liaison with brian epstein this link talks about orton forming a liaison with a prominent manager of a well known music team at that time and it would have been a wonderful combination apparently halliwell had found out about it and beat joe to death with a hammer two weeks later sad to relate the new found friend of joe orton committed suicide already one thinks of the beatles and their manager brian epstein add the fact that epstein did kill himself on august just over weeks after orton's murder and it's clear who they're talking about but they don't name him can this be corroborated anywhere talk