Playboy Model Kymberly Herrin Dead: 'Ghostbusters' Star Passed Away 'Peacefully'

Kymberly Herrin, a former actress and Playboy model, has passed away. She was 65.

The "Ghostbusters" actress died "peacefully" on Oct. 28 in Santa Barbara, California, where she was a lifelong resident, according to an obituary published by the Santa Barbara News-Press.

Herrin's cause of death has not been disclosed.

Her niece Theresa Ramirez confirmed her passing in a post on social media on Oct. 28.

Ramirez shared a snap of three women, including Herrin, via Facebook and wrote, "They are all together now. Aunt Kymberly Herrin. I love you."

Herrin was described as a "beautiful woman inside and out" in the obituary.

She graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1975. As a model, she graced the cover of a dozen local and international magazines, including the March 1981 issue of Playboy, where she was crowned Playmate of the Month. She also modeled for a series of fitness and swimwear ads for Fit magazine.

She appeared in a number of popular movies, including "Ghostbusters" starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Harold Ramis and Sigourney Weaver. In the film, she played Dream Ghost, a seductive apparition that Aykroyd's character Ray Stantz encountered during a raunchy scene, Entertainment Weekly reported.

Aykroyd, 70, briefly recalled working with Herrin in "Ghostbusters" during an interview with Polygon in November 2021. He remembered the intimate moment between their characters in the film.

"Yes, I remember the woman who played that," Aykroyd said at the time. "Her name was Kym Herrin, and she was a Playboy Playmate. She played the ghost. Like, I wish they'd let that scene go a little longer."

Herrin also starred in 1984's "Romancing the Stone," 1989's "Road House" and 1987's "Beverly Hills Cop II," in which she appeared onscreen as a Playboy Playmate, according to EW.

When the model-actress was still alive, she loved to travel and sail. She lived aboard and sailed on a 75-foot yacht for several years, along the California Coast, through the Panama Canal, in the Sea of Cortez, in Baja and into the Caribbean.

Herrin's family asked mourners to donate to the American Cancer Society in her memory "to further the research of the prevention and treatment of breast cancer."

Herrin is survived by her mother Billie Dodson, brother Mark Herrin, nieces Theresa and Stephanie Ross, and nephews Brandon Herrin and Trevor Triegor.