The French singer and actress was at the center of a highly publicized manslaughter trial in the mid-1970s after she was charged with the fatal shooting of her boyfriend, Olympic skier Vladimir “Spider” Sabich. NEW YORK (AP) — Claudine Longet, the French singer and actor who was at the center of a highly publicized manslaughter trial after she was charged with the fatal shooting of her boyfriend, Olympic skier Vladimir “Spider” Sabich, has died at age 84. Longet’s nephew, Bryan Longet,