Robert Blake’s Wife Bonnie Lee Bakley Was Married Ten 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!”

I can’t believe she even took a lover, ugly as she was. Just goes to show men will stick it in anything.

Bonnie Lee Bakely faked her death. Several years ago she was the center of an infamous incident in a hotel bathroom involving the destruction of a pair of tacky satin pumps she was wearing at the time.

I am quite sure that Miss Thang gave Cheryl a run for her money in the you-know-what department.

As Judge Judy would say, flatly: “He married her.”

Anyone with common sense would see any more than one prior marriage as a red flag. Maybe two, depending on the circumstances.

How dumb was he?

I always wondered why Blake didn't simply kill her and bury Bakley in the desert. A known grifter, no one would have investigated her appearance for very long. Most would have assumed she was on the road again, seeking yet another "opportunity" as con artists do.

No trial. No publicity. His older daughter probably still would have taken Bakley's daughter in as she did later on (not sure how this part ended up).

Bump

I just wanted to be loved. Is that so wrong?

My friends mother married 14 times.

I'm still traumatized from the photo where she's presenting hole in the front seat of a car. The whole area (or, the "hole area") was like a Rorschach test — it looked like a goat's head without the pentagram at first; then it looked like Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island when she had pigtails; then it looked like Madonna wearing a black bob wig with short bangs.

The Paul Gawron guy she married was her first cousin too! She was really a piece of work.

Her pussy looked very skanky and very used. It resembled road kill. Saggy breasts with nipples that looked cup coasters. Her face was on the plain side.

Lunatic whore.

We’re these guys blind? Are these people writing to her too. She was butt ugly. It’s almost comical.

It's like as soon as they marry her they realize their mistake.

Blake was just another perv that she was hustling. He’s as crazy as she was.

Everyone assumes Blake did it but she had so many people who wanted her dead that you can't help but wonder if it was possibly someone else. Even if you know that's not likely, there's still a little bit of doubt.

She's a philandering scheming gold-digger which instantly makes her a DL icon

They don’t even mention the way she threw herself at Chris Burke during “Life Goes On”.

[quote] she trapped guys saying her child was theres,

Oh, fucking dear!

Christian Brando had no standards. Apparently he used to fuck her. She lied to him and said he was the father of Robert Blake’s baby. Gross.

Blake was a take-charge kind of guy.

Oth Brando and Blake killed people.

Bump

Surprised there hasn’t been an HBO or Netflix series

She was a hideous grifter. Maybe her killer will be found one day. Is her murder an open case or do they use her file as a coaster?

I just saw Robert Blake in a 1942 "Andy Hardy" movie, appearing as a child and billed as Bobby Blake. Wikipedia says he had a career as a child actor, including many appearances in the "Our Gang" series.

This started airing in May. It’s available to watch through subscription platforms.

My hat's off that she got him to marry her (and did she sleep with Christian Brando?) because she was ugly.

This is available on YouTube.

Tarintino this could be your final masterpiece

WOW. I had no clue she was such a piece of work. When I was a kid this was a big news story, but I never heard about how sketchy she was! This definitely needs a Netflix documentary.

Anyone remember this? Blake going off on Piers Morgan.

Ok I never realized that this is a super fascinating story, more please! I kind of ignored it back in the day but now I find it very interesting

The one that really got me was when the relationship didn’t work out with DeMart C. Besly — it felt so right and I was really rooting for them. How I cried when I got the news.

obviously deserved to be murdered.

cunt.

Is her daughter a sociopath too?

He fucked her. He married her. He had the money to hire a detective but he didn’t

With a personality and face like that ANYONE would've killed her.

You could smell her pussy from Encino.

She taught Rachel everything she knew.

*knows

Fuck

R40 Was Rachel married before Harry? I hate that con artist so much,

This was the best possible outcome: the child being raised by someone NOT either of her crazy parents. I’ve never cared that Blake almost certainly did it; she was awful

Lol he is funny in the Piers Morgan interview!

Once or twice, R42.

A friend of mine is dating a woman who fucked Christian Brando. I just shrugged, as he also used to fuck Bonnie Lee. Obviously the man had zero standards.

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She had a horrible body. WTF.

Any crime scene photos?

What did these men look like?

R48 exactly. Her body was ugly and her face was just as bad. I don’t get how these D-listers fell for her. They could have done better than that.

[quote] I'm still traumatized from the photo where she's presenting hole in the front seat of a car.

What??!

Damn that's a lot of annulled marriages. She probably wood those guys like mad and as soon as the marriage certificate was signed turned into a freakin' shebeast. They were the lucky ones who got out fast.

Any nudes?

She had a daughter, Jeri Lee, that she claimed was Jerry Lee Lewis' child. That was another celebrity she tried to sucker with her scams.

R54 pic at r46 but remember you can’t unsee it

That’s a lot of rings and life insurance settlements…

Here is Bonny Lee’s musical master”just a fan”

lol Jan Terri

WARNING - as someone in the comments noted, she’s Paris Hilton without auto tune.

Sorry R58, I just missed your post

Christian Brando served ~ five years in prison for killing his sister's boyfriend. Prison will change your outlook on who you are attracted to.

R56 ew she was gross with a saggy fanny and awful tits. May she RIP

Rest in Power, Leebonny! Gunned down too soon!

Bonnie Lee Bakley had blonde hair and was grifting in a pre-internet time. She was willing to take very explicit photos of herself and send them to probably older, lonely men.

I saw an old interview of Robert Blake. He said that when he was a child actor, his parents would keep him in a closet (an actual closet) and "feed" him via a dog bowl on the floor.

There’s a few more that might be worse than r46’s pic. Google at your own risk.

Madonna could play her.

R52, this is the one I was talking about. You should probably desensitize yourself by staring at R46 for a few hours before you click.

You’ve been warned.

Maybe she didn't believe in having sex before marriage.

A straight man with a hard cock is more often than not a very sad creature. He'll do anything or anyone. Us homos have standards (usually).

Look at that photo at R46 and you'll see exactly where the term "beaver" comes from. That thing looked like it had just crawled out of the river.

She was a wonderful woman.

Any news on how or what Robert Blake is doing these days? Has he become an elderly recluse?

Here's something positive: her handwriting is legible.

PROSTITUTION WHORE!!!

She was a whore but so what? Her story is fascinating!

In that letter, she seems intelligent. No misspellings, no bad grammar.

She was negotiating the marriage. Sounded like, informally (?), Blake had custody of the daughter. Bakley lived on property, but in a guest house. They did end up getting married.

Honestly, I’m kind of on his side. He was worried his little daughter would end up a porn star if raised by her grifter mom and he probably wasnt wrong

As others have said, a lot of people probably wanted her dead. The cops were lazy (big shocker I know).

Here's their daughter Rose. She was raised by her older sister Delinah Blake.

r80 the daughter looks just like her mother

Wasn’t Bonny still running her lonely hearts scam even after she married Blake?

Also she used to claim she was an ex girlfriend of Elvis and used this badly doctored photo of her and the king as proof.

Blake’s defense was that there were a lot of people who thought she needed killing and convincing a jury she did.

Robert Blake is selling scripts and other memorabilia on his YouTube channel. Here he is, 87 years old, talking about the movie "Busting" and how he spent most of his life "in the jaws of hell." If there's a movie made about The Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo, and they need someone to play the older, apprehended version of D'Angelo, Blake is your man.

This has to be one of the most unbelievable Hollywood stories, yet it actually happened: a grifter with a lengthy trail of wrongdoing and especially of using men in fake marriages, etc. cons a (former?) movie star.

Wouldn't Bonnie Lee have been easy to see through? Wasn't Blake by then experienced in the ways marginal characters in Los Angeles try to slither into a celeb's life?

Why on earth did he marry her? They didn't even live together.

Unless her act was persuasive and he was lonely? Has there ever been a book about this, by a journalist who can pull out the facts of the case?

OP "she trapped guys saying her child was theres," Is this complete-illiterate day?

Yeah, I'm surprised there hasn't yet been a dramatization about this "case." Madonna is too old to play Bonnie Lee Bakley (who was of child-bearing age when she was with Blake).

She appeared in the June 1977 issue of Hustler as Lee Bonny Bakley in the Beaver Hunt section. She was a brunette then and didn't look as bad back then as she did in the later nude photos. Well, at least not like flies should be buzzing around her beaver, at least. The accompanying text said she wanted to get it on with Frankie Valli and Elvis Presley.

R87 Do really expect anyone to look at that?

She had a whole platter of deli meats between her legs.

As usual, a lot of tsk tsk going on here, when 10 different dicks would be a slow weekend for many here

R88 No. But even worse nudes have been posted earlier. I wish I hadn't seen those. But, It also shows she was a wanna be star fucker dating back to the 1970s.

What causes pussy to look like that?

The daughter is beautiful. Poor thing

R86, who would you cast as Bonnie Lee?

Reese? Julia Garner? Diane Ladd in age-reversing CGI?

r94 Julia Garner would be perfect if she put on a few pounds

If Reese Witherspoon could pull off Bonnie Bakley, it could be a game-changer for Reese. I don't think she can, though.

Those ladies at R87s link used their real names for that. I found jana’s Facebook page.

A time machine, a blond wig, and Tracey Ullman

Good one, r98!

R92 fucking every man who buys you a 75 cent cup of coffee and having a dozen kids. That bitch was rode hard.

[quote] Why on earth did he marry her? They didn't even live together.

I ask myself that a LOT with straight celebs. Fuck, sure! But MARRY? Sylvester Stallone gave away a fortune in marriages. I guess they can’t be alone? And need someone to take care of them? (Ironically, the LAST thing a golddigger will do!)

He was found "not guilty." But between you and me, I think he did it but was justified.

Blake’s eyes are scary and dark.

[quote] Seven months later [after not guilty verdict], Blake was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit brought against him by Bakley's children.

R101 I guess they can't be alone?

Bingo!

Blake settled the suit, but for far, far less then what the court ruled. It was $30 million, cut to $15 million and finally settled for a tiny fraction of that amount

Dominic Dunne covered this case in Vanity Fair years ago. It, like most of what he wrote about was fascinating. I found this one, but I believe there are more articles by Mr. Dunne on this one.

I like the idea of Reese playing trashy Bonnie Lee. Either Reese or Margot Robbie.

R107 I miss Dominick Dunne’s writing

I do too, R109. That isn't the article I should have linked to, but I used to buy Vanity Fair because I really enjoyed it, but it was worth the purchase price for Dominic Dunne's writing. I'd put him in tandem with Truman Capote. In Cold Blood is exceptional. Dominic Dunne had a very interesting career, and for very good reason. I'd say they have a very comparable level in terms of what they wrote about.

[quote] My friends mother married 14 times.

Was her name Nikki Newman?

The baby is grown up now

I remember someone who knew Paul McCartney talking about his marrying Heather Mills. The person described McCartney as having “cock madness.” It’s an expression I’d never heard before. The woman he loved was dead, he was lonely & Heather was a good lay (and he may have been turned on by the amputation). She pretended his celebrity was meaningless to her. Basically, he had good sex with her & wanted to get laid every night, so he married her.

I think a lot of old men get “the cock madness.”

The Dunne piece is interesting at first, when he's talking about Robert Blake.

But then he goes into a long I don't know what whose only purpose is to mention all the celebs he knows and how marvelous they are.

That was always the problem with Dunne. He was a good writer working fascinating territory but he always got sidetracked plugging all his famous friends and trying to revive the glomor of Old Hollywood.

At one point, he is being deposed in a defamation suit brought against him by Gary Condit, a nobody Congress rep. who became famous because of the murder of Chandra Levy, and so hypocritical that he voted to impeach Bill Clinton (though Condit was a Democrat, not a republican) but then, when Clinton entered the chamber to give a State Of the Union, Condit actually HELD OUT HIS HAND FOR CLINTON TO SHAKE!

Shucks, are you kidding, Condit?

Clinton suavely moved past Condit, just flat-out ignored him. I saw the whole thing (on TV).

Dominick Dunne is titillating to read, but IMO, sloppy journalism. More like a gossip column at times. He has 90% unnamed sources.

He is also starstruck and loses objectivity a lot.

R112 Did she inherit her mother’s roast beef pussy?

R115 Dominick Dunne was hugely popular with readers when he was at Vanity Fair. And you're right, it was often very sloppy, and his editors would grimace at the "See Spot run" simplicity of his style. And he was NOT objective. Things came to a head when he got on TV and accused the California congressman--what was his name, Gary Condin?--of all sorts of things that there was never evidence for. He used to tour the VF offices in his absurd Savile Row suits, doing the Queen-screwing-in-a-lightbulb salutation at the staff. But he pulled in the readers.

The daughter is actually cute.

I’ll never understand why Hollywood never made a decent TV show or movie about this case. Too obsessed with Nicole Brown Simpson I guess.

Robert Blake and supporting actor

Bonny lee lived with her grandma as a child and grandma watched robert Blake and was in luv with him. She sought him out in Hollywood and actually married him! The marriage was in his backyard no witnesses a used ring and she was taken to a hotel room by herself after the wedding until the guest house could be ready for her. He wanted nothing to do with her, only custody of the child. The child was raised by his eldest daughter after she was murdered.

She looks like Big Kathy and Erika Girardi pre head transplant.

She had that Oscar nom for Nashville, though.

[quote] She had a daughter, Jeri Lee, that she claimed was Jerry Lee Lewis' child. That was another celebrity she tried to sucker with her scams.

OMG!

Robert Blake ended her grift and saved others in the future..

I wish a television series was made about this case.