If there was anyone who would have done a celebrity sex tape, it was Dana Plato …and as I mentioned the other day when the story about Mel Gibson broke www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=41660, nearly every Hollywood celebrity has some kind of six degrees of separation with the porn business.
from www.foxnews.com – Tyler Lambert, the 25-year-old son of actress Dana Plato, committed suicide this month, nearly 11 years after his “Diff’rent Strokes” star mother took her own life, PopEater.com reports.
According to PopEater, Lambert died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. While results from the toxicology reports are pending, Lambert reportedly suffered from depression and went on a drug binge prior to his death on May 6.
The National Enquirer quotes Lambert’s grandmother as saying that he was mourning the anniversary of the loss of his mother and “wanted to be with” her.
Plato killed herself by overdosing on prescription pills on May 8, 1999 [Mother’s Day] at the age of 36. Seven years after her death, Lambert filed a wrongful death lawsuit against his mother’s fiancé, claiming he failed to give “immediate medical assistance or [contact] medical personnel.”
From the Gene Files March 12, 2007 when I interviewed Shane Bugbee who at the time was directing for Extreme Associates. Bugbee had this to say about Plato:
“I was pimping Dana Plato’s Last Breath,” Bugbee explains. “The gentlemen who started www.clublove.com paid me a bunch of money for those audio tapes. They asked me to come out to Vegas.” Bugbee explains that he was the last person to speak to Plato and has interviews of her including her dying.
“She passed away on the phone with me,” he says. “Her boyfriend was trying to lay down an alibi as she was dying. He stuck the phone at her. On these recordings you can hear what I was told later was the death rattle. You can hear a real weird sound. She just got back from doing the Howard Stern show. It’s not only so bizarre, it’s crushing for me. I started off wanting to exploit her, get her naked on the Internet and try to make some money.
“She knew this and as I’m talking to her, we became friends. I was her only friend and she’d talk to me eight hours a day, every day for like a month. We talked about doing a book, so I hooked up a recorder to the phone and we recorded her life story. She told me how she didn’t want to be Dana Plato any more, that she wanted to be Tyler’s mom, that she just wanted to bring her kid to school and hang up laundry.”
With the fact that she did the Stern show, Bugbee said all these offers for Plato started coming in from magazines and newspapers.
“They were talking about her acting- not her drug use- the legitimate media was calling us the day she was coming home from Stern. Then she died. She literally had a comeback that she never knew about. It was happening. She was calling me from this hotel room in Dallas. She was stranded. She had no money. I was telling her don’t worry about it, things are happening. The next day on Mother’s Day I get a call from her son asking where mommy is. And on the other line I’m hearing Dana’s dead, Dana’s dead. I’m thinking these are crack addicts trying to rip me off. It was horrible. Next day the National Enquirer is digging through my trash, people are outside my house.”
Bugbee later put out a book titled “Dana Plato’s Last Breath.”
“It includes a CD with a lot of these recordings and at the end you hear her death rattle,” he says. “It is the spookiest thing. But I think it’s weird that the police never contacted me.” However Bugbee’s of the opinion that Plato’s wasn’t a suicide, that she was fed a deadly combination of pills. Almost sounds like an Anna Nicole scenario.
“It’s a horrible injustice that her son has to go through life thinking his mom killed herself on Mother’s Day,” views Bugbee who says the entire story is very difficult for him to personally deal with.