Barbara Thomason won the crown of Miss Muscle Beach
1954. That sprang her into movies and television by 1955, which led to her
marriage to Mickey Rooney, who was almost 17 years her senior-and still married
to actress Elaine Mahnken. Rooney got around that by taking
Thomason to Mexico and married her there. (She was his fifth wife) During the next six
years, Thomason bore four children and Rooney mostly ran around Hollywood having
affairs, many, many, many affairs.
Finally having had enough
of Rooney’s affairs, Thomason began one of her own, with a high strung Yugoslavian
actor named Milos Milosevic, who performed under the name Milos Milos. Rooney
found out about it, was outraged (Believe it or not) moved out of the house, and field for divorce.
Milosevic(Below) was bad news. A
common street thug in his native Belgrade, he was hired a bodyguard to the
French actor Alain Delon when he was filming there. Milosevic later moved to LA
to break into show business and working as a criminal for the Eastern European mobsters in Los Angeles between gigs.
Milosevic’s friend Stevan
Marković was also hired as a bodyguard by Delon. Unlike Milosevic, Marković
went to Paris to break into European films and was the near-constant companion
of Delon in the French jet-set. It has also been speculated that he was a male
prostitute. In 1968, Marković body was found on the outskirts of Paris. Delon
was a suspect but was never formally accused. Marković had left a note to his reading
"If I get killed, it's 100% fault of Alain Delon and his godfather
Francois Marcantoni."
Delon
On the morning of January
31, 1966, Thomason and Milosevic were found dead on the bathroom floor of her
Brentwood house. Milosevic had shot Thomason under the chin and killed himself
with a temple shot using a chrome-plated .38 Rooney had bought in 1964. Apparently
Thomason had decided to dump Milosevic, so he killed her although in Europe a
rumor spread that Rooney had hired a Mafia killer to take them both out (Which
seems highly, highly unlikely)