Robert Blake Steps Out With Character Witness Wife

Robert Blake — the Hollywood tough guy who stands 5'4" — is still walking tall in Beverly Hills with new wife Pamela Hudak, who helped him beat the rap for murdering his second spouse!

Pamela and Robert were upbeat while caught out in their neighborhood, where Blake doesn't let disapproving looks keep him from enjoying his Hollywood living. "He's not well-liked," sniped one local — with the former "Baretta" star beating the rap for the 2001 death of Bonnie Lee Bakley.

Blake's new bride told the jury that her future husband “liked paying for everything in cash” — helping to derail the prosecution's charges that Blake had kept large amounts of money around to pay off a hit man.

Bonnie, the mother of Blake's then-11-month-old daughter, was gunned down in a parked car outside a Los Angeles restaurant where she'd dined with her husband on May 4, 2001. Pamela testified that Blake always preferred to park on the dark side street where Bonnie's body was found.

She also spoke out about Bonnie as a "bad mother" and gold-digging "celebrity-obsessed goofball" in court. Pamela, however, certainly seems more like a good wife as far as a beaming Blake is concerned!