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Dana Plato
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May 10, 1999 | (AP) -- Dana Plato, who like her fellow "Diff'rent Strokes" child co-stars had seen legal troubles since the show was canceled, died Saturday of an apparent drug overdose. She was 34.
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In her interview with Howard Stern, Plato mentioned that the traumatic events of her mother's death and her husband leaving her took place during the course of only a week. In desperation, she signed over power of attorney to an accountant who absconded with the majority of her money, leaving her with no more than US$150,000. She claimed that the accountant was never found, despite an exhaustive search, and had stolen a grand total of more than US$11 million of other people's money, as well. [21]
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Famous action star Rick Stone (Danny Fendley) is going through a nasty divorce court with wife Michelle (Brigitte Nielsen) when sneaky TV tabloid reporter Dana Fields (Dana Plato) acquires an intimate video of Stone and his lover. Fields airs the footage, which helps Michelle in the divorce proceedings. But alimony payment is the least of Stone's problems when Michelle is found dead. Stone, the prime suspect, asks Fields to help clear his name.
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Dana Plato died in 1999 of a drug overdose, just over a millennia from the time she first philosophised on the conflict between nature and convention. Plato's son is accusing her then boyfriend of participating in the former star's death by not:
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Dana started down this final road to degredation early in May. She'd scheduled an appearance at Bugbee's Expo of the Extreme -- along with alternative metal acts like Marky Ramone, Jello Biafra, and Motorhead -- and got time on Howard Stern's radio show to promote it. That interview landed Bugbee a brief flirtation with notoriety when Stern read the name of his vulgar-punned Web site (MikeHuntsOnFire.com) on air. Her appearance on the Stern show was important, Bugbee had told her, because "my response, from the Web page, from everyone, is no one believes I'm even talking to you."
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Following her appearance in the movie Different Strokes: The Story of Jack and Jill...and Jill, Plato appeared on the cover of the lesbian lifestyle magazine, Girlfriends, in 1998. She was interviewed by Diane Anderson-Minshall and came out as a lesbian, although she later recanted. It was reported that Plato showed up drunk for the magazine's cover shoot. [20]
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