To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People May 10, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/obit/1999/05/10/plato Dana Plato The troubled child co-star of "Diff'rent Strokes" overdoses. - - - - - - - - - - - - Associated Press Dana Plato, who like her fellow "Diff'rent Strokes" child co-stars had seen legal troubles since the show was canceled, died Saturday of an apparent drug overdose. She was 34. Ms. Plato apparently took the painkiller Loritab along with Valium. Police said the death appeared accidental. She was arrested in 1991 for robbing a Las Vegas video store, and was placed on five years' probation. In 1992 she was given an additional five years' probation for forging prescriptions for Valium. Ms. Plato played Kimberly Drummond on the NBC sitcom that ran from 1978 to 1984. salon.com | May 10, 1999