MY TOP 10 FAMOUS DEATHS: MURDERS, SUICIDES AND COLD CASES,, (PART 2)

6# LADY DI

Diana Frances Spencer was the adorable Princess of Gales. She was known as Lady Di.
Diana was born into an old, aristocratic English family with royal ancestry and she was Prince Charles’ chosen one to marry him. When thay make their engagement official she was just a young woman while her fiancé was almost a middle-aged man. Age wasn’t a problem for them, so they married on 29th July, in 1981. During this marriage Diana had two sons who loved with all her heart.

Diana was admired for all the British population because she was an unconventional princess. She was a free person and she liked to meet famous people such as her old friend Elton John. British royalty never approved of Diana’s behaviour and the situation between Diana and them was getting tense.

Nevertheless, it wasn’t the only reason of Diana and Prince Charles’ divorce, in 1995. Apart from this, In the media began circulating rumours about Charles and his lover, Camila Parker Bowles (who is his wife now). Those kind of rumours were getting bigger and bigger and everyone though they were true. Diana loved Charles but she couldn’t afford this situation much more and decided to leave all the falsehood of royalty’s world. Her last words to the media were "Yes, I loved him. Yes, I adored him, but there were three of us in this marriage."

In 1997, Diana started dating Dodi Al-Fayed, son of her host that summer, Mohamed Al-Fayed. After this, Diana spent a peacefully holidays with her boyfriend and her sons. Dodi contracted security services and also rent a multi-million apartment to make sure nobody would disturb them.

Diana’s death is also a great mystery. Everything happened on 31st August, in 1997. Diana was in Paris with his boyfriend Dodi. The media was following them all the time, so they were trying to escape form them with their car. When Dodi entered in a tunnel he crashed his car while he was trying to shake paparazzi off. He and Lady Di were fatally injured so they died right there. The whole world was dismayed with this fact, especially Diana’s sons Harry and William who loved deeply their mother.

There are still many rumors about Dodi and Diana’s accident. There people who say that royal family hire someone to make car’s breaches fail. There’s also people who said that it’s just media’s fault. If they let Diana and Dodi enjoy their travel peacefully, Dodi would never had run so fast and they never had crashed into that tunnel.

7# KURT COBAIN

Kurt Cobain was an American singer and song-writer as well. He is better known as the main singer and guitarist of a grunge band called “Nirvana”. Kurt’s band succeeded in the 80’s and also early 90’s. Grunge style into fashion because of him and he had fans around the world.
In 1990 he met Courtney Love. At first, he refused her because he though he wasn’t ready for a relationship. However, in 1991 they began going usually out together and consuming drugs. In 1992, Courtney declared she was pregnant. After this, they got married.

It’s important to say that Kurt suffered from chronic bronchitis and also undiagnosed stomach condition since he was a child. He starts consuming marijuana when he was only thirteen years old. He was a hyperactive child with lack of attention. Later, as a man, doctors diagnosed him with bipolar disorder. Cobain use to be depressed because he didn’t liked the world he lived in. He was a sad person with a great heart, but he was always misunderstood. Kurt was also alcoholic and in 1986, he began consuming heroin.

On 1st March, in 1994, Courtney Love phoned police telling them that Kurt committed suicide with a gun in a room. After shooting himself, Kurt wrote a goodbye note to his childhood imaginary friend “Boddah”. In the autopsy, doctors found high levels of heroin and valium in his system. Nevertheless, rumours say that it wasn’t a suicide at all. There are people who believe that Courtney Love, his wife then, hired someone to kill his husband because they were always arguing and she was dating another man as well.

8# JOHN LENNON

John Winston Ono Lennon was a famous musician and also song-writer from the worldwide famous band “The Beatles”. “The Beatles” became the most successful and scandalous band of the 20th century. However, he started in music’s world earlier: his first band was called “The Quarrymen”.

He transmitted with his music and his arts all his feelings. He spent all his life fighting for the global peace and also for political causes. His fight was just made of powerful words. In 1962, his lifelong girlfriend Cynthia Powell was pregnant so John decided to ask her to marry him. Their son Julian Lennon was born the following year. In 1967 they divorced because of John Lennon’s consume of LSD and his lack of attention to his wife. In the late 60’s John met Yoko Ono, his true love. They had a lot of thing in common: their biggest wish was make the world a peacefully and fair place for everyone. There are people who say that John and Yoko start seeing each other while John was still married. In any case, Yoko was pregnant in 1968.

In the early 70’s he broke up with his band and he started his solo career. From that moment he and Yoko became inseparables. They did everything together: they protest against wars, they painted, they did photo-shoots…In short, Yoko Ono and John Lennon were absolutely soul mates.

The most dramatic part of their love story took place on 8th December, in 1980. That morning Lennon and Yoko went to a studio to do a photo-shoot together. As they were leaving home, a Lennon’s fan asked him for an autograph and also a photo together. Lennon, very gentle, accepted. Some hours later, the couple was going back home. The same fan they met before, named Mark Chapman, loomed up them and said “Mr. Lennon!”. Following, Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times. They were at the entrance of Lennon’s building. The singer bled to death.

Chapman suffered from mental diseases and he prepared Lennon’s death some time ago. He declared that Lennon’s death was aimed at making him going down in history. John was a famous and much loved character, so he knew that everybody would be dismayed for this fact. Chapman is still in jail. Judges have denied his parole three times at least. It’s also important to remember that Yoko Ono will do whatever she can to make that man spend all his life in jail because he’s a dangerous criminal.

9# HEATH LEDGER

Heath Andrew Ledger was well-known Hollywood’s actor. He was born in Perth, in Australia. He worked in nineteen films during his lifetime. He also produced music video and worked as a director. He was a magnificent actor so he won many prizes such as BAFTA or Golden Globe. His first popular relationship was with Naomi Watts, who met during they were filming “Ned Kelly”. Their relationship lasted two years. After this, he dated many other girls but in 2004 he began dating actress Michelle Williams. They had met in the set of “Brokeback Mountain”. They were deeply in love.

In 2005 was born Matilda Rose, their beautiful daughter. They seemed the perfect couple, but things fell through in 2007 and they broke up. People said that the main reason of this braking-off was Heath’s drug addiction. He promised to Michelle he would leave them, but he never carried this out. Michelle loved him, but she just wished the best for her daughter so he decided to split up.

This braking-off affected Heath Ledger very much. From that moment, he start drinking and consuming drugs more than ever and a deep depression took possession of him. Days went by, but he wasn’t able to be happy. He start filming “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus”. Everyone on the set confesses that Heath’s sad personality made them perfect to interpret the main character of the film.

His death was something really unexpected for everyone. It happened on 22nd January, in 2008. Heath’s body was found death in his apartment’s floor for his assistance. She immediately called the emergency services, but they couldn’t do anything. He died many hours ago. Autopsy revealed that he died of drug overdose. Doctor’s final verdict was “accidental death”. In any case, as always happens, there are also rumors who say that it could be a suicide. It isn’t hard to believe because since Michelle left him, Heath was always depressed and he didn’t seem the same at all.

10# GIANNI VERSACE

Gianni Versace (right) was a famous Italian designer. He created and owned Versace’s empire (the International fashion House. Until its birth, Versace has produced accessories, fragrances, makeup, home furnishings and clothes. During his lifetime, Gianni designed clothes for famous theatres and films. He had famous friends, but his closer ones were Elton John and Lady Di. His mother was a dressmaker, so it helped him to love clothes and all related to them. This was the reason why Versace began his apprenticeship at a young age.

At his early professional years, Gianni designed lather clothes, which were especially for hunters. Few years later, Gianni designer for the first time women clothes and presented them at the Palazzo della Permanente Art Museum of Milan. The next year, he also designed a collection for men. He opened his first store in 1978, in Milano.

Gianni Versace was openly gay. He met his long life partner Antonio D’Amico in 1982 and he liked to go to parties with him. Versace had one brother, Santo and also one sister, Donatella. It’s important to emphasize the fact that Versace adored all his and nephews, especially Allegra Versace (Donatella Versace’s daughter).

Gianni had still many miles to go when he was murdered. On 15th July, in 1997 she was going back home after taking a morning walk on Ocean Drive. He used to go to a coffee shop where he could buy the international newspapers written in Italian, his language. He was shot by Andrew Cunan, who committed suicide some days later.

In his will, Versace left 50 per cent of his fashion empire to his niece Allegra Versace. In any case, rumours also said that the fashion designer was murdered because he didn’t pay his debts to the Mafia.