The Dairy-Queen-waitress-turned-Playboy-Bunny lived, what appeared on the surface to be, the fairy tale life. By the time she was 20 years old, fame and fortune had given the young Canadian international recognition and put her on the bedroom wall of millions of hot-blooded young men around the world.

When barely 17, she was spotted working in a Canadian Dairy Queen fast-food restaurant by a shady "entrepreneur" named Paul Snider, nine years ...