Paul Snider Paul Snider Paul Leslie Snider (April 15, 1951 – August 14, 1980) was a Canadian man who was one of the creators of the male stripping act the "Chippendales". He was the estranged husband and manager of "Playboy" model Dorothy Stratten, whom he raped and murdered the day he killed himself. Snider was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Jewish parents. By the mid-1970s, he was a night-club promoter and erstwhile pimp. In 1977, Snider met Dorothy Stratten at a Vancouver-area Dairy Queen, where she was working part-time while still attending high school, and romanced her. In 1979, he sent
Paul Snider murdered her, sexually abused the corpse, then killed himself with the same shotgun. Snider's remains are buried at Schara Tzedeck Cemetery in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Snider has been portrayed in two films. The first one was a made-for-television movie about the murder called "" (1981), which starred Jamie Lee Curtis as Stratten and Bruce Weitz as Snider. Bob Fosse's feature film "Star 80" (1983) dramatized Stratten's life and death. Mariel Hemingway played Stratten and Eric Roberts portrayed Snider in a highly acclaimed performance. Paul Snider Paul Leslie Snider (April 15, 1951 – August 14, 1980) was a Canadian