- In 1958, at the age of 14, she fatally stabbed her mother's lover, gangster Johnny Stompanato, during a quarrel. Jerry Giesler represented her. The murder was deemed justifiable homicide at a coroner's inquest.
- Works as a real-estate agent in Palm Springs, California with her partner of thirty-seven years, Jocelyn "Josh" LeRoy [November 2005].
- Cheryl wrote a book about her life with her mother Lana Turner, her mother's 7 husbands and numerous boyfriends and living in Hollywood. It was entitled "Detour: A Hollywood Story" and was published in 1988 when Cheryl was 45.
- Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998 and underwent a mastectomy and was treated with radiation and chemotherapy. She has since been in remission.
- Married her longtime partner, Joyce "Josh" Leroy on November 14, 2014.
- Her parents, Lana Turner and Stephen Crane, were married twice. Their first marriage was annulled after only seven months, but they remarried the following month when Lana discovered that she was four months pregnant. However, her parents divorced permanently in 1944 when Cheryl was just one year old.
- Real estate agent in the Palm Springs, California area. (November 2005)
- Release of her book, "Lana: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies". (October 2008)
- Release of her book, "Detour: A Hollywood Tragedy - My Life with Lana Turner, My Mother" by Cheryl with Cliff Jahr. (1988)
- According to the blurb in the August 2nd 1943 Milestone's column of time magazine Cheryl weighed 3.572069 kilos or 7 lbs 14 oz at birth.
- Was a childhood friend of Liza Minnelli as they grew up in the same neighborhood together during Liza's mother Judy Garland's marriage to Sidney Luft in the 1950s.
- Her mother's real name was Julia and her father's real name was Joseph.
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