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Sandra Will Carradine (née Will; born November 3, 1947) is an American film and television actress. She was formerly married to actor
Keith Carradine Keith Ian Carradine ( ; born August 8, 1949) is an American actor. In film he is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's ''Nashville'', E. J. Bellocq in Louis Malle's ''Pretty Baby'', and Mickey in Alan Rudolph's '' Choose Me.'' ...
, and around the time of their separation she became involved with
Anthony Pellicano Anthony J. Pellicano (born March 22, 1944) is an American private investigator and convicted felon, known as a high-profile Hollywood fixer. Pellicano served thirty months in a federal prison for illegal possession of explosives and firearms. I ...
, a high-profile Hollywood private investigator who was involved in extensive illegal
wiretapping Wiretapping, also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connecti ...
activities. In 2006, she pleaded guilty to
perjury Perjury (also known as forswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding."Perjury The act or an insta ...
for lying under oath about her awareness of Pellicano's wiretapping of Keith Carradine's phone.


Career

She has appeared in various productions, including relatively small roles in episodes of the television series ''
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'' (1976), ''
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'' (1977), and '' The White Shadow'' (1980–1981), and in the feature films '' Thank God It's Friday'' (1978), ''
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'' (1984), ''
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'' (1988), and ''Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will?'' (1990). She also appeared in television advertisements for milk and Close-Up (toothpaste), Close-Up toothpaste.


Involvement in Telluride community

She initially visited Telluride, Colorado, in 1980 for the Telluride Film Festival. In 1991, she and then-husband Keith Carradine founded the Sheridan Arts Foundation in Telluride to save and restore its historic Sheridan Opera House. Around the same time, she and her husband purchased a home in Telluride in 1992 from the estate of music promoter Bill Graham (promoter), Bill Graham, who had Bill Graham helicopter crash, died in a helicopter crash in 1991. On April 1, 1994, she herself was involved in a helicopter crash on a heli-skiing excursion in the Telluride area, along with her son, supermodel/actress Christie Brinkley, Colorado real estate mogul Richard Taubman (whom Brinkley would marry later that year), a ski guide, and a pilot. She suffered a minor injury in the crash, while Taubman was seriously injured. Two days later, The Walt Disney Company, Disney CEO Frank Wells was killed in a similar incident in Nevada.


Personal life

She is the ex-wife of actor
Keith Carradine Keith Ian Carradine ( ; born August 8, 1949) is an American actor. In film he is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's ''Nashville'', E. J. Bellocq in Louis Malle's ''Pretty Baby'', and Mickey in Alan Rudolph's '' Choose Me.'' ...
. They were married on February 6, 1982, and had two children: Cade Richmond Carradine, born on July 19, 1982, and Sorel Johannah Carradine, born on June 18, 1985. They separated in 1993, and she filed for divorce on November 16, 1999.


Legal issues

Their bitter divorce dispute led to a scandal and her federal criminal prosecution in Los Angeles involving the infamous Hollywood private investigator
Anthony Pellicano Anthony J. Pellicano (born March 22, 1944) is an American private investigator and convicted felon, known as a high-profile Hollywood fixer. Pellicano served thirty months in a federal prison for illegal possession of explosives and firearms. I ...
, who gathered evidence to help with her divorce case, and with whom she became romantically involved. On January 6, 2006, she pleaded guilty to
perjury Perjury (also known as forswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding."Perjury The act or an insta ...
for testifying that she did not know about illegal Telephone tapping, wiretaps that Pellicano placed on her ex-husband's phone. Pellicano was also involved in many other cases besides that of the Carradines, and his actions became notorious. He was eventually convicted of various charges including racketeering and wiretapping, and a significant number of other people were also convicted of crimes associated with their involvement with his illegal activities, including Beverly Hills Police Department, Beverly Hills police officer Craig Stevens, Los Angeles police officer Mark Arneson, film director John McTiernan, and others. She subsequently cooperated with investigators related to the Pellicano investigations, and was sentenced on February 8, 2010, to 400 hours of community service, two years of probation, and a $10,000 fine. She underwent some financial hardship, letting an architecturally historic apartment building she owned fall into disrepair due to lack of maintenance, and eventually defaulting on the mortgage for the building. In 2009, she offered her beach home in the Rincon Point (Santa Barbara County), Rincon Point gated community in Carpinteria, California (near Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara and Ventura, California, Ventura), for sale for $4.29 million. She had purchased the home in 1991 after enrolling her son in a University-preparatory school, prep school in the area. In 2013, she offered her Telluride home for sale for $8 million, while the home was in the midst of foreclosure proceedings with an outstanding principal of approximately $3.5 million.


Filmography


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Television


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