Claudine Longet

Singer / Actor

Originally from France, Claudine Longet was a Las Vegas showgirl when crooner Andy Williams discovered her. In her few TV and film appearances, she was typecast as the innocently foxy mademoiselle. Given a contract by A&M Records, she recorded mostly soft covers of songs by popular rock groups. It wasn't until after she'd left Williams, however, that she really got famous. In 1976 she shot and killed champion skier Vladimir "Spider" Sabich, her long-time boyfriend. After a highly publicized murder trial, Longet was convicted of criminal negligence and sentenced to 30 days in jail.

Extra credit: The night she shot Spider, Longet reportedly stayed at the house of neighbor John Denver.

Longet appears with Sonny Bono in our loop Ski Frenzy... Other celebrity shooting cases include those of John Lennon, Robert Blake, Andy Warhol and (possibly) Thomas Ince.