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Monique St. Pierre. Succeeded by. Terri Welles. Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten (February 28, 1960 – August 14, 1980), known professionally as Dorothy Stratten, was a Canadian model and actress, primarily known for her appearances as a Playboy Playmate. Stratten was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1979 and Playmate of the Year in 1980 ...
Star 80 is a 1983 American biographical drama film written and directed by Bob Fosse. It was adapted from the Pulitzer Prize -winning Village Voice article "Death of a Playmate" by Teresa Carpenter and is based on Canadian Playboy model Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered by her husband Paul Snider in 1980. The film's title is taken from one of ...
Spouse. Dorothy Stratten. . . (m. 1979; sep. 1980) . Paul Leslie Snider (April 15, 1951 – August 14, 1980) was a criminal Canadian nightclub promoter and pimp who murdered his estranged wife, Playboy model and actress Dorothy Stratten. Following her murder, Snider killed himself. [1][2]
Multiple reports indicated Dorothy met with Paul to discuss the final details of their divorce. Oxygen further wrote that Paul raped the model before shooting her with a newly-purchased shotgun ...
Jamie Lee Curtis played Stratten in the 1981 TV flick Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story, while Mariel Hemingway portrayed her on the big screen in Star 80 in 1983.
Originally from Canada, Stratten moved to Los Angeles in 1978, just one year before the Chippendales were founded, and quickly found work as a Playboy model. Soon after she met and married Snider ...
The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten 1960–1980. The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten 1960–1980 is a book by Peter Bogdanovich detailing the relationship between Bogdanovich and Dorothy Stratten, the making of They All Laughed and Stratten's murder. There is also criticism of Hugh Hefner and Playboy and its treatment of women.
During that meeting, Paul shot her with a 12-gauge shotgun and then also shot himself, according to the Village Voice. She was just 20 years old when she was killed. Her body is buried at the ...