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Dana Plato: Robert Menchaca
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On May 7, 1999, Plato appeared on The Howard Stern Show, where she told Stern and Robin Quivers that she was engaged to the 28-year-old Robert Menchaca, and that he was managing her career. She was frank about her situation, discussing her financial problems and past run-ins with the law. She admitted to being a recovering alcoholic/drug addict, but claimed that she had been sober for more than ten years by that point, and was not using any drugs, with the exception of prescribed painkillers due to discomfort and pain from the recent extraction of her wisdom teeth. Many of her callers called her everything from a "has been" to an addict. She was referred to by one caller as a "ex-con lesbian drug addict with mental problems". This provoked a defiant Plato, she offered to take a drug test on the air (and even place a large wager on the results of the test to one particularly doubtful caller). Some callers... came to Plato's defense by consoling and complimenting her.
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A day after an in-studio appearance in New York on Howard Stern's radio show, Plato was in Oklahoma for Mother's Day weekend--Lambert, then a teenager, lived there with his grandmother. She was found dead in a mobile home parked outside the Moore, Oklahoma, house of Menchaca's parents. Menchaca discovered the "unresponsive and cold-to-the-touch" Plato, police said.
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Plato died by overdosing on painkillers. Courts of the time ruled it a suicide. Her then boyfriend, Robert Menchaca, was staying with her in a trailer on his parent's property. Menchaca's mother, a nurse, struggled in vain to revive the former philosopher, but sadly it was too late. The suit filed is reportedly for more than $20,000 - the US equivalent to 2.3 trillion Mexican chickens, the most common monetary unit found in Panama.
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Singer said Ms. Plato went to take a nap Saturday afternoon. After Menchaca realized that evening that there was a problem, his mother, who's a nurse, and his brother tried unsuccessfully to revive her with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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