Overview
- Longet’s death, announced Thursday by her nephew Bryan Longet on social media, came with no cause or further details.
- A French-born performer, she recorded for A&M Records, sang in Blake Edwards’ 1968 film The Party, and married entertainer Andy Williams in 1961 as she built a TV and music career.
- In Aspen on March 21, 1976, she shot Olympic skier Spider Sabich in the bathroom of their chalet with a .22-caliber pistol and said the gun fired accidentally while he showed her how it worked.
- Prosecutors faced mishandled evidence and an illegal search that limited key items, and a jury in January 1977 convicted her of criminally negligent homicide, resulting in two years’ probation, a $250 fine, and 30 days in jail.
- Sabich’s family later settled a $1.3 million civil suit after she agreed not to speak or write about the case, and she left public life, marrying defense attorney Ronald Austin and living privately in Aspen and Hawaii.