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She sees the claret aftermath, and calls the police.

June’s friend in the apartment building has heard the shots. He empties his weapon into June’s twisted body.

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The driver yells for the shooter to hurry, but the gunman has other ideas. Blood stains her clothing and spills on the sidewalk. Christian sees June bolt.Ĭhristian shouts at the man: “What do you want?” Gunshot cracks through the humid air. As they walk past the car, the standing man says something. June and Christian make no eye contact with either of them. They pass a man leaning against the hood. They pass a car with shaded side windows. They walk up the sidewalk, north of Vanowen St. An arresting spectacle even in the dense shadows between the street lights.Ī friend, Christian Pierce, is next to her. Lacquered curly black wig, wild print dress, tan leather jacket, impossibly high heels. The street is dark with something more than night, but she is impossible to miss. It’s on the 6800 block of Sepulveda Boulevard in Van Nuys. June Mack descends the steps of a friend’s building. It’s 10.30 in the evening, but it’s hotter than a whorehouse on nickel night.

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Throw in the Colombian mob, poisoned cocktails, the pornographer Larry Flynt, the producer of ‘The Godfather’ Robert Evans, even the stars from 1970s hit TV shows ‘Sanford and Son’ and ‘Welcome Back, Kotter.’īut at the end of day, it boiled down to this: Who killed June Mack?Īnd then a second question: who really killed June Mack?

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You turn over her rock, and you uncover all kinds of stories: from drug deals, sex work, and hit men, to soldiers of fortune, bent bodyguards, video-taped orgies, and movie deals. A film noir world, inhabited by a cast of misfits, gangsters, and lowlifes, where no one played it straight. And some just don’t like the sound of their own voice. Many were dead, others had long disappeared. Maybe the way she lived would reveal the way she died. Maybe the clue was somewhere in her short life. A key that would unlock the truth behind the mystery. Or was her death just an accident? Bad place, bad time. Other reports say she was the target of gangland hit, someone wanted her wiped out. Sounds like something that her film character, Junkyard Sal, might have done. She stood in front of the guy to protect him, and took the bullet.” Jimmy McDonough in his biography of Russ Meyer wrote: “June was murdered when a drug dealer was going to shoot her boyfriend. Each tries to figure out how and why she died. Many accounts of her murder still linger on message boards in dusty corners of cyberspace. And a footnote in a shooting that left her dead.

A footnote in L.A., the jaded city where she’d re-invented herself. A footnote for her family who forgot she existed. She was a footnote in film history after she appeared in a Russ Meyer film, Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens. Somehow June Mack was a footnote in her own life.

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