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Tyler Lambert, the 25-year-old-son of late "Diff'rent Strokes" actress Dana Plato, has committed suicide, according to several reports. Lambert's suicide, on May 6, was just two days shy of the 11th ...

Gary Coleman, Dana Plato and Todd Bridges in Diff'rent Strokes - Getty During his brief, eventful lifetime, the actor Gary Coleman had to contend with the usual fate that anyone who appears in a ...

On this date, June 6, in 1991, “Diff’rent Strokes” actress Dana Plato received a six-year suspended sentence for robbing a video store at gunpoint. Plato was one of the child stars who had trouble ...

Dana Plato starred in one of the most recognizable sitcoms of the of the 1970s and '80s: Diff’rent Strokes But amid a career reliant on comic timing, a dark tragedy took hold when Plato died at age 34 ...