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When minor writer Leslie Braverman dies suddenly from a heart attack at the age of 41, his four best friends decide to attend his funeral.The quartet of Jewish intellectuals consists of public relations writer Morroe Rieff from the Upper East Side, essayist Barnet Weinstein from the Lower East Side, book reviewer Holly Levine from the Lower West Side, and Yiddish writer Felix Ottensteen from ...
In 1988 a 17-year-old client, Arnel Salvatierra, was "found guilty of voluntary manslaughter—down from first-degree murder—in the death of his father," according to the Los Angeles Times.
Leslie Abramson had a "take no prisoners" mentality.. Over the course of her decades-long career, the lawyer defended several high-profile clients, including Erik Menendez in both of his murder ...
Dominick Dunne wrote in Vanity Fair in a 1990 story about the Menendez brothers that she was “considered to be the most brilliant Los Angeles defense lawyer for death-row cases.”
His wife Marilyn was an accomplished singer and loving mother. The couple had two children, Brooks (16) and Leslie (12). [4] On October 15, 1979, two drifters, Glen Ake and Steven Hatch entered their home, and tied the parents and Brooks. The intruders took 12-year-old Leslie into the bedroom, where both men raped her.
In 2010, Joseph McStay (age 40) and his wife Summer (age 43) lived in Fallbrook, California, with their sons Gianni (age 4) and Joseph Jr. (age 3). [6] Joseph owned and operated Earth Inspired Products, a company that built decorative fountains, and Summer was a licensed real estate agent. [7]
She has two children—a daughter from her first marriage and a son she adopted while working on the Menendez brothers’ case. In 2001, Abramson and her husband, Tim Rutten, reportedly moved into ...
Moreover, the film depicts "Susan Ames" (the fictionalized version of Peoples Temple loyalist Sharon Amos, as played by Yvonne De Carlo) being murdered, along with her children, by a shadowy, knife-wielding man. In reality, Sharon Amos—a hardcore supporter of Jim Jones stationed in nearby Georgetown—followed the orders of Jones for his ...