
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 8, 1990                   TAG: 9005080564
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: SANTA ANA, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

MAN GUILTY OF ATTACK ON WAYNE'S DAUGHTER

Jurors have convicted a man of eight felony counts, including assault with a deadly weapon, in an attack on the daughter of the late John Wayne and her boyfriend.

The prosecution alleged that Jerrell Hintergardt, 38, and private investigator Oded Daniel Gal were hired by Aissa Wayne's former husband, Dr. Thomas Gionis, to attack her and boyfriend Roger Luby in October 1988.

Gionis allegedly arranged the beatings at Luby's Newport Beach home because of a custody dispute with Wayne over their daughter, Anastasia, then 2 years old.

Gionis, who is awaiting trial, has pleaded innocent to charges of conspiracy and assault.

-Associated Press

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