Robert Blake — who beat the rap for the brutal execution of his second wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, 17 years ago in criminal court but was later held responsible for Bonnie’s death in a civil action — still scares the hell out of Bonnie’s survivors. “I’m terrified of Robert Blake,” Holly Gawron told The National ENQUIRER while visiting the grave of her slain mother, “because I know he was responsible for killing my mother!” Grieving Holly confessed she was petrified to return to her mother’s final resting place because she feared running into the actor. “I don’t want to provoke him in any way,” admitted Holly. Read on for details of Holly’s heartbreaking visit to Bonnie’s grave, and click here for more news of celebrity murder cases….
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Bonny and the “Baretta” star were locked in a turbulent marriage when she was shot twice in the head and shoulder while sitting in a car outside Vitello’s — the couple’s favorite Italian restaurant — in Studio City, Calif., on May 4, 2001.
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Sources told The ENQUIRER Blake had hired three hit men to rid himself of his conniving wife — a con artist who sold raunchy photos of herself in sleazy swinger’s magazines and had been married nine times!
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Holly traveled from her home in the southeastern U.S. to Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles, and on Aug. 12, she tearfully laid a bouquet of flowers on her mother’s grave. She also visited the crime scene outside Vitello’s — just ten minutes from Blake’s home — and laid a rose on the spot where her mother died!
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Besides her belief he cheated justice for her mother’s murder, Holly despises Blake for exercising his legal right as Bonny’s husband to ensure she was buried in California instead of near her family in the southeastern U.S.
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“My aunt was fighting to have my mother buried near us, but because she was
his wife, he had all the rights to her body and buried her in L.A.,” a bitter Holly told The ENQUIRER. Even worse, Holly also claimed
Blake has kept her away from her half-sister,
Rose (left), who was just two at the time of the murder.
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“He wanted to draw up a contract where there would be bodyguards watching our every move during limited one-hour visits!” said Holly. “Blake took away my mother’s life and everything that she loved — including my sister Rose!”
Photo credit: Coleman-Rayner
Bonny and the “Baretta” star were locked in a turbulent marriage when she was shot twice in the head and shoulder while sitting in a car outside Vitello’s — the couple’s favorite Italian restaurant — in Studio City, Calif., on May 4, 2001.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Sources told The ENQUIRER Blake had hired three hit men to rid himself of his conniving wife — a con artist who sold raunchy photos of herself in sleazy swinger’s magazines and had been married nine times!
Holly traveled from her home in the southeastern U.S. to Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles, and on Aug. 12, she tearfully laid a bouquet of flowers on her mother’s grave. She also visited the crime scene outside Vitello’s — just ten minutes from Blake’s home — and laid a rose on the spot where her mother died!
Photo credit: Coleman-Rayner
Besides her belief he cheated justice for her mother’s murder, Holly despises Blake for exercising his legal right as Bonny’s husband to ensure she was buried in California instead of near her family in the southeastern U.S.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“My aunt was fighting to have my mother buried near us, but because she was
his wife, he had all the rights to her body and buried her in L.A.,” a bitter Holly told The ENQUIRER. Even worse, Holly also claimed
Blake has kept her away from her half-sister,
Rose (left), who was just two at the time of the murder.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“He wanted to draw up a contract where there would be bodyguards watching our every move during limited one-hour visits!” said Holly. “Blake took away my mother’s life and everything that she loved — including my sister Rose!”
Photo credit: Coleman-Rayner
