Karyn Kupcinet

The same cabal behind the JFK assassination did it to intimidate her father Irv Kupcient, a journalist of the Chicago Sun-Times, from writing articles on what he knew about who was behind the killing.

Hope Lange’s brother, David Lange.

Karyn's death informs a new novel, The Gossip Columnist's Daughter, written by Peter Orner. From The New Yorker:

[quote] This chatty yet reflexive novel explores the relationship between two real-life couples: Lou and Babs Rosenthal (the authors grandparents) and Irv Kupcinet, the longtime gossip columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and his wife, Essie. After many years of close friendship, the couples become estranged following the unsolved murder, in 1963, of the Kupcinets' daughter, Karyn, a Hollywood actress. As the narrator, a professor separated from his wife, obsessively researches the death, his investigation fuels his parenting and relationship woes and leads him into a thicket of conspiracy theories. Throughout, Orner weighs the slippery connections among family, identity and history: "The truth is I've never been drawn to stories with answers. I'm lured to the ones where people, for whatever reason, don't want an answer."

Who dat?

She had bad skin....

Liz Taylor and Richard Burton - everyone knows they did it.

Nepo baby.

She choked to death giving a blow job. Heard this from retired LAPD years ago.

R3 mistakes "informs" for the simple word "inspired," which is a kind way of suggesting "the author used her death to crap out his plot."

In 2013 actor/comedian Richard Belzer (co-authored with David Wayne) had published a very comprehensive book; Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination. In it it details all the witnesses and investigative journalists who were very conveniently eliminated in the three years following the assassination. The odds of those people related to that event dying in such unnatural manner in such a short span of time is something like 1 in a Quintillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, or 10{18} power.

Her mother Essie was a horrible woman. Got her daughter hooked on diet pills.

R10 I forgot to include it includes a section on Karyn Pupcinet, and how her killing was seen as a direct warning to her newspaper publisher father.

R8, stop it.

[quote]Her mother Essie was a horrible woman. Got her daughter hooked on diet pills.

She was my role model.

r12 Her father was a columnist, not a publisher.

Karyn's "Perry Mason" episode. It aired a few days after she was murdered.

It was also notable for being Ray Collins' (Lt. Tragg) last episode.

Sorry, forgot the link.

There's still a plaque in the hallway of posh Francis W. Parker School in Chicago dedicated to her memory.

Dad asks Judy about all the queers in her audience.

Andrew Prine

The radical left.