Before Harold Smith murdered top Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, the ex-con forced a woman to lie down on a street before violently stomping on her head and breaking her jaw, Breaking Celebrity News has exclusively learned.

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The horrific attack took place on January 20, 1998, according to the family of Farah Tehrani, another of Smith's victims, who spoke out in the wake of Chasen's brutal slaying.

"We were shocked when we heard the same man, who attacked my mom all those years ago had committed a murder," Farah's daughter Nas told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.

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"On the day, we heard my mom scream from outside the house, when we ran down the stairs, we saw her chasing a man up the road, he had grabbed her and tried to steal her handbag. They later told us he was carrying a knife."

While terrifying for Farah, it was a lucky escape for the Los Angeles mother, according to Nas.

"When reporting the crime to police we were told Harold had attacked another woman just 30 minutes before, but she wasn't as lucky as my mom," recalled Nas.

Police said that he had made her get on the floor and put her head on the curb. He had stomped on it breaking her jaw.

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"She was so scared she apparently didn't want to report it... We really feel lucky that Harold Smith didn't do worse than he did to my mom."

Curb-stomping is a violent assault fictionalized in the 1998 film American History X; the heinous assault is also known in criminal circles as curbing, a Russian mouthwash, the dental plan, a curby or a curb job.

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