4 Nicole Brown Simpson: Did He Or Didn’t He?
When Nicole Brown, a waitress at a restaurant, began to get attention from superstar footballer OJ Simpson, life must have seemed oh-so-rosy and bright. Little did she know that seventeen years later, this so-called love of her life would lead to her demise! On June 13, 1994, 35-year-old Brown was discovered dead outside her home – lying bloody in the driveway. Nearby was the body of a friend, Ron Goldman. She had been violently stabbed multiple times and also had defensive wounds on her hands. One wound on her neck was so deep, her larynx was visible and one of the neck’s vertebras was also clearly incised. The brutality of the attack speaks volumes.
Her mercurial husband OJ was arrested and went to trial but the prosecution made so many mistakes that he was actually acquitted in what came to be known as the trial of the century. Later he was found liable for the deaths in a civil suit brought by the two victims’ families and had to pay damages. He was subsequently jailed for an unrelated armed robbery at a Las Vegas hotel. All did not end well for him either.
3 Kurt Cobain: A Sorry, A Love You & A Goodbye
Chronic bronchitis, undiagnosed but severe stomach pain, and an addiction to nearly every drug available to man at the time, Kurt Cobain seemingly was on a fast train to nowhere, making beautiful music as a fringe benefit. In love with music, but so not in love with himself, there was apparently nothing that could have saved Kurt. All his looks, his fame, and his fortune literally turned to dust when Kurt simply decided to up and leave from rehab, away from his family, and finally away from life as well.
Courtney Love called for an intervention when Kurt’s heroin habit got really bad and it seemed to work at first and he agreed to enter detox. One day, he strolled outside the center to smoke a cigarette and climbed over a six-foot fence to disappear into the night. He, or rather his body, was found on April 8, 1994 – three days after he had blown off his face with a shotgun. A rambling suicide note lay nearby. In the crime scene photos, Kurt’s legs can be seen along with documents found at the scene.
2 Heath Ledger: When A Character Overshadows It All
In an interview, Heath Ledger mentioned that his role in The Dark Knight had taken a toll on his sleeping habits and he was just getting two hours of sleep a night – he claimed his body would be exhausted but his mind would keep racing. No one realized how profound that problem would become, made worse by his respiratory problems. Like with many creative talents, Heath tried to drown his problems with prescription drugs. In January 2008, Heath was found unconscious in bed by his housekeeper and his masseuse who had come in early for an appointment. When they could not revive him, the masseuse, Diana Wolozin called Mary-Kate Olsen, Ledger’s friend, for help.
Mary-Kate called a private security firm to go check on Heath while Wolozin then called 9-1-1 and tried to resuscitate Ledger at the operator’s instruction. EMTs arrived at 3:33 but Heath had died by then and was officially pronounced so at 3:36. The autopsy revealed a cocktail of drugs in his system and his death was ruled as an accidental intoxication by drug abuse.
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