“Gulliver,” was the largest concrete statue in Europe when it was unveiled in 1976 while he was still in the stir.
Comfortable Life on the Outside
Jimmy Boyle was released from prison in 1982 and moved to Edinburgh to live with his wife. In 1999 the BBC reported that Boyle and Trevelyan were living in a 12-room house, and their two children were both attending private schools in the Scottish capital. An Edinburgh newspaper even reported that Boyle was considered a highly desirable dinner party guest in Edinburgh society.
In addition to sculpture, Boyle was also a very successful author. Disney reportedly bought the film rights for one his novels: Hero of the Underworld. Boyle’s second memoir, Pain of Confinement: Prison Diaries, was made into the French movie The Anger and Dreams of the Condemned. If that wasn’t enough, Boyle co-wrote a play called The Handman, which was produced for the stage.
Boyle was so colorful that he even inspired the main character in the 1999 British gangster movie, The Debt Collector. The movie chronicles the life of Nick Dryden (played by Billy Connolly), a Glasgow mob enforcer turned celebrity artist, who is being tormented by small time gangsters. Like the real life Boyle, Dryden was married to a celebrity and part of high society. In the movie, Dryden loses everything when he ends up murdering a former mob associate.
They Didn’t Live Happily Ever After
Jimmy Boyle’s life wasn’t as tragic as that of his movie alter ego. His marriage to Sarah Trevelyan ended in 2001, 21 years after it began. The two divorced and went their separate ways.
Boyle still had good things to say about Sarah. He told The Herald newspaper that she taught him how to love. He also called her a fantastic mother to his children.
Jimmy Boyle now divides his time between Morocco and France. His 10,000 square foot home in Marrakesh, Morocco, was so luxurious that it was featured in The New York Times in 2007. Boyle shares the home, which has a swimming pool, with his second wife, actress Kate Fenwick. Boyle reportedly married Fenwick in 2007. The house bears an eerie resemble to the homes where retired mobsters reside in British gangster movies.
Sarah Trevelyan is still living in Glasgow; unlike her ex-husband, her life has been low key since her divorce. She’s stayed out of the media, which is difficult in a tabloid-obsessed country such as Great Britain.
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Even a professional woman with a good job and children can feel the allure of a serial killer. Christine Kizuka, a mother of three, who worked as a supervisor in the state of California’s Employment Development office in Los Angeles married Angelo Buono Jr. at the famous Folsom prison in February 1987.
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