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9 Playboy Bunnies Who Went on to Do Big Things

Like become models, actresses, federal judges...

(Newser) - In honor of the new Playboy Club that opened in London this weekend, Time lists nine former Playboy bunnies who moved on to other successful ventures:
  • Deborah Harry: As a brunette, she worked at the New York City Playboy Club from 1968 to 1973. She went on to become the
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Every Single Page of Playboy Now Online

View all 682 issues a i.Playboy.com

(AP) - Busting out 3-D centerfolds and putting a sexy Marge Simpson on the cover didn't help sell issues of Playboy—circulation has fallen more than 50% to 1.5 million since 2006—but this might. Playboy launched a Web-based subscription service today called i.Playboy.com. Viewers who fork over... More »

First Turkish Woman Strips for German Playboy

Muslim actress Sila Sahin says she 'feels like Che Guevera'

(Newser) - Germany's debate over multiculturalism just got a lot spicier. Soap opera star Sila Sahin has become the first woman from the country's 3.5 million-strong Turkish community to strip for the German version of Playboy, reports Time . Sahin says she "feels like Che Guevara" and she wants... More »

Nudity on NBC's Playboy Club? Maybe...

...but only on DVD, international, or cable versions

(Newser) - Coming soon: nudity on an NBC show? Quite possibly, but don’t get too excited, home viewers. Though actors on the NBC pilot The Playboy Club signed contracts containing a nudity clause—virtually unheard of on broadcast networks— Variety reports that any graphic scenes would likely only be used on... More »

'Pontiac Fever' Crashed Playboy Mansion Party

Fog machine spread bacterium, attendees suspect

(Newser) - The culprit behind the dozens of people sickened after a party at Playboy Mansion? Officials think it's Pontiac Fever, a milder form of Legionnaires' disease that's known as legionellosis. The bacterium that causes legionellosis lives inside warm water and can take root in ventilation systems; some suspect that a fog... More »

LA Investigates Mysterious Playboy Mansion Illness

It's not what you're thinking

(Newser) - Must've been something in the air, but dozens of people at a Playboy Mansion fundraiser earlier this month contracted a really ... nasty ... respiratory infection, and LA County public health officials are now investigating, reports the LA Times. Officials are surveying all 700 attendees of a conference called Domainfest global after... More »

Inside Hef's Bedroom, Sex Life

Fiancée doesn't know how to answer when asked about their sex life

(Newser) - Everything you ever wanted to know about Hugh Hefner and more: The New York Times Magazine has just that in a lengthy profile of the Playboy founder. Highlights:
  • His final resting place ... is already picked out; a Los Angeles crypt featuring none other than Marilyn Monroe as a neighbor.
  • His
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Hef: Uncensored Playboy Coming to iPad

Could this mean a wave of porn for the tablet?

(Newser) - Has Apple gotten over its porn hang-up? Hugh Heffner set off a wave of speculation by suggesting as much on Twitter today. “Big news! Playboy—both old & new—will be available on iPad beginning in March,” he tweeted, according to Apple Insider . Playboy already has a censored... More »

Playboy's New Owner? Hugh Hefner

Founder will buy company back, take it private

(Newser) - Can Hugh Hefner save Playboy by buying it back? That’s what the founder—and the company’s largest shareholder—has decided to do, Chicago Breaking Business reports. Hef’s Icon Acquisition Holdings LP will take Playboy Enterprises private . The price of $6.15 a share is an 18% premium... More »

NBC Gets Frisky With New Show: Playboy

As Playboy clubs are relaunched, show about clubs arrives

(Newser) - Playboy is coming to primetime. NBC ordered the pilot of the imaginatively-titled Playboy, a one-hour drama about the Playboy bunnies working in a Chicago Playboy club in the 1960s. There were once 22 Playboy clubs around the world, but all closed by 1991, Variety notes. The show arrives just as... More »

Hugh Hefner: My Mansion's No Squalid Prison

But, uh, that thing about not wearing condoms...

(Newser) - Hugh Hefner would like you to know that he does not hand out Quaaludes, let his dog poop all over the carpets of the Playboy mansion, or refuse to wear condoms. Er, well, actually, that part about not wearing condoms might be true. But most of the dirt dished by... More »

'Happiest Christmas in Memory:' Hefner's Engaged

Old man pops the question to 24-year-old

(Newser) - It's the Christmas Eve every little girl dreams of: A guy roughly 680 times your age who rarely changes out of his pajamas gets down on one knee (if he's able) and pops the question. Hugh Hefner is hoping the third marriage is the charm, having proposed to 24-year-old girlfriend... More »

I Spy: Anna Chapman Nude in Playboy

Former boyfriend delivers saucy shots

(Newser) - Sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman is still thumbing her ... nose ... at the US and is appearing in all her seductive glory completely nude in Playboy. She didn't sit for a Playboy photo shoot, however—the photos were provided by a former boyfriend, reports the New York Daily News. Not that... More »

Playboy TV Hot for Women

Channel will go less raunchy, more intimate, in effort to draw ladies

(Newser) - Now that you can get porn for free on your computer, Playboy TV is struggling to convince men to pay $15 a month for its soft-core offerings—some of which are even softer than HBO shows. Enter its new strategy: Market to the female audience. How? By adding a block... More »

15 Stars Who Said 'No' to Nudie Mags

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
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Ex Playboy Bunny Charged With Trying To Kill Hubby

Victoria Rathgeb was 1968 playmate of the year

(Newser) - OK, if she hadn't been playmate of the year in 1968, there wouldn't be a story here. Victoria Rathgeb is accused of shooting her husband, Bruce, last weekend in Los Angeles during an argument and is now charged with attempted murder. Her husband is in the hospital in "grave... More »

Playboy Editor in Indonesia Goes to Prison

He begins 2-year term for violating decency laws (with non-nude photos)

(AP) - The former editor-in-chief of Playboy Indonesia began a 2-year prison sentence today for publishing pictures of scantily clothed women, riling free speech activists in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Erwin Arnada, 47, did not speak as he was escorted from the prosecutor's detainee car under tight security at the... More »

Playboy to Ines Sainz: Pose Nude For Us!

That's sure to make her feel better about this whole fiasco

(Newser) - Ines Sainz didn’t like being ogled by New York Jets players , but she certainly wouldn't mind being ogled by Playboy readers, right? The magazine must think so, because it extended a formal offer to the reporter to pose nude—and the payday is “pretty big,” a... More »

NFL Stars: Palin Better in Playboy Than White House

Oops, looks like more sensitivity training sessions needed

(Newser) - Sensitivity training for Jets players who ogled a Mexican reporter apparently hasn't had a ripple effect on other NFL athletes. Witness Bengals receivers Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens discussing Sarah Palin's body, and musing on whether she'd be better in the White House or ... Playboy. "I really don't want... More »

Michaele Salahi to Go Full-Frontal in Playboy

Gatecrasher to leave nothing to the imagination

(Newser) - If you're sick of seeing images of Michaele Salahi in that red sari, you're in ... luck? The White House gatecrasher will be photographed next in her birthday suit, for Playboy. And don't expect her to hold back, reports TMZ , who says she's planning on going full-frontal. The shoot will take... More »

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