Word: longet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pitkin County courthouse, the likes of Jack Nicholson shared a front bench with newsmen from papers as far away as London. In the back of the crowded room, spectators stood on piles of law books and craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the defendant. Claudine Longet, 34, one of the town's beautiful people, was on trial for shooting her ski-ace lover, Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich...
...born defendant had been a lead Folies-Bergère showgirl in Las Vegas. There she met Andy Williams, the Kennedys' favorite crooner, and ended up marrying him and his singing career. After 14 years of marriage and three children, they were divorced in 1975, but by then Longet had moved in with Sabich. The skier, a former world pro champion, was a celebrated bon vivant who owned a $250,000 mountaintop house in Aspen. It was there, while he was washing his face, that Longet killed him on March...
After the shooting, Longet told police that she had found a .22-cal. pistol in the house and had decided to ask Sabich how to operate it, thinking the gun would be good protection when he was away. As they talked the gun fired, hitting him in the abdomen. Murder was out, but she was indicted for "reckless manslaughter...
...episode that shook the high-altitude, high-living ski resort occurred shortly after 5 p.m. on a bright Sunday. After spending a couple of hours on the slopes and several more reportedly drinking with some male companions at a popular watering hole, Longet returned to Sabich's house. Soon afterward, she phoned the Aspen Valley Hospital to report that there had been a shooting. Sheriffs officers, police and ambulance attendants found Sabich lying in the master bathroom, next to a sunken tub, mortally wounded by a single .22-cal. bullet in the abdomen. As Aspen Valley...
Claudine and Sabich met at a 1972 celebrity ski race in Bear Valley, Calif. Friends say Sabich built his sumptuous $250,000 timber and stone house at exclusive Starwood, three miles west of Aspen, expressly for Longet. Sabich, the son of a Placerville, Calif., cop, finished a highly respectable fifth in the slalom at the Grenoble Olympics in 1968, turned pro in 1971, and started earning big money. His prizes alone topped $50,000 in 1972, and he pulled in at least that much in endorsements for everything from ski products to coffee...