Yvette Vickers - Mummified Body Found -B Movie Actress Playboy Model
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. Jan Shepard who starred in Attack of the Giant Leeches with Yvette told backinmemphis.com exclusively, she was very sad to hear the lost of her friend Yvette. Vickers, 82, had not been seen for a long time. A neighbor discovered her body in an upstairs room of her Westwanda Drive 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 becom