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![]() And she finally got that dream fulfilled,” he said. “That was the thing in life that she really wanted, to be married to somebody who was a star and to have a child by them. When Blake and Bakley got married a few months later in November 2000, Robert Stefanow said, Bakley may have finally achieved her dream of marrying a celebrity. However, after a paternity test revealed the child was actually Blake's, their daughter's name was legally changed to Rose Lenore Sophia Blake. In June 2000, Bakley gave birth to a baby girl she named Christian Shannon Brando, claiming Christian Brando was the father. That's all it took," Smith said.īut while she was seeing Christian Brando, Bakley had also started seeing Robert Blake. "What she did was she sent nude photos to him, FedEx'd them to him while he was in jail. Margerry Smith said her sister communicated with Brando while he was in jail. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and spent five years in prison. In 1990, Christian Brando fatally shot Dag Drollet, the boyfriend of his half-sister Cheyenne Brando. “She might have been able to get him to succumb in his dotage but he died too soon,” said McDougal.īakley went on to pursue Christian Brando, the troubled son of Marlon Brando. When Bakley became pregnant, she claimed that the baby was Jerry Lee Lewis’s “love child.” She even named the baby Jeri Lee, but a DNA test later proved he wasn’t the father.įrom Memphis, Bakley set her sights on Hollywood and began "stalking" star Dean Martin, according to Dennis McDougal, author of the book "Blood Cold." Martin was 78 years old at the time. ![]() “She just had her way of working her way in. Whitten, tour manager for Lewis, told ABC News. “Bonny Lee was very, very determined,” J.W. In the late '80s, she moved to Memphis because she wanted to date rock ‘n’ roll star Jerry Lee Lewis. who’ve been fleeced and hoodwinked by her from all over the country." Tom Mesereau, who represented Blake during his preliminary hearing in the criminal trial for Bakley's murder, told ABC News that Bakley “would lure lonely older men into a trap where they would put her on their will, where they would put her on life insurance policies.”īut when she tried the scheme on a retired lawman, Hackett said, “he discovers that there’s case after case, man after man. She was eventually charged with fraud in Arkansas in 1998 and sentenced to three years' probation.īakley “had over 50 aliases," Brad Pomerance said. To establish different aliases, Hackett said, Bakley would steal credit cards and forge drivers licenses. She was just very business oriented.”Īs she got older, "her cons become more elaborate," Hackett said. “She wanted to be part of their lives, and they wanted her to be part of their lives. ![]() It wasn't just her out grubbing and trying to hurt them,” Smith said. “A lot of other people in her life liked being around her. “I love her.”Įric Dubin, the attorney representing Bakley’s family in their 2005 wrongful death civil suit against Blake, told ABC News: “Her kids loved her. she sold pictures of naked women, a little bit of pornography, and she’d spend time on the phone asking for plane tickets, or just whatever she wanted.” ![]() “But it wasn’t all she did," she at the time. Gawron also acknowledged that her mother “did do things that most people wouldn’t approve of.” "She supported me in anything I wanted to do.” In a 2015 interview with Barbara Walters, Holly Gawron said Bakley was “everything to me." At 21, Bakley married her first cousin Paul Gawron and together they had a daughter, Holly, and a son. ![]()
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