By July 1966, she started living with her attorney, Sam Brody, who had frequent drunken brawls with her and mistreated her eldest daughter, Jayne Marie. Sam's wife, Beverly Brody, filed a divorce suit naming Mansfield the "41st other woman" in Sam's life.
Two weeks before her mother's death in 1967, 16-year-old Jayne Marie accused Sam Brody of beating her. The girl's statement to officers of the Los Angeles Police Department the following morning implicated her mother in encouraging the abuse, and days later a juvenile court judge awarded temporary custody of Jayne Marie to Paul's uncle William W. Pigue and his wife Mary.
July 1966 was a twosome with lawyer Sam Brody, partner of Melvin Belli in the Jack Ruby/Lee Harvey Oswald murder trial.
the organizers of the San Francisco Film Festival ask her to leave when she shows up with Brody and is wearing a near-nude show dress
visits San Francisco's Church of Satan and becomes deeply involved with High Priest Anton La Vey, who will play the Devil in Rosemary's Baby. Le Vey informs Brody he will be dead within a year.
in a jealous attack, Brody sticks her head in a hotel toilet bowl
May 1967 her eldest daughter reports to a Los Angeles police station that she was beaten by Brody on instruction from her mother; the case goes to court
June 28, 1967 on the way to an assignment in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Highway 90, 15 miles from New Orleans, a Buick driven by a hotel employee and carrying her, Brody, Mickey Jr., Zoltan, and Mariska, plows into a mosquito-spraying machine. Brody, Jayne, and the driver are flung from the car and killed instantly; the children survive. Her blonde wig is knocked off during the crash, and the morbid rumor is born that she was decapitated.