Paul Snider In 1979, Snider partnered with Somen Banerjee and attorney Bruce Nahin to form what would become the male strip club format of Chippendales. In 1980, Stratten was named "Playboy"s Playmate of the Year and was cast in a motion picture, "They All Laughed" (1981) directed by Peter Bogdanovich, with whom she began an affair. Stratten and Snider separated and he hired a private investigator to follow her. On August 14, 1980, Stratten, aged twenty nine, was shot and killed in the West Los Angeles house they had shared. Snider's body was found next to hers. Police believed he raped and
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