Stacy Arthur was a former Playboy model and actress who became famous after being featured as the Playmate of the Month for January 1991. She was also Mrs. Ohio for the 1990 Mrs. America contest. However, her life took a tragic turn when her husband, James Alan Arthur, was killed by a fan in a murder-suicide on October 29, 1991. The fan, James Lindberg, shot and killed James Arthur on a street in Bellefontaine, Ohio, and then killed himself. The incident was the subject of the first episode of the first season of “The Playboy Murders” titled “All That Glitters” that aired on January 30, 2023.
After the death of her husband, Stacy Arthur disappeared from the public eye and filed a $70 million lawsuit against Playboy and others, alleging that she was raped and sodomized by three Playboy employees at the Playboy Mansion on October 6, 1991. She claimed that the rape led to the death of her husband, who was depressed and suicidal after learning about it. However, the lawsuit was dismissed due to lack of evidence and inconsistencies in her statements. The three employees who had sex with her were fired for violating company policy.
Stacy Arthur had three children from prior marriages. She died on April 5, 2019, at the age of 50, after a short battle with an undisclosed illness. There is no official confirmation of her cause of death, but some sources claim that she died in a car accident or from cancer.
According to MSN¹, Stacy Arthur’s illness was confirmed by the second episode of “The Playboy Murders: All That Glitters”, which mentioned her death in 2019. However, some fans do not believe this news and think that she is still alive. According to Wikipedia², some official sites have also registered her dead on her public profiles.
According to Abbaskets³, Stacy Arthur died in a car accident when her vehicle collided with another car on a busy intersection. According to Newstars⁴, Stacy Arthur died after a brief battle with an undisclosed illness. According to Find a Grave⁵, Stacy Arthur also died from an illness.