<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The teenage daughter of </span><a href="https://celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/shocking-things-you-didnt-know-about-these-old-hollywood-stars/efd2c6fc-ecea-415e-93ff-98060fb4ddea" rel="" target="" title="Hollywood star Lana Turner"><span>Hollywood star Lana Turner</span></a><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-april-4-what-happened-on-this-day/ac6bd2c0-9d2b-4091-b120-2020800eb0a0" rel="" target="" title="stabbed to death her mother's boyfriend"><span>stabbed to death her mother's boyfriend</span></a><span> Johnny Stompanato on </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/today-in-history" rel="" target="" title="April 4, 1958"><span>April 4, 1958</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Turner had been in a rocky relationship with organised crime figure Stompanato that was beginning to cool.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But when a furious Stompanato began a heated argument with Turner at the movie star's </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/los-angeles" rel="" target="" title="Los Angeles"><span>Los Angeles</span></a><span> home, Cheryl Crane feared for her mother's safety.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-what-happened-on-this-day-april-3/f41a9c1c-06d2-41fd-be36-4a24c64eb1d6" rel="" target="" title="Killer gets away with murder after police forget to ask her simple question"><strong><span>Killer gets away with murder after police forget to ask her simple question</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After Crane claimed Stompanato threatened to mutilate her mother and ruin her career, she flew into a rage of her own.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The teenager grabbed a kitchen knife and reportedly mistaking a clothes hanger in his hand for a gun, plunged the blade into Stompanato's stomach, killing him.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The ensuing trial of Crane became one of Hollywood's biggest scandals.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-what-happened-on-this-day-april-4-johnny-stompanato/1cd908b1-5603-4a28-869f-44acfa766ed2" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The court ruled Crane acted in self-defence and the killing was justifiable homicide.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-march-28-what-happened-on-this-day/d4494311-3070-4e50-8a2b-7fe92c41066d" rel="" target="" title="Naked man locked in room had no idea he was a reality TV superstar"><strong><span>Naked man locked in room had no idea he was a reality TV superstar</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Stompanato had established himself as the right-hand man of notorious Los Angeles gangster Mickey Cohen.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But he was famously in a rocky relationship with Lana Turner, one of the biggest names in Hollywood.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Stompanato had proved himself a nightmare for Turner and a nuisance for those around them.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As she filmed </span><em><span>Another Time, Another Place</span></em><span> the previous year, Stompanto became convinced she was having an affair with her co-star.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He came onto the set and pointed a gun at the young Scottish actor.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-march-27-what-happened-on-this-day-clive-wearing/056a20e2-031c-4431-b2e0-a14d8d34e601"><strong><span>Illness began with headache, then left musician with a 20-second memory</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But the actor, 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