Entertainment & Sports
May 27, 2022
The Alexander Pantages rape trials
We may never know which jury verdict was correct, guilty or not guilty.
John S. Caragozian
Email: caragozian@gmail.com
John is a Los Angeles-based lawyer and sits on the Board of the California Supreme Court Historical Society. He welcomes ideas for future monthly columns on California's legal history at caragozian@gmail.com.
The 1930 grand opening of Hollywood’s opulent Pantages Theatre was an extravaganza, thronged by actors Douglas Fairbanks, Greta Garbo, Buster Keaton, Mary Pickford, and studio head Louis B. Mayer and other movie royalty. Notably absent was the theater’s owner: Alexander Pantages. He could only listen on the radio because he was in Los Angeles County jail awaiting transfer to San Quentin prison to begin his sentence for statutory rape.
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