Bonny Lee Bakley
her pursuit of Jerry Lee Lewis is one of the most bizarre chapters of her life
(June 7, 1956 - May 4, 2001)
her pursuit of Jerry Lee Lewis is one of the most bizarre chapters of her life
'Bonny Bakley would fuck a snake, if someone would hold its head.'
ex-husband DeMart Besly - the retired Montana sheriff who fell for a typical Bakley con - was even more provocative in his assessment of the Bakley character
Does synastry shed light on the case?
Can you find her burning ambition to marry a famous entertainer?
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What allows her to spin a con and make it believable?
What does it mean that she has an unaspected Ascendant?
During and between his marriages, there were countless groupies waiting for Lewis backstage, in the parking lot, or even coming to his house.
Among them was Bonny Lee Bakley, who later married actor Robert Blake and met an untimely death.
In 1980, still married to her cousin, Bonny moved down south.One day she arrived, uninvited at Jerry Lee's boyhood home.
Frankie Jean Lewis, the rocker's sister, says Bonny sashayed into her living room with a tape recorder playing striptease music.
She takes off her blouse and peels down her stockings, says Frankie.
It was good.
She said 'I d like to meet your brother.'
So I got Jerry on the phone and I said 'Jerry, we got us a real live one here.'
And he said 'Send her up.'
That's what he always said.
In the years when Bonny was raking in money from her tawdry sex business, she never lost sight of her appetite for celebrities.
The singer, cousin of disgraced televangelist Swaggart and now in his late sixties, was popular on radio stations in the 1950s, and made appearances at such venues as the Steve Allen Show and even in concert overseas during 1958.
But his star quickly lost its luster after a scandal over his marriage to a 13-year-old cousin.
His records were dropped by radio stations and he ended up, in the words of a fan web site, doing an endless string of one-night-stands.
Said Lewis, From $10,000 a night to $250 is a hell of a disappointment.
But even thirty years later, Lewis had one devoted fan - perhaps obsessed is a better word - in the person of Bonny Lee Bakley.
She set out to get him any way she could, literally stalking him anywhere he went.
She reportedly went so far as to bribe a travel agent for information about flights he was planning to take, then booked seats next to his.
When Bakley gave birth to a daughter in 1993, she proudly claimed the baby had been fathered by Lewis, even succeeding in getting some tabloid newspaper coverage for her story.
Not surprisingly, she named the little girl Jeri Lee Lewis.
Numerous press reports have stated that tests were done, however, and they revealed the baby was not his.
But that wasn't the last chapter in the bizarre Lewis saga.
After years of throwing herself at him, she eventually realized nothing would happen, and she settled for fantasy, calling herself Bonny Lee Lewis and sending out Christmas cards with a picture of the two of them and an inscribed signature:
Happy Holidays, Jerry Lee and Bonny Lee.
Altogether, Bakley spent more than 10 years pursuing Lewis, says an article in Entertainment Weekly.
It quoted the singer's former road manager, J W Whitten:
She was all over us ...
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Celebrity Obsession 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.
Bonny's resourcefulness, not to mention her persistence, as a celebriphiliac is also evident in the aggressive manner in which she pursued a relationship with Jerry Lee Lewis for years.
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After Bonny's killing made headlines around the world, Lewis issued a statement to disassociate himself from the woman.
I want to make it clear that I have never fathered a child by Mrs Robert Blake, said the statement, which referred to Bakley as a nuisance who had gone so far as to threaten to kill Lewis's son if he did not take her as his lover.
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The statement added:
She [Bakley] moved to Memphis in the hope that I would leave my devoted wife, Kerrie, and our son, Jerry Lee Lewis III, and marry her; merely a figment of her own imagination.(16) (1) See Jerry Lee biography web page that describes Bonny as a scorned girlfriend of Jerry Lee Lewis who claims he fathered their love child.
Mrs Blake then went on to cultivate friendships with my relatives and friends, hoping somehow this would help her cause.
However, her stalking of my family, as well as her threats to kill our son, landed her in a Memphis courtroom.
As a last-ditch attempt to form a relationship with me, in 1993 she charged she was carrying my child and stories to this effect appeared in the tabloids.
This claim was thrown out of a Memphis courtroom as our lawyer proved, with my passport, that I was out of the country longer than her records claimed she was pregnant.
Since she had no records to show she had left the country, the case was over before it began...
I do hope the child who has my name and has been told I am her father learns that I am not the father and that I am very sorry that she has had to suffer this lie...
(5) The reference by Lewis to threats by Bakley to kill our son are in themselves stunning enough.Even more recently, however, it was revealed that Bakley may also have discussed the murder of Lewis's wife.During a televised 27 August 2002 pre-trial hearing before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lloyd Nash, news headlines called attention to another of Bakley's taped phone conversations in which she reportedly talked about just that.On that date, the judge agreed to a defense request to delay the preliminary hearing until November on the grounds that prosecutors had earlier in the month turned over some 7,100 pages of new evidence in the case to Blake's counsel.It was in the context of this new evidence that the revelation about the alleged plot to kill the singer's wife emerged.
(6) If Bonny Lee Bakley was deluded about her relationship with Lewis, as everyone connected with him has claimed, she was no less imaginative when it came to other, bigger, celebrities.
The problem of celebriphiliacs like Bonny Bakley is prevalent enough, especially in Hollywood that the police there have received special training to learn how to recognize it and deal with it.
She claimed to have had an affair with rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis and borne his child, a girl she named Jeri Lee, but DNA tests later proved he was not the father.
Lewis has denied 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 said on one tape.
It makes you feel better than other people.
It's only when we don't see that we are on the wrong track-and change our lives-that such unfortunate events transpire.
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