Ronni Sue Chasen was an American publicist, who once represented such actors as Michael Douglas, as well as musicians such as Hans Zimmer and Mark Isham, among others.
15 Facts About Ronni Chasen
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Ronni Chasen was shot and killed on November 16,2010, while driving home from the premiere of the film Burlesque.
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Ronni Chasen was born Veronica Cohen to a Jewish family in Kingston, New York in 1946.
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Ronni Chasen was raised in both the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx and the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.
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Ronni Chasen won a series of Duncan Toys Company yo-yo contests held in Morningside Heights as a child.
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Ronni Chasen began her early career as a publicist for her brother, film director Larry Cohen, who hired her as a publicist for his 1973 blaxploitation film, Hell Up in Harlem, which became one of her earliest jobs in the industry.
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Ronni Chasen was pushing for Oscar recognition for Douglas in his role as the money hungry, risk averse character Gordon Gekko.
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Ronni Chasen successfully directed the Oscar campaign for the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture the following year.
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When police arrived, they found Ronni Chasen slumped in the driver's seat, the steering wheel airbag inflated, with blood emanating from her nose and chest area, in and out of consciousness with the front passenger side window shattered.
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Ronni Chasen was buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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Ronni Chasen was the sister of film director Larry Cohen who died in 2019.
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Beverly Hills Police Department sources stated that Ronni Chasen received three gunshot wounds to the chest and one to the back, causing her to lose control of the vehicle just after turning from Sunset Boulevard onto Whittier Drive.
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Police surmised that Ronni Chasen's killer was an expert marksman and likely shot her from an SUV or truck that pulled alongside her car.
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However, on December 8,2010 the Beverly Hills Police Department declared its preliminary conclusion that Ronni Chasen's murder had been a random act of violence, a robbery attempt turned violent.
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An anonymous tip through America's Most Wanted stated that the suspect began bragging to neighbors that he shot Ronni Chasen and got $10,000 for it, but the final police report stated that the killing was a failed robbery.