LOS ANGELES. CA. (THECOUNT) — Rose Lenore, the daughter of “Baretta” actor, Robert Blake, is speaking out for the first time since her mother’s untimely death in 2001.
Lenore, now 19, was only 11-months-old when her mother, Bonny Lee Bakley, Blake’s wife, was shot dead outside Vitello’s on Tujunga Avenue in Studio City, CA in 2001. Her Emmy-winning father would later be charged in the crime.
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Blake was eventually acquitted but was held liable in a civil suit.
Lenore revealed in a recent interview she visited her mother’s grave for the first time at age 18, though the gravesite is located mere miles away from her home nestled near the Hollywood Hills.
“I kind of didn’t know where she was buried for the longest time,” she explained. “I could have just looked it up, but I didn’t. I just don’t think I was ready. And then when I was 18, I was like, ‘I’m ready. I want to go visit her.'”
According to Radar, Lenore was sent to live with her half sister Delilah and her husband a few miles away in Sherman Oaks where she last saw Blake at five-years-old, until a meeting this past summer.
Lenore, who is pursuing an acting career of her own, says she recently reconnected with her father. “We talked about my childhood,” she detailed. “We talked about his life, what he’s been doing. Just talked about everything,” reports Radar.
In 2018, Blake filed for divorce from third wife Pamela Hudak after only a year of marriage.
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