American actor Robert Blake died at the age of 89.
According to foreign media, the actor was suffering from heart disease and breathed his last at home.
According to the reports, Robert Blake arrested in the past for the murder of his wife, after which he had to go to jail for some time.
After 4 years of killing his wife, however, he declared as innocent.
Robert Blake, the actor with a complicated background, died at the age of 89.
A statement released by his niece, Noreen Austin, said Blake died of heart disease at home in Los Angeles.
The former child actor best known for two aspects. He hailed as one of the actors of his generation for his Emmy-winning role on the 1970s TV show Baretta.
More infamously, Blake known to be the defendant in his wife’s murder trial – a story even more bizarre than the one he starred in.
Michael James Gubitosi born in 1933 in Nutley, New Jersey, to an Italian immigrant father and an Italian-American mother who wanted her three children to succeed in show business.
At age 2, Blake performed with a brother and sister in a family vaudeville act called The Three Little Hillbillies.
In 1961, Blake and actress Sondra Kerr married and had two children, Noah and Delinah. They got divorced in 1983.
He met his second wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, in 1999 at a jazz club, where he went to escape loneliness.
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“Here I was at 67 or 68. My life was on hold. My career was on hold,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Blake said he had no reason to dislike Bakley.