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  • October 2008

    • Hef Gloomy Over Breakup

      Associated Press  |  Oct 8, 08 9:25 PM CDT

      Hef Gloomy Over Breakup

      (AP) - Hugh Hefner confirms that he's down a girlfriend. Hefner and Holly Madison, one of the Girls Next Door on E!, are no longer dating. Hefner said he's been "down in the dumps" about the split. The 28-year-old model-actress stars in the reality series with Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt as one of the 82-year-old publisher's girlfriends who live with him in the Playboy Mansion. More »

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      Playboy  • Hugh Hefner

    • Playboy Woos Posers Who Lost Shirt on Wall St.

      Reuters  |  Oct 2, 08 11:16 AM CDT

      Playboy Woos Posers Who Lost Shirt on Wall St.

      (Newser) - The bear market could create some new bunnies, Reuters reports, with Playboy seeking females from the financial world to pose for an upcoming "Women of Wall Street feature. The magazine—which ran "Women of Enron" and "Women of WorldCom" specials after those companies folded—says it is looking for current and former finance workers, the more senior the better. More »

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      Wall Street  • model  • job cuts  • Playboy  • adult magazines

  • September 2008

    • LiLo Turns Down Playboy

      New York Post  |  Sep 5, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      LiLo Turns Down Playboy

      (Newser) - Lindsay Lohan has turned down an offer to pose for a $700,000 topless photo shoot for Playboy 's 55th anniversary issue, the New York Post reports. The mag's creative directors had hoped she'd pose in tribute to '60s sexpot Ann-Margret and her film Kitten With a Whip , but her rep told them: "If there's nudity, then the answer's no." LiLo caused a stir last year with a naked photo shoot as Marilyn Monroe. More »

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      celebrity  • Lindsay Lohan  • nudity  • Playboy

    • Spade Dad to Playmate's Baby

      People  |  Sep 4, 08 11:03 AM CDT

      Spade Dad to Playmate's Baby

      (Newser) - Paternity testing proves comedian David Spade is the father of a girl born last week to 22-year-old former Playboy Playmate Jillian Grace, with whom he had a brief fling, People reports. "He plans to go see the baby during his first break from shooting Rules of Engagement ," a rep said of Spade, 45. More »

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      celebrity parents  • Playboy  • celebrity babies  • paternity test  • fatherhood

  • August 2008

    • Top 11 Flicks Linked to Playboy

      Entertainment Weekly  |  Aug 23, 08 4:18 PM CDT

      Top 11 Flicks Linked to Playboy

      (Newser) - With The House Bunny hitting theaters, Entertainment Weekly looks back at history’s greatest films with Playboy connections: The Asphalt Jungle : Marilyn Monroe debuted here a couple years before gracing Playboy’s first cover. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! : Directed by Russ Meyer, the Playboy photographer sometimes called “King Leer.” Macbeth: Roman Polanski and Hugh Hefner’s friendship ended over this Playboy- produced adaptation. More »

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      movies  • Playboy

    • Faris Makes Bunny Hop

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Aug 22, 08 12:40 PM CDT

      Faris Makes Bunny Hop

      (Newser) - Critics seem to split on the overall worth of sorority comedy House Bunny , but most agree that star Anna Faris is worth the price of admission. The stalwart of the Scary Movie franchise has a "sunny disposition and solid comic timing" that greatly improve what is "essentially a female remake of Revenge of the Nerds ," Christy Lemire writes for the AP. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • comedy  • Playboy  • Hugh Hefner

    • Once a Playmate, Always a Playmate

      New York Post  |  Aug 21, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Once a Playmate, Always a Playmate

      (Newser) - You can leave the Playboy Mansion, but you can't leave the "sorority," the New York Post discovers as it catches up with some former Playmates. "There's no such thing as a former Playmate," said Jule McCullough, Miss February 1986. So where are they now? McCullough, 43: pulls socks from her top during her “Funny Bunny” stand-up comedy routine. More »

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      gossip  • Playboy  • New York Post

  • July 2008

    • Tennis Playmate: 'I'm Not Very Modest'

      ESPN  |  Jul 17, 08 10:53 AM CDT

      Tennis Playmate: 'I'm Not Very Modest'

      (Newser) - Ashley Harkleroad isn’t that effusive when she talks about her chosen profession—tennis. “I have to think it's better than having a ‘real job,’” she tells ESPN. But when it comes to posing nude for Playboy, the world’s 65th-ranked player gushes. “I'm not a very modest person, so I was really feeling it,” the 23-year-old says. “I was having a good time and trying to feel sexy in my own body; I think it worked.” More »

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      tennis  • interview  • women's tennis  • Playboy  • soft porn  • Ashley Harkleroad

  • June 2008

    • Busy Beard Narrows Focus to Beijing

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 29, 08 12:40 PM CDT

      Busy Beard Narrows Focus to Beijing

      (Newser) - Three-time Olympian Amanda Beard has endorsements and extracurriculars to worry about, but only one thing really matters right now: this week's Olympic swimming trials. The red-carpet fixture and onetime Playboy cover model is all business as she dives into the pool of hopefuls competing to represent the US in breaststroke and individual medley, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • swimming  • USA Swimming  • Playboy  • Olympic trials  • Amanda Beard

    • Baby's First Bustier?

      Associated Press  |  Jun 22, 08 4:58 PM CDT

      Baby's First Bustier?

      (Newser) - Not exactly a candidate for father of the year, Larry Birkhead, Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend and babydaddy, shelled out $3,000 at a Las Vegas auction to take home some of the former Playboy playmate's unmentionables—for daughter Danielynn. Birkhead plans to keep it packed away until his daughter is older. "It's not going to be in any bedtime stories anytime soon." More »

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      auction  • Playboy  • Anna Nicole Smith  • lingerie  • Larry Birkhead  • Dannielynn Hope

    • Cruise's Lawyer Rips Dr. Drew

      Radar  |  Jun 13, 08 11:20 AM CDT

      Cruise's Lawyer Rips Dr. Drew

      (Newser) - Celebrity psychiatrist Dr. Drew Pinksy's armchair diagnosis of Tom Cruise in Playboy has riled up Cruise’s lawyer, who compares the doc to a Nazi, Radar reports. The host of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew said Cruise’s attraction to the “cultish kind of environment” of Scientology is “a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood—maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect." More »

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      celebrity  • Tom Cruise  • Scientology  • Playboy  • Nazis

    • Sex Robots Haunt Franken's Senate Bid

      Bloomberg  |  Jun 9, 08 12:39 PM CDT

      Sex Robots Haunt Franken's Senate Bid

      (Newser) - It’s not easy being a comedian-turned-Senate candidate. Al Franken’s bid to replace first-term Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman has hit some speed bumps lately, Bloomberg reports. Though Franken has nabbed the party’s endorsement, he’s been dogged by bits from his past—like a 2000 Playboy article entitled Porn-O-Rama , which describes human-robot sex in graphic detail—and the GOP isn't hesitating to dredge up more. More »

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      Senate  • comedy  • pornography  • Minnesota  • Playboy  • Al Franken

  • May 2008

    • Tennis Star Takes It Off for Playboy

      Associated Press  |  May 26, 08 11:36 AM CDT

      Tennis Star Takes It Off for Playboy

      (Newser) - Ashley Harkleroad lost to fellow American Serena Williams at the French Open yesterday, but Harkleroad grabbed the headlines, revealing that she recently posed for Playboy, the AP reports. Harkleroad, 23, posed while recovering from having an ovary removed. “I was just laying there… and an offer came,” she said. “I thought, ‘Well, I’m not really doing anything right now.’” More »

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      tennis  • Serena Williams  • Playboy  • soft porn  • Ashley Harkleroad

    • To Spitzer or Not to Spitzer? Playboy Answers Question

      New York Post  |  May 12, 08 9:05 AM CDT

      To Spitzer or Not to Spitzer? Playboy Answers Question

      (Newser) - Playboy's June issue introduces a new term into modern sexology parlance—"to Spitzer"—the New York Post reports. The flesh mag defines the nod to disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer as the act of asking a prostitute for sex sans condom, as in "I Spitzered her, but she was like, 'Duh, not a chance, pal.' " More »

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      New York City  • Eliot Spitzer  • prostitution  • Playboy  • sexual health

    • Hef Calls Miley Bunny Material

      OK!  |  May 10, 08 12:23 PM CDT

      Hef Calls Miley Bunny Material

      (Newser) - Hugh Hefner says he'd definitely like to see Miley Cyrus in Playboy when she's old enough, OK! Magazine reports. "Very pretty lady," the 81-year-old adult mag tycoon said of the 15-year-old superstar. Hefner scoffed at the flap over the teen's racy Vanity Fair photos, saying it showed "how schizophrenic America is about sexuality." More »

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      Miley Cyrus  • Playboy  • adult magazines  • Hugh Hefner

  • April 2008

    • Bill Would Defend Troops From Incoming Playmates

      Military Times  |  Apr 23, 08 9:12 AM CDT

      Bill Would Defend Troops From Incoming Playmates

      (Newser) - A Republican lawmaker wants to keep America's fighting men and women out of harm's way—the harm he says is caused by exposure to incoming copies of Playboy and Penthouse . The Military Honor and Decency Act sponsored by Georgia congressman Paul Broun would tighten existing laws to prevent the magazines from being sold on military bases, reports the Military Times . More »

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      pornography  • Defense Department  • nudity  • Playboy  • Penthouse

  • March 2008

    • Naughty Playboy Goes Nice

      Reuters  |  Mar 28, 08 5:15 PM CDT

      Naughty Playboy Goes Nice

      (Newser) - A Philippines edition of dependably naughty Playboy magazine launches Thursday, but fans looking for flesh can forget it, Reuters reports. Instead of aiming at lads, the mag targets mature dads, and religious considerations mean full-frontal nudity is a no-no. It’ll burst instead with well-written articles on “everything under the sun of interest to men,” the editor says. More »

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      religion  • Islam  • Philippines  • Playboy  • adult magazines