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Dorothy Stratten
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Stratten was murdered by her husband Paul Snider only months after she was named the 1980 Playboy Playmate of the Year. Stratten was just 20. She had moved to Los Angeles with Snider after his aggressive promotion helped land her in Playboy's August 1979 issue. Stratten also landed a co-starring role in the Peter Bogdanovich film They All Laughed (released in 1981); at the time of her death she was estranged from Snider and romantically involved with Bogdanovich. She visited Snider at his home on 14 August 1980, where he shot her and then killed himself. Stratten's story was told in the TV movie Death of a Centerfold (1981) and in Star 80 (1983), director Bob Fosse's last film. She was the subject of Bogdanovich's 1984 book The Killing of the Unicorn.
Stratten and Snider were played by Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts in Star 80 and by Jamie Lee Curtis and Bruce Weitz in Death of a Centerfold... Bogdanovich married Stratten's sister Louise in 1988; she filed for divorce in 2001. |
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