Robert Blake Killed His Wife Over A Sleazy Sex Tape — Brother’s Shocking Claim

Humiliated over his sex-crazed new wife’s cheating, actor Robert Blake offered $10,000 for a whack job — just six months before Bonny Lee Bakley was blown away in a parked car, said a source. In an exclusive bombshell interview with The National ENQUIRER, Joey Bakley said that Blake first approached him about murdering a man who had ripped him off in a business deal. But now, in a bombshell revelation, Joey says he believes the real target was his own sister — Blake’s blond wife!

Bonny Lee was gunned down under mysterious circumstances on May 4, 2001. “I should have known,” Joey said. “That dirty S.O.B. … Robert Blake once asked me to kill someone!” Bonny Lee, 44, was locked in a bitter and stormy marriage to the former star of TV’s "Baretta" when she was shot twice as she sat in their car outside a Studio City, Calif., restaurant.

In a bizarre twist, Blake's alibi was that he had left Bonny Lee to go back inside the establishment — because he claimed that's where he'd left his own gun! Blake was later arrested and tried for Bonny Lee’s murder, and then acquitted!

But in a later civil suit, he was held responsible for her death and ordered to pay her kids $15 million. According to sources, the actor had plenty of motive to want Bonny Lee snuffed. The woman had made a living by bilking wealth men — and had humiliated the "In Cold Blood" star again and again.

Blake had wed Bonny Lee in November 2000 after a paternity test proved that her daughter Rose, born five months before, was Blake’s — and not her other lover, Marlon Brando’s troubled son Christian.

The actor would soon learn about his bride's sordid past. Bonny Lee had cruised “swingers” magazines, sending men raunchy photos and tapes while promising them a hot relationship in return for money. She was believed to have been married nine or 10 times.

Bonny Lee had even once married a Florida man just two days before she fled from the state — after cleaning out her new husband's bank account of $350,000!

After chasing regular guys, she started going after celebrities like Christian Brando, rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, and Blake. But sources say even after she and Blake wed, she was secretly running her old sex tape and photo business. She was murdered six months after their wedding.

“Robert had to be absolutely humiliated,” said a source. “Bonny Lee was cheating on him when she got pregnant, and didn’t even know who the baby’s dad was until the paternity test. And her sex business was so sleazy. Imagine how he must have felt. A former top Hollywood star married to a woman who’s running a sleazy sex business on the side!”

Now Joey Bakley, Bonny Lee’s brother, reveals how Blake hired him for a hit in October 2000. Ex-con Joey was living in Tijuana, Mexico, with a friend when Blake called him for a meeting in an L.A. park.

“He said: ‘Did you ever do away with someone?’ ” recalled Joey. “So I said: ‘You mean you want me to rub someone out for you?’ He said: ‘Yeah, I do. I’ll pay you $5,000 up front, and more later.’”

Joey says he returned to Mexico and strung Blake along on the deal. The actor eventually sent him $5,000 — but Joey says that he never intended to kill anyone. Six months later, Bonny Lee was dead.

“He deserved to go to prison for my sister’s death,” says Joey. “But I find peace that he’s lived a very tortured existence since she died. Sadly, it will never bring her back!”