Longet was arrested & charged by using a March 21, 1976 shooting death of her lover, Olympic skier Vladimir "Spider" Sabich at his Aspen, Colorado home after an argument. At a arresting test, she claimed a gun freed inadvertently when Sabich was showing her how else it worked. Williams super publicly supported Claudine throughout a test, potentially escorting her to & from either a courthouse. She was convicted of culpable negligence & sentenced to Xxx years inside gaol, which she served charted the vacation by owning her defense lawyer, Ron Austin, whom she later married. At least partially due to the ill fame of the incident, Longet has never performed once again, nin possibly appearing on television documentary film all about her ex-ex.

Trivia

the incident of culpable negligence in a demise of Sabich was the subject of a song written by Mick Jagger which was ultimately cut from either a Rolling Stones album Emotional Rescue, although copies have surfaced due to piracy on top a years.

Inside 1977 Saturday Night Live poked fun at a situation by featuring the skit entitled the Claudine Longet Celebrity Ski Shoot. Chevy Chase and Jane Curtin played commentators as a film showed a skier crashing fallowing a healthy of gunshot. "Uh-oh," Curtin said, "he seems to have been accidentally shot by Claudine Longet."