Dorothy Stratten was born on February 28, 1960 in Vancouver, Canada, to a family of Dutch immigrants. When she was 17, she started working as a waitress in one of the local fast food restaurants. It was there that she caught the eye of Paul Snider. The man, who was 9 years older than me, did not have a very good reputation in the community, as he had been involved in pimping in the past, but he was able to convince a naive teenager of anything.
From a “Playboy bunny” to a rising Hollywood star. The affair ruined her marriage
Stratten believed Snider would help launch her career. He gained her trust by taking her to dinner at luxurious restaurants and showering her with expensive gifts. He saw that there was potential in it that he intended to cash in on. “This little one will bring me a lot of money,” he allegedly told his friend when he saw her for the first time. After a month of dating, he persuaded her to do a photo session in a negligee, the results of which he sent to the editor. Then the machine started moving. In August 1978, Stratten moved to Los Angeles and became one of “Hugh Hefner’s bunnies”. She also began to take her first steps in the film industry, playing episodic roles.
After a year of dating, despite the warnings of her relatives, she married her beloved. Initially, everything was going like a dream, at least on the surface. She won the magazine’s model of the month, and Peter Bogdanovich, who met at Hefner’s residence, cast her in the film “Laughable.” Working on the set bore fruit with the director. Stratten, however, did not think about leaving her husband. She felt an obligation to him because he helped her become known in the big world of Hollywood. First, she asked him for more freedom, but this ended in an argument. After many conversations, they decided to give each other another chance, but when he forbade her to go to her hometown, the bitterness overflowed. She wasn’t going to live like this any longer. Finally, in June 1980, she sent him a letter demanding a divorce. She closed their joint bank accounts, because the funds in them mostly came from her wages, and moved in with her lover.
She wanted to break up with him, so he planned the murder. This crime shocked the world
Snider felt humiliated and wasn’t going to leave it like that. He hired a private detective to prove his wife’s affair. He claimed that it would help him during the divorce, but the reality was completely different. His jealousy turned into obsession. On August 13, 1980, exactly the second anniversary of Dorothy’s move to Los Angeles, he bought a used shotgun. The same day in the evening he met with his friends who noticed his strange behavior. He said then that he was getting ready to “hunt”, but no one knew what he really meant. In the meantime, he called his wife, asking her to visit him the next day under the pretext of talking about a property settlement. She agreed without a second thought. On August 14, Dorothy showed up at her husband’s house around noon. That’s when the real nightmare began. She was overpowered, brutally beaten and abused, and then shot straight in the face. She was only 20 years old. An hour later, Snider committed suicide.
Source: Gazeta
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