Model Dayle Haddon dies after suspected carbon monoxide leak

On By Littum

Former supermodel, actress and humanitarian Dayle Haddon died Friday after what police believe was a carbon monoxide leak at a home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Police from Solebury Township in Bucks County, which is in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, began investigating the property at 6:30 a.m. Friday after a resident called 911 to report a 76-year-old man lying passed out on the first floor of a detached “in-law” suite.

The unidentified man was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, according to the police report. His condition was not immediately available. Another victim, a 76-year-old woman, was found dead in the detached suite’s second-floor bedroom, according to the report.

Eliot Gross, the Bucks County deputy coroner, confirmed to USA TODAY that the female victim was Haddon. Toxicology reports to determine the cause of death are expected Saturday, according to Gross.

Volunteer firefighters at the scene discovered a “high level of carbon monoxide” in the property, according to the police report. Two doctors were transferred to the hospital for carbon monoxide exposure and one was treated at the scene.

CBS News reported that the home is owned by Haddon’s daughter, former journalist Ryan Haddon, and Ryan’s husband, actor Marc Blucas.

Canadian-born Haddon was one of the top models of the 1970s, posing on the cover of the 1973 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Haddon appeared in the 1973 Disney film “The World’s Greatest Athlete” and in Hollywood films such as 1979’s football satire “North Dallas Forty” with Nick Nolte.

Haddon served as a L’Oréal spokesperson and was the author of “Ageless Beauty: A Woman’s Guide to Lifelong Beauty and Well-Being.”

Haddon traveled the world as an ambassador for the humanitarian aid organization UNICEF and was the founder of WomenOnea charity organization with a focus on creating educational opportunities for girls and women, according to her website.

Blucas, 52, of Butler, PA., is a former Wake Forest University basketball star who turned to acting and appeared on the WB’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” as Riley Finn, an ex-boyfriend of Buffy Anne Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar).

He has also appeared in “Blue Bloods” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and starred in 2004’s “First Daughter,” playing the love interest of the daughter (Katie Holmes) of the President of the United States (Michael Keaton).

Ryan Haddon was married to actor Christian Slater from 2000-06. She has been married to Blucas since 2009.