On this day, June 5, 1986, New York City fashion model Marla Hanson’s face was cut up by two men with single-edged razor blades after she rejected the sexual advances of her landlord, Steve Roth.
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The 25-year-old beauty had moved to Manhattan from Texas a year earlier.
Roth, 28, asked Hanson to step outside of a bar, then stood by as a childhood friend and another thug slashed her face. The 15 cuts required 150 stitches, and a scar still snakes down from right cheek to the corner of her mouth.
Roth was found guilty of first-degree assault and spent nine years in prison.
After her recovery, Hanson dated “Bright Lights, Big City” author Jay McInerney for four years and became a filmmaker and screenwriter.
-Scott McCabe
