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...Pitkin County courthouse, the likes of Jack Nicholson shared a front bench with newsmen from papers as far away as London. In the back of the crowded room, spectators stood on piles of law books and craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the defendant. Claudine Longet, 34, one of the town's beautiful people, was on trial for shooting her ski-ace lover, Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich...
...born defendant had been a lead Folies-Bergère showgirl in Las Vegas. There she met Andy Williams, the Kennedys' favorite crooner, and ended up marrying him and his singing career. After 14 years of marriage and three children, they were divorced in 1975, but by then Longet had moved in with Sabich. The skier, a former world pro champion, was a celebrated bon vivant who owned a $250,000 mountaintop house in Aspen. It was there, while he was washing his face, that Longet killed him on March...
After the shooting, Longet told police that she had found a .22-cal. pistol in the house and had decided to ask Sabich how to operate it, thinking the gun would be good protection when he was away. As they talked the gun fired, hitting him in the abdomen. Murder was out, but she was indicted for "reckless manslaughter...
...prosecution team, led by Levi's-clad Assistant District Attorney Ashley Anderson, 29, based much of its claim that Longet had behaved recklessly on the testimony of Aspen Detective David Garms. He related how Longet had told him after the shooting, "I raised the gun and playfully went 'Boom, boom,' and it went off." Anderson also tried to establish that Longet was reckless by nature. He called Williams to testify against his ex, but the singer defended her. He denied that he had told an Aspen neighbor the day after the shooting that Longet was a "crazy...
Claudine and Sabich met at a 1972 celebrity ski race in Bear Valley, Calif. Friends say Sabich built his sumptuous $250,000 timber and stone house at exclusive Starwood, three miles west of Aspen, expressly for Longet. Sabich, the son of a Placerville, Calif., cop, finished a highly respectable fifth in the slalom at the Grenoble Olympics in 1968, turned pro in 1971, and started earning big money. His prizes alone topped $50,000 in 1972, and he pulled in at least that much in endorsements for everything from ski products to coffee...