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

[cali]

May 2, 2011 | 2:21 pm

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 Street 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.

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[xchrom]

1. Imagine being that alone in your senior years. Nt

[malaise]

3. Truly sad

:cry:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Yvette "Attack of the Giant Leeches" Vickers, photographed for Playboy by Russ Meyer...

Thanks for the memories and sorry for your tragic end.

[blm]

17. One of my all-time top ten 'guilty-pleasure' movies

Hoping that at least she died peacefully.

[Rowdyboy]

4. How heartbreakingly sad......n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. It certainly is. :^(

[LiberalAndProud]

5. A lonely end.

Even the electric company didn't notice. The space heater was still on. Seems that over the course of time, that would add up to a few dollars.

Real life sucks sometimes. Sad ending to a sometimes celebrated life.

[qanda]

6. I would rather have nothing in life than to be alone in death

Poor thing. RIP

[Billy Burnett]

8. qanda, you are never alone if you have faith.

Whatever that faith is your choice.

[qanda]

18. Thanks! You are so right! :)

[Lars39]

7. So sad that she died alone.

:(
Forensically, I wonder how the space heater being on would speed up the mummification. :hide:

[Faygo Kid]

9. Hauntingly sad.

Hefner is an ass.

[DawgHouse]

11. Oh, that poor woman. :(

[sufrommich]

12. How did the electricity stay on after a year of not paying her bills?

Wasn't her grass getting long? I think it's amazing that a house can go a year with no upkeep and nobody notices.

[patricia92243]

14. My electric bill is on auto-pay. As long as she had money in her account, the bill would be paid.

It is a miracle that the space heater didn't cause a fire.

[Cleita]

13. Happens more often than you know.

Old people who don't have any connections with friends, neighbors or families often aren't discovered for weeks or months after they die.

[Luciferous]

15. That is so sad :(

[Barack_America]

16. How could her postal carrier not suspect something?

Very sorry for this poor woman.