Fantasy Island
1977
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Oct 19, 2019 · Dorothy’s nude body “was found sprawled across a bed near that of her estranged husband.” (This scene is captured in a grisly and disturbing crime scene photo that has been widely shared on...
Jun 30, 2023 · This story contains graphic details of intimate partner abuse, violence, and sexual assault. In 1980, 20-year-old Dorothy Stratten seemed set to have a long, successful career in Hollywood ahead of her.
- Matt Reigle
Aug 14, 2020 · Original airdate: 17-Aug-1980 – Aug 14, 2020. In the early hours of Aug. 15, 1980, Los Angeles police officers discovered the bodies of B.C.-born Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten and husband...
Oct 18, 2019 · Inside the Murder of a Playboy Model and Hollywood Starlet Who Couldn't 'See the Evil in People'. Friends believe Dorothy Stratton's estranged husband murdered her in a final attempt at...
- Harriet Sokmensuer
- How A Teenage Dorothy Stratten Fell For A Notorious Pimp Named Paul Snider
- Dorothy Stratten’s Rise to Fame as Playboy’s Miss August 1979
- A Chance to Become “The Next Marilyn Monroe”
- Inside The Brutal Death of Dorothy Stratten
- The Legacy of A Doomed Playmate and Actress
Born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten on February 28, 1960, Stratten began her life in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She grew up in nearby Coquitlam, and her early years were fairly ordinary. But all of that changed after she turned 18. That year, Stratten met her future husband and murderer. As Playboy founder Hugh Hefner later reflected, “There is...
Hugh Hefne saw as much money in Stratten as Snider did. He soon gave the new model a full spread in his magazine as Miss August 1979 and started whispering in her ear about how he was going to make her a star. According to Peter Bogdanovich, Stratten’s last romantic partner, Hefner was still whispering those promises to Stratten when he “forced him...
As Dorothy Stratten’s star rose, Hefner became increasingly adamant that she wasn’t just going to be a naked girl on the cover of a magazine. He was determined to make her a star on the silver screen. According to Harper’s Bazaar, Stratten was even poised to become “the next Marilyn Monroe.” Hefner helped her get roles in Buck Rogers and Fantasy Is...
Before long, Paul Snider started to get suspicious. He would call Dorothy Stratten and tell her how much he loved her, and she would just go silent on the other end. Something, he knew, had changed in their relationship. He eventually hired a private investigator to tail her and find out what was going on, but the investigator didn’t have to tell h...
Paul Snider was wrong about one thing: Hefner didn’t pull her next spread. He knew people would buy it because Dorothy Stratten’s name was still all over the news after her death. Hefner let the October issue run with the then-deceased woman on the cover. He then worked her photos into the December issue, which called her one of the “Sex Stars of t...
Nov 22, 2022 · Read about the tragic death of Playboy model Dorothy Stratten, killed by her estranged husband Paul Snider in 1980, as depicted in Hulu's "Welcome to Chippendales." While Hulu’s upcoming true crime dramatized series “Welcome to Chippendales” tells the story of Chippendales founder Somen “Steve” Banerjee, it also touches on another ...
Oct 17, 2019 · Dorothy Stratten was a teenager serving ice cream out of a Dairy Queen in Vancouver, Canada, when she caught the eye of Paul Snider, a local pimp with dreams of Hollywood fame. It was 1978 and, at the time, those who knew them said Snider saw an opportunity in Stratten and began grooming her.
