Leonard Di Caprio will play a major role in the film "Crowded Room" based on real events. The actor will embody Billy Milligan's image on the screen - the first criminal justified during the trial due to the diagnosis of the "split personality".
The picture is based on the documentary Roman Daniel Kiza "Multiple Beams Billy Milligan", published in 1981. They say Di Caprio dreamed of the screening of this book for more than twenty years. And now, finally, he took up the project. In addition to the fact that Leonardo will play a major role, he will also protrude the producer of the film. Jason Smilovich ("happy number of slave") and Todd Katzberg, who worked with integrity over the series "Kidnapped" took to adapt.
Billy Milligan received broad fame in the late 1970s, when accused of several robbers and three rape. However, his lawyers declared the insaneness of his client, arguing that two of its alternative personalities committed these crimes without the knowledge of Milligan. As a result, the criminal was acquitted, but sent to forced psychiatric treatment.
Alter-personality at Billy appeared at the age of three or four years. For eight-nine years, the number of personalities has increased. In an already adulthood, Milligan had 24 full-fledged personalities, ten of whom were the main. He was released in 1988 after ten years of intensive treatment. Until 1996 lived in California, after his traces were lost. In December 2014, it became known that Billy Milligan died aged 59 years in the nursing home in Ohio.