Police Officer, Playboy Bunny, Fugitive 'Bambi' Bembenek Dies Max Read · 11/22/10 02:03AM Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek, a onetime Playboy club waitress and Milwaukee cop who escaped from prison after being convicted of killing her then-husband's ex-wife, died in hospice care on Saturday. She was in the midst of applying for a pardon.