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Eddie Nash (April 3, 1929 [2] – August 9, 2014) was an American nightclub owner and restaurateur in Los Angeles, as well as a convicted money launderer and drug dealer. [3] Nash was allegedly the mastermind behind the Wonderland murders , but was never convicted, despite multiple arrests and trials.
The incident resulted in Nash's bodyguard, Gregory Dewitt Diles, being shot and injured. Nash suspected that porn actor John Holmes had been involved, as he had been at Nash's house three times on the morning of the attack (at which times Holmes left the sliding door open). Nash sent Diles to retrieve Holmes for questioning; Diles supposedly ...
The fates of others allegedly involved in the Nash robbery or Wonderland attacks are: John Holmes died of medical complications due to AIDS on March 13, 1988, aged 43. [11] Gregory Diles died of liver failure on January 16, 1997, aged 48. Eddie Nash died of unspecified causes on August 9, 2014, aged 85.
Adult film star John C. Holmes, drug kingpin Eddie Nash, famed entertainer Liberace and his "boy toy" Scott Thorson were among the colorful personalities caught up in the case. A juror was bribed ...
Eddie Nash, who died of a heart attack at 68, started an equipment business in 1979 still run by his family. He's since been reburied. After her sister pleaded guilty, Susie Nash told The ...
Scott Thorson, the former lover of Liberace and a key witness in the trial for the 1981 killings known as the Wonderland Massacre, died in Los Angeles on Aug. 16. He was 65 and was a patient at a ...
In 1989, Thorson emerged as a pivotal witness in the prosecution of gangster and owner of the West Hollywood nightclub the Starwood, Eddie Nash, in the 1981 quadruple murders of the Wonderland Gang. For his testimony, Thorson was placed in the federal witness protection program.
Holmes and Nash, who died in 2014 at age 85, inspired the characters played, respectively, by Mark Wahlberg and Alfred Molina in the 1997 film Boogie Nights. Related: Michael Jackson's Doctor ...