On the morning of 12 October
1978, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious claimed to have awoken from a drugged
induced stupor to find Nancy Spungen
dead on the bathroom floor of their room in the Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan, New York. She
had suffered a single stab wound to her abdomen and appeared to have bled to
death.
On October 22, ten days after
Spungen's death, Vicious attempted suicide by slitting his wrist with a smashed
light bulb and was subsequently hospitalized at Bellevue
Hospital. He was charged with assault after an altercation with Todd
Smith (singer Patti Smith's
brother) at a Skafish
concert. Vicious was arrested December 9, 1978 and sent to Rikers Island metro jail
for 55 days, appearing in court on the 2nd January 1979, however there was
insufficient evidence at this time and he was released on bail on February 1,
1979.
On the evening of February 2,
1979, a small gathering to celebrate Vicious having made bail was held at 63
Bank Street, New York where Vicious is believed to have committed suicide by
taking an overdose of heroin, aged 21.
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