I'm currently reading LA Confidential by James Ellroy. Johnny Stompanato is a character in it. The book describes him as handsome and it's not lying; looked him up on Wikipedia, he served with the marines in Okinawa. He was stabbed to death by actress Lana Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, in what was ruled a justifiable homicide after she saved her mother from one of Stomp's trademark beatings.