🧷Nancy Laura Spungen🧷
"We are partners in crime. And we have good fun. And we help each other out."
Nancy Spungen
She was the American girlfriend of English Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and a figure of the 1970's punk rock scene.
Nancy was born February 27, 1958, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Franklin and Deborah Spungen. Her father was a businessman, and her mother owned a health food store in nearby Jenkintown, PA, known as "The Earth Shop."
She was very smart and skipped a few grades in school, but she was also emotionally disturbed. Her fits of anger lead to violence got her expelled from the local public school at age 11, and her parents sent her to psychotherapy. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 15. She is also reported to have attempted suicide several times, and suffered from extreme depression.
After graduating from Devereux Manor High School, she briefly attended the University of Colorado. Shortly after leaving the University of Colorado, she moved to New York City, and became a groupie of rock bands, including Aerosmith, The New York Dolls, and The Ramones. To earn money, she reportedly worked as a stripper and occasionally as a prostitute in New York City
In 1976, she moved to London and met Sid, and soon moved in together. The relationship was turbulent and riddled with drug use and domestic violence.
October 1978, Nancy was found dead under the bathroom sink of the couple's hotel room. She was stabbed once in the abdomen.
Sid Vicious was charged with second degree murder and plead not guilty. He supposedly owned the knife that killed her.
Before the case even went to trial, Sid died of a heroin overdose while on bail in February 1979.
Various authors and filmmakers have speculated about Sid role in Nancy's death.
There was also a possibility that Nancy was killed by a drug dealer who frequently visited their room.
Vicious had gone on to have a Europe-wide solo hit with a tuneless version of the Frank Sinatra classic My Way. And just days before Nancy's death, he had received $25,000 in cash, royalty payments from Richard Branson's Virgin Records.
Witnesses say that on the night before Nancy's death, the room was flushed with cash. The following morning, however, the cash was gone, and a man, only known as Michael, was later seen carrying a large wad of cash secured with one of Nancy's purple hair ties.
Michael was described by witnesses as a young, slim, blond man with a penchant for alligator shoes. He spoke with a British accent and had moved into the hotel recently, befriending Vicious and Nancy. Several of the couple's friends remember seeing him with them in the days before Nancy's death. Musician Neon Leon, who had been with the couple on the night of the killing, says he called Nancy shortly before the time that she is estimated to have been stabbed. He says he could hear Michael talking in the background.
A resident of the hotel that Nancy and Vicious were staying at stopped at the couple's door shortly before the stabbing and says Michael was inside.
A would-be actor called Rockets Redglare, also stayed at the same hotel. He had been born "Michael Morra." Within days of Nancy's murder he allegedly confessed to a friend that he was the real killer.
Redglare was a well-known figure on Manhattan's Lower East Side and went on to star with Madonna in the Hollywood movie Desperately Seeking Susan and with Tom Hanks in Big.
Redglare died at 52 years old, in May 2001 of a combination of kidney and liver failure caused by his years of drug use.
There is also a conspiracy theory that Nancy faked her death and reinvented herself. The people that believe that theory say that Nancy is really Bette Midler.
I particularly don't think Nancy would have gotten a nose job in order to make it bigger, but what do i know?
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