Hefner reportedly encouraged Stratten to sever ties with Snider, calling him a "hustler and a pimp. Stratten began an affair with Peter Bogdanovich while he was directing They All Laughed , her first and only major film.
They separated and Stratten moved in with Bogdanovich, planning to file for a divorce from Snider. By August Snider most likely believed he had lost Stratten and what he had called his "rocket to the moon.
Shortly after noon on August 14, 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, along with two women.
At about PM Snider's private investigator called Cushner on his private line, saying he had been trying to telephone Snider for several hours, but Snider would not answer his phone.
Cushner broke into Snider's room and found them dead from shotgun blasts, both bodies nude and swarmed by ants. In film critic Vincent Canby wrote, "Miss Stratten possessed a charming screen presence and might possibly have become a first-rate comedienne with time and work. Stratten's murder was depicted in two films. Four years later at age forty-nine he married Stratten's sister Louise, who was twenty.
Bogdanovich had paid for Louise's private school and modeling classes following Stratten's death. Bryan Adams co-wrote two songs about Stratten. A similar song was on his album As a teenager, she worked part-time at a local Dairy Queen. While working behind the counter in , she met Paul Snider, a local promoter who The Canadian Press described as a man with a penchant for tailored suits, floppy hats and flashy cars.
Snider charmed young Hoogstraten and eventually convinced her to pose nude and he sent the photos to Playboy magazine. At the time, The Canadian Press reported Snider was the target of several police investigations but was never charged. As Snider suspected, the photos caught the eye of Playboy editors and Hoogstraten flew to Los Angeles for a test shoot. Stratten and Snider had settled in Los Angeles and were married in June Playboy named her Playmate of the Year in One acquaintance described the year-old Snider as an extremely jealous man.
Snider apparently hired Los Angeles private detective Mark Goldstein to follow Stratten after their separation. The nude bodies of Stratten and Snider were discovered around a. He also accused Hefner of making inappropriate advances on Stratten. Read more: 11 surprising facts you probably never knew about Hugh Hefner. Hefner and Eldridge told a news conference that Bogdanovich had seduced the year-old Louise and her mother.
They also said the film director paid for plastic surgery so Louise would look more like her late sister. In , Bogdanovich and Louise Stratten were married in a ceremony at a Vancouver hotel. The couple divorced in A downcast Paul Snider agreed to meet Stratten one more time the following week to discuss a monetary settlement.
Over the next five days, he became obsessed with getting another. However, the detective tried to talk him out of it when Paul tried to persuade him again the next day. On 13 August , Paul Snider bought a used, gauge, pump-action shotgun from a private seller he found in a local classified ad. During the same conversation, barely more than 12 hours before the murder, the otherwise jovial Paul casually brought up the subject of Playmates who had unexpectedly died.
In particular, Paul spoke of Claudia Jennings. Jennings is an actress and former Playmate of the Year and she was killed in a car accident the year before. It also included a comment about how if they have time, the editors will pull nude photos of a dead Playmate from the next issue. It was approximately noon on Thursday, August Dorothy spent the morning conferring with her business manager.
One of the topics the pair discussed was the amount of the property settlement the Playmate would offer her estranged husband that afternoon. By all appearances, Stratten had spent some time in the living room, where her purse was found lying open before she and Snider went into his bedroom. They assumed that the couple had reconciled and wanted their privacy. Hence, the roommates spent the next several hours watching television in the living room.
The private detective had alerted the roommates. And that is how they discovered Dorothy Stratten and Paul Snider bodies. Both bodies were nude.
According to the police timeline, Snider had shot Stratten that afternoon within an hour of her arrival at the house. Snider then committed suicide approximately one hour after the murder. Sometime after midnight of August 15, the private detective telephoned the Playboy Mansion. He told Hefner that Paul murdered Dorothy. Hefner then called Bogdanovich. After collapsing at the news, they sedated Bogdanovich.
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