Dorothy stratten becomes the 1980 playmate of the year Part 6 stratten was becoming more independent and started making more money But as she started to slip away, [snider] started to realize. On august 14, 1980, playmate of the year and budding actress dorothy stratten was gunned down by her estranged husband She was just 20 years old This article contains graphic descriptions and/or images of violent, disturbing, or otherwise potentially distressing events
She was a beautiful young model and a hollywood star on the rise—but then she was brutally murdered Playboy’s 1980 playmate of the year, dorothy stratten, had just finished production on her. Dorothy stratten was playboy ’s playmate of the year in 1980, the year she filmed her first movie, directed by the late peter bogdanovich. In 1980, it was revealed that stratten would be tabbed as the playmate of the year by playboy publisher and founder hugh hefner While this was one of the crowning achievements of her career, things were not going well in her marriage to snider. That fateful day, snider brutally murdered dorothy before taking his own life
Stratten was in the process of divorcing snider and breaking business ties with him when the incident occurred.
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