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
Clifton Snider had been unfair to her by giving her a "B" on a paragraph she wrote on the film Fahrenheit 9/11 when she had been achieving a "straight-A record" in the class. Snider wrote he had "the grade book" for the class which proved she was not telling the truth. Neither she nor Horowitz ever contested what Snider said, and indeed neither she nor the male student ever followed university policy regarding complaints against professors. All of Snider's books of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism have been critically acclaimed. Cadence Collective has called him "one of the most magnificent and prolific