{"id":31120,"date":"2024-12-30T18:05:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T18:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-30-1999-george-harrison-and-wife-olivia-were-attacked-by-home-intruder\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T18:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T18:05:36","slug":"on-this-day-dec-30-1999-george-harrison-and-wife-olivia-were-attacked-by-home-intruder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-30-1999-george-harrison-and-wife-olivia-were-attacked-by-home-intruder\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Dec. 30, 1999: George Harrison and wife Olivia were attacked by home intruder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-26\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_0.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Dec. 30, 1999 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Beatles<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>George Harrison<\/strong> and his wife,\u00a0<strong>Olivia<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Harrison<\/strong>, were attacked in their Friar Park estate by a 34-year-old mentally ill intruder named\u00a0<strong>Michael Abram<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Abram punctured\u00a0George&#8217;s lung with a kitchen knife and stabbed him more than 40 times. Abram was finally stopped by Olivia, who repeatedly struck him with a fireplace poker and a lamp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the hospital,\u00a0George had to have part of his punctured lung removed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Abrams was tried and found not guilty by reason of insanity and was sent to a mental health facility. He was released in 2002 and apologized to the Harrisons.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">George\u00a0died\u00a0in 2001\u00a0after a battle with cancer. He was 58.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Dec. 30, 1999 &#8230; The Beatles&#8216; George Harrison and his wife,\u00a0Olivia\u00a0Harrison, were attacked in their Friar Park estate by a 34-year-old mentally ill intruder named\u00a0Michael Abram. Abram punctured\u00a0George&#8217;s lung with a kitchen knife and stabbed him more than 40 times. Abram was finally stopped by Olivia, who<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-30-1999-george-harrison-and-wife-olivia-were-attacked-by-home-intruder\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}