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sometimes—quiet—is—violent:
Actress Sue Lyon, best known for her role in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962) married convicted killer Gary “Cotton” Adamson.
They met when she was doing volunteer work for the Federal Public
Defender’s Office and was visiting the inmates in the Los Angeles County
jail, where Adamson ended up after he escaped from jail in Colorado and
fled to California. When he was sent back to Colorado, they kept
writing to each other. She visited him two years later and they decided
to get married. The ceremony took place in the maximum security prison,
with a few friends and family members. She was able to wear a veil and
have a bouquet. He was then serving a twenty-to-forty year term.
Her
controversial marriage put a strain to her movie career. They divorced a
couple years later but she still tried to help him with his defense for
years.
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