LA Crime
LOS ANGELES IN THE ’90s: CITY OF CRIME AND SCANDAL
Other Los Angeles crimes and scandals offered inspiration for HOLLYWOOD DOWN LOW, too. In the early ’90s, the City of Angels provided a plethora of lurid national headlines, including: Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood Madam, Arrested. With the arrest of Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood Madam, a prostitution scandal rocked Hollywood in the summer of 1993. Fleiss…
Read MoreA TRUE CRIME THAT INSPIRED HOLLYWOOD DOWN LOW
I never expected to stumble into a real-life mystery. But I did. While waiting tables at a L.A. strip joint, I learned that a former club co-owner had been murdered and his killer never caught. In 1989, machine gunfire mowed down Horace “Big Mac” McKenna while he sat in his chauffeured limousine, waiting for the…
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