Wondery Presents: Death of a Starlet

Logically Irrational

YEA MEDIA GROUP

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.9 • 1.4K 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 http://wondery.fm/Starlet_LogicallyIR

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0:00.0	Hey guys it's Melissa Rycroft from Logically Irrational and if you enjoy true crime or
0:04.3	history podcast, Wonder He has a new mini series that you should definitely check out.
0:09.0	It's called Death of a Starlet.
0:10.5	It's about Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratton.
0:13.0	In August of 1980, she was found dead in the home of her estranged husband,
0:17.0	shot in the face at close range.
0:19.0	She was just 20 years old. The girl next door with a shy smile and whispery voice who didn't know her own beauty.
0:24.9	But to Hugh Hefner, she was the next Marilyn Monroe.
0:27.7	To famed Hollywood film director Peter Bogdanovich, she was his dream starlet.
0:31.8	And to her husband Paul Snyder, she was his ticket to fortune and fame.
0:35.2	These three ambitious men needed her, and one of them murdered her. I'm about to play you a brief
0:40.4	clip from the show, but while you you're listening be sure to subscribe to
0:43.1	death of a starlet on Apple podcast Spotify or you can binge all six episodes
0:47.6	right now by joining Wondry Plus in the Wondry App
0:50.5	Wondry feel the story. Death of a Starlit by Hollywood and Crime
0:54.7	contains depictions of violence and strong language.
0:57.4	Please be advised. Thunder. It's Thursday, August 14th, 1980, 11 p.m.
1:18.7	Private Detective Mark Goldstein sits alone in his car staring at a non-descript two-story house on a quiet street in West
1:26.3	Los Angeles.
1:28.2	The guy who lives in the house hired him to tail his wife. She's having an affair. Passing headlights reflect off the windshield
1:36.8	and then fade away. Goldstein unrolls the window and a curl of cigarette smoke spirals into the night.
1:44.0	He squints at the two cars in front of the house.
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