Word: perzigian
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...PERZIGIAN V. O'CONNOR...
Usually, celebrities go to court to defend their name. But CARROLL O'CONNOR went because songwriter Harry Perzigian claimed the actor was doing some slandering of his own. After his cocaine-addicted son Hugh shot himself, O'Connor went on a campaign against drug dealers. Perzigian, who spent a year in jail for supplying cocaine to his friend Hugh, sued O'Connor for saying such things about him on TV as "He's a partner in murder, not an accessory." But the jury sided with O'Connor. "It shows L.A. loves celebrities," said Perzigian. Or maybe the city just doesn...
...wound; in Los Angeles. The son of TV star Carroll O'Connor, Hugh O'Connor played a small-town Southern law officer opposite his father in the series In the Heat of the Night. Off-camera, Hugh struggled against drug abuse. Hours after his death, police arrested Harry Thomas Perzigian, who has been accused of supplying drugs to the actor. The accuser: Carroll O'Connor...
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