revealed how at age thirteen she had come out as a lesbian to her parents: Turner would later state that she regarded Crane's partner, LeRoy, "as a second daughter." Upon Turner's death in 1995, Crane and LeRoy inherited Turner's personal effects as well as $50,000 (her estate was estimated in court documents to be worth $1.7 million [$ million in dollars]) with the majority of her estate being left to Carmen Lopez Cruz, her maid and companion for 45 years. Crane challenged the will and Lopez claimed that the majority of the estate was consumed by probate costs, legal fees, and medical expenses. In 1998, Crane was diagnosed with breast cancer and successfully underwent a double mastectomy as well as radiation and chemotherapy to treat the cancer. She published her second memoir in 2008, titled Lana: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies, which focused on her mother. She wrote her first fictional work, a mystery novel titled The Bad Always Die Twice, which was published in 2011. As of 2011, Crane resided in the Palm Springs, California area, working in real estate. In 2013 and 2014 she published two additional novels, Imitation of Death, and The Dead and the Beautiful. Both are mystery novels featuring Nikki Harper, a real estate agent featured in The Bad Always Die Twice. In November 2014, Crane married LeRoy, her longtime partner, after having been together for over four decades. Crane still worked as a real-estate agent as of 2018. Publications References Sources External links 1943 births Living people American real estate brokers American memoirists Businesspeople from Los Angeles Cornell University alumni Female models from California American lesbian writers LGBT people from California Lesbian memoirists Lesbian models People acquitted of murder Writers from Los Angeles Lana Turner