Lenny Bruce

Work : None | Gain social status 1948 (got big break on TV) | Relationship : None | Marriage 1951 (married Harriet Lloyd) | Family : None | Change in family responsibilities 1955 (daughter born) | Relationship : None | Divorce dates 1957 (divorced Harriet Lloyd) | Crime : None | Arrest 1961 (arrested for narcotics possession) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1963 (How to Talk Dirty...) | Crime : None | Trial dates 4 November 1964 (convicted of obscenity charges) | : None | Death by Suicide 3 August 1966 (Heroin overdose, age 40) | Work : None | Gain social status 23 December 2003 (granted a posthumous pardon 40 years after "crime"; first posthumous pardon in NY State history) | Diagnoses : Psychological | Abuse Alcohol | Diagnoses : Psychological | Abuse Drugs (Died of overdose) | Family : Childhood | Parents divorced (When he was young) | Family : Relationship | Number of Marriages (One) | Family : Relationship | Stress - Traumatic event (Wife drug user and stripper) | Family : Parenting | Hardship - Little money (Had custody but little time for child) | Family : Parenting | Kids 1-3 (One daughter) | Passions : None | Civil/ Political (Oscenity charges) | Vocation : Entertainment | Comedy (Satire) | Vocation : Entertainment | Night Club/ Vaudeville (Burlesque and club acts) | Vocation : Military | Military service (Discharge for dressing in drag) | Vocation : Writers | Autobiographer | Vocation : Writers | Humor | Notable : Book Collection | American Book