'Sports Illustrated' model Dayle Haddon dies from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning

Dayle Haddon, an actor, activist and trailblazing former "Sports Illustrated" model who pushed back against age discrimination by reentering the industry as a widow, has died in a Pennsylvania home from what authorities believe was carbon monoxide poisoning.

Authorities in Bucks County found 76-year-old Haddon dead in a second-floor bedroom Friday morning after emergency dispatchers were notified about a person unconscious at the Solebury Township home. A 76-year-old man police later identified as Walter J. Blucas of Erie was hospitalised in critical condition.



Responders detected a high level of carbon monoxide in the property and township police said on Saturday that investigators determined that "a faulty flue and exhaust pipe on a gas heating system caused the carbon monoxide leak".


Two medics were taken to a hospital for carbon monoxide exposure and a police officer was treated at the scene.


Haddon was born in Toronto and began modelling as a teenager to pay for ballet classes - she began her career with the Canadian ballet company Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, according to her website.


As a model, Haddon appeared on the covers of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Esquire in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the 1973 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. She also appeared in about two dozen films from the 1970s to 1990s, according to IMDb.com, including 1994's "Bullets Over Broadway", starring John Cusack.


Haddon left modeling after giving birth to her daughter, Ryan, in the mid-1970s, but then had to reenter the workforce after her husband's 1991 death.

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