Many had witnessed John Belushi's final, drug-filled days in Hollywood, but no one could steer the actor away from his relentless drive for cocaine and, in the end, heroin. Among friends, reports of the comic's marathon binges made his untimely death seem inevitable: another star caught in the darker currents of celebrity.
But last week, more than four years after Belushi's body was found in a bungalow off Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, a Los Angeles judge handed a three- year prison sentence to Cathy Evelyn Smith, 39, who supplied the actor with heroin during his final week. Smith had pleaded no contest...
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