Rule 5 News Special Report: Yvette Vickers, R.I.P.
From the L.A. NOW blog, we learn [tip of the fedora to Fishersville Mike and Wombat-Socho] of the sad and unusual death of former July 1959 Playboy Playmate Yvette Vickers:
Yvette Vickers, an early Playboy playmate whose credits as a B-movie actress included such cult films as “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman” and “Attack of the Giant Leeches,” was found dead last week at her Benedict Canyon home. Her body appears to have gone undiscovered for months, police said.
Vickers, 82, had not been seen for a long time. A neighbor discovered her body in an upstairs room of her Westwanda Drive home on April 27. Its mummified state suggests she could have been dead for close to a year, police said.
The official cause of death will by determined by the Los Angeles county coroner’s office, but police said they saw no sign of foul play.
Vickers had lived in the 1920s-era stone and wood home for decades, and it served as the background for some of her famous modeling pictures. But over time it had become dilapidated, exposed in some places to the elements.
I say let’s remember Miss Vickers from happier times: here she is from her Playboy shoot as photographed by the great Russ Meyer…
Requiescat in pace
[Special Thanks to The Cardinal†]
Aw. Well, I hope she passed away comfortably. Sad she wasn’t noticed until much later. She sure was a pretty lady back in the day.
Dead about a year before a neighbour got a ‘bad feeling’…
Man, that is sad.
She was apparently a hoarder. Her home was falling apart, and filled with stuff. Very sad.
Update on Miss Vickers: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_playmate_coroner