Who Killed Nancy?
Malcolm McLaren has said that he doesn't believe that the late Sid Vicious murdered girlfriend Nancy Spungen back in 1978.
Retreading old ground, McLaren disputes that the Sex Pistol had anything to do with Spungen's death, claiming that he just wasn't capable of that kind of act. In a new blog for The Daily Beast, McLaren writes: “I was stunned when I first heard this and I still can't believe it. Sid was capable of a wide range of self-destructive acts, but I didn't think that he could kill someone, especially his girlfriend, unless it was a botched double suicide”.
He goes on to offer his own theory as to how Spungen met her end. He writes: “[Sid] passed out on the bed, having taken fistfuls of the barbiturate Tuinal. All around him, drug dealers, friends of Nancy came and went from Room 100. Money was stolen and Sid's knife was taken from the wall where it was hung and seemingly used by someone defending themselves in a struggle with Nancy. Nancy was no pushover. Probably, she caught this person stealing money from the bedroom drawer”.
A number of writers, including Alan Parker in 'Too Fast To Live', have accused a drug dealer of wielding the knife.