http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Lee_Bakley

Bonnie soon made a living running a lonely hearts scheme, sending nude pictures of herself to men with the promise of visiting them if they sent her money.

Bakley also had a history of pursuing celebrities. Her friends and relatives all described her as “celebrity-obsessed”. She claimed to have had an affair with rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis and borne his daughter in 1993, but DNA tests later disproved her claim. Lewis has denied ever having a relationship with Bakley. Tapes of Bakley’s phone conversations reveal that she was starstruck and bent on marrying someone famous. “I like being around celebrities,” she once said, “it makes you feel better than other people.”

Her lonely hearts fraud, however, continued to be lucrative. She was able to marry several of her victims swindling a number of men out of their savings and life insurance. Eventually she obtained enough money to buy two houses and several undeveloped lots in Memphis and a house outside of LA; additionally, her lonely hearts fraud funded her unsuccessful Hollywood career as a singer and actor under the stage name Leebonny

http://crime.about.com/od/unsolved/p/bonnyleebakley.htm

Bakley’s address book filled up with names, some famous and some just rich. Names such as Robert DeNiro, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Jimmy Swaggart were found among the list. Bakley’s sex business became bolder and she advertised in the sex magazines that she was a tri-sexual, meaning she would try anything once and her preference was sadomasochism, couple’s sex, and bisexuality. She swindled men to tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars with her “anything goes” claims.

Bonny continued running her sex scams in magazines plus dating a few stars, one being Christian Brando.

“…there was something about this woman that stuck in my mind all that time. There was an air of foreboding around her.”

Did this poor woman also have a thing for Julio Iglesias?

I could smell the Shalimar, see the blue suede gucci gray ladies flat pumps, and when we shook hands I could feel the ice in her veins –

“…A shiver ran down my back.”

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