She was under the age of 19 (the legal age of majority in British Columbia), so she had to persuade her mother to sign the model release form. Snider later had a photographer take professional nude photos of her which were sent to Playboy magazine in the summer of 1978. Concurrently, she was working part-time at a local Dairy Queen, where she met 26-year-old Vancouver-area club promoter and pimp Paul Snider, who began dating her. In 1977, Stratten was attending Centennial High School in Coquitlam, British Columbia. In 1961, her brother John Arthur was born and, in May 1968, her sister Louise Stratten. Stratten was born in Grace Maternity Hospital in Vancouver on February 28, 1960, to Simon and Nelly Hoogstraten, who had emigrated from the Netherlands.
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Her death inspired two motion pictures, the 1981 TV movie Death of a Centerfold and the 1983 theatrical release Star 80, as well as the book The Killing of the Unicorn and the songs " Californication" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, "The Best Was Yet to Come" by Bryan Adams, and "Cover Girl" by Prism. She was murdered at the age of 20 by her estranged husband and manager Paul Snider, who committed suicide on the same day. Stratten appeared in three comedy films and in at least two episodes of shows broadcast on American network television. Stratten was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1979 and Playmate of the Year in 1980. Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten (Febru– August 14, 1980), known professionally as Dorothy Stratten, was a Canadian Playboy Playmate, model, and actress.