Blind Item #9 - Reader Blind

This recently deceased Academy award nominated movie and TV actor had success early in his career and a second wind later in his career. In between, he was part of a wild generation and during that time became friends with an infamous figure who had his own family.  The night of a famous crime, he was present having driven himself there but did not go inside the house of the actress.  One of the perpetrators of this crime gave hours of recorded testimony to his attorney and mentioned this but no one believed him.