Those conflicting portrayals of the 72-year-old actor leading up to the death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, will be weighed by jurors in a wrongful-death lawsuit on Friday when deliberations are expected to begin. Jurors will have to decide whether Blake should be found civilly liable for Bakley's death and award damages to her four children.

On Thursday, Blake's attorney Peter Ezzell said in his closing argument that there wasn't enough evidence connecting Blake to the killing of his wife, who was found shot in the actor's car on May 4, 2001, outside a restaurant where they had just dined. Blake married Bakley in November 2000 after tests showed he was the father of her baby, Rosie.

Ezzell said that the four children who sued Blake shouldn't be compensated because they didn't appear to be close with their mother. Bakley ran a mail-order business in which she allegedly used nude pictures of herself and promises of sex to get money from men.

Because of Bakley's background, Ezzell argued there were many people who might want to kill her. But Dubin countered that Blake was the only one that had a real motive. He reasoned that Blake wanted his wife killed so he could have sole custody of Rosie, now 5.

Dubin alleged that in an eight-month span before Bakley died Blake tried to distance himself from her and then attempted to hire two former Hollywood stuntmen to kill her. When those plans failed, Blake took matters into his own hands, Dubin claimed.

He also said Blake was less than a model husband the night of Bakley's killing, noting that the actor didn't call 911 immediately from Bakley's cell phone after finding her shot, didn't tend to her injuries and didn't accompany her to the hospital. Dubin contended that once Blake killed his wife, he was overcome with fear, prompting him to vomit at the crime scene.

Ezzell also referred to a taped phone call between Bakley and Blake in December 2000 in which the actor said he wanted to remain married to her. On the tape, Blake told Bakley that he didn't want a custody fight over Rosie because in such suits "nobody winds up with anything but a lot of heartache and misery."

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