" sent me the pictures and…I wanted her on the next plane," said Marilyn Grabowski, the magazine's former West Coast photo editor, who worked with its founder Hugh Hefner for over 40 years. It was her first time on an airplane and in a limo. When the magazine saw Stratten’s test shots, it arranged to fly her down to Los Angeles. Pierre, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, Playmates Dorothy Stratten, Connie Kreski, Angela Dorian celebrating Playboy Magazine's 25th Anniversary All-Day Saturday Playmate Reunion at the Playboy Mansion West, Sept. "In 'Star 80,' Paul Snider comes and takes Dorothy to her high school prom, and it really does feel uncomfortable."įrom left Playboy Playmates Claudia Jennings, Monique St. "You think of him and you think of a wolf, and you think of him stalking his prey," said Hemingway. She said he would also shower her with expensive gifts, nice dinners and even a gown to wear when he took her to her senior prom. Hemingway said Snider would compliment her on the things about which she felt most vulnerable. Mariel Hemingway, who played Stratten in the Bob Fosse film about Stratten's life "Star 80," said that Snider took advantage of Stratten's insecurities.
Several people in Stratten's orbit said they saw Snider as a predator who was looking for his golden ticket. He was called the Jewish pimp and he cultivated that." "In that, he drove a black corvette, wore a mink coat Star of David encrusted with jewels that he hung on his chest. "He didn't keep a low profile," she added. But Carpenter told “20/20” that it “wasn’t enough to accommodate his extravagant taste, so he began to procure girls and pimp them on the side.” She had worked there for four years - through all of high school - when Snider walked in one day and saw her.Īt the time, Snider had “made a pretty good living as a promoter for automobile shows and cycling shows,” said Teresa Carpenter, who wrote the Pulitzer-Prize winning Village Voice cover story on Stratten in 1980. Stratten started working at Dairy Queen as a young teen to help her mother, who worked in a school cafeteria.
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Watch the full story on "20/20" THIS FRIDAY at 9 p.m. She's got a great figure, got a beautiful face and this town will destroy her.'" She doesn't belong here.' I said, 'She's nice. "She didn't believe that everybody lied, and all the liars came to ," said actor Max Baer Jr., one of Snider's friends, who is best known for playing Jethro Bodine on "The Beverly Hillbillies." "I said, 'Do you care about her?' And he said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'Well if you really care about her.take her back to Vancouver.
… Time would stop and you just felt you were in a frozen moment."īut before Stratten could reach the heights of her stardom, she was pulled under - brutally murdered by Snider, the same man who had first discovered her. "She was just breathtakingly beautiful," said actress Colleen Camp, who starred alongside Stratten in the 1981 film "They All Laughed." "There was something very otherworldly about being with her. Over the next two years, the feathered-hair blonde "girl next door" became a Playboy Playmate of the Year with a budding acting career.
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