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
Neil Snider of TWU in 1974. Snider led TWU from its original status as a 350-student junior college to its current position as a 3,500-student Christian liberal-arts university, granting degrees in more than 50 areas of study. The school was recognized as a four-year college by the government of British Columbia in 1979 and accepted into membership by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) in 1984. Snider retired in June 2006. Snider is a member of the AUCC and the Council of Western Canadian University Presidents, as well as a board member of several charitable organizations. He lives in