Posted on 05/03/2011 4:37:50 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Yvette Vickers, an early Playboy playmate whose credits as a B-movie actress included such cult films as “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman” and “Attack of the Giant Leeches,” was found dead last week at her Benedict Canyon home. Her body appears to have gone undiscovered for months, police said.
Vickers, 82, had not been seen for a long time. A neighbor discovered her body in an upstairs room of her Westwanda Drive home on April 27. Its mummified state suggests she could have been dead for close to a year, police said.
The official cause of death will by determined by the Los Angeles county coroner's office, but police said they saw no sign of foul play.
Vickers had lived in the 1920s-era stone and wood home for decades, and it served as the background for some of her famous modeling pictures. But over time it had become dilapidated, exposed in some places to the elements.
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Especially when her giant sized hand reached into the honky-tonk groping and grasping for her cheating spouse.
What a sad way to go. Prayers.
Of all the stuff in that picture, today you wouldn’t see a book (no one reads), the ashtray nor the vinyl LP.
That leaves the wine and the flip-flop.
Of all the stuff in that picture, today you wouldn’t see a book (no one reads), the ashtray nor the vinyl LP.
That leaves the wine and the flip-flop.
Sad when you die and nobody finds you for a year. The poor woman must have had no family or friends.
Very pretty woman. RIP.
She was. Do yourself a favor and don’t look at her most recent picture.
RIP.
Yeah...
Hey, she was in her 80’s. She probably was a sun worshiper and smoked.
LiLo should take notice!
Hmmm...the space heater was still running after a year? Wonder what brand it was.
Great point!!!
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Diane Chandler, September 1966, was one my all time favorites as well.
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