DEATH OF A STARLET- New from Wondery
A Date With Dateline
Kimberly and Katie - ADWDL
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten's year. Playboy's Hugh Hefner thought it might even be her decade. She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voice who didn't know her own beauty. But who was Dorothy really? And how did her rise to fame ultimately lead to her death?
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Kimberly and this is Katie and we're the host of a date with date line |
| 0:04.5 | If you enjoyed true crime or history podcasts, Wondry has a new mini series that you should check out |
| 0:10.4 | It's called Death of a Starlit. It's about playboy playmate of the year Dorothy Stratton in |
| 0:16.4 | August of 1980 |
| 0:18.0 | She was found dead in the home of her estranged husband shot in the face at close range |
| 0:23.3 | She was just 20 years old the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voice |
| 0:28.5 | Who didn't know her own beauty but to Hugh Hefner she was his next Marilyn Monroe to famed Hollywood film director |
| 0:36.4 | Peter Bogdanovich she was his dream starlit and to her husband Paul Schneider |
| 0:41.7 | She was his ticket to fortune and fame these three ambitious men needed her |
| 0:47.1 | One of them murdered her |
| 0:48.9 | We're about to play you a brief clip from the show |
| 0:51.6 | But while you're listening be sure to subscribe to death of a starlit on Apple podcasts |
| 0:56.5 | Spotify or you can binge all six episodes right now by joining Wondry plus in the Wondry app Wondry |
| 1:04.1 | Feel the story |
| 1:06.1 | Death of a starlit by Hollywood and crime contains depictions of violence and strong language. Please be advised |
| 1:12.1 | It's Thursday August 14th 1980 11 p.m |
| 1:31.1 | Private detective Mark Goldstein sits alone in his car staring at a non-descript two-story house on a quiet street in West Los Angeles |
| 1:41.7 | The guy who lives in the house hired him to tail his wife |
| 1:46.0 | She's having a fair |
| 1:48.3 | Passing headlights reflect off the windshield and then fade away |
| 1:52.4 | Goldstein unrolls the window and a curl of cigarette smoke spirals into the night |
| 1:57.2 | He squints at the two cars in front of the house. They've been parked there since noon |
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