How Sopranos star Peter Bogdanovich married his Playboy lover’s baby sister after jealous ex raped & shot her in head
thesun.co.ukHE was a famous Hollywood director and she was Playboy’s brightest star – “the next Marilyn Monroe” according to some. It should have been a classic romance, but the story of late Sopranos star Peter Bogdanovich’s love for Playboy model Dorothy Stratten ended like something from a horror movie.
Bogdanovich - who died yesterday of natural causes at his California home, aged 82 - was an undisputed titan of Hollywood. He was best known for his work on films like Paper Moon and Oscar-nominated The Last Picture Show, and for starring in The Sopranos as the therapist Dr Elliot Kupferberg.
But his legacy will forever be linked to tragic Dorothy, the woman who became his muse and his obsession. This was one area of Bogdanovich’s life in which nothing stuck to the script, when a grisly murder-suicide pushed the late director into the arms of his girlfriend’s sister to get over his heartbreak.
Playboy dreams and hustler husband It’s a true story with an opening scene in 1978, when Dorothy Stratten was just a teenager in Vancouver – a sweet girl from a poor background who dreamed of becoming a star.
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