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Weekly Dose of BS

Wondery Presents: Death of a Starlet

Weekly Dose of BS

YEA MEDIA GROUP

Comedy

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 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.
Listen today at wondery.fm/Starlet_DoseOfBS

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Troy with Weekly News of BS. If you enjoy true crime or history podcasts like we do,

0:05.2

Wondry has a new miniseries that you should check out. It's called Death of a Starlet.

0:10.0

It's about Playboy playmate of the year, Dorothy Stratton. In August of 1980, she was found dead in

0:14.8

her home of her strange husband. Shot in the face at close range, she was just 20 years old,

0:19.8

the girl next door with a shy smile and whispery voice, who didn't know her own beauty. But to Hugh

0:25.2

Huffner, she was his next Marilyn Monroe. To fame, Tully would film director Peter Bogdanovich,

0:30.2

she was his dream starlet. And to her husband, Paul Snyder, she was his ticket to Forchinum fame.

0:36.5

These three ambitious men needed her and one of them murdered her.

0:40.0

We're about to play you a brief clip from the show. But while you're listening, be sure to

0:43.6

subscribe to Death of a Starlet on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or you can binge all six episodes right

0:49.4

now by joining Wondry Plus in the Wondry app. Wondry, feel the story. Death of a Starlet by Hollywood

0:56.0

and Crime contains depictions of violence and strong language. Please be advised.

1:06.8

It's Thursday, August 14, 1980, 11pm. Private Detective Mark Goldstein sits alone in his car

1:23.8

staring at a nondescript two-story house on a quiet street in West Los Angeles.

1:28.9

The guy who lives in the house hired him to tell his wife. She's having an affair. Passing

1:36.8

headlights reflect off the windshield and then fade away. Goldstein unrolls the window and a curl

1:43.2

of cigarette smoke spirals into the night. He squints at the two cars in front of the house.

1:48.4

They've been parked there since noon. The woman he's looking for must be in there.

1:54.1

But what are they doing inside? That's the question Goldstein has been asking himself all day.

2:02.0

The two roommates got back a few hours ago and it's been completely quiet since then.

2:08.8

At 11.30pm, Goldstein decides to do something. He rarely does.

2:18.0

Inside the house, Steve Kushner and his roommate Patty are sprawled out on opposite ends of the

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