Dorothy Stratten Remembered
August, 2000
Dorothy Stratten RememberedTwenty years ago, a radiant 20-year-old beauty stood center stage at Playboy Mansion West while Hugh M. Hefner introduced her to the assembled media as the 1980 Playmate of the year. A few months later, Dorothy Stratten was the victim of a homicide. For those who came to know her through the pages of Playboy, her death cut short the auspicious career of an actress People magazine described as "so beautiful she seemed luminescent, as if lit from within." That...