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| | "Diff'rent Strokes" Kid Dana Plato Dead - May 10, 1999 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | May 10, 1999, 11:45 AM PT Actress Dana Plato, who as a kid costarred on the wholesome sitcom Diff'rent Strokes and as an adult seemed bedeviled by its reputed curse, died of an accidental prescription-drug overdose Saturday in Oklahoma, just one day after declaring on nationwide radio, "I've never been happier." |
 | | Plato, Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges were the TV kids (adopted and otherwise) of wealthy Phillip Drummond, the patriarch of Diff'rent Strokes, played by Conrad Bain. |
 | | In their adult years Plato, Bridges and Coleman each had run-ins with the law, fueling talk of the Diff'rent Strokes "curse." Plato's police-blotter woes began in 1991 when she was arrested for robbing a Las Vegas video store. |
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