Other than John Lennon, what other non-political celebrities have been assassinated?
Phil Hartman springs to mind and that young actress that was on that show My Sister Sam, Rebecca Shaeffer.
Is assassination a proper word for a non-political murder? Bob Crane of Hogan’s Heros fame comes to mind.
Given that assassination means killing somebody because of their position, and not for who they are as a person or for some other reason, I’d say only the “My Sister Sam” woman qualifies of those thus mentioned.
How about Versace? Or is that stretching things a bi too far?
Selena (Selena Quintanilla) was shot by the president of her own fan club.
(LINK WARNING: Non-gory dead person photo)
The correct term is “stalker killings.” People who grow so obsessed with a celbrity that they kill for them.
Versace was more the victim of a “serial killer” who wanted to kill anyone famous to make the headlines.
A good book on the subject is John Douglas’s “Obsessed.”
Yep- my dictionary says murder of a prominent person. Depending on how loosely you define prominent, you could have for example Lyman Bostock of the Angels or Nicole Simpson.
Is that a Freudian typo?
Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive list of assassinated people although they seem to have missed Elvis Presley and which ever Pope it was that the cardinals killed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’d call that a political assassination, not a “celebrity” assassination. Even though he didn’t hold a government office, he was clearly a political figure.
Presley died in his bathroom; he wasn’t killed.
That’s what Jimmy Hoffa wants you to think.
This has been asked before. Andy Warhol was shot by a militant feminist and died from related complications years later.
Why did a militant feminist want to kill Andy Warhol? Didn’t like all his work on MM?
From his Wikipedia article;
It’s probably more accurate to describe her as just plain crazy than to use feminism as an explanation though.
Rotten.com have a good article here.
Neither attribute cause of death to his gunshot wounds unlike the biography I read years ago though.
Phil Hartman was killed by his wife. Hardly an assassination.
Radio commentator Alan Berg was assassinated.
There have been several celebrities like Warhol that have been the victims of assassination attempts: George Harrison, Germaine Greer, Larry Flynt, Monica Seles.
And Theresa Saldano.
Damn. :smack:
Flynt and Seles are so absolutely infamous, I can’t believe I forgot them. Seles was also the victim of a nut though.
Bob Marley survived an assassination attempt in 1976.