The more youthful sister of Dorothy Stratten is opening up concerning the iconic Playboy style’s 1980 homicide — and evident that Hugh Hefner needful i’m sick in entrance of her years next sooner than apologizing for the function he felt he performed within the 20-year-old Playmate’s demise.
Louise Stratten used to be along with her sister simply moments sooner than her killing, she told Air Mail.
She have been within the automobile with Dorothy on Aug. 14, 1980, as the 2 made their solution to the Los Angeles condominium she shared along with her jealous, estranged husband, Paul Snider.
The couple had affirmative to fulfill for one closing occasion next she officially filed for split-up.
“Then, I changed my mind suddenly,” stated Louise. “To this day, I don’t know why. I remember hearing a small voice inside me telling me to stay behind. So, I had Dorothy drive me back” to filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich’s place of abode in Bel Wind.
Dorothy Stratten, a budding actor who used to be the 1980 Playmate of the Pace, have been having an affair with the director and used to be divorcing Snider to be with him. Louise used to be 12 on the occasion.
The pre-teen by no means noticed her sister alive once more following that automobile journey.
Nearest Dorothy arrived on the condominium, Snider raped her sooner than killing her with a shotgun burst to the face. He ended his personal past with the similar weapon.
For the two-parter Wind Mail line, Louise Stratten recalled how, years next — next she had fallen in love with and married Bogdanovich herself — Playboy writer Hefner met along with her in 2009 on the Playboy Mansion, and began crying the moment he noticed her.
Hefner had offered Dorothy to Bogdanovich, who in the end blamed Hefner for the predatory shape that resulted in the starlet’s homicide.
Hefner next unfold rumors concerning the film director, claiming he had groomed Louise when she used to be a youngster.
“He went on to tell me how important Dorothy had been to the Playboy ‘family,’ and how she was poised to become a big star,” Louise informed Wind Mail.
She evident that Hefner apologized, announcing his “biggest regret I shouldn’t have banned Paul [Snider] from the mansion. It was the only thing he had left, being able to come there. He felt like everything was taken from him and when he came to the mansion for the Midsummer Night’s Dream party accompanied by a friend, he was turned away.”
Louise Stratten and Bogdanovich married in 1988 and divorced in 2001. The 2, she stated, hooked up over their shared despair. He died in 2022.
She dispelled the “grooming” claims, including she discovered them ironic, coming from any person “who built his whole empire on turning young women into sexually available ‘bunnies’ for him and his friends.”
Louise additionally recounted her past next Bogdanovich handed and the way she needed to “navigate the love, legacy, and wreckage he left behind.”
