Mystery of glamorous Hollywood groupie who had string of scandalous affairs with A-list stars before being brutally murdered - as her daughter reveals haunting final memory

It was nan revolting stench coming from nan trunk of a parked car extracurricular a engaged Los Angeles market shop that first sounded nan alarm.

When constabulary yet arrived connected nan scene, they made nan grisly find of a decomposing assemblage identified arsenic 39-year-old Cynthia Bouron - who had been reported missing 10 days earlier connected October 20, 1973, by her 2 teenage sons.

The doubly divided mother-of-three was recovered hog tied and an autopsy revealed that she had been bludgeoned to decease pinch a hammer.

It was a horrifying extremity to what rumors columnists called a 'reckless life'.

Like truthful galore starry-eyed hopefuls earlier her, Bouron was an aspiring character from nan Midwest lured to LA by Hollywood's illusory committedness of fame and fortune. 

Instead, her ill-fated pursuit of stardom led her into nan acheronian and vulnerable broadside of Tinsel Town that culminated successful her sadistic Mafia-style execution.

Along nan way, she gained infamy arsenic a personage groupie who was rumored to person had emotion affairs pinch immoderate of Hollywood's biggest players - including Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Jerry Lewis, Omar Sharif, and renowned Twentieth Century Fox producer, Harry Sokolev.

Yet complete 50 years later her execution remains a enigma - and her daughter Stephanie Strom is now speaking retired for nan first clip arsenic she desperately seeks answers. 

In nan years starring up to her slaying, Bouron had been connected to immoderate of Hollywood's astir important scandals.

Some reports claimed that Bouron was a high-priced telephone girl. 

Other newspapers identified her arsenic an 'attractive individual manager,' a exemplary a showgirl, a section shop income clerk, an actress, a producer, and a writer astatine Twentieth Century Fox. 

In 1966, her estranged husband, a mobbed-up Yugoslavian stuntman by nan sanction of Milos Milosevic, killed himself and his person Barbara Ann Rooney successful a gruesome murder-suicide. 

Barbara Ann was said to beryllium connected nan brink of reconciling her matrimony pinch nan mega celebrated kid star, Mickey Rooney, erstwhile Milos changeable her successful a suspicious rage arsenic her 4 children slept successful bedrooms nearby.

In 1970, Bouron revenge a high-profile paternity suit against Cary Grant alleging that he was nan begetter of her daughter, whom she named Stephanie Andrea Grant.

The lawsuit was yet dismissed by nan court. 

For personification who spent a life connected nan fringe of Hollywood surviving arsenic immoderate would call, a master 'hanger-on' - news of Bouron's convulsive ending successful October 1973 went mostly unnoticed successful nan movie community.

Buried heavy successful nan backmost pages, her execution was fixed a cursory two-line mention, and Bouron was each but forgotten. 

Now, complete 50 years later, Stephanie - who was 3 years aged astatine nan clip of her mother's decease - seeks closure. 

Speaking to DailyMail.com, she said: 'Some days I interest I'll ne'er get nan answers I need.

'All I was ever told is that my mother ran pinch a accelerated Hollywood crowd and it sewage her killed.'

After Bouron's death, Stephanie was adopted by a middle-class Jewish family successful San Diego, wherever she took connected their surname, Strom.

'I wouldn't opportunity my puerility was happy,' she says. 'It was difficult.'

Strom said she was kicked retired of nan location astatine property 13 erstwhile she began to butt heads pinch her adoptive mother. 

'I conscionable ne'er felt for illustration I belonged,' she told  DailyMail.com.

Compounding her consciousness of loneliness was her nonaccomplishment of interaction pinch her older brothers, Marc and Eric Bouron, who vanished successful nan aftermath of their mother's death.

'My whole existent logic for digging is to find my brothers,' Strom said. 'I did my DNA test, signed up for Ancestry.com, and I recovered a batch of distant cousins, but thing connected my brothers.' 

The life communicative of Cynthia Bouron would person been each but forgotten had a journalist not revived nan enigma of her decease past week successful an article published for AirMail.

According to nan publication, Bouron was calved Cynthia Louise Krensky to a able family successful Chicago connected September 24, 1934.

Strom said her mother 'was enamored pinch Hollywood from a young age.' 

Bouron attended schoolhouse successful Paris arsenic a teen wherever she fell successful emotion and sewage joined to a dentist named Robert Bouron successful 1956. The mates had 2 sons named Eric and Marc.

But Tinsel Town called, and Bouron moved to Los Angeles successful 1964 wherever she met and joined Milos Milosevic, a slick Yugoslavian gangster known arsenic 'Milos Milos.'

Back successful his location country, Milos earned speedy rate arsenic a thoroughfare combatant alongside his pal, Stevan Markovic.

But he ever wanted to make it large successful showbusiness and saw Alain Delon arsenic his summons to Hollywood aft they met during a chance brushwood successful 1962 erstwhile nan French movie prima was filming Marco Polo successful Belgrade.

Delon, besides known for his links to organized crime, quickly took a liking to nan unsmooth brace and hired Milos arsenic his stuntman and bodyguard.

Markovic besides worked arsenic a bodyguard for Delon, but was recovered changeable dormant extracurricular a Paris dump successful 1968 pinch his limbs tied backmost successful eerily akin manner to really Bouron was killed 5 years later. His execution besides remains unsolved. 

The 2 men were said to bask nan privileges that came pinch being successful Delon's societal circle. According to AirMail, their duties arsenic bodyguards often progressive 'procuring women for an evening's entertainment.'

Cary Grant's biographer, Marc Elliot claimed that Bouron was paid 'a precocious 5 fig sum' to wed Milos successful bid to 'save him from deportation to Yugoslavia wherever he faced a 15-year situation word for service desertion.'

Their narration was stormy and toxic from nan start.

Milos was described by a co-star successful 'The Russians Are Coming' arsenic 'very pleasant but nuts.'

'He would thrust sports cars and purpose for people. They would person to jump retired of his way. This was ever a large laughter to him.'

In March 1964, Bouron called nan cops connected Milos, which turned into a constabulary pursuit done Miami formation arsenic he evaded apprehension successful his Bentley. Officers discovered that he was packing 2 handguns and carrying a tear-gas pen.

By July 1965, Bouron had officially called it quits and revenge for divorce after Milos was arrested for home battle successful Los Angeles.  

It was during that time, that Milos began a passionate matter pinch Barbara Ann Rooney, nan 5th woman of nan adulterous, pill-popping, alcoholic kid star, Mickey Rooney.

Milos moved into nan Rooney family location while Mickey was distant successful nan Philippines filming a movie. Upon discovering Barbara Ann's infidelity, Mickey revenge for divorce and threatened to return custody of their 4 children. 

In January 1966, arsenic Rooney recovered successful nan infirmary from a supplier overdose, he convinced Barbara Ann to rekindle their marriage. 

Milos flew into a suspicious rage erstwhile Barbara Ann collapsed nan news later that evening, and changeable her successful nan jaw earlier turning nan weapon connected himself.

Their bodies were recovered nan adjacent morning, slumped connected apical of each different successful nan bathtub. 

The shocking murder-suicide became a world tabloid sensation; and Bouron -  who was still legally joined to Milos astatine nan clip - became nan taxable of aggravated nationalist curiosity. 

She basked successful nan newfound spotlight, hitting up nan Daisy (an exclusive members-only disco) pinch TV prima Stuart Whitman while dancing alongside Natalie Wood, Ryan O’Neal, and Nancy Sinatra, AirMail reported. 

She was besides spotted astatine parties hosted by nan character George Hamilton and nan creator André Andreoli.

'People show maine that she was very beautiful and charming,' said Bouron's daughter.

In early 1967, Bouron was romantically linked to nan Oscar-winning Swiss star, Maximilian Schell, but she reportedly declined his connection earlier becoming progressive pinch Alan Friedman, who was Schell's penning partner and a shaper and screenwriter.

On different occasion, she spotted astatine a Hollywood tiki barroom connected nan limb of character Omar Sharif. 

She was past rumored to person dated nan mega powerful Twentieth Century Fox shaper Harry Sokolov.

'I learned from my grandma that she dated Frank Sinatra,' Strom added. 'She did not stalk Frank Sinatra for illustration group person said.'

She besides paired up pinch Jerry Lewis who, according to Airmail, thought astir marrying her for a short clip until he learned that she lied astir being a personnel of nan Bourbon royal family.

During this period, Bouron formed a adjacent enslaved pinch Marilyn Hinton, a philanthropist and salient fig successful Hollywood societal circles, done whom she met Cary Grant.

Bouron was conscionable his type: beautiful and astir 3 decades his junior. 

The 2 allegedly had a short matter astir 1969 pursuing Grant's divorcement from nan character Dyan Cannon - who claimed successful her 2011 memoir that their rocky two-year matrimony was blighted by his maltreatment of LSD.

As elaborate successful 'Cary Grant: In Name Only,' Bouron shacked up pinch nan movie prima successful a suite astatine nan Dunes edifice and casino successful Las Vegas, wherever they enjoyed evenings of 'candlelight, champagne, and sexy evening dresses.'

The rumored matter was brief, but successful early 1970, Bouron announced to nan property that she was pregnant pinch Grant’s child.

Grant - who cautiously managed to debar scandals passim his extended Hollywood profession - reportedly felt humiliated and agreed to screen Bouron's maternity expenses. 

On March 12, 1970, Bouron gave commencement to a babe girl. She named nan kid Stephanie Andrea Grant, and listed Grant arsenic nan begetter connected nan commencement certificate.

In May, aft retaining nan services of nan aforesaid lawyer who represented a woman's grounded paternity suit against Elvis Presley, Bouron revenge a paternity suit against Grant asking for 'reasonable support.'

Grant initiated his ain lawsuit, asking nan tribunal to extremity Bouron from claiming he was Stephanie’s father.

According to AirMail, Grant hired a backstage detective to sneak into Bouron’s flat for a glimpse of nan babe to guarantee that she bore nary resemblance to him.

'I'm biracial,' Strom told DailyMail.com. 'So nan truth is I do not deliberation Cary Grant was my father.'

'The brownish started kicking successful and nan hairsbreadth is simply a small tight,' she joked.

The lawsuit was yet dropped erstwhile Bouron grounded to comply 3 times pinch a tribunal mandated humor trial to beryllium Grant was nan father. 

But nan tribunal dismissal did small to extremity Bouron from continuing to harass her erstwhile lover. 

In November, she sent a brace of Stephanie's booties to Grant while he was staying at nan Dorchester Hotel successful London, along pinch a statement that read: 'You wouldn’t want to beryllium successful my shoes.'

Following nan scandal, Bouron retreated to Palm Springs, wherever a section insubstantial noted her connections to nan section intermezo and nightlife scene.

Her last mention successful nan rumors columns was successful March 1972, erstwhile she was seen astatine a statement hosted by Jolie Gabor pinch Eva Gabor, Rock Hudson and an Italian prince.

Strom has very fewer recollections near of her mother, but she vividly remembers emotion a pervasive consciousness of 'nervousness.' 

'If I effort to consciousness her, I retrieve anxiety. I retrieve conscionable moving astir a lot,' she explained to DailyMail.com.

'My adoptive mother hinted to maine that she wasn't 100 percent mentally healthy. She was going done a lot. She conscionable couldn't find a husband. She ever wanted to beryllium joined and alternatively she was conscionable making love each these different men,' she continued.

Sadly, history repeated itself for Strom, who became a stripper arsenic a teen and 'looked for emotion successful each nan incorrect places. 

Strom described her upbringing arsenic being successful a 'nice home,' but claimed that her adoptive mother was 'verbally and emotionally abusive.'

And while she ever knew she was adopted, it wasn't until she was a teen that she discovered why.

'I was coming location precocious hanging retired pinch nan incorrect crowd, and my [adoptive] mother said 'You're gonna extremity up conscionable for illustration your mother, chopped up and tied up successful nan trunk of a car.''

After that, Strom didn't deliberation astir her again until she was successful her precocious 20s, erstwhile she hired a lawyer to entreaty to nan take agency for much information.

Her take record revealed a trove of caller details. 'That's really I learned that my mother wrote poetry, and that she was a writer for CBS,' Strom said.

In nan enigmatic past days of her life, Strom believes that her mother mightiness person sensed that she was successful danger.

'She sent maine to unrecorded pinch this female for a fewer weeks earlier she died,' she told DailyMail.com.

Strom has a vague representation of being successful a 'place pinch a bunch of kids' earlier her grandma took her away. 

A societal worker noted successful her record that she was recovered successful an 'unexpected place' - for illustration 'in a bad vicinity astatine a achromatic woman's house,' Strom said.

A large statement ensued betwixt Strom's grandma and nan female charged pinch small Stephanie's care. 

'She conscionable kept telling my grandmother, 'No! I promised I would return attraction of her,' Strom said.

Over nan years, Strom's grandma would sojourn her successful San Diego and regale her pinch stories astir her mother, which allowed her to portion together the  fractured memories she had left. 

'I conscionable had small things that I would recall, but I wasn't judge for galore years if they were existent memories aliases not.'

She could callback her mother's bluish Volkswagen Bug, and nan words to a opus she would sing. 

Strom said: 'I didn't cognize what she looked for illustration though. I knew she had agelong acheronian hairsbreadth but I couldn't image her look for years.

'I would ever cheque Google to spot if thing caller popped up and yet a photographer released a fewer photos, and I instantly recognized myself arsenic a baby, because I person different image of maine wearing nan aforesaid outfit. 

'I thought, 'Oh my God, that's me!'

As a child, Strom said she utilized to deliberation her mother was nan character successful nan 1970s sitcom, 'That Girl.'

'I utilized to deliberation arsenic a small girl, 'That's my mommy, she's successful nan TV.'

'Come to find out, she looked conscionable for illustration her! Wow. So I did person memories. I conscionable didn't deliberation they were real.'

While Strom has been incapable to way down her brothers, 1 silver-lining is that she managed to study nan personality of her begetter aft connecting pinch a first relative connected Ancestry.com. 

'He messaged maine correct away,' said Strom. Through this cousin, she discovered that her begetter was his uncle Theodore, who ne'er had immoderate different children of his own.

Her newfound aunt explained that Theodore was nan only comparative to concisely sojourn her mother while she lived successful Los Angeles during nan 1970s.

'So it must person been a awesome fewer days for my mom!' Strom joked. 

Sadly, Theodore had already passed distant erstwhile she discovered his identity, but Strom has since developed a adjacent narration pinch her cousin.

'I emotion him, he's awesome!' she says. 'He sends maine each these pictures. He's a foodie. He's conscionable truthful nice. He sends maine a batch of achromatic taste worldly because I deliberation he thinks that I don't cognize since I grew up pinch a achromatic family.'

Today, Strom, 51, is happily joined and surviving successful San Diego wherever she useful arsenic a home unit advocate, aft surviving what she describes arsenic 'two decades worth' of her ain toxic relationships.