“God just kind of said, ‘Robert, sit quiet. Drive him through town and then hang him,’” Blake told the CBS News program 48 Hours in 2003. ( Bakley had said that Christian Brando, son of Marlon Brando, was the father.) Blake wed her in November 2000 after a DNA test confirmed he was the father of their daughter, Rosie. I’m broke now.”ĭuring the trial, Bakley was shown to be a con artist who had dozens of aliases, swindled thousands of men and had been married 10 times previously. “If you want to know how to go through $10 million in five years, ask me how,” he told reporters after the verdict. Nearly four years later, including a year spent in jail, a jury acquitted Blake of murdering Bakley and also found him not guilty of soliciting a former stunt double (whom he first met on the set of his 1975-78 ABC series Baretta) to kill his wife. Eileen Saki, Rosie the Bar Owner on 'M*A*S*H,' Dies at 79
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