The Curse of the Playmate (NSFW)

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:

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• 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.