Levi, Jon Pal Around in NYC

Even the apparently fame-seeking have declined

(NEWSER) - Not all celebrities want to take it all off, especially for flesh mags like Playboy and Playgirl. Celebuzz lists 15 who've turned down an offer to strip down:

• JWoww: Just because one is a reality show star from Jersey Shore doesn't necessarily mean one wants to pose for Playboy ... even for $400,000.
• Pattie Mallette: Justin Bieber was probably quite relieved at this rejection, considering Mallette is his mother.
• Lindsay Lohan: Despite the fact that she kinda needs the money, she said no to Playboy.

...thank God

(NEWSER) - Jon Gosselin seems desperate enough to turn to Playgirl for cash…but no. The former reality star, who recently made headlines for being “hung like a 9-year-old boy,” turned the skin mag down. Apparently, $20,000 (plus an additional $10,000 for each inch over four!) isn’t quite enough cash. The Frisky rounds up eight other guys who won’t show us their stuff:

• Larry Birkhead: Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daddy wouldn’t take off his pants, even for $100,000.

Hunky Alaskan's full assets left to imagination in Playgirl

(NEWSER) - Gawker has tracked down the truth about Levi Johnston's Playgirl photos and there's less of the hunky Alaskan on display than promised. Though Levi's manager Tank Jones promised full-frontal nudity, Johnston tucked the object of everyone's curiosity mostly out of sight. "We're thrilled with the photos we got, and are confident people will love them," said a magazine spokesman. But "although there may be glimpses, we did not get full on frontal nudity." More»

Johnston sympathizes with fellow single dad Gosselin

(NEWSER) - The unholy union of Levi Johnston and Jon Gosselin continues. The reality show dad has been giving the Playgirl model parenting advice that, sadly, Johnston plans to take. “He’s a good guy,” Johnston tells People . “He's kind of in the same situation I am right now. He's getting the same bad image as I am and it ain't true. I can relate to that.” More»

Monroe was jealous of Elizabeth Taylor: memoir

(NEWSER) - A new memoir reveals that it was simple jealousy of Elizabeth Taylor that spurred Marilyn Monroe to pose nude. Monroe agreed to be naked while exiting a swimming pool during a photo shoot, as long as Taylor did not appear in any magazines running the images, reports Vanity Fair, which is publishing the images in this month's edition. (While Monroe made just $100,000 for her final film role in Something's Gotta Give, Taylor pulled down $1 million in Cleopatra.) But the nude pictures weren't the only place Monroe bared all. A smattering of her conversations with photographer Lawrence Schiller, as per his memoir Marilyn & Me:

• On posing naked: "Larry, if I do come out of the pool with nothing on, I want your guarantee that when your pictures appear on the covers of magazines Elizabeth Taylor is not anywhere in the same issue."