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Accused “Hollywood Vampire” Blake Leibel Refuses to Attend Court

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Girlfriend was found murdered in his apartment, tortured, beaten, with blood drained from her body; Leibel, son of a prominent Jewish real estate mogul, was “living the dream” in Hollywood before the killing

BLAKE LEIBEL, the Jewish producer accused of torturing and killing his girlfriend in West Hollywood, missed a court appearance in Los Angeles Tuesday after he refused to leave his jail cell, officials said. (ILLUSTRATION: Blake Leibel is accused of torturing, mutilating and murdering his girlfriend, 30-year-old Iana Kasian.)

Leibel, the 35-year-old son of a wealthy Toronto real estate developer, has pleaded not guilty to torture, mayhem and murder in the death of Iana Kasian, the mother of his newborn daughter. At an arraignment late last month, Leibel’s legal team questioned his fitness to stand trial. Had Tuesday’s appearance, at the L.A. mental health courthouse, gone ahead, it’s likely a doctor would have been assigned evaluate Leibel’s mental health.

The hearing was rescheduled for June 23.

Leibel’s attorneys declined to comment on why he refused to leave his cell.

The watch commander at Twin Towers Correctional Facility, where Leibel is held, said guards can’t force inmates to go to court.

“Do inmates refuse to go to court? Yeah, of course,” watch commander Joe Reveles said. “If he didn’t show up in court, then he’s a court no-show.”

Sheriff’s deputies arrested Leibel on May 26 after finding him barricaded inside his West Hollywood apartment with Kasian’s corpse. Prosecutors later said Kasian’s body showed signs of torture and mutilation. She had given birth to a daughter, her first child and Leibel’s third, earlier in May.

Leibel, the scion of two prominent Toronto families, styled himself a “creator of worlds” in Los Angeles. He funded obscure, often-violent graphic novels, wrote screenplays, worked on a television series and directed a straight-to-DVD feature film — all the while relying on hefty injections of cash from his wealthy parents, who separated when he was young.

Friends told the National Post that Leibel seemed to be dismantling his Hollywood life over the past year. He filed for divorce from his wife Amanda Braun last summer, who was then pregnant with their second child. He cut off friends, and moved into an apartment with Kasian in West Hollywood — a modest place compared to the Beverly Hills mansion he kept with his wife and first-born son.

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The apartment on Holloway Drive in West Hollywood, where Canadian Blake Leibel lived with his girlfriend Iana Kasian.

Sheriff’s deputies went to that apartment on May 26, after Kasian’s mother reported her missing. Deputies arrested Leibel and found Kasian’s mutilated body drained of all blood in a bedroom, according to the district attorney’s office.

On Tuesday, Lt. David Coleman said detectives were still waiting for the coroner to determine Kasian’s time of death. “It’s very difficult,” he said.

For now, officials can only say she died between May 23 and 26 — leaving it unclear how long she was allegedly tortured and mutilated before her death.

On May 20, days before the killing, Leibel was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and released on $100,000 bail. Kasian was not the victim in that case. Speaking through a relative, Kasian’s mother told the Post that Kasian left Leibel after she learned of the arrest, but later went back to the apartment to speak to him. She was never seen alive again.

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Source: National Post

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Bruce Arney
Bruce Arney
23 June, 2016 12:04 am

You’d think something like this would be all over the MSM, but I guess some things are swept under the rug because it’s not “good for the Jews” for gentiles to see such Jewish behavior.