Sandra Will Carradine

Sandra Will Carradine
Born Sandra Will
(1947-11-03) November 3, 1947[1][2]
Occupation Actress
Years active 1976–1990
Spouse(s)
Keith Carradine
(m. 1982; div. 2000)
Children 2, including Sorel Carradine

Sandra Will Carradine (born November 3, 1947) is an American film and television actress. She was formerly married to actor-singer-songwriter Keith Carradine, and around the time of their separation she became involved with Anthony Pellicano, a high-profile Hollywood private investigator who was involved in extensive illegal wiretapping activities. In 2006, she pleaded guilty to perjury for lying under oath about her awareness of Pellicano's wiretapping of Keith Carradine's phone.

Television and film appearances

She has appeared in various productions, including relatively small roles in episodes of the television series Laverne and Shirley (1976), CHiPs (1977), and The White Shadow (1980–1981), and in the feature films Thank God It's Friday (1978), Choose Me (1984), Cocktail (1988), and Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? (1990).[3] She also appeared in television advertisements for milk and Close-Up toothpaste.[4]

Involvement in Telluride community

She initially visited Telluride, Colorado, in 1980 for the Telluride Film Festival.[5] In 1991, she and then-husband Keith Carradine founded the Sheridan Arts Foundation in Telluride to save and restore its historic Sheridan Opera House.[6][7] Around the same time, she and her husband purchased a 6,000 square foot home in Telluride in 1992 from the estate of music promoter Bill Graham, who had died in a helicopter crash in 1991.[5][8][9]

On April 1, 1994, she herself was involved in a helicopter crash on a heli-skiing excursion in the Telluride area, along with her son, supermodel/actress Christie Brinkley, Colorado real estate mogul Richard Taubman (whom Brinkley would marry later that year), a ski guide, and a pilot.[10][11] She suffered a minor injury in the crash, while Taubman was seriously injured.[12] (Only two days later, Disney CEO Frank Wells was killed in a similar incident in Nevada.)[12]

Personal life, criminal conviction, and bankruptcy

She is the ex-wife of actor Keith Carradine. They were married on February 6, 1982, and had two children: Cade Richmond Carradine, born on July 19, 1982, and Sorel Johannah Carradine, born on June 18, 1985.[13] They separated in 1993,[14][15] and she filed for divorce on November 16, 1999.[13][16]

Their bitter divorce dispute led to a scandal and her federal criminal prosecution in Los Angeles involving the infamous Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano, who gathered evidence to help with her divorce case, and with whom she became romantically involved. On January 6, 2006, she pleaded guilty to perjury for testifying that she did not know about illegal wiretaps that Pellicano placed on her ex-husband's phone.[1][2][14][15][17][18][19] Pellicano was also involved in many other cases besides that of the Carradines, and his actions became notorious. He was eventually convicted of various charges including racketeering and wiretapping, and a significant number of other people were also convicted of crimes associated with their involvement with his illegal activities, including Beverly Hills police officer Craig Stevens, Los Angeles police officer Mark Arneson, film director John McTiernan, and others.

She subsequently cooperated with investigators related to the Pellicano investigations, and was sentenced on February 8, 2010, to 400 hours of community service, two years of probation, and a $10,000 fine.[20]

She underwent some financial hardship, letting an architecturally historic apartment building she owned fall into disrepair due to lack of maintenance, and eventually defaulting on the mortgage for the building.[21]

In 2009, she offered her beach home in the Rincon Point gated community in Carpinteria, California (near Santa Barbara and Ventura), for sale for $4.29 million.[4] She had purchased the home in 1991 after enrolling her son in a prep school in the area.[22]

In 2013, she offered her Telluride home for sale for $8 million, while the home was in the midst of foreclosure proceedings with an outstanding principal of approximately $3.5 million.[5][23]

In 2014, she filed for personal bankruptcy.[24][25] She initially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which would have allowed a negotiated restructuring of debts, but later that year the case was converted to Chapter 7 bankruptcy, a more severe step that requires liquidation of assets.[25]

References

  1. 1 2 "Carradine Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges". Telluride Daily Planet. February 7, 2006. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 Kasindorf, Martin (February 14, 2006). "Private eye's arrest causes L.A. jitters". USA Today. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  3. ↑ Sandra Will Carradine on IMDb . Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  4. 1 2 Beale, Lauren (November 11, 2009). "Sandra Will Carradine lists Carpinteria beach house for $4.29 million". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 Barber, Megan (December 6, 2013). "Actress is Selling Telluride Home Once Owned By Billy Graham". Curbed (real estate blog site). Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "About the Sheridan Arts Foundation". Sheridan Opera House official website. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Historic Sheridan Opera House". Telluride Tourism Board. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  8. ↑ Wadler, Joyce (July 23, 2006). "Keith Carradine's Long Road to 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'". New York Times. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  9. ↑ Riggs, Erika (December 20, 2013). "House of the Week: Carradine Family's Telluride Retreat". Zillow. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "Christie Brinkley Hurt in Colorado Helicopter Crash". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. April 2, 1994. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "Model Unhurt in Helicopter Crash". Deseret News. Associated Press. April 2, 1994. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  12. 1 2 Gliotto, Tom (April 18, 1994). "'I Am Alive!'". People. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  13. 1 2 "Keith Carradine". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  14. 1 2 Gardner, Eriq (October 28, 2013). "Keith Carradine Settles Anthony Pellicano Lawsuit". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  15. 1 2 Verrier, Richard (March 25, 2006). "Keith Carradine Sues Pellicano". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  16. ↑ Takahashi, Corey; Patterson, Troy (December 3, 1999). "Michael Jackson Sued by Concert Investors". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  17. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
  18. ↑ Weiner, Allison Hope (April 9, 2008). "Pellicano Trial: Betrayed Lovers, A Bitter Hedge Funder, More Bert Fields and Murder For Hire". Huffington Post (blog). Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  19. ↑ Mikulan, Steven (March 28, 2008). "Pellicano Briefs: Keith Carradine's Blues". LA Weekly. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  20. ↑ "Keith Carradine's ex-wife sentenced for perjury". Twin Cities Pioneer Press. Associated Press. February 8, 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  21. ↑ Watson, Dan (July 25, 2013). "Residents of WeHo's Historic El Pasadero Apartments Evicted by Controversial El Mirador Owner". WEHOville.com. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  22. ↑ Mark, Tony. "Hot Property: Sandra Will Carradine". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  23. ↑ "San Miguel County Public Trustee Sales" (PDF). Telluride Properties. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  24. ↑ "Sandra Will Carradine Bankruptcy". Bankruptcy Observer. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  25. 1 2 "U.S. Bankruptcy Court Records for the District of Colorado". Open Public Records. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
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