Johnny "Handsome Johnny" Stompanato made his mark in Hoodlum folk lore as a gat-carrying -bodyguard for gangster Mickey Cohen. In a conversation between mobsters Jimmy Fratianno and Anthony "the Animal "Fiato , Fratianno said to Fiato,--"Johnny was a cunt-lapper"-- them kind-a guys are weak.---" "Mickey loved him"--- 'he was prettier than most broads". Fratianno's remarks aside, Johnny might have had Movie Star looks, but he was cursed with a very ugly temper.. In a ferocious fit of jealousy, Johnny threatened to kill his girlfriend actress Lana Turner. Turners daughter stuck a butcher knife in Johnny-- and stabbed him to death--- claiming she was in fear for her and her mother's life.
The press had a field day with this sexy story. Teens of that era dubbed a dance, the Stompanato Stomp, a dance, where the Girls CUT IN .