RIP Yvette Vickers (former playmate)

[Roald]

Mummified body of former Playboy playmate Yvette Vickers found in her Benedict Canyon home

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.

Sad that there didn't seem to be anybody who cared about her.

RIP!

Full story http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...te-vickers-found-dead-in-benedict-canyon.html

 

[DJCowboy]

Wow, that is pretty sad. You'd think she'd have had at least one friend or acquaintance that would have noticed her not around and have been worried

 

[Ulysses31]

Was gonna post this earlier but never got round to it. Very sad that there was no one close enough to her to notice such a long amount of time with no communication. RIP.

Attack Of The 50ft Woman star and ex-Playboy model found mummified in her Beverly Hills home

* Yvette Vickers, 82, could have lain there for a year

* Former pin-up starred in B-movie classic as well as Attack Of The Giant Leeches

* After decline of acting career she became estate agent


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mmified-Beverly-Hills-home.html#ixzz1LJ9RRqy6

Yvette Vickers in her glamorous heyday. She appeared in Playboy (left) in 1959, six years after the magazine was first published. She also starred in cult B-movies, including Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman

Her body was found at this dilapidated home in California. The grim discovery was made by a neighbour who noticed that letters stuck in Vickers' mail box were yellowing around the edges and that cobwebs had gathered in the doorway

The overgrown and rundown home where the B-movie star's body was found

Cult movies: Vickers' film credits include 1958's Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman, left, and 1959's Attack Of The Giant Leeches, right

 

[Skyraider22]

Mummified body of former Playboy playmate Yvette Vickers found in her Benedict Canyon home

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.

Sad that there didn't seem to be anybody who cared about her.

RIP!

Full story http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...te-vickers-found-dead-in-benedict-canyon.html

Yeah that is quite sad.R.I.P.

 

[BoboBrowne]

Playmates should never have sad endings like this one.

They're my favorite kind of centerfold. A little slutty, but a little classy too.

 

[Xombie3000]

Incredibly sad that something like this would happen to anybody. For you to go almost a year without anybody finding your body is just heart wrenching. I've seen both of the above mentioned films and thought Yvette was a very beautiful woman.

RIP Yvette

 

[P0rsch391]

So sad. Is there any report on how she died?

 

[D-rock]

It's sad that she had to die alone, and probably didn't have anybody around near the end of her life. That's not the way I would want anybody to go.

I'm also surprised the mailman didn't do anything or notice anything. A lot the time when something happens to the elderly when they are alone they are very often the first ones to suspect something has gone wrong.

 

[P0rsch391]

maybe the mailman is too busy to notice

 

[D-rock]

maybe the mailman is too busy to notice

Sadly, I would say it's more likely the person just didn't care.

 

[SEXJS]

Damn, where does the time go?
She looked pretty good back in the 50's.
I'm 72 and am still healthy & in good shape since I'm a gym rat.
Still, seems like the day before yesterday I was in my 20's and screwing everything I saw.

Ahh, well. My trusty motto:
I may get too old to cut the mustard butt, I will ALWAYS be able to lick the jar.

 

[Facetious]

By the looks of things, Ms. Vickers was likely a victim of clinical depression.
Those lucky enough to be ignorant about such a mental condition wouldn't know how difficult, if not completely impossible it is to reach out to people suffering from such a condition . .that's the sad part about this story[/I], that is, if my assumptions prove to be correct.


RIP Ms. Vickers, your suffering has met its end . . . be at peace.


Aside - What's the big deal about somebody dying alone? I never understood that. :dunno:
Does somebody have to be holding your hand when you pass away and if yes, what exactly is being accomplished by this exercise?

 

[squallumz]

mummified? :wtf:

 

[knowone]

mummified? :wtf:

That will happen in a warm dry room and the bugs don't get in.

 

[D-rock]

Aside - What's the big deal about somebody dying alone? I never understood that. :dunno:
Does somebody have to be holding your hand when you pass away and if yes, what exactly is being accomplished by this exercise?

It's not so much somebody being right with somebody else they care about when they die (although for a lot of people I'm sure they would consider that nice also.), it's somebody living long portions of their life alone without anybody else to be with, without anybody to love or being loved by, or without anybody to be mutually supportive of that I find more sad.

 

[Facetious]

^ Got it! :hatsoff:

I'm also surprised the mailman didn't do anything or notice anything. A lot the time when something happens to the elderly when they are alone they are very often the first ones to suspect something has gone wrong.

The mail person prolly just took it for granted that the home was just anther abandoned foreclosure judging by the way the housing market has gone as of late.

 

[Moonchild22]

First I was immediately saddened when I saw the thread title, and then reading that she apparently died alone and no one knew for so long, that made my heart sink - and I'm the type of person who usually tries to detach from emotion, especially when it's about someone I never knew personally.
Just sad.
I hope she rests in peace -
(None of that hollow "RIP" text, as if it's a strain to give a damn).

Aside - What's the big deal about somebody dying alone? I never understood that. :dunno:
Does somebody have to be holding your hand when you pass away and if yes, what exactly is being accomplished by this exercise?

Death is the last part of life on this planet, the main thing we're trying to understand. (Obvious and generic statement, I know, but still valid)
The point here is more about her living alone for so long - before dying and not having anyone find out for so long.
It's nice to have someone hold your hand when you're alive, too.


^I see your question was pretty much answered already. Didn't see that...

 

[Moonchild22]

She was June 1959. She wasn't as, um, nude as most other Playmates (unless I just haven't seen the pics), but I still really like these.

 

[Atar554]

She was pretty smoking. This does put a highlight on how older people can seriously get the shaft later in life; if you don't have children or other relatives and good relationship terms with them you're potentially screwed like this.

Hopefully it's not indicative to her life and that this was an oddity just towards the end of her life as opposed to all her later years out of the spotlight.

RIP

 

[BadNewsBewes]

Why didn't her neighbours take the effort to check on an elderly woman. The trash wasn't getting emptied and they didn't notice for months??? Those neighbours must have known the house was still occupied if they eventually went to investigate. Neither did the mailman think to ask neighbours if someone was still living there.

These days some people are too wrapped up in their own selfish little worlds. They tend to not notice anything unless it directly effects themselves.

A sad story. RIP