Biography

In 1958, at the age of 14, she fatally stabbed her mother's lover, gangster Johnny Stompanato, during a quarrel. Jerry Giesler represented her. The murder was deemed justifiable homicide at a coroner's inquest.

Her parents, Lana Turner and Stephen Crane, were married twice. Their first marriage was annulled after only seven months, but they remarried the following month when Lana discovered that she was four months pregnant. However, her parents divorced permanently in 1944 when Cheryl was just one year old.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998 and underwent a mastectomy and was treated with radiation and chemotherapy. She has since been in remission.

Works as a real-estate agent in Palm Springs, California with her partner of thirty-seven years, Jocelyn "Josh" LeRoy [November 2005].

Cheryl wrote a book about her life with her mother Lana Turner, her mother's 7 husbands and numerous boyfriends and living in Hollywood. It was entitled "Detour: A Hollywood Story" and was published in 1988 when Cheryl was 45.