were rehearsing a scene from V (1983), dragged her outside, and strangled her, leaving her brain-dead. Five days later, she was removed from life support and died, cutting short a brilliant career and leaving behind scores of shocked and angry loved ones.Died at 22: homicide
Strangulation resulting in brain-dead coma subsequent to being removed from life support & dying in hospital.
1959-1982- Music Department
- Writer
- Director
Christina Grimmie was an American actress, singer, song writer, and YouTube sensation. Grimmie is known as 'zeldaxlove64' on YouTube. Grimmie gained recognition after posting covers of popular songs on YouTube. She also placed 2nd Runner up on The Voice. On June 10, 2016, Grimmie was shot three times by 27-year-old Kevin James Loibl of St. Petersburg, Florida, while she signed autographs following her performance with Before You Exit at The Plaza Live in Orlando. Loibl then fatally shot himself after being tackled by Grimmie's brother Marcus. Grimmie was taken to the Orlando Regional Medical Center in critical condition; she died early the following day.22- Bobbi Kristina Brown was born on 4 March 1993 in Livingston, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for For Better or Worse (2011), The Houstons: On Our Own (2012) and Being Bobby Brown (2005). She died on 26 July 2015 in Duluth, Georgia, USA.22