1 00:00:02,266 --> 00:00:05,166 [Steve Helling] Really, by all accounts, she was sheltered and naive. 2 00:00:05,567 --> 00:00:06,767 She never really thought 3 00:00:06,834 --> 00:00:08,667 she was going to get out of that small town. 4 00:00:09,467 --> 00:00:11,066 He saw what all of us saw, 5 00:00:11,133 --> 00:00:14,967 this sweet little magical being with a big heart. 6 00:00:14,967 --> 00:00:17,533 She was a Marilyn Monroe type. 7 00:00:19,867 --> 00:00:21,533 And needed someone to protect her. 8 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:23,634 [camera shutter clicking] 9 00:00:25,166 --> 00:00:26,667 He got her professionally shot, 10 00:00:26,734 --> 00:00:27,867 sent it to the mansion. 11 00:00:27,934 --> 00:00:30,467 They said to Hefner, this girl is gorgeous. 12 00:00:30,467 --> 00:00:33,266 We have to fly her down for a photo shoot. 13 00:00:33,266 --> 00:00:34,967 [Steve] He had a master plan for her. 14 00:00:35,033 --> 00:00:37,467 And when Hugh Hefner has a master plan for you, 15 00:00:37,467 --> 00:00:38,867 you do what he tells you to do. 16 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,734 The mansion's very mysterious. 17 00:00:42,567 --> 00:00:45,266 If you get the wrong set of eyes on you, 18 00:00:45,266 --> 00:00:46,667 there's a chance they could track you down, 19 00:00:46,667 --> 00:00:48,667 and it could lead to something really awful. 20 00:00:48,734 --> 00:00:51,266 Hefner considers himself the top dog, 21 00:00:51,266 --> 00:00:53,467 and he doesn't want to share anything. 22 00:00:53,467 --> 00:00:55,000 I called it the Playboy curse, 23 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,867 because once you were associated with that world, 24 00:00:57,867 --> 00:00:59,533 things went horribly wrong. 25 00:01:01,467 --> 00:01:05,066 She called me at home and was just crying all the time. 26 00:01:06,467 --> 00:01:08,367 It was tough to be her friend. 27 00:01:11,367 --> 00:01:13,767 She didn't see it coming, didn't see it coming. 28 00:01:27,867 --> 00:01:32,100 [Richard] I just returned from work and received a call, 29 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:33,433 which is not uncommon. 30 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,166 As soon as you get home, 31 00:01:35,166 --> 00:01:36,967 you're called, and away you go back. 32 00:01:40,166 --> 00:01:44,667 I had arrived in an early evening, and it was so light. 33 00:01:44,667 --> 00:01:46,433 [siren blaring] 34 00:01:52,066 --> 00:01:56,367 The crime scene was contained within the ground floor bedroom. 35 00:01:59,066 --> 00:02:00,867 There was no indication at all 36 00:02:00,934 --> 00:02:02,834 of any type of forced entry into it. 37 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:07,100 I avoid making assumptions of the crime scene 38 00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:08,967 until I have an understanding 39 00:02:09,033 --> 00:02:11,266 as to actually what has occurred here. 40 00:02:14,667 --> 00:02:16,667 When I did open the bedroom door... 41 00:02:19,367 --> 00:02:22,533 there was the Playboy Bunny of the Year... 42 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,266 Dorothy Stratten laying there. 43 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:40,000 The 70s was kind of like the high point 44 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,333 for Playboy in a lot of ways. 45 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:45,467 The Playboy Mansion was a huge party house. 46 00:02:45,533 --> 00:02:46,567 There were movie stars and celebrities 47 00:02:46,567 --> 00:02:48,333 coming over all the time. 48 00:02:49,066 --> 00:02:51,266 My name is Stella Tetenbaum, 49 00:02:51,333 --> 00:02:53,066 and I worked at Playboy Mansion West 50 00:02:53,066 --> 00:02:54,233 for Hugh Hefner. 51 00:02:56,767 --> 00:03:00,467 In the late 70s, in Playboy world, 52 00:03:00,533 --> 00:03:02,567 everything was huge. 53 00:03:02,634 --> 00:03:04,567 The circulation was huge. 54 00:03:04,634 --> 00:03:08,433 The clubs were big, and the money was just insane. 55 00:03:10,467 --> 00:03:12,767 [Holly] A lot of famous writers like Kurt Vonnegut, 56 00:03:12,834 --> 00:03:13,867 Hunter S. Thompson, 57 00:03:13,867 --> 00:03:16,667 they wrote for the magazine. So it was respected. 58 00:03:16,667 --> 00:03:19,066 Playboy magazine has been known for its nudity. 59 00:03:19,066 --> 00:03:21,066 Everybody knew the Playmate of the Month, 60 00:03:21,066 --> 00:03:23,533 the Playmate of the Year. So it was a really big deal. 61 00:03:25,867 --> 00:03:27,333 I am Jeana Keough. 62 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:31,033 I was a centerfold November 1980. 63 00:03:32,266 --> 00:03:34,867 I was in my early 20 when I came to California. 64 00:03:34,934 --> 00:03:37,266 And being introduced to the Playboy Mansion 65 00:03:37,266 --> 00:03:38,467 it was just so much fun. 66 00:03:38,467 --> 00:03:41,166 There was actors and actresses, playmates, 67 00:03:41,166 --> 00:03:42,667 that I got to know really well 68 00:03:42,667 --> 00:03:45,100 because we'd do Friday night parties up there. 69 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:47,567 Hef would always have the top run movies, 70 00:03:47,567 --> 00:03:49,000 and you'd have dinner and a movie, 71 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,166 and some people would go in the hot tub. 72 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,266 [Stella] Playboy was the top shelf magazine at the time. 73 00:03:56,266 --> 00:04:02,834 And it was a lifestyle, classy, beautiful food, music. 74 00:04:03,667 --> 00:04:04,967 Playboy at that time, 75 00:04:05,033 --> 00:04:08,767 the audience was about a median age of 35 and up. 76 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,734 But Bob Guccione made Penthouse. 77 00:04:13,767 --> 00:04:16,667 It was a little more exposure than Playboy, 78 00:04:16,667 --> 00:04:19,166 the young man's version of Playboy. 79 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,667 [Holly] Penthouse magazine also featured 80 00:04:21,734 --> 00:04:22,867 nude pictorials of women, 81 00:04:22,934 --> 00:04:25,100 but they were much more explicit. 82 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:28,166 [Stella] Playboy wasn't at the full nudity period. 83 00:04:28,166 --> 00:04:29,266 They were still... 84 00:04:29,266 --> 00:04:34,567 Saw focus, boudoir-type shots, not full frontal. 85 00:04:34,567 --> 00:04:37,867 [Holly] Playboy at first didn't show any full frontal nudity. 86 00:04:37,867 --> 00:04:41,567 They would just show the breast area or the butt area. 87 00:04:41,634 --> 00:04:42,867 But because of what Penthouse was doing 88 00:04:42,867 --> 00:04:44,266 and how successful that was, 89 00:04:44,266 --> 00:04:46,867 Playboy felt like they needed to start showing more 90 00:04:46,934 --> 00:04:48,567 in order to keep up. 91 00:04:48,567 --> 00:04:50,266 [Stella] Hefner was obsessed, 92 00:04:50,333 --> 00:04:53,467 and he was always trying to figure out how to compete 93 00:04:53,467 --> 00:04:55,433 without compromising his look. 94 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,967 [Holly] As Playboy's 25th anniversary was approaching, 95 00:05:01,033 --> 00:05:03,100 he decided to, as a publicity stunt, 96 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:06,000 do a nationwide search for a special playmate 97 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,667 for the 25th anniversary issue. 98 00:05:07,734 --> 00:05:08,867 How many girls do we need to interview? 99 00:05:08,934 --> 00:05:11,166 3,500 on the hunt. 100 00:05:11,166 --> 00:05:13,667 The criteria for this 25th anniversary playmate 101 00:05:13,667 --> 00:05:15,667 was the same criteria they were looking for 102 00:05:15,667 --> 00:05:18,667 in any other centerfold, a beautiful, fresh-faced, 103 00:05:18,667 --> 00:05:20,667 all American girl. 104 00:05:20,734 --> 00:05:23,066 But they just wanted something extra, 105 00:05:23,133 --> 00:05:25,266 like somebody who was really amazing looking 106 00:05:25,333 --> 00:05:27,467 or had a really special story. 107 00:05:27,467 --> 00:05:29,734 They were looking for a Dorothy Stratten. 108 00:05:31,066 --> 00:05:32,734 They just didn't know her name yet. 109 00:05:35,567 --> 00:05:38,667 Dorothy Stratten was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, 110 00:05:38,667 --> 00:05:42,266 in 1960 to a Scandinavian family, 111 00:05:42,266 --> 00:05:44,433 first generation in Canada. 112 00:05:45,967 --> 00:05:47,467 She was a smart kid. 113 00:05:47,467 --> 00:05:49,567 She was a good student. 114 00:05:49,634 --> 00:05:52,767 And really, by all accounts, she was sheltered and naive. 115 00:05:52,767 --> 00:05:55,467 She lived in a very small community. 116 00:05:55,467 --> 00:05:58,467 Her mother and father were just very normal people. 117 00:05:58,467 --> 00:06:00,667 She had a younger sister. 118 00:06:00,734 --> 00:06:03,100 I did meet Dorothy several times. 119 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:04,867 And she was just the salt of the earth 120 00:06:04,867 --> 00:06:08,333 kind of personality, very sweet and lovely. 121 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,266 [Steve] Her parents split up when she was young. 122 00:06:12,333 --> 00:06:13,567 And I think she was dealing with 123 00:06:13,634 --> 00:06:15,767 what most kids from broken homes deal with, 124 00:06:15,834 --> 00:06:17,867 which is not understanding what's going on 125 00:06:17,867 --> 00:06:19,467 and looking for someone 126 00:06:19,467 --> 00:06:23,767 who can really be her support system. 127 00:06:23,767 --> 00:06:26,834 She never really thought she was going to get out of that small town 128 00:06:27,767 --> 00:06:29,934 until she met Paul Snider. 129 00:06:31,467 --> 00:06:33,967 In the summer of 1977, 130 00:06:33,967 --> 00:06:36,333 she had been working in a Dairy Queen, 131 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,433 uh, in Vancouver. 132 00:06:39,567 --> 00:06:43,867 Paul Snider walked in kind of dressed to the nines. 133 00:06:43,867 --> 00:06:45,567 And they started talking. 134 00:06:45,567 --> 00:06:48,867 Paul Snider represented the kind of man 135 00:06:48,867 --> 00:06:52,066 that Dorothy had never met. 136 00:06:52,133 --> 00:06:56,967 He was sophisticated. He drove a fast car. He was willing to take her out 137 00:06:56,967 --> 00:06:59,166 to dinner and buy her clothes. 138 00:06:59,166 --> 00:07:00,867 [Jeana] Paul was a dreamer. 139 00:07:00,934 --> 00:07:02,667 He had lots of ideas and lots of ambition. 140 00:07:02,667 --> 00:07:05,166 And he took one look at Dorothy and said, 141 00:07:05,233 --> 00:07:06,734 I'm going to make you a star, baby. 142 00:07:08,166 --> 00:07:10,467 [Richard] Paul Snider was the club promoter. 143 00:07:10,467 --> 00:07:12,967 He was the most interesting, glamorous man 144 00:07:12,967 --> 00:07:14,867 she'd ever met up to that point. 145 00:07:14,934 --> 00:07:16,066 He was always doing things. 146 00:07:16,133 --> 00:07:17,567 He was always on the move. 147 00:07:17,567 --> 00:07:21,333 And she loved that and hung on every word that he said. 148 00:07:23,166 --> 00:07:25,867 Paul was a fairly intelligent guy. 149 00:07:25,867 --> 00:07:28,567 He was up there looking for any sort of 150 00:07:28,567 --> 00:07:30,767 entrepreneurial venture that might lead 151 00:07:30,767 --> 00:07:33,367 to something promising down the road. 152 00:07:34,367 --> 00:07:38,266 And he seemed to be a guy who latched onto a project, 153 00:07:38,266 --> 00:07:41,033 who would work very hard at achieving his goal. 154 00:07:42,467 --> 00:07:47,367 And so, as much as Dorothy was into Paul, he was into her too, 155 00:07:47,433 --> 00:07:50,166 not just because she was beautiful to look at, 156 00:07:50,233 --> 00:07:52,166 but she could carry on a conversation. 157 00:07:52,233 --> 00:07:53,567 And he loved that about her. 158 00:07:54,467 --> 00:07:56,166 It was like catnip to her. 159 00:07:56,166 --> 00:07:59,634 She couldn't get enough of the attention from him. 160 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:03,033 [cameras flashing] 161 00:08:05,667 --> 00:08:08,000 [Stella] It was in the summer of '78. 162 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,333 Paul Snider asked Dorothy to do nude photos. 163 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,166 He tried it himself, 164 00:08:15,166 --> 00:08:17,667 but he decided, "I'm going to get a professional 165 00:08:17,667 --> 00:08:19,834 because I really want you to be discovered." 166 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:23,867 [Richard] Dorothy was living this small town life. 167 00:08:23,867 --> 00:08:25,867 And all of a sudden, here comes Paul Snider 168 00:08:25,934 --> 00:08:27,266 saying, you know, "You can go far. 169 00:08:27,266 --> 00:08:28,467 You can do all these things." 170 00:08:28,533 --> 00:08:29,867 You could even be in Playboy. 171 00:08:29,867 --> 00:08:32,133 So I think there were stars in her eyes. 172 00:08:38,967 --> 00:08:40,567 [Stella] There was a lot of pressure on her. 173 00:08:40,567 --> 00:08:42,767 She wasn't used to posing nude. 174 00:08:42,767 --> 00:08:45,767 She wasn't really groomed yet for that. 175 00:08:45,767 --> 00:08:47,567 And she had a shyness about her. 176 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:53,667 [Holly] It must have been scary for Dorothy taking those photos 177 00:08:53,667 --> 00:08:54,867 for the first time. 178 00:08:56,867 --> 00:08:58,467 When it's your body, you feel like 179 00:08:58,467 --> 00:09:00,166 you're going to be the one to mess it up. 180 00:09:00,233 --> 00:09:02,233 Like if your photos never get published. 181 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,233 It was just kind of terrifying. 182 00:09:08,467 --> 00:09:11,100 [Stella] Paul got her professionally shot, 183 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:12,667 sent it to the mansion. 184 00:09:12,734 --> 00:09:16,567 Mary O'Connor intercepted the photos, said to Hefner, 185 00:09:16,567 --> 00:09:18,166 this girl is gorgeous. 186 00:09:18,233 --> 00:09:20,967 We have to fly her down for a photo shoot. 187 00:09:25,066 --> 00:09:27,467 [Stefan] My name is Stefan Tetenbaum. 188 00:09:27,467 --> 00:09:32,467 I work for Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion West 189 00:09:32,467 --> 00:09:35,467 four and a half years as his butler. 190 00:09:36,467 --> 00:09:39,166 Mary ran the house for Hefner. 191 00:09:39,233 --> 00:09:40,867 Mary would go through the photos 192 00:09:40,867 --> 00:09:42,266 and see the different girls 193 00:09:42,266 --> 00:09:45,066 and the ones that would end up in the trash can 194 00:09:45,133 --> 00:09:48,967 and the ones that I would take down to Mr. Hefner's room 195 00:09:49,033 --> 00:09:50,367 and show him. 196 00:09:50,367 --> 00:09:52,367 Hef would pick the girls. 197 00:09:52,367 --> 00:09:56,467 They would be offered jobs at the Playboy Club 198 00:09:56,533 --> 00:09:57,467 in Century City, 199 00:09:57,467 --> 00:10:00,567 or they have photo shoots scheduled. 200 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:08,533 I came to Playboy in 1979. 201 00:10:09,867 --> 00:10:12,100 I was modeling with a big agency, 202 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:17,166 and we all got invited to the 25th anniversary TV special. 203 00:10:17,233 --> 00:10:19,166 [reporter] The party was held at the mansion, 204 00:10:19,166 --> 00:10:22,767 that sybaritic palace which was once a Chicago landmark. 205 00:10:23,567 --> 00:10:25,767 [Jeana] It was a big television special 206 00:10:25,834 --> 00:10:28,133 and all the models and playmates and bunnies. 207 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:31,767 It's a beautiful building in downtown Chicago. 208 00:10:31,767 --> 00:10:36,767 Dorothy came to the party, and she was wearing lingerie 209 00:10:36,834 --> 00:10:39,667 because the parties, you had to be very provocative, 210 00:10:39,667 --> 00:10:41,367 very seductive. 211 00:10:41,433 --> 00:10:43,166 [reporter] Beautiful people have all been invited. 212 00:10:43,166 --> 00:10:45,367 The sights and the sounds are real. 213 00:10:45,433 --> 00:10:48,066 And of course, we all went hoping to get it discovered. 214 00:10:50,567 --> 00:10:52,000 In the spring of 1978, 215 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,467 they announced the winner of the 25th anniversary playmate 216 00:10:54,533 --> 00:10:57,066 who Hef had handpicked himself. 217 00:10:57,133 --> 00:10:59,567 [Steve] So Dorothy was a finalist in this contest. 218 00:10:59,567 --> 00:11:01,834 Surprisingly, Dorothy didn't win. 219 00:11:03,367 --> 00:11:05,767 When somebody gets chosen as an anniversary playmate 220 00:11:05,834 --> 00:11:07,000 or Playmate of the Year, 221 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,467 they're expected to do a lot of press, 222 00:11:08,467 --> 00:11:11,066 and they didn't really think she had the confidence 223 00:11:11,066 --> 00:11:12,066 for that yet. 224 00:11:12,667 --> 00:11:14,266 Even though she didn't win, 225 00:11:14,266 --> 00:11:16,266 it put her on the radar of Playboy. 226 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:19,767 Paul was going to become the super manager 227 00:11:19,767 --> 00:11:21,266 to the superstar. 228 00:11:21,333 --> 00:11:23,367 That was in his mind what he was doing. 229 00:11:23,367 --> 00:11:25,266 I think what he saw was, 230 00:11:25,266 --> 00:11:27,867 I'm going to get her to this destination, 231 00:11:27,934 --> 00:11:29,166 and I'm going to go with her. 232 00:11:32,567 --> 00:11:35,567 By now, Dorothy lives in the Bunny Hutches, 233 00:11:35,634 --> 00:11:38,467 which were these little cabins on the property 234 00:11:38,467 --> 00:11:41,166 that house different girls that weren't 235 00:11:41,166 --> 00:11:43,166 quite in the household yet. 236 00:11:43,166 --> 00:11:44,867 But that was their ultimate goal. 237 00:11:44,934 --> 00:11:48,667 The thing that Dorothy didn't know is at Playboy Mansion, 238 00:11:48,667 --> 00:11:50,367 you weren't allowed to have a boyfriend, 239 00:11:50,367 --> 00:11:52,367 and you weren't allowed to bring a man. 240 00:11:52,367 --> 00:11:54,433 No men were ever invited. 241 00:11:55,266 --> 00:11:57,567 So Paul got an apartment, 242 00:11:57,567 --> 00:12:00,066 and eventually she told Hefner, 243 00:12:00,066 --> 00:12:01,166 "This is my boyfriend, 244 00:12:01,233 --> 00:12:02,834 and I want him to come to the parties." 245 00:12:04,667 --> 00:12:09,567 Hefner took an instant disliking to Paul Snider. 246 00:12:12,066 --> 00:12:15,133 Hefner considers himself the top dog, 247 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:19,433 and he doesn't want to share anything. 248 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:28,567 [Stella] Dorothy wasn't living inside the mansion yet, 249 00:12:28,867 --> 00:12:29,967 and they said, 250 00:12:29,967 --> 00:12:31,867 "Now you're going to work at the Playboy Club 251 00:12:31,867 --> 00:12:34,433 in Century City, Los Angeles." 252 00:12:37,867 --> 00:12:41,266 There were Playboy Clubs in London, Jamaica, Chicago, 253 00:12:41,266 --> 00:12:42,634 New York, and LA. 254 00:12:44,166 --> 00:12:46,667 A Playboy Club was a place you could go 255 00:12:46,667 --> 00:12:50,467 for an upscale business dinner or business lunch, 256 00:12:50,467 --> 00:12:52,567 and they would have entertainment. 257 00:12:52,567 --> 00:12:55,266 Then they had Playboy Bunnies walking around, 258 00:12:55,266 --> 00:12:56,266 serving everybody. 259 00:12:56,266 --> 00:12:58,767 So it was a really special environment. 260 00:12:58,834 --> 00:13:01,467 So a Playboy Bunny was basically a cocktail waitress 261 00:13:01,467 --> 00:13:03,166 wearing the little bunny outfits, 262 00:13:03,233 --> 00:13:05,266 and they weren't appearing in the magazine, 263 00:13:05,333 --> 00:13:08,166 although sometimes there was crossover where they would. 264 00:13:09,467 --> 00:13:13,667 You could have thought that maybe being put as a Playboy Bunny 265 00:13:13,667 --> 00:13:15,867 was not a good step for her, 266 00:13:15,867 --> 00:13:19,033 because she wasn't a Playboy Playmate at that point. 267 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,567 Dorothy and I met kind of under a... 268 00:13:22,567 --> 00:13:24,233 Somewhat unusual circumstance. 269 00:13:25,266 --> 00:13:29,567 Some of my friends decided to head over to Century City 270 00:13:29,634 --> 00:13:32,467 to the Playboy Club, and lo and behold, uh, 271 00:13:32,467 --> 00:13:35,567 working as a Door Bunny was none other than Dorothy. 272 00:13:37,767 --> 00:13:39,166 She was one of those people 273 00:13:39,166 --> 00:13:40,767 that would give you the impression 274 00:13:40,767 --> 00:13:43,367 that you were the only person in the room 275 00:13:43,367 --> 00:13:45,967 having a one-on-one conversation. 276 00:13:46,033 --> 00:13:48,133 And we just kind of became friends. 277 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,367 Those of us knew her then as 278 00:13:50,367 --> 00:13:55,133 an absolutely magnificent looking woman who... 279 00:13:57,867 --> 00:14:00,133 Had so much more than looks. 280 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:06,867 What happened with the Playboy Club, too, 281 00:14:06,867 --> 00:14:09,166 they would farm girls from there. 282 00:14:09,166 --> 00:14:12,867 They would say, "Okay, she would be good for a pictorial. 283 00:14:12,867 --> 00:14:13,967 Let's use her." 284 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:18,367 I can't imagine she was a bunny for more than a month, 285 00:14:18,367 --> 00:14:19,867 because she was way too busy 286 00:14:19,867 --> 00:14:21,767 to work four or five days being a waitress. 287 00:14:21,767 --> 00:14:23,734 They had her doing so many things. 288 00:14:24,667 --> 00:14:26,166 I mean, there was magic about her. 289 00:14:26,233 --> 00:14:27,734 They knew from their first test shots. 290 00:14:28,667 --> 00:14:30,734 [Stella] Dorothy was 18, 19 years old. 291 00:14:34,266 --> 00:14:36,367 [Stefan] Her eyes just sparkled. 292 00:14:36,367 --> 00:14:39,567 We were just talking about it for a long time 293 00:14:39,634 --> 00:14:40,634 with the other staff. 294 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:44,367 She was all nervous and giddy. 295 00:14:44,367 --> 00:14:49,266 It was cute to see somebody that unaffected. 296 00:14:49,266 --> 00:14:52,867 When I first met Dorothy, my initial impressions 297 00:14:52,934 --> 00:14:56,967 were how much like a Marilyn Monroe type she was. 298 00:14:56,967 --> 00:14:59,767 Just this... walked into the room and she owned it. 299 00:14:59,834 --> 00:15:01,967 No one could take your eyes off of her. 300 00:15:02,033 --> 00:15:04,166 There was just something magical about her. 301 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,667 Dorothy Stratten was chosen playmate of the month 302 00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:10,667 for August of 1979. 303 00:15:11,667 --> 00:15:13,767 [Jeana] Playmate of the Month is a big deal. 304 00:15:13,834 --> 00:15:18,767 There's 12 playmates a year, so it is kind of prestigious. 305 00:15:18,767 --> 00:15:21,533 A lot of girls get looked at for those 12 slots. 306 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,166 Paul convinced her of the fact that 307 00:15:26,233 --> 00:15:30,567 if she simply tied herself to his dreams and plans, 308 00:15:30,567 --> 00:15:35,367 that the two of them together would have a very bright 309 00:15:35,433 --> 00:15:38,100 and lucrative career together. 310 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:40,967 [Holly] Hef was not happy about their relationship. 311 00:15:41,033 --> 00:15:42,567 Hef saw something in her. 312 00:15:42,634 --> 00:15:44,233 He had a master plan for her. 313 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:48,367 And when Hugh Hefner has a master plan for you, 314 00:15:48,367 --> 00:15:49,867 you do what he tells you to do. 315 00:15:50,667 --> 00:15:53,066 At the mansion, Hef would say, 316 00:15:53,133 --> 00:15:54,533 I'd rather you not be around. 317 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,767 [Stefan] Dorothy appreciated Paul 318 00:16:01,767 --> 00:16:04,767 because he introduced her to Playboy. 319 00:16:04,767 --> 00:16:08,233 So she felt that she wanted to take care of him. 320 00:16:10,266 --> 00:16:14,667 It's worth noting that she did it with Hugh Hefner, 321 00:16:14,734 --> 00:16:15,934 telling her not to. 322 00:16:18,667 --> 00:16:20,367 I think if you were to ask Paul, 323 00:16:20,367 --> 00:16:25,333 he would have said that he and Dorothy came to LA as a team. 324 00:16:26,166 --> 00:16:30,066 He knew that everything he wanted and needed, 325 00:16:30,133 --> 00:16:31,934 only Dorothy could provide for him. 326 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:37,033 [Stella] Hefner hated him, couldn't stand him. 327 00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:40,066 Paul Snider represented 328 00:16:40,066 --> 00:16:41,834 everything that Playboy wasn't. 329 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,367 He was really sleazy. 330 00:16:45,433 --> 00:16:48,734 He was not the image they wanted in the mansion. 331 00:16:54,467 --> 00:16:57,767 He stood out like the proverbial sore thumb 332 00:16:57,767 --> 00:16:58,867 at the Playboy Mansion. 333 00:16:58,934 --> 00:17:00,166 He did not fit in. 334 00:17:01,367 --> 00:17:03,567 He was a big fan of the mansion 335 00:17:03,567 --> 00:17:06,166 and just in awe of everything. 336 00:17:06,233 --> 00:17:09,834 He was trying hard to meet everybody and be nice. 337 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,367 But he was just such a hustler. 338 00:17:12,433 --> 00:17:16,233 And it's just like, wow, she can do so much better. 339 00:17:18,066 --> 00:17:19,166 [Steve] If Hef doesn't like you, 340 00:17:19,166 --> 00:17:20,367 you're not allowed in the mansion. 341 00:17:20,433 --> 00:17:21,467 You're not allowed in the club. 342 00:17:21,467 --> 00:17:22,867 You're not allowed anywhere 343 00:17:22,934 --> 00:17:25,367 that has the Playboy name on it. 344 00:17:25,433 --> 00:17:29,266 [Stella] And Hefner said, you've got to get rid of this boyfriend. 345 00:17:35,467 --> 00:17:37,233 [crowd applauds] 346 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,066 It was common knowledge that she was 347 00:17:40,133 --> 00:17:42,066 probably shoeing for Playmate of the Year. 348 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:45,667 When she was centerfold, they already kind of knew. 349 00:17:45,667 --> 00:17:47,333 I mean, there was just magic about her. 350 00:17:48,867 --> 00:17:51,567 Playmate of the Year, you get $100,000 check. 351 00:17:51,567 --> 00:17:52,767 You get a car. You get jewelry. 352 00:17:52,767 --> 00:17:55,166 You get some... probably some movie roles, 353 00:17:55,166 --> 00:17:57,166 auditions for it, at least. 354 00:17:57,166 --> 00:17:59,266 As her career with Playboy grew 355 00:17:59,333 --> 00:18:01,266 and after she was named Playmate of the Year, 356 00:18:01,266 --> 00:18:02,867 there was no doubt in my mind 357 00:18:02,934 --> 00:18:05,233 that she would be a household name someday. 358 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,166 And that's when Dorothy graduated 359 00:18:09,166 --> 00:18:11,266 from the Bunny Huts into the mansion 360 00:18:11,333 --> 00:18:12,834 and had her room there. 361 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:18,867 [Holly] Hef lived full time at the Playboy Mansion in California 362 00:18:18,867 --> 00:18:20,567 by the mid-70s. 363 00:18:20,634 --> 00:18:22,867 The mansion was very mysterious. 364 00:18:22,867 --> 00:18:24,066 I mean, everybody knew that there were 365 00:18:24,066 --> 00:18:27,867 wild parties going on, and this is a nude magazine. 366 00:18:27,867 --> 00:18:29,667 So of course, people are going to think it's like 367 00:18:29,734 --> 00:18:31,367 edgy or whatever, 368 00:18:31,367 --> 00:18:33,066 but people didn't know specifics. 369 00:18:34,900 --> 00:18:36,467 When the girls come to the mansion, 370 00:18:36,467 --> 00:18:39,333 they would be told, this is what is expected of you. 371 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:41,667 And if you want to stay here 372 00:18:41,734 --> 00:18:43,767 and you want to be part of this family, 373 00:18:43,767 --> 00:18:46,266 then this is what you have to do, 374 00:18:46,333 --> 00:18:52,667 which entailed group sex, orgies, drugs, the full Monty. 375 00:18:52,667 --> 00:18:54,266 [Stefan] And everything was free. 376 00:18:54,266 --> 00:18:56,967 When you come to LA and somebody says to you, 377 00:18:56,967 --> 00:19:02,533 "Come up, the drinks, the drugs, the women, it's all free." 378 00:19:03,266 --> 00:19:04,667 How do you say no? 379 00:19:04,667 --> 00:19:06,266 It's like a dream world. 380 00:19:07,166 --> 00:19:09,166 And it was like the jackpot 381 00:19:09,233 --> 00:19:12,166 until you were actually living the life 382 00:19:12,166 --> 00:19:15,867 and realizing that you were being totally drained 383 00:19:15,934 --> 00:19:19,133 of any innocence you ever had. 384 00:19:26,300 --> 00:19:30,000 So it started to go downhill for Dorothy. 385 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,767 At this point, she's by herself. 386 00:19:31,834 --> 00:19:33,867 Paul Snider was still up in Vancouver. 387 00:19:33,934 --> 00:19:35,767 She became very depressed 388 00:19:35,767 --> 00:19:38,667 because she was living this life that she wanted, 389 00:19:38,667 --> 00:19:40,467 but she didn't know how to handle. 390 00:19:40,467 --> 00:19:41,567 They're giving her money. 391 00:19:41,567 --> 00:19:42,767 They're giving her drugs. 392 00:19:42,767 --> 00:19:45,367 They're telling her she's going to be famous. 393 00:19:45,367 --> 00:19:49,867 And she was distraught and abused. 394 00:19:49,867 --> 00:19:54,533 She called me at home and was just crying all the time. 395 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,667 They had to do her makeup. 396 00:19:58,734 --> 00:20:00,367 Once you went to the photo shoots, 397 00:20:00,367 --> 00:20:02,934 her eyes were so red. 398 00:20:04,500 --> 00:20:07,266 It was tough, you know, to be her friend. 399 00:20:09,767 --> 00:20:12,467 It can be so intimidating at the Playboy Mansion. 400 00:20:12,533 --> 00:20:14,467 It's so extreme either way. 401 00:20:14,533 --> 00:20:16,166 If a woman shows up to the Playboy Mansion 402 00:20:16,166 --> 00:20:17,667 and doesn't want to be involved 403 00:20:17,667 --> 00:20:20,066 in any of the sex or drugs or anything, 404 00:20:20,767 --> 00:20:21,934 it can be really, really scary. 405 00:20:27,967 --> 00:20:31,767 Paul was living in this small apartment in Westwood, 406 00:20:31,834 --> 00:20:35,967 I guess near UCLA, and paying an exorbitant rent. 407 00:20:37,367 --> 00:20:40,767 Then Dorothy approached me about the place in West LA 408 00:20:40,767 --> 00:20:42,000 that was becoming available 409 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,967 that might serve as a place for the three of us to live. 410 00:20:47,467 --> 00:20:48,967 So to get out of the mansion 411 00:20:48,967 --> 00:20:50,967 and still be a part of Playboy, 412 00:20:51,033 --> 00:20:53,634 she told Hefner she wanted to marry Paul. 413 00:20:54,166 --> 00:20:55,367 She wanted out of the mansion 414 00:20:55,367 --> 00:20:56,667 because she couldn't handle it. 415 00:20:56,734 --> 00:20:59,166 The rapes, the orgies. 416 00:20:59,233 --> 00:21:01,166 She was just losing her mind, literally. 417 00:21:01,233 --> 00:21:03,233 She was absolutely losing her mind. 418 00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:06,166 Mr. Hefner discouraged her 419 00:21:06,233 --> 00:21:07,767 from marrying Paul at the time. 420 00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:10,166 [Holly] It was very uncommon for playmates to be married. 421 00:21:10,166 --> 00:21:11,767 I think Hef always wanted, like, 422 00:21:11,767 --> 00:21:13,767 young women who seemed available. 423 00:21:14,567 --> 00:21:18,367 So she was stuck in a very awkward position 424 00:21:18,367 --> 00:21:19,834 for such a young woman. 425 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:25,467 Dorothy was at that time of 18 or 19 426 00:21:25,533 --> 00:21:27,634 very much interested in pleasing everybody. 427 00:21:28,367 --> 00:21:31,000 And I think that carried over from 428 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,967 not only everybody she met, 429 00:21:33,033 --> 00:21:35,867 but from her wanting to please Paul. 430 00:21:35,934 --> 00:21:37,967 I think that was a big part of her 431 00:21:37,967 --> 00:21:40,467 ultimately agreeing to marry him. 432 00:21:40,533 --> 00:21:41,967 [Jeana] I think Dorothy married Paul 433 00:21:42,033 --> 00:21:44,000 because she felt she owed it to him. 434 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,066 He got her out of Canada and into this magic life. 435 00:21:47,133 --> 00:21:49,266 And I think she attributed to him. 436 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:51,667 They went to Vegas, 437 00:21:51,667 --> 00:21:53,867 which was exactly what Paul Snider needed. 438 00:21:53,934 --> 00:21:55,467 He needed a piece of paper 439 00:21:55,467 --> 00:21:58,066 that he was connected with her, 440 00:21:58,066 --> 00:22:00,367 that they were partners on some level. 441 00:22:04,567 --> 00:22:07,567 The majority of the women who came to Playboy 442 00:22:07,634 --> 00:22:09,667 wanted to be actresses. 443 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,033 They wanted to go further. 444 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,266 [Stella] And Dorothy wanted the same. 445 00:22:15,266 --> 00:22:17,066 She wanted to be an actress. 446 00:22:17,133 --> 00:22:19,166 And she loved the lifestyle 447 00:22:20,266 --> 00:22:23,066 and wanted to be a well-known screen star. 448 00:22:25,667 --> 00:22:27,166 Hef always loved Hollywood, 449 00:22:27,166 --> 00:22:29,266 the movies, the Hollywood industry, 450 00:22:29,266 --> 00:22:31,667 and really wanted to be a part of it. 451 00:22:31,734 --> 00:22:33,667 And I think the idea of a playmate 452 00:22:33,734 --> 00:22:35,066 becoming a mainstream movie star 453 00:22:35,133 --> 00:22:36,767 was really exciting to him. 454 00:22:36,834 --> 00:22:39,567 [Stefan] Hefner wanted to be a famous film producer. 455 00:22:39,634 --> 00:22:41,767 So he had all the actors, 456 00:22:41,767 --> 00:22:44,734 directors, producers, always were there. 457 00:22:46,667 --> 00:22:48,867 [Jeana] All the guys that came up to the mansion, 458 00:22:48,867 --> 00:22:51,166 they were directors or producers or actors. 459 00:22:51,166 --> 00:22:53,467 They would always try to get us parts 460 00:22:53,533 --> 00:22:55,967 and submit us for things to do. 461 00:22:56,033 --> 00:22:59,867 I got at least three movies out of the mansion. 462 00:22:59,867 --> 00:23:04,333 Not every centerfold had the ability to become an actress. 463 00:23:05,066 --> 00:23:08,567 Hef saw in Dorothy that ability. 464 00:23:08,634 --> 00:23:11,133 He wanted big things for her. He had big dreams for her. 465 00:23:12,867 --> 00:23:15,667 [Stefan] Peter Bogdanovich was always at the mansion. 466 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,433 He was a famous film director. 467 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,166 [man] Be prepared. 468 00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:22,867 And Hef always is. 469 00:23:22,934 --> 00:23:24,967 This summer Hef converted his tennis court 470 00:23:25,033 --> 00:23:26,634 into a skating rink. 471 00:23:28,266 --> 00:23:29,767 Dorothy and Peter first met 472 00:23:29,767 --> 00:23:32,567 when we were filming the roller skating. 473 00:23:32,567 --> 00:23:35,867 It was just a fun, easy, relaxed daytime stuff. 474 00:23:35,867 --> 00:23:38,433 So it was easy to talk to people and meet people. 475 00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:43,166 [Steve] So Peter Bogdanovich was really well established. 476 00:23:43,166 --> 00:23:45,867 Everything he had touched was turning to gold. 477 00:23:46,567 --> 00:23:48,667 Peter was rich. 478 00:23:48,667 --> 00:23:49,767 He was famous. 479 00:23:49,834 --> 00:23:51,100 He was successful. 480 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:53,667 And he carried himself in that way. 481 00:23:53,667 --> 00:23:55,467 And so for somebody like Dorothy, 482 00:23:55,467 --> 00:23:57,166 wow, what a difference. 483 00:23:58,767 --> 00:24:01,233 And he got bit by the magic bug. 484 00:24:02,266 --> 00:24:03,567 He saw what all of us saw, 485 00:24:03,634 --> 00:24:08,100 this sweet little magical being with a big heart. 486 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:10,100 He was a Marilyn Monroe type 487 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:12,367 and needed someone to protect her. 488 00:24:12,433 --> 00:24:14,867 [Stella] Peter was absolutely head over heels for her. 489 00:24:14,867 --> 00:24:17,667 And she said, "I want to be a movie star." 490 00:24:17,734 --> 00:24:20,266 And he said, "I'm writing a movie." 491 00:24:20,266 --> 00:24:22,367 Long story short, he wrote her part. 492 00:24:22,367 --> 00:24:25,166 And he said, "I'm going to go to New York to shoot it." 493 00:24:25,233 --> 00:24:26,634 I want you to come with me. 494 00:24:28,867 --> 00:24:31,367 [Jeana] In 1980, Dorothy went to work. 495 00:24:31,367 --> 00:24:34,233 They all laughed with Peter Bogdanovich in New York. 496 00:24:35,700 --> 00:24:38,567 Everybody was so excited for Dorothy when she got the part. 497 00:24:39,567 --> 00:24:41,567 She was like a little kid in a candy store. 498 00:24:41,567 --> 00:24:42,867 She was so excited. 499 00:24:42,867 --> 00:24:45,066 Then a couple of the girls went out with her 500 00:24:45,133 --> 00:24:48,166 to go shopping and get some New York big girl clothes 501 00:24:48,166 --> 00:24:49,567 because she had nothing 502 00:24:49,567 --> 00:24:51,934 and no idea what people wore in New York. 503 00:24:53,367 --> 00:24:56,266 I always tried to reassure her, sincerely so, 504 00:24:56,333 --> 00:24:57,233 that she had what it takes. 505 00:24:57,233 --> 00:24:59,767 She had that special something that Hollywood 506 00:24:59,767 --> 00:25:02,433 and movies was always looking for. 507 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,066 You know, she had been in other movies, 508 00:25:05,066 --> 00:25:07,667 little bit parts, but they were lower budget. 509 00:25:07,667 --> 00:25:09,467 This was a big deal. 510 00:25:09,467 --> 00:25:10,867 And that's where she was. 511 00:25:10,867 --> 00:25:12,567 And she was filming. 512 00:25:12,567 --> 00:25:15,367 And she was falling in love with the director. 513 00:25:17,367 --> 00:25:20,166 [Holly] Peter and Dorothy kept their relationship a secret for a while. 514 00:25:20,166 --> 00:25:22,567 Dorothy was married to Paul Snider. 515 00:25:22,567 --> 00:25:24,967 And Peter had been through a lot publicly 516 00:25:24,967 --> 00:25:25,967 and his personal life. 517 00:25:25,967 --> 00:25:28,367 So I don't think he wanted to, you know, 518 00:25:28,433 --> 00:25:30,567 blast that he was dating a married woman. 519 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,066 [Jeana] Paul's whole life was Dorothy. 520 00:25:35,133 --> 00:25:37,867 You know, that his whole identity was wrapped into hers. 521 00:25:37,934 --> 00:25:41,133 He stopped doing all of his projects to focus on hers. 522 00:25:42,467 --> 00:25:44,667 And when Paul wasn't allowed to go to New York 523 00:25:44,667 --> 00:25:46,467 to watch her film, 524 00:25:46,467 --> 00:25:49,467 that was kind of a kick in the teeth to him. 525 00:25:49,467 --> 00:25:51,233 He thought he should be there. 526 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,567 My name is Patti Laurman. 527 00:25:57,867 --> 00:25:59,367 When Dorothy was filming in New York, 528 00:25:59,367 --> 00:26:01,166 Paul and I would spend a lot of time together. 529 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:04,867 We'd be talking and he would be saying 530 00:26:04,867 --> 00:26:07,433 how sad he was about what's going on with Dorothy. 531 00:26:08,467 --> 00:26:09,867 And he'd start crying. 532 00:26:11,066 --> 00:26:12,367 I love her so much, but I just don't want 533 00:26:12,367 --> 00:26:13,567 anybody to hurt her. 534 00:26:13,634 --> 00:26:15,333 I don't want anybody to take advantage of her. 535 00:26:17,367 --> 00:26:18,667 I called it the Playboy curse 536 00:26:18,667 --> 00:26:21,467 because once you were associated with Playboy 537 00:26:21,467 --> 00:26:24,734 and that world, things went horribly wrong. 538 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:28,367 Being a playmate puts you in the public eye 539 00:26:28,367 --> 00:26:32,767 in a way where people tend to sometimes 540 00:26:32,767 --> 00:26:35,734 get unhealthy attachments to these centerfolds. 541 00:26:36,767 --> 00:26:39,634 If you get the wrong set of eyes on you... 542 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:45,734 There's a chance they could track you down. 543 00:26:46,567 --> 00:26:48,266 That could lead to something really awful. 544 00:26:49,266 --> 00:26:51,266 Dorothy was very naive 545 00:26:51,266 --> 00:26:55,166 and she just didn't see, she didn't see the bad. 546 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,233 Didn't see it coming, didn't see it coming. 547 00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:08,867 Paul stood to lose everything. 548 00:27:08,867 --> 00:27:12,934 Two years after they moved to LA, Dorothy was moving on. 549 00:27:13,567 --> 00:27:14,934 So it was tough for him. 550 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,467 Once Paul had realized that this was the end 551 00:27:18,533 --> 00:27:21,100 of his opportunity with Dorothy financially, 552 00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:23,100 and he had developed other ideas and so forth 553 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:25,166 and was grooming another young lady 554 00:27:25,233 --> 00:27:27,166 to become a playmate also. 555 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:32,467 I was modeling at the Long Beach Complex Arena 556 00:27:32,467 --> 00:27:35,367 and Paul came by and started talking to me 557 00:27:35,433 --> 00:27:37,667 and asked if I'd done any other modeling, 558 00:27:37,667 --> 00:27:39,834 if I ever considered Playboy. 559 00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:43,000 And then he told me about his wife 560 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,166 being Playmate of the Year. 561 00:27:45,166 --> 00:27:48,967 Her name was Dorothy and we just had a conversation. 562 00:27:48,967 --> 00:27:51,967 Paul mentioned to me that they had an extra room downstairs 563 00:27:52,033 --> 00:27:54,266 that I could pay rent and I could live in that room. 564 00:27:54,266 --> 00:27:56,533 And so... So that's what I did. 565 00:27:59,166 --> 00:28:01,767 Dorothy was already shooting a film in New York, 566 00:28:01,767 --> 00:28:03,166 so she was gone most of the time. 567 00:28:05,266 --> 00:28:07,667 When a playmate settles down with somebody, 568 00:28:07,667 --> 00:28:08,767 they can either think her being in the magazine 569 00:28:08,767 --> 00:28:10,867 is really cool and they're really proud of it, 570 00:28:10,867 --> 00:28:13,166 or they can be really jealous and possessive. 571 00:28:14,266 --> 00:28:17,734 Paul was starting to just be more emotional. 572 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:25,667 He had written a song for Dorothy. 573 00:28:25,667 --> 00:28:27,667 He would sit there and play that song a lot 574 00:28:27,667 --> 00:28:29,166 because he played guitar. 575 00:28:31,066 --> 00:28:32,767 I'd tell him that, you know, that, "Hey, 576 00:28:32,767 --> 00:28:34,367 I know that you love her so much, 577 00:28:34,367 --> 00:28:37,367 but you can't force somebody to be with you." 578 00:28:37,367 --> 00:28:39,667 At this point, Paul suspects 579 00:28:39,734 --> 00:28:41,967 that Bogdanovich is in love with her. 580 00:28:42,033 --> 00:28:46,066 In his mind, he thought, "I brought her here." 581 00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:49,967 She owes me. She's here because of me. 582 00:28:50,033 --> 00:28:51,567 And now she's in New York? 583 00:28:51,634 --> 00:28:53,834 Now she's traveling with Peter Bogdanovich? 584 00:28:54,567 --> 00:28:56,834 The frustration had to be overwhelming. 585 00:28:58,867 --> 00:29:02,533 Without Dorothy, Paul Snider was nothing and he knew it. 586 00:29:05,767 --> 00:29:09,166 [Jeana] In summer of 1980, Dorothy was pretty much the "it girl." 587 00:29:09,166 --> 00:29:10,467 She was everywhere. 588 00:29:10,467 --> 00:29:11,767 She was on Johnny Carson. 589 00:29:11,767 --> 00:29:14,166 She was on a couple other talk shows 590 00:29:14,166 --> 00:29:16,266 promoting her movie. 591 00:29:16,266 --> 00:29:20,266 It was great. We were all so happy for her. 592 00:29:20,333 --> 00:29:22,066 I had been waiting on him at the Dairy Queen. 593 00:29:22,133 --> 00:29:24,767 She had little pigtails and a little red smock on her. 594 00:29:24,767 --> 00:29:27,166 "Can I help you?" And he said, "What's your name?" 595 00:29:27,166 --> 00:29:29,000 And... [laughs] 596 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,767 It was really encouraging for all the other centerfolds, 597 00:29:31,767 --> 00:29:35,367 you know, because it gave meaning to what they were doing. 598 00:29:35,367 --> 00:29:37,734 -You really are a lovely young lady. -Thank you. 599 00:29:43,166 --> 00:29:44,867 [Patti] Paul didn't know what was going on. 600 00:29:44,867 --> 00:29:47,233 He tried to call. He couldn't get through to her. 601 00:29:48,166 --> 00:29:49,834 He would get really frustrated. 602 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:53,867 "How could she do this to me? You know, she's there. 603 00:29:53,934 --> 00:29:56,166 She's trying to tell me she's staying at one hotel, 604 00:29:56,233 --> 00:29:58,667 but I know he's at the Pierre and she's staying with him." 605 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,367 Paul had a private investigator working for him 606 00:30:03,433 --> 00:30:06,667 and I didn't know what that was about. 607 00:30:06,667 --> 00:30:09,367 And then Paul explained that he was concerned 608 00:30:09,433 --> 00:30:11,367 about what was going on with Dorothy. 609 00:30:11,367 --> 00:30:15,767 And so that's why he hired this person to find out 610 00:30:15,767 --> 00:30:17,066 what was happening with her 611 00:30:17,066 --> 00:30:19,166 to make sure that she was okay. 612 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,567 And I'm sure probably finding out 613 00:30:25,567 --> 00:30:27,667 if she's having a relationship with somebody else. 614 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,166 Dorothy was in town at one time 615 00:30:33,166 --> 00:30:35,000 and Paul didn't know she was in town 616 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,767 and she was staying at Bogdanovich's house. 617 00:30:38,767 --> 00:30:41,266 And I think the investigator saw her car there. 618 00:30:41,266 --> 00:30:43,367 And that's when I think he found out 619 00:30:43,367 --> 00:30:46,367 about her relationship with Bogdanovich. 620 00:30:49,867 --> 00:30:51,867 In early summer 1980, 621 00:30:51,867 --> 00:30:54,367 Dorothy came back from New York all excited, 622 00:30:54,367 --> 00:30:57,834 full of life and her adventures there. 623 00:30:59,767 --> 00:31:03,667 She was really starting to be her own woman. 624 00:31:04,967 --> 00:31:07,734 Peter was crazy for her and wanted to marry her. 625 00:31:08,967 --> 00:31:12,433 And Dorothy realizes she can't go back to Paul. 626 00:31:13,367 --> 00:31:15,166 Even though she cares about him, 627 00:31:15,166 --> 00:31:17,567 she feels that she has some type of loyalty 628 00:31:17,567 --> 00:31:20,233 because he got her to where she was. 629 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,266 [Patti] So Paul would always pick me up after my acting classes. 630 00:31:29,333 --> 00:31:31,367 And so one day he told me 631 00:31:31,433 --> 00:31:34,634 he wanted to go check out an ad that he had seen. 632 00:31:35,867 --> 00:31:38,266 And at first he told me it was for a shotgun. 633 00:31:38,266 --> 00:31:40,567 I was like, "What do you need a shotgun for?" 634 00:31:40,567 --> 00:31:42,467 He was like, "Oh, I just want to go check it out. 635 00:31:42,467 --> 00:31:43,734 I want to just see." 636 00:31:44,467 --> 00:31:45,767 When Paul was saying that, 637 00:31:45,834 --> 00:31:48,467 I didn't think that was too unusual. 638 00:31:48,467 --> 00:31:50,467 Especially living in LA, I thought that was a good idea 639 00:31:50,467 --> 00:31:52,433 to have a firearm for protection. 640 00:31:54,567 --> 00:31:56,266 So we drove to look for it 641 00:31:56,266 --> 00:31:58,467 and that's when we really had one of those talks. 642 00:31:58,467 --> 00:32:00,867 He was so frustrated. 643 00:32:00,867 --> 00:32:02,867 You're married to somebody, you can't talk to her. 644 00:32:02,867 --> 00:32:04,166 You don't know what's going on. 645 00:32:04,166 --> 00:32:06,166 You just know that you're just getting pushed, 646 00:32:06,166 --> 00:32:09,266 you know, doors closed on you wherever you go. 647 00:32:09,333 --> 00:32:11,867 That's when he was saying, if I can't be with her, 648 00:32:11,934 --> 00:32:13,166 because I was like, you don't want to be with her 649 00:32:13,166 --> 00:32:14,567 if you have to force her to be with you. 650 00:32:14,634 --> 00:32:16,767 You know, you want her to be with you because she wants to be. 651 00:32:29,467 --> 00:32:31,367 Dorothy and Paul 652 00:32:31,433 --> 00:32:33,467 had agreed to meet at the house they once shared. 653 00:32:33,467 --> 00:32:34,533 [knock on door] 654 00:32:43,166 --> 00:32:45,967 So I said, "Okay, I'm going to go with my friend 655 00:32:46,033 --> 00:32:47,333 to Venice Beach and go roller skating." 656 00:32:52,467 --> 00:32:55,467 Patti got home sometime prior to my arriving there, 657 00:32:55,467 --> 00:32:57,634 but exactly what time, I have no idea. 658 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:03,367 Then we're just watching TV and talking 659 00:33:03,367 --> 00:33:07,567 and then we got a call from Paul's friend, 660 00:33:07,567 --> 00:33:09,266 the private investigator, and he was saying, 661 00:33:09,266 --> 00:33:11,000 "You know, I've been trying to call Paul. 662 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,033 He's not answering. This isn't right." 663 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:20,066 I remember going downstairs. Patti was right on my tail, 664 00:33:20,066 --> 00:33:23,133 turned the corner. There's the door to their bedroom. 665 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,100 And I remember knocking on the door. 666 00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:28,166 And there was no answer. 667 00:33:28,166 --> 00:33:30,367 I kept knocking two or three different times. 668 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,166 I said to myself, "Steve, go ahead and open the door. 669 00:33:34,166 --> 00:33:36,634 Come on. Look in there and see what's going on. 670 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:40,166 The door is open. 671 00:33:41,467 --> 00:33:42,634 Open the door." 672 00:33:44,166 --> 00:33:46,467 [Patti] And it was unlocked till we opened the door. 673 00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:49,967 [Stephen] And there's Dorothy. 674 00:33:49,967 --> 00:33:52,967 It was just the worst moment of my life. 675 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,767 Once I came to the realization of what had happened after, 676 00:34:01,767 --> 00:34:05,967 you know, what seems like an eternity, my mind went blank. 677 00:34:09,467 --> 00:34:10,433 You know, I just... 678 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:12,934 [sighs in despair] 679 00:34:14,567 --> 00:34:16,767 I don't know what I did then. 680 00:34:16,834 --> 00:34:21,166 It was just, uh, the worst moment of my life. 681 00:34:21,166 --> 00:34:26,533 And, uh, it was then, it is 43 years later. 682 00:34:28,867 --> 00:34:34,233 And, uh, you know, that's life. 683 00:34:35,867 --> 00:34:37,467 [Patti] I was like in shock. 684 00:34:37,467 --> 00:34:40,000 It's like a permanent picture in my mind. 685 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,266 I'll never not see it. I'll never forget. 686 00:34:43,266 --> 00:34:48,133 That was just so eerie and so, so horrible. 687 00:34:52,066 --> 00:34:54,066 Stephen told me to just go up to the phone 688 00:34:54,133 --> 00:34:57,233 and tell the investigator and to call the police. 689 00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:05,166 [Richard] When I did open the bedroom door, 690 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,433 Dorothy was slumped down in front of the bed. 691 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:16,066 And then I found that Paul's body 692 00:35:16,133 --> 00:35:17,834 was laying face down. 693 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:24,367 In the center of the room, the murder weapon utilized 694 00:35:24,367 --> 00:35:25,734 was a 12-gauge shotgun. 695 00:35:27,667 --> 00:35:31,166 Both had sustained gunshot wounds. 696 00:35:31,166 --> 00:35:36,567 Dorothy to the face and Paul to the side of his head. 697 00:35:39,367 --> 00:35:44,567 All of the evidence fit exactly it being a murder-suicide. 698 00:35:44,634 --> 00:35:47,667 It appears that she held up her right hand 699 00:35:47,667 --> 00:35:51,767 when the shotgun was pointed at her and fired 700 00:35:51,834 --> 00:35:55,567 because the tip of her index finger was also shot off. 701 00:35:55,634 --> 00:35:58,767 It is in line of her looking at the shotgun 702 00:35:58,834 --> 00:36:00,467 and turning away from it. 703 00:36:00,467 --> 00:36:03,934 And as she turned, it was fired as she held her hand up. 704 00:36:06,567 --> 00:36:08,266 Paul had put the shotgun 705 00:36:08,266 --> 00:36:11,066 to the left side of his left temple 706 00:36:11,133 --> 00:36:13,967 and fired a round that went through his head 707 00:36:14,033 --> 00:36:17,567 -and out the right side. -[gunshot] 708 00:36:17,634 --> 00:36:20,734 And when he fell forward, the shotgun fell under him. 709 00:36:22,166 --> 00:36:23,867 When we finally rolled him over, 710 00:36:23,867 --> 00:36:28,166 you could see the absolute imprint of the shotgun in him. 711 00:36:30,767 --> 00:36:31,867 [Patti] I mean, I can't... 712 00:36:31,934 --> 00:36:33,967 Oh, the details are just so blurry 713 00:36:33,967 --> 00:36:37,100 because I'm still in just shock over what I saw. 714 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:39,367 I mean, I wasn't crying or anything. 715 00:36:39,367 --> 00:36:41,667 The reality hadn't set in yet. 716 00:36:41,667 --> 00:36:44,333 So many police and investigators there. 717 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:50,667 As protocol, they dusted me for gunpowder, 718 00:36:50,734 --> 00:36:53,266 took a whole history and told them what I knew 719 00:36:53,333 --> 00:36:56,333 and, uh, never spent another night in the place. 720 00:37:00,567 --> 00:37:04,533 And that was her fate and that was the end of her life. 721 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,667 She was 20 years old. 722 00:37:07,667 --> 00:37:09,867 Kind of shocked that such a young lady 723 00:37:09,934 --> 00:37:11,734 would lose her life so young. 724 00:37:12,767 --> 00:37:14,567 Everyone felt the horror of it. 725 00:37:14,634 --> 00:37:18,166 I know all the centerfolds did and everybody I knew. 726 00:37:18,166 --> 00:37:20,367 They were just horrified, 727 00:37:20,367 --> 00:37:22,066 but how could this guy do that? 728 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,433 Why did he have to take her life? 729 00:37:29,467 --> 00:37:32,066 If there's one thing that captures the media, 730 00:37:32,133 --> 00:37:34,266 it is a beautiful blonde lady 731 00:37:34,266 --> 00:37:36,266 who has been killed by somebody. 732 00:37:36,266 --> 00:37:39,533 There was sex, there was violence, there was intrigue. 733 00:37:40,867 --> 00:37:44,266 It just became well known that Dorothy Stratten, 734 00:37:44,333 --> 00:37:46,367 Playboy Bunny of the Year, was murdered. 735 00:37:49,266 --> 00:37:52,767 By the time I finished up with my investigation, 736 00:37:52,834 --> 00:37:55,667 -I was receiving calls from all over the world. -[phone ringing] 737 00:37:55,667 --> 00:37:59,767 Canada, England, everywhere that you could possibly think of. 738 00:37:59,767 --> 00:38:02,066 This was before the days of 24-hour cable, 739 00:38:02,066 --> 00:38:04,567 of the internet or anything like that, 740 00:38:04,634 --> 00:38:06,867 but there were still newspapers, 741 00:38:06,867 --> 00:38:09,967 there were still breaking news on television, 742 00:38:10,033 --> 00:38:11,467 and this was big news. 743 00:38:12,767 --> 00:38:16,333 After Dorothy was killed, Hef was just so upset. 744 00:38:18,467 --> 00:38:20,867 Hefner went into a depression 745 00:38:20,867 --> 00:38:25,233 because I don't think anything like that had ever really stunned him. 746 00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:29,667 [Jeana] Hef was just beside himself, you know. 747 00:38:29,734 --> 00:38:34,066 He wanted people around him, and he had a lot to process. 748 00:38:34,133 --> 00:38:36,967 It was heartbreaking. It affected everybody. 749 00:38:37,033 --> 00:38:40,567 Everybody loved a little piece of Dorothy, you know. 750 00:38:40,567 --> 00:38:42,133 Everybody could relate to her. 751 00:38:43,567 --> 00:38:45,433 Everyone felt the horror of it. 752 00:38:46,667 --> 00:38:49,767 The tragedy with Dorothy was such big news, 753 00:38:49,834 --> 00:38:53,166 it was something Playboy couldn't even distance itself from. 754 00:38:53,166 --> 00:38:56,867 They ran kind of a memorial feature for Dorothy 755 00:38:56,867 --> 00:38:58,867 the following year, and it was something 756 00:38:58,934 --> 00:39:00,967 that had reverberations through the company 757 00:39:01,033 --> 00:39:02,533 for many, many years to come. 758 00:39:06,467 --> 00:39:10,734 Bogdanovich tried to blame on the so-called "Playboy lifestyle," 759 00:39:11,467 --> 00:39:13,767 and he was just very, very angry. 760 00:39:13,767 --> 00:39:18,367 He was lashing out at anybody connected with Playboy or not. 761 00:39:18,433 --> 00:39:21,266 And then they're both pointing fingers at each other. 762 00:39:21,266 --> 00:39:23,967 It's your fault. It's for you went out with the married ones, your fault. 763 00:39:24,033 --> 00:39:26,467 And what really, really turned the corner 764 00:39:26,467 --> 00:39:29,367 was Bogdanovich decided to write a book 765 00:39:29,433 --> 00:39:31,967 about what really happened to Dorothy. 766 00:39:31,967 --> 00:39:35,100 The lifestyle in the mansion, what went on, 767 00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:36,567 and blamed Hefner. 768 00:39:37,166 --> 00:39:38,767 And Hefner had a heart attack. 769 00:39:38,767 --> 00:39:39,967 He literally had a... 770 00:39:40,033 --> 00:39:41,367 This was five years later. 771 00:39:41,433 --> 00:39:44,467 He told Bogdanovich, "You gave me a heart attack," 772 00:39:44,467 --> 00:39:45,767 because he knew it was the truth, 773 00:39:45,834 --> 00:39:47,166 but who wants to hear that? 774 00:39:47,166 --> 00:39:50,767 Come on. It's nobody's fault. He's a crazy husband. 775 00:39:53,467 --> 00:39:56,767 Never in a million years would I ever imagine 776 00:39:56,767 --> 00:39:58,333 that Paul could do what he did. 777 00:39:59,467 --> 00:40:01,066 I've seen everything that you could think of 778 00:40:01,066 --> 00:40:04,166 as far as murder suicides or double suicides. 779 00:40:04,166 --> 00:40:06,867 For Snider, this was all about money for him. 780 00:40:07,266 --> 00:40:09,000 Money and opportunity. 781 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,033 He wanted it all and couldn't have it. 782 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,734 She was an angel on Earth, 783 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,567 and she was just a delight to be around. 784 00:40:19,567 --> 00:40:22,967 And I try to honor her memory 785 00:40:23,033 --> 00:40:25,967 because she was just an extraordinary human being. 786 00:40:26,867 --> 00:40:28,433 And I guess I'd say... [clears throat] 787 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:30,166 Uh... 788 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,166 We'll never see the likes of her again. 789 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,667 When I think about Dorothy, 790 00:40:38,667 --> 00:40:41,967 it's just the incredible sadness of this beautiful, 791 00:40:41,967 --> 00:40:45,667 bright spirit being crushed by an evil husband. 792 00:40:47,367 --> 00:40:48,867 There had been some tragic deaths 793 00:40:48,867 --> 00:40:52,066 concerning playmates before Dorothy, 794 00:40:52,066 --> 00:40:54,266 but I feel that this particular case 795 00:40:54,266 --> 00:40:55,967 hit really close to home 796 00:40:55,967 --> 00:40:58,634 because everyone really knew and loved Dorothy. 797 00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:02,100 You know, there's nothing anybody could have done, 798 00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:04,367 but there's always that feeling, like, 799 00:41:04,367 --> 00:41:05,533 "I wish I could have done something more." 800 00:41:10,266 --> 00:41:11,266 [camera clicking] 801 00:41:11,266 --> 00:41:13,967 The 50th Anniversary Playmate was presented as 802 00:41:13,967 --> 00:41:16,066 being like a very special playmate. 803 00:41:16,066 --> 00:41:18,467 It doesn't matter if you posed nude in Playboy, 804 00:41:18,533 --> 00:41:22,266 that doesn't give somebody access or the right. 805 00:41:22,266 --> 00:41:24,867 You never know who you are surrounded by, 806 00:41:24,867 --> 00:41:26,367 what this person's background is. 807 00:41:26,433 --> 00:41:28,467 It can be a really scary path.