Bonnie Lee Bakley (June 7, 1956 – May 4, 2001) was the wife of actor Robert Blake.
Bonnie Lee Bakley was born in Morristown, New Jersey to arborist Edward J. Bakley and his wife, Marjorie, aka Lois Carlyon. She had three other siblings: Margery Lois Hall, Joseph, and her half-brother Peter Carlyon from her mother's second marriage. Problems at home as a teenager led Bonny to leave her parents' home and move in with her grandmother.
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Bonnie Lee Bakley (June 7, 1956 – May 4, 2001) was the wife of actor Robert Blake.
Bonnie Lee Bakley was born in Morristown, New Jersey to arborist Edward J. Bakley and his wife, Marjorie, aka Lois Carlyon. She had three other siblings: Margery Lois Hall, Joseph, and her half-brother Peter Carlyon from her mother's second marriage. Problems at home as a teenager led Bonny to leave her parents' home and move in with her grandmother.
She dropped out of high school at age 16 and decided to go to New York City to pursue a career in modeling and acting at the Barbizon School of Modeling. She was married at 21 to her first cousin and had two children with him.
Bakley's early life is checkered by a criminal record. She was convicted in Little Rock, Arkansas for possessing false identifications. In 1989, she was convicted of drug possession in Memphis, Tennessee and later in 1995, convicted of passing bad checks.
FBI records show that in 1994, while under investigation for fraud, Bakley told...
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