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Cathy Smith
Catherine Evelyn Smith (born 25 April 1947 in Hamilton, Ontario)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.corfid.com/gl/press/press14.htm )〕 is an occasional backup singer, rock groupie, drug dealer, and legal secretary, who served 15 months in the California state prison system for injecting John Belushi with a fatal dose of heroin and cocaine in 1982.
Smith had been paid for a front page headline story in the Hollywood tabloid the ''National Enquirer'', where she stated she was the person who injected the actor with a fatal drug overdose. Smith co-wrote the book ''Chasing the Dragon'' (1984)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allbookstores.com/book/0919493505/Cathy_Smith/Chasing_The_Dragon.html )〕 which told her life story; its title alludes to Smith's heroin addiction. Smith appeared prominently in the Bob Woodward book ''Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi'' (1984) and was played by Patti D'Arbanville in the 1989 film version of ''Wired''.
==Levon Helm and The Band==
Smith became notorious in the Belushi case, but her association with well-known performers went back at least 20 years prior to her confession in the ''National Enquirer''. Her earliest association was with Levon Helm, who later joined The Band in 1963.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://theband.hiof.no/books/this_wheels_on_fire.html )〕 In his autobiography, Helm recalls that Smith first met him in Hamilton, Ontario.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://theband.hiof.no/guestbook/may_00.html )〕 Helm, with friend and bandmate Rick Danko, was in a band called The Hawks at the time (see Ronnie Hawkins). At one point, the musicians were in Toronto facing a drug bust.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://theband.hiof.no/articles/the_weight_viney.html#sdfootnote14sym )〕
Smith has been connected to The Band's famous song, "The Weight" (1968). Smith says in ''Rock and Roll Toronto: From Alanis to Zeppelin'' (1997), that Richard Manuel offered to marry her, but she refused.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://theband.hiof.no/articles/the_weight_viney.html According to Rock & Roll Toronto, Smith was impregnated by one member of the band, but the identity of the father was not clear. )〕 Nevertheless, she continued to tour and party with Helm, Rick Danko, and Manuel through the 1960s, and at one point became pregnant with a child known as "the band baby", as its paternity was unclear. She later had an affair with Gordon Lightfoot. After the affair ended, Smith returned to Helm and the circle who comprised The Band.
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