Dorthy Stratten lost her life working for Hefner. Her gorgeous looks and hooking up with the wrong man would have ended up tragic even without Hefner. Still if Hefner was not around the Larry Flints would have stepped up. Dorothy was 20 years old.
She met the murderer before she hooked up as a playboy model. Hefner encouraged her to leave the murderer but she didn’t listen.
Hefner was not to blame for her death.
Heffner was a hungry ghost, a vampire. He left a spoor of dead bodies and ruined lives behind him.
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Ref. Dorothy Stratten..........
In 1980, she became Playboy’s Playmate of the Year, with photography by Mario Casilli. Stratten also played the title role in the sci-fi parody Galaxina, her first and only starring role.
Hefner reportedly encouraged Stratten to sever ties with Snider, calling him a “hustler and a pimp”.[3] Rosanne Katon and other friends warned Stratten about Snider’s behavior. Stratten began an affair with Peter Bogdanovich while he was directing They All Laughed (1981), intended as her first major studio film.[3] Snider hired a private investigator to follow Stratten. They separated and Stratten moved in with Bogdanovich, planning to file for a divorce from Snider. By August 1980, Snider most likely believed that he had lost Stratten and what he had called his “rocket to the moon”.[3]
Murder
Dorothy Stratten’s grave
Shortly after noon on August 14, 1980, Snider and Stratten met at Snider’s house, where the two had once lived as a couple, and which Snider was by then sharing with its owner, their mutual friend, Dr. Stephen Cushner. Stratten had gone there to talk about an amicable divorce and took along $1,000 to give to Snider.[3]
Dorothy was to pick up her sister Louise after seeing Snider and never showed, which was very unlike her. Around 11 pm, Snider’s private investigator called Cushner on his private line, saying that he had been trying to call Snider for several hours, but Snider was not answering. Although there were many guests in the residence, Snider’s bedroom door was closed and they assumed Snider’s privacy was essential. Cushner broke into Snider’s room and discovered the nude bodies of Snider and Stratten, both having been shot with a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun, which Snyder had recently acquired.[3] Police determined that Snider murdered Stratten, who was 20, then abused and raped her corpse, before turning the shotgun on himself. Dorothy’s body was found connected to an odd, homemade sexual contraption and both bodies were covered with ants.[3][4]
Stratten’s remains were cremated and her ashes were interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Stratten