In 1951, the model fell under the influence of Irving Klaw.
I drove out to meet her at this halfway house run by Patton State Hospital, which was helping her transition back into regular society.
And while most of those girls never realized their ambitions, Bettie found something else: a career as a pinup and softcore porn model.
You can see in the movie, he was still in love with her.
How did you leave things with her? And she could not understand Hollywood people who did, who latched onto their image and rode it as far as it would take them.
In 1959, she was lying on a sea wall in Key West when she saw a church with a white neon cross on top.