You can binge the series ad-free on Wondery+ or on Amazon Music with a Prime membership or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription. She was the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voic. This is a six-part series about love, sex and murder in 1970s Hollywood when glitter pants and roller skates were all the rage, and the Playboy mansion hosted the biggest party in town.Īll episodes of Death of a Starlet are available now. In August of 1980, Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten was found dead at just 20 years old.
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But to the men in her life - magazine mogul Hugh Hefner, director Peter Bogdanovich, and small time hustler Paul Snider - Dorothy represented the promise of better things - a centerfold on her way to movie stardom, a muse who could help revive a dying career, and a ticket to the Hollywood dream.īut who was Dorothy really? And how did her rise to fame ultimately lead to her death? Death of a Starlet is a true crime podcast that examines the August 1980 murder of twenty year-old Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten. To Hugh Hefner, she was his next Marilyn Monroe.
She was the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voice who didn’t know her own beauty.
She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voice who didn’t know her own beauty. In August of 1980, Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten was found dead at just 20 years old. Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten’s year. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner thought it might even be her decade.
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