A former Playgirl Man of the Year who came out as gay despite pressure to appear straight was found dead in his parked car in West Hollywood Thursday, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s spokesman tells ...

Dirk Shafer, director of the acclaimed mockumentary “Man of the Year” and a former centerfold for Playgirl magazine, was found dead in West Hollywood on Thursday, authorities said. Shafer, 52, was ...

The former Playgirl centerfold who came out as gay and made the 1995 mockumentary Man Of The Year about his experiences, has died. Dirk Shafer was found dead in his car Thursday in West Hollywood, law ...

The death of Dirk Shafer, the model, actor and fitness trainer who became a heartthrob to most straight women and gay men when he was named Playgirl‘s “Man of the Year in 1992, was caused by ...

WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Former Playgirl centerfold Dirk Shafer, who came out as gay in the 1995 faux documentary "Man of the Year," has died. The 52-year-old model and celebrity fitness trainer ...

Memorial service for Dirk Alan Shafer, 52, will be 3 p.m. Saturday, March 28, 2015, at the Mayflower Congregational Church, 3901 NW 63rd Street, Oklahoma City, Okla. Dirk Alan Shafer was born November ...

Dirk Shafer’s lively “Circuit” is at once a sexy soap opera, at times lurid and bathetic, and also a gritty cautionary tale made by a filmmaker honest enough to have it both ways. In other words, ...

First-time director Dirk Shafer also penned this raucous "mockumentary," a blend of fact and fiction that re-creates his 1992 reign as Playgirl magazine's Centerfold of the Year. When Shafer chooses ...

Part cautionary tale, part voyeuristic expose of the gay world, “Circuit” combines narrative and documentary elements in this mixed bag of titillation and tragedy. It’s crime and punishment by way of ...