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John Belushi’s Killer Now Outcast In Canadian Senior Citizen Facility

John Belushi’s Killer Now Outcast In Canadian Senior Citizen Facility
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July 11 2019, Updated 1:06 p.m. ET

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The woman who did time for killing legendary funnyman John Belushi has been tracked down in Canada after a dogged six-month investigation!

Catherine Evelyn Smith is now an outcast holed up in the Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge, where the notorious 72-year-old lives on the edge of poverty and is banned from many of the local bars, Breaking Celebrity News has learned.

Smith went to prison in 1986 after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter. She served 15 months after bragging, “I killed John Belushi,” and admitting she injected the 33-year-old Saturday Night Live standout with a deadly mixture of heroin and cocaine — known as a speedball.

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The Blues Brothers star died on March 5, 1982, at West Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont hotel. His death was initially ruled an accidental overdose — until Smith crowed about her killer act.

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Tinseltown Connections

John Belushi’s Killer Now Outcast In Canadian Senior Citizen Facility
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Before her downfall, Smith had been a Hollywood drug dealer known as Cathy ­Silverbag because she sold drugs out of her metallic purse and ­partied with celebs like The Rolling Stones, Robin ­Williams and Belushi.

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Unglamorous Life

John Belushi’s Killer Now Outcast In Canadian Senior Citizen Facility
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But now, 37 years after Belushi’s tragic death, Breaking Celebrity News discovered disheveled Smith living in a senior citizen building, wearing a worn terry-cloth robe and blue slippers while hanging out in her building’s lobby. “I know Cathy Smith,” said a bartender at a seedy local saloon. “I don’t want to have anything to do with her!”

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Lessons Left Unlearned

John Belushi’s Killer Now Outcast In Canadian Senior Citizen Facility
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Despite her California prison stint, Smith continued her party-hearty lifestyle in Canada after being released and later depo