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Johnny Edgecombe

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Geburt:
22.10.1932
Tot:
26.09.2010
Mädchenname:
John Arthur Alexander Edgecombe
Zusätzliche namen:
"Johnny"
Kategorien:
Musiker, Rockmusiker, Verbrecher
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John Arthur Alexander "Johnny" Edgecombe (22 October 1932 – 26 September 2010) was a British jazz promoter and criminal, whose involvement with Christine Keeler inadvertently alerted authorities to the Profumo Affair.

Early life

Edgecombe was born on 22 October 1932 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, the youngest of eight children. He often accompanied his father on his schooner running gasoline from Trinidad to Antigua. In 1942, his father took United States citizenship and disappeared.

The young Edgecombe worked his passage aboard a British ship carrying sugar to Liverpool. From there he moved to Cardiff, where he stayed for some years, lodging at a mission for seamen. Searching for his missing father, he hid on a ship bound for Texas, but on arrival was arrested and put back on board for the return trip. When he docked in Britain, magistrates jailed him for 28 days as a stowaway. After leaving prison, he made his way to London, where he became involved in petty crime, serving three months for an attempted jewel theft. He ran a drinking and drugs den in premises rented from Peter Rachman, and reportedly acted as a pimp to his girlfriend.

Profumo scandal

It was in this "shebeen" that he first encountered Lucky Gordon, who threatened to tip off the police about the drinking den. Edgecombe closed it down, and moved into the jazz scene, driving musicians to gigs, and dealing dope.

In September 1962 he met a nightclub hostess, Christine Keeler, and moved into her flat in Sheffield Terrace. Keeler was involved with several men, and it was this web of relationships and jealousy that triggered the events that led to what became known as the Profumo Affair.

Keeler told Edgecombe that "Lucky" Gordon had assaulted her and held her captive after she ended their relationship. Edgecombe confronted Gordon with a knife in the Flamingo Club on 27 October 1962, and Gordon required 17 stitches in the face. Edgecombe asked Keeler to help him find a solicitor before surrendering to the police, but she refused and said that she would give evidence against him.

On 14 December, Edgecombe took a taxi to the Marylebone flat of osteopath Stephen Ward, where Keeler was in hiding. When she refused to come out, he fired several shots at the door. His subsequent arrest set in motion the unravelling of Keeler's relationship with Secretary of State for War John Profumo and Russian naval attaché Yevgeny Ivanov, with Keeler's non-appearance at his trial at the Old Bailey in March 1963 finally giving the British press the excuse it needed to publish the story.

Edgecombe was acquitted of assaulting "Lucky" Gordon, but jailed for seven years for possession of a firearm with the intent to endanger life. He served five years.

On his release Edgecombe became a jazz promoter, running a club called Edges, and worked as a film and television extra. He published his version of events, Black Scandal, in 2002. He died of lung cancer and kidney cancer in London, aged 77, on 26 September 2010.

Cultural references

  • In the 1989 film Scandal, Edgecombe was portrayed by singer Roland Gift.
  • Edgecombe is portrayed by Wayne Robinson in Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical Stephen Ward the Musical, which opened at the Aldwych Theatre on 19 December 2013.

Ursache: wikipedia.org

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        NameBeziehungGeburtTotBeschreibung
        1Christine KeelerChristine KeelerPartner22.02.194204.12.2017
        2Евгений  ИвановЕвгений ИвановGleichgesinnte14.03.192609.10.1994
        3John  ProfumoJohn ProfumoGleichgesinnte30.01.191509.03.2006
        4William AstorWilliam AstorGleichgesinnte13.08.190707.03.1966
        5Stephen WardStephen WardGleichgesinnte19.10.191203.08.1963
        6David MountbattenDavid MountbattenGleichgesinnte12.05.191914.04.1970
        7Tam GalbraithTam GalbraithGleichgesinnte10.03.191702.01.1982
        8Douglas Fairbanks juniorDouglas Fairbanks juniorGleichgesinnte09.12.190907.05.2000
        9Margaret  CampbellMargaret CampbellGleichgesinnte01.12.191225.07.1993
        10Valerie  HobsonValerie HobsonGleichgesinnte14.04.191713.11.1998
        11Peter RachmanPeter RachmanGleichgesinnte00.00.191929.11.1962
        12Ayub KhanAyub KhanGleichgesinnte14.05.190719.04.1974
        13Mariella NovotnyMariella NovotnyGleichgesinnte09.05.194101.02.1983
        14Marilyn Rice-DaviesMarilyn Rice-DaviesGleichgesinnte21.10.194418.12.2014
        15Aloysius GordonAloysius GordonGegner05.07.193115.03.2017
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