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ANS’ death is definitely dramatic and interesting… I’m still not tired of hearing about it. I really want to know what is going to happen to her creepy lover Howard, who the baby daddy of Dannielynn is and what’s her mother’s ulterior motive and where she is going to be buried. I also want to know what’s going to happen legal-wise with her money. How fascinating!
But she is certainly not the first of the Playmates to suffer a sensation death and die before the age of 50. The concentration of hedonism is most definitely a contribution to the truncated lives of some Playmates but some also seem to be just freaky happenings such as Eve Meyer.
Below is a quick synopsis of the beautiful dead; seems like a lot of them like sleeping pills and driving:
• Elisa Bridges: 28, drug overdose, 2002 (also Houston raised, cue creepy music?)
• Ellen Louise Maligo: 40, murdered in Florida, 1997; no photo or mention other than the AP article for her. I couldn’t even find her name in the Playboy Directory.
• Dorothy Stratten: 20, killed by estranged husband, 1980; her death was the subject of two movies… perhaps as infernal and crummy as “Illegal Aliens.”
• Claudia Jennings: 29, car accident– she fell asleep at the wheel and was not on drugs. I wonder if it was suicide because she was in a tumultuous relationship with someone and the accident happened while she was going to retrieve her possessions.
• Eve Meyer: 46, airliner collision, 1977; 550 died when two airplanes collided on the ground.
• Paige Young: 30, drug overdose (sleeping pills), 1974; sad, her Playmate Profile shows that she likes a lot of the same authors I do. (Or this could be a Carmen Electra moment when she said she totally digs quantum physics and black holes. Bitch, please.)
• Willy Rey: 23, drug overdose, 1973; yet again sleeping pills.
• Carol Willis: 20, car accident, 1971; she too was born in Texas
• Jayne Mansfield: 34, car accident, 1967; driving at 80 miles an hour her car plowed into the back of a trailer. She and the driver were killed instantly and her children who were riding with them survived.
• Tonya Crews: 28, car accident, 1966; she was aspiring to be a mathematician.
• Marilyn Monroe: 36, sleeping pill overdose, 1962; does anyone else believe that Kennedy killed her?
The more that I hear about tragedies such as this, part of my head wants to attribute it Darwinism (survival of the fittest) but then again, it’s sad that these women who had a lot going for them died and I feel sympathy for them.
Thanks to the Houston Chronicle and AP.
Written by Viv
Posted in Deaths, Nude, Photos
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well, I don´t think there´s a purse. The most girls have died of overdose. I think, they did´t know how to take care of themselves. Sad but simple. It happens all the time, and there are lot of examples in these pages
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That redhead (Willy Ray?) is/was pretty hot.
And natural boobs!
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Wikipedia knows all….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Stowe
No images for her on google images either, odd
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I love those old Playboy covers. They’re sooooo stupid.
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I think only women with issues can bear themselves like that or do porn etc, so while that provides them therapy/escape while ‘working’, the rest of the time they need drugs/drink/bad relationships etc, but of course that’s dangerous …
I’m not generalizing to say they ALL have issues but I do think a healhty person wouldnt need all that, at least not those excesses on the side.
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When you think of the thousands of women who have posed for Playboy a few deaths isn’t so weird.
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Thanks, Mairead.
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“I think only women with issues can bear themselves like that or do porn etc”
I totally agree, Pecarrie. Women who bare their bodies for everyone to see are seeking some sort of personal attention they never received in their upbringing. I have a friend who never met her real father and is a major attention-seeker from men. She will do whatever necessary for that extra attention, get naked, have sex with someone she barely knows, etc. She is also a recovering drug addict who still fights those demons daily. I think drugs are just a way to deal with not feeling loved or cared for…an escape from that reality…some women (and men) just take it a little too far.
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Curse from above maybe?
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wow…its weird to see real female bodies again. hahah
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I didn’t recognize Marilyn Monroe in several of the pics.
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I think these are the most beautiful ladies of their time. I think the female body is the most beautiful thing GOD made, I see nothing wrong in showing the body nude..
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