Actor Robert Blake died on March 9 at the age of 89. Blake’s career commenced as a kid, when he appeared in the “Our Gang” shorts as a member of the Minimal Rascals. He also appeared as a child in the Purple Ryder sequence of films. Most famously, he performed a murderer in 1967’s “In Cold Blood” and starred in the 1970s detective Tv set collection “Baretta.”
Blake was married a few occasions. In 2000, he married his second wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, who was shot and killed in Blake’s auto parked close to a cafe a 12 months later. He claimed he was inside the cafe at the time of the shooting. Blake was arrested for the murder in 2002 and was in the end acquitted in the criminal demo. Bakley’s children sued him in civil court, and in 2005 he was observed liable in her wrongful loss of life and was requested to pay back $30 million. An appeals court docket upheld the determination but cut the dollars to $15 million.
Blake and Bakley shared daughter Rose Lenore Sophia Blake, whose paternity was unidentified at the time she was born. Bakley was also dating Christian Brando, Marlon Brando’s son, and at to start with she considered Brando was the father. Blake insisted on a paternity take a look at, which proved he was the father, and they signed a custody settlement prior to they married. The pair by no means lived alongside one another.
Blake married his third spouse, Pamela Hudak, in 2017. She had testified on his behalf in the course of the murder demo. They divorced a year later. Blake also has two children, Delinah and Noah Blake, from his initial relationship, to Sondra Kerr.
