Valerie Perrine

Valerie Ritchie Perrine (born September 3, 1943) is an American retired actress. For her role as Honey Bruce in the 1974 film Lenny, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other film appearances include Superman (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and Superman II (1980).

Personal life

While living in Las Vegas, Perrine became engaged to gun collector and importer Bill Haarman, who died in a gun accident in January 1969, one month before the scheduled wedding.

In 1969, Perrine began dating Hollywood hair stylist Jay Sebring.

He invited her to a dinner party in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles. She found someone to work for her that night, but at the last minute that person got sick, and Perrine had to show up for work. It turned out that the party she missed was the night when the Manson Family murdered six people at Sharon Tate's home, including Sebring.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "'If you don’t like somebody, fix them up with Valerie and he’ll be dead within three months,' cracked one of the male singers at the now-demolished Stardust.