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Testimony in Blake's murder trial focused on the actor's troubled relationship with his second wife. Bakley's daughter Holly Gawron, 24, told the jury that while living in Arkansas with her mom, she had received the blasts over the phone from Blake, who thought he was speaking to Bakley, reports the Associated Press.
Blake, 71, stands charged with killing Bakley, 44, whom he married after learning he had fathered her baby. Bakley was shot to death in May 2001 as she waited in a car for Blake outside a restaurant. The former Baretta star, who prosecutors say fiercely fought to keep the child to himself, has pleaded not guilty.
Gawron, who said she lived with Bakley throughout the pregnancy and often cared for the child, Rose, after she was born, testified that her mother was happy after learning she was pregnant and "asked what I thought she should do about telling Robert Blake."
During cross-examination, Gawron said she had been asked by Bakley to assist her with "a fertilization monitor. ... She was trying to find out her most fertile day."
"Your mother was trying to get pregnant?" asked defense attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach.
"Obviously," replied Gawron, who is also suing Blake for money in a civil lawsuit.
Gawron also said that simultaneous to the start of the pregnancy, Bakley was carrying on a relationship with Christian Brando, son of the late actor Marlon Brando.
