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Two days after celebrity publicist Ronni Chasen was gunned down in Beverly Hills, a source reveals that her killing may have been planned. Christine Pelisek on Chasen's last hours.

The Beverly Hills Police Department is dedicating almost half its team of detectives to investigate the shooting death of veteran celebrity publicist Ronni Chasen, who was gunned down on a quiet tree-lined street in Beverly Hills early Tuesday morning. According to sources close to the investigation, eight of the city’s 19 detectives are working on the bizarre case.

Chasen was fatally shot as she was driving home to Westwood from an afterparty for the premiere of the Cher movie Burlesque at the W Hotel in Hollywood. She attended the party with her songwriter client Diane Warren and hobnobbed with her usual pals, celebrities and agents.

Ronni Chasen with the actor Morgan Freeman on Feb. 6, 2005. (Photo: John Heller, NFL / Getty Images)

Friends said Chasen left the party shortly after midnight. She traveled down Sunset Boulevard before making a left on North Whittier Drive, a quiet street with million-dollar mansions. A few minutes later, shots rang out into the night. Chasen was found slumped over the steering wheel of her Mercedes coupe, suffering from gunshot wounds. Her car had collided with a light post. Her passenger side window was shattered. Paramedics took her to Cedars Sinai Hospital, where she died of her injuries about an hour later.

Two days later, Chasen’s death is still a mystery. Detectives have no motive or clue why anyone would want to kill Chasen, who worked in Hollywood for more than 40 years. “No one would be angry with Ronni,” said Caroline Graham, Chasen’s longtime friend. “Her clients adored her.”

But police are keeping their options open. Questions remain. Was the 64-year-old agent killed in an act of road rage? Was she followed from the W Hotel? Was she targeted, as some bloggers have suggested? Was she robbed?

“We haven’t ruled out anything,” said Beverly Hills Police Department Sgt. Lincoln Hoshino. “It is a wide-open investigation. We just don’t know. It is a big whodunit.”

“We have no suspect or no leads in this case at this point,” he said. “We don’t know if the window was shot out or broken as a result of the accident.”

“It is a wide-open investigation. We just don’t know. It is a big whodunit,” said Beverly Hills Police Department Sgt. Lincoln Hoshino.

Chasen, a fast-talking New Yorker with a quick wit, represented a number of A-list stars and filmmakers, including the late Natalie Wood and Jaws producer Richard Zanuck. She began her career in 1973, worked at Rogers & Cowan, and ran publicity at MGM before she formed her own company, Chasen & Co. Over the years, she worked on the marketing campaigns for Lolita, the Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.

Hoshino said detectives now believe that Chasen—who called her assistant and left a message about six minutes before the shooting—was hit before her car collided with the light post. However, detectives are hampered by a lack of eyewitnesses. “There are no witnesses that we are aware of,” he said.

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• Caroline Graham: Ronni Chasen, Hollywood Wonder WomanBut there is a lot of speculation. “Whittier Drive is a pass-through street,” said Beverly Hills attorney Gina Hope, who lives nearby. “This is one of the safest streets. I don’t think it was road rage. This street is dead after 6. There is nobody around late at night. It seems to me it is pretty much, ‘I want you dead.’”

In a bid to help out the police department, friends and colleagues of Chasen are banding together. On Wednesday, the Palm Springs International Award Gala and Film Festival offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for Chasen’s death.

Detectives were seen Wednesday canvassing the Whittier Drive neighborhood seeking video surveillance footage from residents, while others were looking for clues at the W Hotel and at Chasen’s high-rise condominium on Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood, about a five-minute drive from where she was shot.

Yes folks, that sadly did happen

The image you see accompanying this article sparked a powder keg at about 4 a.m. Irish time Tuesday morning.

For those living under a rock the last few days, Miz cashed in his Money in the Bank opportunity on Randy Orton and won.

Thus begun civil war all over the Internet between Miz fans and those who dislike him.

In the case of the Miz, though, the word "fan" doesn't seem to apply. The fanbase seems entirely split between those who blindly defend Miz and ignore his shortcomings and those who despise his very existence within WWE.

Since he won the WWE title, the two factions have begun a war of words with each other on news sites and forums across the web.

However, this article will scrutinise the self-destructive logic of a Miz mark.

In the last four days, the Miz has been compared to The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, John Cena, Randy Orton and now, astonishingly, "Nature Boy" Ric freakin' Flair.

Now look, I know Miz has improved, but any wrestling fan who in their right mind compares Miz to the above names needs their head examined. Miz's ring skills are far inferior to Cena and Orton's, as is his ability to carry a match. To put his subpar mic skills alongside the genii of Austin, Rock and Flair is madness.

Miz fans talk about Miz as if he is Rocky Balboa—a guy who fought his way up to the top with constant struggle. Miz walked into OVW after appearing on The Real World and for some reason got the call-up one year later. Fast-forward four years (you may as well), and this reality show reject is WWE champion?!?!

That's no Rocky story. That is a silver-spoon story.

They also talk about his build-up. Let's examine previous Money in the Bank winners' run-up to cashing in:

Edge: Had great rivalries with Matt Hardy and Ric Flair, the latter of which solidified the Rated R superstar as a Main Event player.

Rob Van Dam: Series with Shelton Benjamin, rivalry with Cena headed into ONS.

Mr. Kennedy/Edge: Kennedy had named a date and was getting more and more heat, week by week. By this point, Edge had become an opportunist and pounced on both Kennedy and a beaten Taker.

CM Punk: His first cash-in had no build-up, and his reign was a flop. His second was built up through a feud with Umaga and created the super-heel Punk. Punk also beat Chris Jericho and Edge among others in the run-up to his second cash-in.

Jack Swagger: No build-up, flop reign.

Kane: 12 YEARS of build-up to a title reign, which has been magnificent.

Miz: No build-up. Follow the pattern.

Miz has had no rivalry with a top star. He has to compete in multi-man matches to hide his weaknesses.

It amazes me that some people have the levels of stupidity to say Miz is the best WWE has. Miz is far from that; Miz is not even the top heel on RAW, in practice. That would be the man who has done everything Miz hasn't: Wade Barrett.

Vince McMahon is reportedly a fan of Miz. I don't normally have to criticise Vince for making a TNA-like decision. But that is exactly what making Miz champion was.

Even a blind mark can see that.

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