Death Photos of Celebrities 2013 : Dorothy Stratten Death Photos

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Dorothy Stratten Death Photos

Dorothy Stratten Death Photos Biography

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Born in Canada in 1960, Dorothy Stratten was Playboy’s Playmate of the Year in 1980. After being cast in Peter Bogdanovich's They All Laughed, Stratten and Bogdanivich began having an affair. As her fame grew, her husband, Paul Snider, became increasingly jealous and resentful. Shortly after they separated, on August 14, 1980, she visited Snider at his home in West Los Angeles, California,where he shot her to death before turning the gun on himself.

Early Life and Career

Dorothy Stratten was born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten on February 26, 1960, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. After high school, Stratten began dating Paul Snider, a small-time promoter who encouraged her to take a few nude photos to enter Playboy's 25th Anniversary Playmate search in 1978. Though she lost the Anniversary contest, Stratten did become a playmate for the magazine's August 1979 issue. Stratten and Snider were soon married, and her career grew to include film offers and the coveted title of Playmate of the Year in 1980.

Murdered by Paul Snider

After being cast in Peter Bogdanovich's They All Laughed, Stratten and the director began having an affair. As her fame grew, Snider became increasingly jealous and resentful. Shortly after Stratten and Snider separated, on August 14, 1980, she visited Snider at his home in West Los Angeles, California. There, Snider shot her to death before turning the gun on himself.

Stratten's story was told in 1983's Star 80, director Bob Fosse's last film. She was also the subject of Bogdanovich's 1984 book The Killing of the Unicorn.From career success as 1980's Playboy Playmate Of The Year, there was a swift and tragic fall for Stratten. Embittered husband/manager Paul Snider plotted her brutal murder.

At 14, she got a job at a local Dairy Queen to help her mother support the family. Four years later, 26-year-old Paul Snider walked into that Dairy Queen and changed the shy teenager's life forever.

In a matter of months, Dorothy "Stratten" was catapulted to success as Playboy's Miss August 1979 and 1980 Playmate of the Year. Her ambition to become an actress was fuelled by parts in several low-budget films. Feeling she "owed" Snider for her success, Stratten married him in June 1979. But the marriage was not a happy one; as Stratten's star rose, Snider's attempts to control her grew more desperate.

In the autumn of 1979, director, Peter Bogdanovich became so enthralled with the young beauty that he wrote a part for her in his latest film, a romantic comedy called "They All Laughed." The two fell in love. Realising his wife was slipping away – and with her, his ticket to wealth and power - Paul Snider murdered 20-year-old Dorothy Stratten and then turned the shotgun on himself. That was 14 August 1980. But Stratten's story was far from over.

In 1983, director Bob Fosse's "Star 80" starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts, secured Stratten a level of fame she never achieved in life. But the motion picture story ended just as a real-life drama was beginning to unfold.

Following Stratten's 1980 murder, Peter Bogdanovich adopted Stratten's family as his own, and in late 1984, published his "portrait" of her, The Killing of the Unicorn. In the book, Bogdanovich accused Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner of prompting
Snider's deadly rage by denying him access to the Playboy mansion. A few weeks later, Hefner suffered a stroke, which he blamed directly on Bogdanovich's "pathological" book. Very public legal battles ensured and in 1988, Peter Bogdanovich married Stratten's 20-year-old sister Louise. The marriage lasted 13 years.