Johnny Stompanato, Jr. also known as "Handsome Harry", "Johnny Stomp", "John Steele", and "Oscar" (October 9, 1925 – April 4, 1958) was a former United States Marine who became a bodyguard/enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen. He was also the boyfriend of actress Lana Turner.
John "Jackie" R. Stompanato was born into an Italian-American family in predominantly Irish-American Woodstock, Illinois. Stompanato was the youngest of four children. His fat...
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Johnny Stompanato, Jr. also known as "Handsome Harry", "Johnny Stomp", "John Steele", and "Oscar" (October 9, 1925 – April 4, 1958) was a former United States Marine who became a bodyguard/enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen. He was also the boyfriend of actress Lana Turner.
John "Jackie" R. Stompanato was born into an Italian-American family in predominantly Irish-American Woodstock, Illinois. Stompanato was the youngest of four children. His father John Sr. was a successful barber who owned a barber shop located on the historic Woodstock Square. It is now a bar restaurant called D.C Cobbs, it features pictures of Johnny. The Stompanato family lived in a big clapboard house on Blakely Street with a garden with a florid statuary. John's mother died after his birth, and his father married a woman named Verena Freitag.
In 1940, after Stompanato's freshman year at Woodstock High School, his father sent him to Kemper Military School for boys in Boonville, Missouri, from which he graduated...
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