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25 Things You May Not Know about the Ronni Chasen Mysteries (Part 5)

These details can help you spot professional bodyguards and dischover helpful clues.
These details can help you spot professional bodyguards and dischover helpful clues.
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Photo courtesy of Daphne Morgan, America's Cup Media

More clues for you:

21) Ronni Chasen was one of the highest profile personalities in Los Angeles who did not have a bodyguard. If Cher or Christina Aguilera had been shot after the “Burlesque” PR event, bodyguards might have prevented a fatality and had a fair chance to catch the killers. This perspective could support a scenario that Ronni Chasen was a target of opportunity for a group of individuals who have another agenda.

What do these bodyguards look like? Here is a picture of Prince Albert II of Monaco (exactly six feet tall) with a bodyguard in the background at right. The bodyguard is 6’7” and wearing an inexpensive grey jacket, white shirt and black tie, not the type of attire a diplomat would be allowed to wear when meeting with royalty. These bodyguards do not wear badges, but are easily recognizable from their height, clothes and manners to individuals like myself and Ronni Chasen who attend hundreds of events with prominent guests who must have these security personnel present. I use the verb “must” because this is a specific requirement in life and casualty insurance contracts for many multi-millionaires.

In addition, an insurance industry study in September 2007 found that over 95% of plainclothes bodyguards chew gum. This is a dead giveaway, no pun intended. If you enlarge this picture, you can actually see how the bodyguard is chewing gum.

Ronni Chasen was also one of the highest profile personalities in Los Angeles who did not have any dependents with a basis for filing a wrongful death claim.

22) Both the city and county of Los Angeles have local elections scheduled on March 8, 2011. Media ratings for high profile shootings like the Nicole Simpson / Ron Goldman case show that such incidents can divert the public’s attention from other matters. What matters? Issues like accounting fraud, bribery with cheap no-fee mortgages, failure to pay taxes on forgiven unpaid loans, issuing handicapped license plates with false medical reports, failure to dismiss county employees who process false medical reports, and impending bankruptcy of a city or county.

23) The Mueller vs. Sheen civil and criminal cases case increased concerns by insurance experts that the influence of publicists on the courts and law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles is out of control. Witness tampering is a felony. Publicists do not have immunity from prosecution because it is their job to perfect a celebrity’s image or sell move movie tickets and DVD’s.

The Pitkin County, Colorado authorities did not roll over and play dead the way much of the legal community in Los Angeles has done with repeat offenders like Lindsay Lohan. Charlie Sheen was convicted of criminal assault and Brooke Mueller was not charged with filing a false report. Her report included chilling information about the network of ex-police officers who bill out their time as security guards while they go around California breaking people’s limbs or worse and claiming that these are “accidental” injuries. That said, it is clear from details provided by the investor relations department of CBS, which broadcasts Sheen’s top TV series, that over $500,000 was spent trying to discredit Brooke Mueller’s testimony. That might have worked in LA, but it did not work in Colorado; if anything, the large dollar sums spent trying to discredit a young mother raised suspicions.

The decision by California authorities not to follow-up with an investigation here so far has been controversial and expensive. California investigators have the right to subpeona Sheen for information about the professional services of ex-polices officers whom he claims work as contract killers and may have executed the Ronni Chasen shooting. For whatever reason, neither the Los Angeles County District Attorney or the California State Attorney General have done this so far. Sheen’s revelations made a strong negative impression on investors and many simply refuse to buy bonds issued by Los Angeles or California, because they see this as one more reason that Los Angeles or California may be forced to declare bankruptcy.

24) The image of Hollywood publicists that the movie industry has presented in its own productions is not kind. In the movie Hollywoodland, that character playing the head of MGM’s publicity department tells the investigator of an unsolved shooting mystery “If there is ever anything that happens that might make one person buy one less movie ticket, it’s my job to see that nobody ever hears about it.” If you check the penal code, you will see that what he was actually saying was, “I commit felony witness tampering all the time because it is good for business.”


25) There is compelling evidence that an influential member of the law enforcement community was involved in the shooting. No one has released the license plate information of the vehicle involved in the shooting, although dozens of security cameras in the area have recorded the information. If cameras can record license plate info at red light cameras at night, owners of $10 million homes in Beveraly Hills can afford the same technology.

A specific case indicates that this information could link the vehicle to the law enforcement community. In June 2007, a vehicle driven by a law enforcement officer drove directly into the art gallery called Parkers Posters on the ground floor of the San Diego Design Center at 4090 Morena Boulevard. The driver was both intoxicated and under the influence of illegal drugs. Neither the owners of the building, the owners of the gallery nor their insurance companies were allowed to disclose or use the license plate information because of immunity protections that law enforcement officers have, even when they are off duty.

Is this all the information needed to find the parties responsible for Ronni Chasen’s shooting? No. Is this a novel approach that can help? Concerned citizens should give this a try and post their own lists for 25 Things You May Not Know about the Ronni Chasen Mysteries.

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Max Donner, MBA, appraises artwork and special assets. He researches fine arts at leading California archives and events. Donner shares highlights at World Art Foundation workshops, as well as reports and articles. Email Max here.

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