...and has appeared in scores of subsequent special issues and videos, died of "natural causes." Turns out that was not quite... club Playmates who haven't reached their 50th birthday. Automobile accidents, drug overdoses, homicides, a plane crash all have claimed the lives of Playmates. The cause ...Mansfield, another Playmate he photographed, died in a car crash in 1967 at 34. "It's a curse to ...