Attended high school in Manhattan, where she took an interest in dramatics and joined the school dramatic club.
Burial: Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City (Los Angeles), California.
Her personal life included a well publicized relationship with King Hussein of Jordan in 1959, which ended when he found out that she was Jewish.
In 1957 Susan returned to films after signing an exclusive contract with producer Roger Corman. The two briefly dated as well.
In 1964, she gave birth to her son, Timothy, who suffered from dwarfism. He bludgeoned her to death while she slept with a weight-lifting bar in the bedroom of her Encino home. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter but cited years of mental and physical abuse by her as his defense. He received a three-year suspended sentence and was placed on probation for the crime.
In 1968, she married her second husband, actor Michael Roman, but the marriage broke up in the early 1980s, in part due to Cabot's increasing mental fragility and paranoia. Cabot had reportedly been taking a growth hormone prescribed for her son, possibly a factor in heightening her mental illness.
Married at the age of 17 in order to escape her sad and transient childhood, which included eight different foster homes.
Son, Timothy Scott Roman, suffered from dwarfism and was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in her death.