Gift: Porsche

Victim: Diane Thomas (friend/writer)

Diane Thomas died only a year after the release of Romancing The Stone. Thomas was a Malibu, California waitress at the time she wrote the script, which later sold for $250,000. Sadly, Thomas died in a car accident in a Porsche that Michael Douglas bought her after the success of Romancing the Stone.

David Howard Murdock II, 36, whose father is CEO of the Westlake Village-based Dole Food Co., died in a car accident in an early morning while driving his 2003 Ferrari on the Santa Monica Freeway. The ferrari failed to turn when the road curved and drove down an embankment hitting trees below.

Gift: Lockheed Lodestar

Victim: Mike Todd (husband)

Movie producer Michael Todd, the third husband of Elizabeth Taylor, poses outside his private plane, "The Liz." Soon after this photo was taken, the plane crashed in New Mexico, killing Todd and the three others on board.

Gift: Lamborghini Gallardo

Victim: Lee Ward (son)

British oil magnate Charles Ward’s son Lee died in a spectacular crash after losing control of his white Lamborghini and plummeting off a 250 ft cliff in Spain.

Gift: Rover P6 Sedan

Victim: Grace Kelly (wife)

Grace Kelly drive her Rover car off the serpentine road down a mountainside. Princess Grace was pulled alive from the wreckage, but had suffered serious injuries and was unconscious. She died the following day at the Monaco Hospital.

Gift: Racing Powerboat

Victim: Stefano Casiraghi


Princess Caroline, is the eldest child of the late Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Her husband Stefano Casiraghi was killed in when his powerboat Pinot di Pinot flipped off the coast of Monaco near Cap Ferrat on 3 October 1990. The boat did not have a full canopy, and experts who studied the accident have said that Casiraghi would most likely have survived the accident had the boat been equipped with such a canopy

Gift: Motorcycle

Victim: Lance Owens (brother)

Queen Latifah’s older brother Lance Owens, who was a police officer, died in an accident on the motorcycle Latifah bought for him as a present. She still wears the motorcycle key around her neck. In her 1999 autobiography, Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman, Latifah discussed how her brother’s death led to a bout of depression and drug abuse, from which she later recovered.

Gift: convertible Mercedes

Victim: Ennis Cosby(son)


Bill Cosby’s son Ennis who was a graduate student was killed when his Mercedes convertible had a flat tire and he was killed while changing it. The $130,000 dollar vehicle apparently drew the interest of a Ukranian man who shot Ennis, and apparently didn’t want to finish changing the tire.

Gift: Mercedes

Victim: Andrew Singh (nephew)

Andrew Singh, an heir to the New Look clothing fortune, was killed almost instantly after he hit a taxi on the King’s Road as he drove while more than twice the legal limit. The nephew of New Look magnate Tom Singh swerved between lanes at high speed and hit the cab traveling in the opposite direction, seriously injuring the driver and passenger.