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FOUND LIABLE. ROBERT BLAKE, 72, irascible TV actor of Baretta fame; in the wrongful-death civil suit filed by relatives of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, who in 2001 was shot to death outside a restaurant in Studio City, Calif.; eight months after being acquitted of murder charges in a criminal trial; by a jury in Burbank, Calif. Blake was ordered to pay Bakley's four children $30 million...
ACQUITTED. ROBERT BLAKE, 71, former tough-guy actor; of the 2001 murder of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, who was shot in the head as she sat in Blake's car near a restaurant where the pair had just eaten; after a three-month trial in which Blake did not testify; in Van Nuys, Calif. Jury foreman Thomas Nicholson called the circumstantial evidence "flimsy" and said prosecutors, who relied heavily on testimony from two Hollywood stuntmen with histories of drug abuse, "couldn't put the gun in his hand...
YOUR SERVER TONIGHT WILL BE KATO KAELIN Just because it's messy, unpleasant and illegal doesn't mean murder has to be bad for business. Vitello's, a Los Angeles Italian restaurant, is known to many as the eating establishment outside which Robert Blake's wife Bonny Lee Bakley was shot to death in her car in May 2001. Blake is in prison, accused of the crime. But Vitello's is open for business and will be host of a "murder-mystery party" next month. The owners say they had nothing to do with organizing the evening and that...
...other potential suspects, as happened to the O.J. prosecutors. Los Angeles police say they have recovered the murder weapon, a World War II-era German handgun found in a trash can close to the murder scene. Last week L.A.P.D. Captain Jim Tatreau said flatly that "Robert Blake shot Bonny Bakley." Police believe the motive was Blake's unhappiness with his marriage...
Braun, Blake's attorney, concedes that his client had a motive: "What this lady did to his life was horrific." But Blake "maintains he didn't do it," says Braun, who contends that there were many other figures in Bakley's past who might have had reason to kill her. "No one is denying that she had been fleecing men for money for 25 years." Cary Goldstein, a lawyer for Bakley's family, says efforts to portray Bakley as a hustler are a "diversion," adding, "It's victim bashing. Nothing that Bonny ever did in her lifetime justifies her having...