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Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) [2] is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine at the hands of John Lotter and Tom Nissen is chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine). [3]
Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena[note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [2][3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry.
Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.
He killed his first man at the age of 15, claiming he did so in self-defense. Pursued by lawmen for most of his life, in 1877 at the age of 23, he was sentenced to 24 years in prison for murder. At the time of sentencing, Hardin claimed to have killed 42 men, [3] while contemporary newspaper accounts attributed 27 deaths to him. [4]
Randolph Murdaugh III was born October 25, 1939, in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Randolph "Buster" Murdaugh Jr. and Gladys Marvin. [1] Randolph graduated from Wade Hampton High School in 1957, the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science in business administration in 1961, and the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1964.
In 1967, Wilson married his second wife, model Harlean Harris (1937–2019), at the urging of Nat Tarnopol, who thought the marriage would help repair Wilson's public image. [52] [53] They had been dating since at least 1960 and their son John Dominick (known as Petey), was born in 1963. [52] Wilson and Harris legally separated in 1969. [54]
Anna Gordy Gaye. Gaye first met Anna Ruby Gordy (January 28, 1922 – January 31, 2014), 17 years his senior, while Gaye was a staff drummer for the label Anna Records around 1960. It started with Gaye flirting with her to get her attention. [15] After a two-year courtship, the couple married on June 8, 1963, in Chicago.
Janis Hunter Gaye, the second wife of Motown legend Marvin Gaye and mother of two of his children, has died, her family said in a statement. She was 66. Jan Gaye, who sang backup on Marvin Gaye's ...