| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Was good friends with Colleen Camp who played a Playboy playmate in Apocalypse Now (1979). |
| 2 | Has appeared on the cover of the Vancouver Canadians (AAA Pacific Coast League Baseball) program, one month before her death. |
| 3 | Is portrayed by Jamie Lee Curtis in Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981) |
| 4 | Is buried 2 1/2 miles away from the Playboy Mansion. |
| 5 | Grew up in the East Hastings area in Vancouver, British Columbia. |
| 6 | Her tombstone features a quote from Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms". Ironically, Hemingway's granddaughter Mariel Hemingway portrayed her in Bob Fosse's Star 80 (1983). |
| 7 | Canadian rocker Bryan Adams wrote a song dedicated to Dorothy: the poignant "The Best Was Yet to Come". It appears on his 1983 album "Cuts Like a Knife". |
| 8 | Following her untimely death, she was interred at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California, Section D, #170. |
| 9 | On Stratten's Playmate data sheet, she listed her major turnoff as "jealous people". |
| 10 | Snider hired a private detective to follow Stratten around after she moved into Peter Bogdanovich's Bel Air home. |
| 11 | Born in a Salvation Army hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. |
| 12 | The murder scene in Star 80 (1983), the film about her life and death, was filmed at the actual apartment where Dorothy died. |
| 13 | The song written in Dorothy's honor is "Cover Girl" by Prism. |
| 14 | Has become a minor cult figure with a few movies made about her life and even a song written about her. |
| 15 | Bogdanovich married Dorothy's younger sister Louise Stratten. |
| 16 | Dated director/actor Peter Bogdanovich. |
| 17 | In high school (c. 1974-1977), she worked at the local Dairy Queen in Vancouver, British Columbia. 2109 East Hastings Street. |
| 18 | Attended and graduated from Centennial High School in Coquitlam, British Columbia in 1978. |
| 19 | Murdered by her husband Paul Snider. |
| 20 | Playboy Playmate of the Year 1980. |
| 21 | Playboy Playmate of the Month August 1979. |
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$5 Million
