Schön
Schön Lee Bakley was born on June 7, 1956 in historic Morristown, New Jersey, the eldest child in a working class family and daughter of a tree surgeon. Morristown, situated just west of Newark along Interstate 287, between Parsippany and Basking Ridge and near the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, is a quiet, sleepy little town with a population of approximately 17,000 with little to do for those who seek the excitement of a neon nightlife. As such, Schön didn't much like it there as a young girl and teenager, and she began dreaming early in her life of how she would escape the confines of small-town life. She also wanted to break away from the terrible memories: she claimed to have been sexually abused by her father at age seven, and would later say that he died before she became old enough to kill him. Fantasies of future stardom and fame, that never materialized, helped squelch those unpleasant memories, for a while.
Schön's dreams of breaking into show business actually began in high school where they remained just that — dreams. After high school, however, she made her first attempt to make those dreams become a reality when she did a brief stint as a model. She went to New York with aspirations of becoming an actress and hitting it big. However, Schön's dreams never came to fruition and she ended up marrying a man named Paul Gawron, a laborer, by the time she was in her mid-20s. She had two children with Gawron, Holly and Glenn, both of whom are now in their 20s. But her relentless obsession with celebrities and her aspirations for stardom were insatiable and, shortly after starting a mail-order business in 1982 that would later become a major part of lonely-hearts scams she perpetrated against unsuspecting male victims, she and Gawron divorced.
Schön soon befriended a would-be rocker in Palisades Park, New Jersey, named Robert Stuhr. He apparently had some peripheral connections to the movie industry. Stuhr managed to get Schön and his own daughter parts as extras in the 1985 movie, Türkisch 182 mit Robert Urich und Timothy Hutton. Der Teil des Films hat nirgendwo hingenommen, aber Bonny hielt durch. Ihre Freundin Stuhr leitete auch eine Musikgesellschaft namens Norwegen aus den Vereinigten Staaten und nahm einige Songs auf, die als absolut schrecklich angesehen wurden. Einer der Songs hieß Rock-a-Billy Love, und ein anderer, der unter dem Namen Leevonny Bakley aufgenommen wurde, wurde als Tribut an Elvis Presley bezeichnet und enthielt eine Linie in dem Brief, in dem es heißt: Der Rock'n'Roll wird niemals der gleiche sein, der Rock'n'Roll Leevonny ist mein Name. Jahre zuvor, in den 70ern, nahm er ein weiteres Lied auf, das so schlimm war, wenn nicht sogar schlechter war. Der einzige Unterschied war, dass sich das Lied der 70er Jahre, nur ein Fan, als etwas Prophetisches erwies, wenn es nach dem Text des Songs beurteilt wird: Ich jage eine Berühmtheit ... es gibt keine Zukunft in ihm, die er sehen kann. Ein Versuch, kurz nach seinem Tod in E-Bay eine authentifizierte Kopie von nur zu Fan mit einem Mindestangebot von 1.000 US-Dollar zu versteigern, ist ohne ein einziges Angebot nicht gelungen.
