Susan Cabot’s Son Seeks Jail Transfer

The son of actress Susan Cabot may have been fathered by Jordan’s King Hussein and should be moved from his cell at the Los Angeles County Hall of Justice to Van Nuys during his trial for the murder of his mother, his attorney said Wednesday.

Chester Leo Smith, who is defending Timothy Scott Roman, 25, has filed papers in Van Nuys Superior Court claiming the actress received $1,500-a-month payments from the monarch and that “it looks like child support.”

Smith said that having the Jordanian king for a father would make Roman half Jewish and half Arab, “a direct descendant . . . of the Prophet (Mohammed).”

This could be dangerous for Roman in jail, Smith said, because “religious Arabs would not look favorably upon a descendant that was half Jewish, and might try to kill him.”

Susan Cabot Roman, who starred in “B” movies during the 1950s, met Hussein in 1959 at a Beverly Hills dinner party, according to a Los Angeles Times article. Smith said he was told that the two had a relationship that ended because the actress was Jewish. She was bludgeoned to death Dec. 10, 1986, in her Encino home.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Bradford Stone called the defense motion entertaining, but said it had no validity. The Jordan government could not be reached for comment.

Roman’s trial is to begin next week.