It was often joked that Carol Wayne would never drown with those large breasts of hers - but ironically that's exactly how she did die. To this day, the exact circumstances leading up to her death in 1985 remain a mystery...
According to comments, she died the same year as the Slawson cut-off and the pic was taken. And here's the story of decline to accompany the uplifting view. Let go of the mesmerizing grip her tits seem to hold, and check out her eyes, which convey less sparkle than the smile.
Carol Wayne's troubles started in 1980 when Johnny Carson threatened to quit his lucrative role as host of the popular 'Tonight' show. He demanded that NBC cut the show from ninety-minutes to sixty.
The network was having a very bad year, and the nightly talk show was its biggest profit center at the time ('The Cosby Show' changed that situation a few years later).
NBC had no choice but to reluctantly agree to Carson's demand. Freeing up this time led to the creation of 'Late Night with David Letterman', which became another hot property for the network and Carson Productions - so everyone came out a winner.
Well, everyone but Carol Wayne. The new sixty-minute format meant that Carson had less time for skits starring familiar characters like Aunt Blabby, Floyd R. Turbo, and Art Fern. As a result, Carol Wayne's appearances on the 'Tonight' show became fewer and farther between.
Carol Wayne was no longer in demand for daytime game show appearances either, that genre was dying on the vine. In 1980, she divorced her husband, bestselling writer Burt Sugarman.
In 1984 a thin, pale Carol Wayne declared bankruptcy due in large part to a cocaine and alcohol problem. It was said the entertainer was reduced to being an occasional escort for wealthy businessmen in order to make a living.
continued...According to published reports, Carol Wayne was on vacation in Santiago Bay, Mexico with Los Angeles car salesman Edward Durston on January 10, 1985 when (it has been reported) the couple had a argument about where they were going to stay that evening (they were scheduled to fly back to Los Angeles the next morning).
Durston checked into a hotel and Wayne reportedly left to walk down the beach (to cool off?). That was the last time anyone saw her alive. Local fisherman Abel de Dios found her limp body floating in the shallow bay waters three days later.
Mexican authorities wondered how Carol Wayne came to drown in waters four feet deep, fully clothed. There were no cuts or abrasions, so a fall from the nearby rocks was ruled out. The coroner stated that death occurred 3 - 4 days earlier and the body tested negative for drugs and alcohol.
Suspicions were raised: Carol Wayne had to be identified by workers at the Las Hadas resort where the couple had been staying earlier in the week. When locals went to look for Wayne's traveling companion, they discovered that Edward Durston checked out three days earlier - leaving Wayne's luggage at the airport with a message that she would pick up her bags in the morning.
Carol Wayne could not swim, and reportedly did not like to go too near the water. So how did she happen to be found dead in calm and shallow waters?
"Carol Wayne's death is unsolved, certainly," the U.S. Consular William LaCoque was quoted as saying in 1990. "But I don't think it was a drowning. A drowning, yes, of course, but there is much more to it than that." What more, we may never know.
As an aside, many readers may remember the (alleged) LSD related death of Art Linkletter's daughter Diane. She jumped (or fell) from a sixth floor apartment building in 1969. Art basically ended his successful television career when he started crusading against drugs with a fervor that made it hard for middle America to find the afternoon talk show host funny anymore.
Not that it necessarily means anything, but Diane Linkletter's companion the night she was killed was Edward Durston.
According to the autopsy, no evidence of drugs or alcohol was found in Diane Linkletter's system. And Durston who happened to be present at the deaths of three different celebrities without being tagged for murder was known for his drug connections (going back to Linda Tate and Manson) and the hardcore gay porn he produced.
What a sad, sorry, tangled mess of a man and a trail those tits led her to and down. Would choosing a pair that size be something she'd sign up for again, were she to return for a second round?
Not the answer, edutcher, but certainly one of them. And Sharon it is/was.
Taking the pictured sag into account (which leads me to believe those were the real deal and not balloon enhanced), it's highly likely she felt the physical and emotional weight of carrying those startlingly eye-catching and lust stirring breasts around with her from adolescence on.
The attention she received in taking on the role of Ditzy Blonde Bombshell worked for her until it didn't. That's on her, as was the highlighter outer decor. The inner disconnect that leads to addiction started well before she turned to drugs and alcohol, sold her body, or welcomed Durston into her life.
^highlighted^ Thanks Sixty, I learned something new--it took a search to find the ^ function which wasn't showing up on the keyboard until Google ^ed it out!
And here another thought trail those breasts continue to jiggle in the minds and imaginations of others:
But there is ANOTHER SUSPECT.....One in which MOTIVE jumps out at you.....Double Indemnity. ....Carols ex husband Barry Feinstein, divorced for 11 years, filed and collected on a life insurance Double Indemnity Clause. Carols sister Nina Wayne, married and divorced from the Barrymore Family, said she had no say in the matter of her sisters body in Mexico. ....Immediately on the scene in Mexico was the ex husband 11 years divorced. It is on the record that he chose the cheapest and fastest way of bringing home the body. The Mexican police ruling no drugs and no foul play made it possible for him to collect on his Double Indemnity Life Insurance policy. A policy on an ex wife 11 years divorced. The little man in Edward G Robinson's stomach would be all over the low odds of the ex ever collecting Double Indemnity. ...So who is Barry Feinstein ? Famed photographer of Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Charlton Heston, Steve McQueen, Jane Mansfield, John F Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones for Time, Esquire, Newsweek and over 500 record album covers. He was married to Mary Travers of Peter Paul and Mary from 1963 to 1967....In 1969 he married buxom beauty actress Carol Wayne until their divorce in 1974,....This is a Rich and Famous that popped up immediately in Mexico and could have had the money and power to have the Mexican police death investigation go his way on collecting on the Double Indemnity clause. He kept Carols sister out of it and he got the body away from Mexican police back to USA the cheapest and quickest way possible it is reported. So ex husband Barry Feinstein collecting on the life insurance Double Indemnity clause is against the insurance odds, and maybe more than just luck.....The ex husband of 11 years benefits the most, as in a Columbo movie, and so I see great MOTIVE. ....He sure got to Mexico fast and took over the police investigation and handling of the body a great deal for someone divorced for 11 years, ..ODD........and this keeps Ed Durston from being investigated, WHY ????.
US Counselor William LaCoque did not buy that this was just a drowning as Mexican investigation said, saying there is more to this than we will ever know.
Now here career had changed. She had always played dumb but then on Carson's couch was smart. Then she got into drugs and became an escort for the richest of men. She did the Playboy nude pictures , as an aging Jayne Mansfield had done. This would make her less wanted by TV and movie censors and studios. As the Playboy Mag came out she was on Johnny Carson one last time. I have seen the reruns and at the couch she continues to be dumb, unlike years before. She continues the dumb blonde routine. She tells the audience how many times she has been with Johnny at night, and 7 times it was not on TV. Carson says, " you haven't changed "...Is this about her drug problems, and maybe he thought she had cleaned up and was giving her a shot back. As much fun as they had in the sketch, Carson face and expression is not enjoying Carol talking of her nude pictures, her and Carson off the TV, and some ramblings that just leave Carson looking at her wondering, what the heck are you on. ....and a year later she filed bankruptcy.....Here is the question : Was this woman going to come out with a TELL ALL BOOK to make money ? Many rich married men would have suffered, maybe some politicians. She had no problem saying she had been with Carson off the show, and Johnny having enough divorce money problems didn't seem to like that cat out of the bag.
After that long piece, it's the conclusion of that article that sums it up best:
In conclusion, the most logic possibility is that she died of drugs with Ed Durston as Art Linkletter's daughter died of drugs with Ed Durston, Ed never getting investigated in either death. It could very well be both overdosed, and he sleezed out of it. Carol may have even overdosed and Ed put her body in the water as the cowards way of not calling rescue crews and police. He the man of the drugs. ..Not a planned murder by either woman, but his drugs killing them just the same...That ties together, that makes sense. That explains his leaving Mexico without her and going straight to his ex wife pretending he doesn't know where she is, all shaken up.....Now Mr Feinstein is no saint, as he comes into Mexico, keeps the sister out of it, and to collect his Double Indemnity Insurance on his ex, he makes sure he gets the Mexican police to rule out drugs or foul play. He then expedites the dead body out of Mexico quickly. He is the last person that would want drug man Ed Durston investigated because such an investigation ruins his Double Indemnity Insurance Claim.....So in a strange way Durston helps Feinstein and Feinstein helps Durston by what they DO NOT tell the police, and that my friends is tampering with a murder investigation by both, and both should have went to prison,..but both are lily white Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous, so they get by with it....and it all pieces together.....2 actresses of overdoses while boyfriend Durston of drug money never gets investigated....and ex Feinstein makes sure there is no investigation so he can collect the Double Indemnity....Both guilty as hell of felonies, both getting away with it....and they are so rich, I smell Mob Connections, especially with Durston. ....If she doesn't die of drugs, none of this makes sense, but if you consider drug overdose and how both Durston and Feinstein benefit from disclosing the overdose and calling it a drowning, it all goes together.....I agree with the US Counselor, THIS WAS NOT A DROWNING DEATH. .....This was the disposal of a person that died of overdose into the water to avoid her being found at the hotel of Durston. Plain and Simple. ......and why the sister and The Barrymore Family she married into all loved that it was ruled accidental death, because all families hide drug overdose of a loved one if they can, for the deceased and for the family. This would explain why so many were happy with such a sloppy homicide investigation. There is no mystery, most families hide an overdose, and instead of the Obit saying drugs, it says to donate to The Heart Fund or some other complete lie. It may also be that the Mexican Rich and Famous Hotel of the movie 10 did not want this in their Hotel History, and they may have even aided Mr Durston on dumping the body in the water for the benefit of their Hotel. These things are very possible and would connect the pieces. Much like the movie Jaws where the resort tells the police chief he can't yell SHARK, this fancy resort may have told the police chief he can't yell DRUG OVERDOSE, as they all swept it under the rug for pride, profit and self preservation. .....and the jigsaw pieces fall into place.
I said something similar to MrM. In an odd way the story reminds me of the many sordid and shifted around parts and pieces in the Hunter/Joe Biden story.
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In the immortal words of Art Fern, H-o-o-o-o-LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!".
Ah, yes, I remember it well.
It was often joked that Carol Wayne would never drown with those large breasts of hers - but ironically that's exactly how she did die. To this day, the exact circumstances leading up to her death in 1985 remain a mystery...
According to comments, she died the same year as the Slawson cut-off and the pic was taken.
And here's the story of decline to accompany the uplifting view. Let go of the mesmerizing grip her tits seem to hold, and check out her eyes, which convey less sparkle than the smile.
Carol Wayne's troubles started in 1980 when Johnny Carson threatened to quit his lucrative role as host of the popular 'Tonight' show. He demanded that NBC cut the show from ninety-minutes to sixty.
The network was having a very bad year, and the nightly talk show was its biggest profit center at the time ('The Cosby Show' changed that situation a few years later).
NBC had no choice but to reluctantly agree to Carson's demand. Freeing up this time led to the creation of 'Late Night with David Letterman', which became another hot property for the network and Carson Productions - so everyone came out a winner.
Well, everyone but Carol Wayne. The new sixty-minute format meant that Carson had less time for skits starring familiar characters like Aunt Blabby, Floyd R. Turbo, and Art Fern. As a result, Carol Wayne's appearances on the 'Tonight' show became fewer and farther between.
Carol Wayne was no longer in demand for daytime game show appearances either, that genre was dying on the vine. In 1980, she divorced her husband, bestselling writer Burt Sugarman.
In 1984 a thin, pale Carol Wayne declared bankruptcy due in large part to a cocaine and alcohol problem. It was said the entertainer was reduced to being an occasional escort for wealthy businessmen in order to make a living.
continued..
continued...According to published reports, Carol Wayne was on vacation in Santiago Bay, Mexico with Los Angeles car salesman Edward Durston on January 10, 1985 when (it has been reported) the couple had a argument about where they were going to stay that evening (they were scheduled to fly back to Los Angeles the next morning).
Durston checked into a hotel and Wayne reportedly left to walk down the beach (to cool off?). That was the last time anyone saw her alive. Local fisherman Abel de Dios found her limp body floating in the shallow bay waters three days later.
Mexican authorities wondered how Carol Wayne came to drown in waters four feet deep, fully clothed. There were no cuts or abrasions, so a fall from the nearby rocks was ruled out. The coroner stated that death occurred 3 - 4 days earlier and the body tested negative for drugs and alcohol.
Suspicions were raised: Carol Wayne had to be identified by workers at the Las Hadas resort where the couple had been staying earlier in the week. When locals went to look for Wayne's traveling companion, they discovered that Edward Durston checked out three days earlier - leaving Wayne's luggage at the airport with a message that she would pick up her bags in the morning.
Carol Wayne could not swim, and reportedly did not like to go too near the water. So how did she happen to be found dead in calm and shallow waters?
"Carol Wayne's death is unsolved, certainly," the U.S. Consular William LaCoque was quoted as saying in 1990. "But I don't think it was a drowning. A drowning, yes, of course, but there is much more to it than that." What more, we may never know.
As an aside, many readers may remember the (alleged) LSD related death of Art Linkletter's daughter Diane. She jumped (or fell) from a sixth floor apartment building in 1969. Art basically ended his successful television career when he started crusading against drugs with a fervor that made it hard for middle America to find the afternoon talk show host funny anymore.
Not that it necessarily means anything, but Diane Linkletter's companion the night she was killed was Edward Durston.
According to the autopsy, no evidence of drugs or alcohol was found in Diane Linkletter's system. And Durston who happened to be present at the deaths of three different celebrities without being tagged for murder was known for his drug connections (going back to Linda Tate and Manson) and the hardcore gay porn he produced.
What a sad, sorry, tangled mess of a man and a trail those tits led her to and down. Would choosing a pair that size be something she'd sign up for again, were she to return for a second round?
Sharon, Mama.
And maybe the answer would have been stay away from Durston.
MamaM commented on something I notices - she looks haunted in that picture. She is not smiling, not really. Very sad.
^noticed^
Burt Sugarman can be seen sitting in the 2nd row @ Dodger Stadium behind home plate, next to his current blonde wife, Mary Hart.
Not the answer, edutcher, but certainly one of them. And Sharon it is/was.
Taking the pictured sag into account (which leads me to believe those were the real deal and not balloon enhanced), it's highly likely she felt the physical and emotional weight of carrying those startlingly eye-catching and lust stirring breasts around with her from adolescence on.
The attention she received in taking on the role of Ditzy Blonde Bombshell worked for her until it didn't. That's on her, as was the highlighter outer decor. The inner disconnect that leads to addiction started well before she turned to drugs and alcohol, sold her body, or welcomed Durston into her life.
^highlighted^ Thanks Sixty, I learned something new--it took a search to find the ^ function which wasn't showing up on the keyboard until Google ^ed it out!
And here another thought trail those breasts continue to jiggle in the minds and imaginations of others:
But there is ANOTHER SUSPECT.....One in which MOTIVE jumps out at you.....Double Indemnity. ....Carols ex husband Barry Feinstein, divorced for 11 years, filed and collected on a life insurance Double Indemnity Clause. Carols sister Nina Wayne, married and divorced from the Barrymore Family, said she had no say in the matter of her sisters body in Mexico. ....Immediately on the scene in Mexico was the ex husband 11 years divorced. It is on the record that he chose the cheapest and fastest way of bringing home the body. The Mexican police ruling no drugs and no foul play made it possible for him to collect on his Double Indemnity Life Insurance policy. A policy on an ex wife 11 years divorced. The little man in Edward G Robinson's stomach would be all over the low odds of the ex ever collecting Double Indemnity. ...So who is Barry Feinstein ? Famed photographer of Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Charlton Heston, Steve McQueen, Jane Mansfield, John F Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones for Time, Esquire, Newsweek and over 500 record album covers. He was married to Mary Travers of Peter Paul and Mary from 1963 to 1967....In 1969 he married buxom beauty actress Carol Wayne until their divorce in 1974,....This is a Rich and Famous that popped up immediately in Mexico and could have had the money and power to have the Mexican police death investigation go his way on collecting on the Double Indemnity clause. He kept Carols sister out of it and he got the body away from Mexican police back to USA the cheapest and quickest way possible it is reported. So ex husband Barry Feinstein collecting on the life insurance Double Indemnity clause is against the insurance odds, and maybe more than just luck.....The ex husband of 11 years benefits the most, as in a Columbo movie, and so I see great MOTIVE. ....He sure got to Mexico fast and took over the police investigation and handling of the body a great deal for someone divorced for 11 years, ..ODD........and this keeps Ed Durston from being investigated, WHY ????.
US Counselor William LaCoque did not buy that this was just a drowning as Mexican investigation said, saying there is more to this than we will ever know.
Now here career had changed. She had always played dumb but then on Carson's couch was smart. Then she got into drugs and became an escort for the richest of men. She did the Playboy nude pictures , as an aging Jayne Mansfield had done. This would make her less wanted by TV and movie censors and studios. As the Playboy Mag came out she was on Johnny Carson one last time. I have seen the reruns and at the couch she continues to be dumb, unlike years before. She continues the dumb blonde routine. She tells the audience how many times she has been with Johnny at night, and 7 times it was not on TV. Carson says, " you haven't changed "...Is this about her drug problems, and maybe he thought she had cleaned up and was giving her a shot back. As much fun as they had in the sketch, Carson face and expression is not enjoying Carol talking of her nude pictures, her and Carson off the TV, and some ramblings that just leave Carson looking at her wondering, what the heck are you on. ....and a year later she filed bankruptcy.....Here is the question : Was this woman going to come out with a TELL ALL BOOK to make money ? Many rich married men would have suffered, maybe some politicians. She had no problem saying she had been with Carson off the show, and Johnny having enough divorce money problems didn't seem to like that cat out of the bag.
After that long piece, it's the conclusion of that article that sums it up best:
In conclusion, the most logic possibility is that she died of drugs with Ed Durston as Art Linkletter's daughter died of drugs with Ed Durston, Ed never getting investigated in either death. It could very well be both overdosed, and he sleezed out of it. Carol may have even overdosed and Ed put her body in the water as the cowards way of not calling rescue crews and police. He the man of the drugs. ..Not a planned murder by either woman, but his drugs killing them just the same...That ties together, that makes sense. That explains his leaving Mexico without her and going straight to his ex wife pretending he doesn't know where she is, all shaken up.....Now Mr Feinstein is no saint, as he comes into Mexico, keeps the sister out of it, and to collect his Double Indemnity Insurance on his ex, he makes sure he gets the Mexican police to rule out drugs or foul play. He then expedites the dead body out of Mexico quickly. He is the last person that would want drug man Ed Durston investigated because such an investigation ruins his Double Indemnity Insurance Claim.....So in a strange way Durston helps Feinstein and Feinstein helps Durston by what they DO NOT tell the police, and that my friends is tampering with a murder investigation by both, and both should have went to prison,..but both are lily white Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous, so they get by with it....and it all pieces together.....2 actresses of overdoses while boyfriend Durston of drug money never gets investigated....and ex Feinstein makes sure there is no investigation so he can collect the Double Indemnity....Both guilty as hell of felonies, both getting away with it....and they are so rich, I smell Mob Connections, especially with Durston. ....If she doesn't die of drugs, none of this makes sense, but if you consider drug overdose and how both Durston and Feinstein benefit from disclosing the overdose and calling it a drowning, it all goes together.....I agree with the US Counselor, THIS WAS NOT A DROWNING DEATH. .....This was the disposal of a person that died of overdose into the water to avoid her being found at the hotel of Durston. Plain and Simple. ......and why the sister and The Barrymore Family she married into all loved that it was ruled accidental death, because all families hide drug overdose of a loved one if they can, for the deceased and for the family. This would explain why so many were happy with such a sloppy homicide investigation. There is no mystery, most families hide an overdose, and instead of the Obit saying drugs, it says to donate to The Heart Fund or some other complete lie. It may also be that the Mexican Rich and Famous Hotel of the movie 10 did not want this in their Hotel History, and they may have even aided Mr Durston on dumping the body in the water for the benefit of their Hotel. These things are very possible and would connect the pieces. Much like the movie Jaws where the resort tells the police chief he can't yell SHARK, this fancy resort may have told the police chief he can't yell DRUG OVERDOSE, as they all swept it under the rug for pride, profit and self preservation. .....and the jigsaw pieces fall into place.
I am very familiar with the sad story of Carol Wayne Mama M.
I think it would make a great novel.
She is my favorite Carol.
I think it would make a great novel.
I said something similar to MrM. In an odd way the story reminds me of the many sordid and shifted around parts and pieces in the Hunter/Joe Biden story.
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