She was a stunning beauty, friends said, with a voice to match. But in recent years singer Gloria Hudson became a recluse, her house filling with clutter and the feces of Bubbles, her poodle, and Foo-Foo, her cat. After nine hours of holding police at bay with an automatic pistol, at times babbling incoherently, Helen Paolone, 62, who used the stage name Gloria Hudson, was charged with murder. Police found the body of drummer Jacob R. Portnoy, known as Jack, under a blanket in the bathroom of Hudson's house. He had been shot several times, sometime Tuesday, police said. Hudson once sang with Benny Goodman, Nelson Riddle and Maynard Ferguson. ''She was beautiful in her time, talented, but a pathetic sight over the past year,'' her half-brother, Gary White, told the Philadelphia Daily News. Norma Desmond meets Jayne Mansfield and a little bit of murder! Back in 1991.