She had her boyfriend arrested for stealing her jewelry.

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This permanent A+ list actress/singer had her boyfriend arrested for stealing her jewelry.

The thing is though, he was pawning it to pay for her drugs she needed and to keep her from being evicted from where she was living.

Judy Garland

Judy Garland’s Life Was in a Downward Spiral Before Her 1969 Death

Broke, addicted to pills and recently married for the fifth time, the actress performed a notorious run of shows at London’s Talk of the Town nightclub before suddenly passing away.

Garland’s entire life was plagued by illness

During the intervening years between Oz and her 1969 London shows, Garland had experienced soaring career highs and tragic personal lows. Following a string of hit MGM movies, she toured relentlessly, made numerous Hollywood comebacks, was twice nominated for an Academy Award, and was the first woman to win the Grammy for Album of the Year for her live, 1961 recording Judy at Carnegie Hall.

By 1968 years of addiction to upper and downer prescription pills and heavy alcohol abuse had taken a toll on her body and voice. A mother of three from four marriages, Garland had spent her life dieting and bingeing, her weight yo-yoing in attempts to please studio executives. Her Los Angeles Times obituary said she had been plagued by illness throughout her life and “had suffered from hepatitis, exhaustion, kidney ailments, nervous breakdowns, near-fatal drug reactions, overweight, underweight and injuries suffered in falls.”

Leading up to her death, Garland was in a desperate financial state

Due to mismanagement and embezzlement, any money she once had was gone and she owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes to the IRS. Garland had tried to end her life on numerous occasions.

In a desperate financial state, she made what would be her final New York appearances at the Palace Theatre in July, performing sold-shows with her children Lorna and Joey Luft from her marriage to former manager Sidney Luft. The majority of Garland’s earnings from the shows were reportedly seized for back taxes.

In August she performed in front an estimated crowd of 100,000 on the Boston Common, before returning to New York for two more shows at Madison Square Garden’s Felt Forum theater in December.

Arriving at London’s Heathrow Airport on the eve of 1969 for her Talk of the Town run, Garland was immediately handed a legal injunction to stop her from appearing in the shows, claiming she was still under contract to “two American businessmen” who had the exclusive use of her services until the following June, according to a news report by the London Observer. Despite the writ, Garland went on to appear at Talk of the Town.

Her London performances were described as an ’emotional car crash’

In a review of her January 14, 1969 performance, the Observer described her as “thinner now, almost haggard, her hair flicked back like a boy’s. Her orange sequined suit makes her jaunty … With hand on hip, she struts and totters and stomps and prowls – tigerish and restless, her great brown eyes darting amongst the audience for a friendly face. ‘I haven’t been taught anything new since silent movies,’ she croaks.”

Heckled regularly by the late-night crowd, Garland smoked and drank onstage, often calling partner Deans out from the wings as she tried to get through her set list, which included “I Belong to London,” “The Man That Got Away,” “You Made Me Love You,” and ended with “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

Garland’s husband ‘gave in to her,’ escalating her death

In his 1972 autobiography, Weep No More, My Lady, Deans wrote that he first met Garland in 1966 when he delivered a package of stimulant pills to her. They dated on and off after that before Deans proposed and they wed on March 16, 1969. Deans, 12 years Garland’s junior, was a musician and former disco manager. At the time of their marriage Garland told reporters, “Finally, finally, I am loved.”

In her book Me and My Shadows: Living With the Legacy of Judy Garland, daughter Lorna writes that when her mother married Deans, she was in the final stages of prescription drug addiction and “was dying in front of his eyes.” Wilder describes Deans as the “dreadful man who became her husband. … I mean if she put an advert in a newspaper for the most unsuitable person to take care of her, she wouldn’t have had a better response. … I don’t know what possessed… well, I know what possessed her because he gave in to her and he fed her all the things she wanted.”

Garland made her final concert appearance on March 25, 1969, in Copenhagen, Denmark, performing a setlist almost identical to her Talk of the Town concerts.

Deans discovered Garland dead in the bathroom of their rented mews house in the Belgravia area of London on the morning of June 22. Her cause of death was ruled as accidental, an overdose of barbiturates that had been ingested over a long period of time and that no evidence suggested she had committed suicide. Garland died 12 days after her 47th birthday. – Source