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Ex-Playboy Playmate Gets 9 Years in Prison For Shooting Her Husband

Ex-Playboy Playmate Gets 9 Years in Prison For Shooting Her Husband

"Quickly she just aimed and fired at me."

LOS ANGELES (The Blaze/AP) -- Is there something in the water over at the Playboy mansion? Last month, The Blaze covered Shanna Marie McLaughlin's (Playboy's Miss July 2010) arrest after she allegedly attempted to board a plane to Los Angeles with a loaded handgun in her bag.

Now, there's another Playmate behaving badly.

Victoria Rathgeb, a former Playboy Playmate of the Year who appeared in the horror movie "Rosemary's Baby," has been sentenced to nine years in state prison for shooting her husband of 25 years, Bruce Rathgeb, in the back at their Hollywood apartment. Additionally, TMZ reports the following:

On top of the 9 year sentence -- Dorian was ordered to pay $70 thousand into California's victim restitution fund.

Los Angeles County prosecutors say the 66-year-old was sentenced Wednesday. She pleaded no contest to attempted voluntary manslaughter.

Authorities say Rathgeb shot and wounded her husband last October during an argument. Prosecutors say he recovered and was in court for the sentencing but did not make a statement. The Daily Mail has more on the crime:

Bruce testified in January that he left the couple's apartment on October 16 after his wife accused him of being unfaithful, and that he was waiting for the elevator door to open when he saw his wife about eight feet away.

"Quickly she just aimed and fired at me,'' he said, telling the judge that he smelled gunpowder and felt burning and stinging on the left side of his body.

Then, he claims his wife put a small plastic bag inside of his mouth, which he spit out. She then walked back into their apartment and he passed out only to wake up in severe pain later at the hospital:

"They tried to take the bullet out. I guess it was close to the heart so they left it in,'' he said.

Rathgeb was 1968's Playmate of the Year under the name of Angela Dorian. She had TV and movie roles in the 1960s and 1970s and played a recovering heroin addict in the 1968 hit "Rosemary's Baby."

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