Susan Cabot

About Susan Cabot

Susan Cabot was born in Boston and raised in a series of eight foster homes. She attended high school in Manhattan, where she took an interest in dramatics and joined the school dramatic club. Later, while trying to decide between a career in music or art, she illustrated children's books during the day and sang at Manhattan's Village Barn at night. It was at this same time that she made her film debut as an extra in Fox's New York-made Kiss of Death (1947) and worked in New York-based television. Maxwell Arnow, a casting director for Columbia Pictures, spotted Cabot at the Village Barn, and a co-starring role in that studio's B-grade South Seas drama On the Isle of Samoa (1950) resulted. While in Hollywood Cabot was also signed for the role of an Indian maiden in Universal's Tomahawk (1951) with Van Heflin. Subsequently signed to an exclusive contract by Universal, Cabot co-starred in a long string of films opposite leading men like John Lund, Tony Curtis and Audie Murphy. Inevitably, she became fed up with the succession of western and Arabian Nights roles, asked for a release from her Universal pact and accepted an offer from Harold Robbins to star in his play "A Stone for Danny Fisher" in New York. Roger Corman lured her back to Hollywood to play the lead in the melodramatic rock-'n-'roller Carnival Rock (1957) and she stayed on to star in five more films for the enterprising young producer-director. After a highly publicized 1959 fling with Jordan's King Hussein, Cabot divided her time between TV work and roles in stage plays and musicals.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tom Weaver, TomWeavr@aol.com

Cabot soon had a seven-year affair with King Hussein of Jordan (which the CIA was aware of) and their only child, Timothy Scott, was born out of wedlock in 1964. She received $1500 in monthly support from Hussein.[8] In 1968, she married her second husband Michael Roman with whom she raised Timothy, before again divorcing in 1983.[9]

On the night of December 10, 1986, around 10:30pm, police responded to a call that there was an intruder at Cabot's house in Encino, California. When the police arrived, they found Cabot bludgeoned to death. Cabot's son Timothy Roman, told the police that "a tall Latino with curly hair, dressed like a Japanese Ninja warrior", had attacked them both with "ninja methods" and had escaped making off with about $70,000 cash. Roman said that he fought with the intruder, and was knocked out. His story, combined with the superficial "wounds" that Cabot showed the police, immediately led to suspicion of his involvement in Cabot's death. Roman soon confessed to killing his mother by beating her with a weightlifting bar-bell and he was subsequently charged with murder.

A declassified government memo in 2018 revealed that Cabot was invited by the CIA to a party with King Hussein of Jordan, who was in Los Angeles on a trip and desired female company. While she did not necessarily wish to accomplish the CIA goal of "go to bed with him", she went to the party and evidently found him charming. Cabot soon had a seven-year affair with King Hussein of Jordan (which the CIA was aware of) and their only child, Timothy Scott, was born out of wedlock in 1964. In 1968, she married her second husband Michael Roman with whom she raised Timothy, before again divorcing in 1983.