Recklessness was baked into Belushi’s persona. He became a breakout star on the original “Saturday Night Live” in the mid-1970s, with roles that included a giant bee and a deranged, gibberish-shouting ...

Even as she admitted injecting John Belushi with heroin-and-cocaine ”speedballs” on the night before his death in 1982, onetime Singer Cathy Evelyn Smith, 39, insisted she was innocent of murder.

She was married to John Belushi until his fatal drug overdose in 1982. She went on to celebrate his comic talent in books and a documentary. By Clay Risen Judy Belushi Pisano, who after the death of ...