Dead in Hollywood is a true-crime web series of strange and tragic Hollywood deaths.
On February 22, 2023, I read an abridged chapter from my forthcoming book Dead in Hollywood for Queer Spaces Storytelling Night at North Figueroa Bookshop. I chose the restroom where George Michael was arrested as my queer space!
Pop icon George Michael died on Christmas Day 2016. This year his Christmas hit “Last Christmas” finally went to #1 in the UK after missing out on the top position upon its release. Find out about his life, his arrest, and eventual death in Episode 11 of the true crime web series Dead in Hollywood.
Go behind the sign to the morning of August 5, 2022. Actress Anne Heche (“Six Days Seven Nights,”I Know What You Did Last Summer”) was involved in three car crashes. The final crash, the most serious, inflicted critical injuries on the actress and destroyed a home. Throughout her life, Anne Heche endured mental illcnessexual abuse, drug abuse, misogyny, and homophobia before her shocking death at the age of 53. Everyone was shocked by her death, but if you were paying attention, it wasn’t all that shocking. Dead in Hollywood: The Crash of Anne Heche (Episode 21) Created, Produced, Written, and Edited by David Castro (Castroburger) WEBSITE: https://www.deadinhollywood.com/ STORE: https://deadinhollywood.bigcartel.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/deadinholly... SOURCES: https://pastebin.com/Ce9gJP7Q CONTACT: thehellfirepress@gmail.com
On November 3, 1984, on a soundstage somewhere in Hollywood (Stage 18 at 20th Century Fox, to be exact), hunky actor Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally shot himself in the head while filming the T.V. show "Cover Up." The show would go on without Hexum's pecs.
Antony Hamilton would be introduced three weeks later as the new model on the team. The premise of "Cover Up" revolved around a fashion photographer and a veteran special forces soldier posing as her model go on intelligence missions around the world. The blue-eyed Hamilton began his career as a ballet dancer with The Australian Ballet but stopped dancing at the age of 20 to pursue a career as a model.
Hamilton worked extensively as a model - a favorite subject of photographers like Richard Avedon and Bruce Weber, working with designers like Gianni Versace and appearing in magazines like Vogue and GQ. At the height of his career, Hamilton was offered the lead in “Cover Up.” He had been friendly with Hexum, but Hamilton initially had misgivings about taking the role. The series struggled with Hamilton as their new lead, and the show was canceled shortly after Hamilton’s debut. There was serious talk of Hamilton replacing Roger Moore as the next James Bond. “Bond" producer Albert R. Broccoli was hesitant to cast Hamilton as the womanizing James Bond because, in real life, Hamilton was gay. Timothy Dalton was ultimately cast as 007. On March 29, 1995, Hamilton died from AIDS-related pneumonia in Los Angeles. His ashes were scattered off the shores of Malibu.
Go behind the sign to Halloween Eve 1968. Two young hustlers ring the doorbell at 3110 Laurel Canyon Drive. A gracious 69-year-old man greets them. Once upon a time in Hollywoodland, the old man was one of the greatest Latin heartthrobs to have ever lived. Now frail and looking older than his age, the man invites the hustlers inside - "a burly young man of 22 and a slender twink of 17--his murderers." By morning, the old man would be dead, badly beaten, and having choked to death on his own blood. The bludgeoned body was that of actor Ramon Novarro.
Go behind the sign to Calvary Cemetery... in the search of Ramon Novarro's grave.
In search of Ramon Novarro's Grave! Coming to a Youtube Near You! In the meantime, CLICK HERE for my Youtube Channel.
On the evening of October 30, 1968, two young hustlers rang the doorbell at 3110 Laurel Canyon Drive in the Hollywood Hills. A 69-year-old man greeted them in a red and blue robe. Once upon a time in Hollywoodland, the man was one of the greatest Latin heartthrobs. Now frail, and looking like a "Spanish grandee," the man invited the hustlers inside - "a burly young man of 22 and a slender twink of 17--his murderers." By morning, the man would be dead, badly beaten, and having choked to death on his own blood.
CLICK HERE for 𝚂𝚊𝚕 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚘 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝟷𝟿-𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛-𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝙳𝚘𝚗 𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚊, "𝙵𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙼𝚎𝚗'𝚜 𝙴𝚢𝚎𝚜." 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚘. (𝙵𝚘𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚊𝚝 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚝 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚗 𝙻𝚘𝚜 𝙰𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜, 𝟷𝟿𝟼𝟿. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝟷𝟼𝚖𝚖 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚖 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎𝚕 𝙺𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝙼𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚂𝚊𝚗 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚘 𝙾𝚠𝚗𝚎𝚍, 𝙰𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚍, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝙹𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚍 𝙻𝚊𝙱𝚒𝚗𝚎)
Hollywood’s ‘First Gay Teenager,’ Sal Mineo, was born on this day in 1939. Ahead of his time and taken way too soon. Sal was the youngest person nominated for an Academy Award for 1955’s “Rebel Without a Cause” where Sal played Plato, a lonely gay teenager in 1950’s America. He was nominated once again a few years later for his role in “Exodus” - the epic film on the founding of the modern State of Israel. By the early 1960s, Sal was becoming too old to play the type of role that had made him famous, and his rumored homosexuality led to his being considered inappropriate for leading roles. Sal's last role in a motion picture was a small part in the film Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971); he played the chimpanzee, Dr. Milo. In a 1972 interview, Sal openly discussed his bisexuality. At the time of his murder, he was in a six-year relationship with male actor Courtney Burr III. On the night of February 12, 1976, the actor returned home following a rehearsal for the play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead. After parking his car in the carport below his West Hollywood apartment, the 37-year-old was stabbed once in the heart by a mugger who quickly fled the scene. Police pursued multiple leads but assumed the crime to be the result of some sort of “homosexual motivation.” In March of 1979, Lionel Ray Williams was sentenced to 57 years in prison for both killing Mineo and committing ten robberies in the same area. Lionel was paroled in the 1990s. CLICK HERE for the issue that started it all DEAD IN HOLLYWOOD: SAL MINEO (Issue no. 1).
Soon. Stay tuned.
𝙳𝙴𝙲𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁 𝟸𝟼, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟼: 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚝𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚎 𝚘𝚏𝚏 𝚁𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚎 𝟼𝟼 𝚒𝚗 𝚂𝚊𝚗 𝙱𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚘, 𝙲𝙰, 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙶𝚎𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚍. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚜! 𝙼𝚢 𝚑𝚞𝚜𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚞𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛 𝚘𝚗 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚜 𝙴𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑-𝚊𝚍𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚙𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚋𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝙻𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚁𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝙼𝚢 𝚑𝚞𝚜𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚎'𝚜 𝚖𝚒𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕'𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚔𝚎. 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚎 𝟸𝟸 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 "𝚕𝚎𝚠𝚍 𝚊𝚌𝚝" 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝙱𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝙷𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚖. 𝙰 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚕 𝚜𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎, 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚐𝚐𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚎𝚡𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢. 𝙸𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚎𝚢𝚎-𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚋𝚒𝚌 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚙 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑. 𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝟷𝟻-𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛-𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚘𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚙-𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚝? 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕'𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚐𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 "𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎" 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚎. 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟼, 𝚖𝚢 𝚑𝚞𝚜𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸, 𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚐𝚊𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚙𝚕𝚎, 𝚙𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚞𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕 𝚋𝚢 𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚖! 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙶𝚎𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕 𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚜. 𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚊 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚑. 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚢𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚍.𝚌𝚘𝚖
𝙸'𝚖 𝚘𝚋𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚐 "𝙲𝚘𝚠𝚋𝚘𝚢𝚜 & 𝙰𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚕𝚜" 𝚋𝚢 𝙶𝚎𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕. 𝙸'𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚊 𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚔𝚒𝚍, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝙸 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢. 𝙸𝚗 𝚊 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟺 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙰𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚍𝚎, 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚊 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝-𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚊 𝚏𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚒𝚖. 𝙽𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜' 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜. "𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚖𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚖... 𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚊 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚕𝚢𝚛𝚒𝚌, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎."
