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How You Get to Be a Playboy Playmate
 How You Get to Be a Playmate 
Jul 3, 2011 3:08 PM CDT

How You Get to Be a Playmate

About a thousand girls audition each year to be the next Pamela Anderson

(Newser) - Just where does Playboy dig up the shapely women who grace its pages? It's actually something like an audition for American Idol, the Atlantic reports, but, you know, with a lot less clothes. Playboy holds a handful of casting calls throughout the US annually, each attracting a hundred or...

'Runaway' Hefner Bride Explains Cold Feet

Duh! Wedding wasn't what I wanted: Crystal Harris

(Newser) - Crystal Harris called off her wedding to Hugh Hefner because things with the 85-year-old were "just happening too fast," and she decided, upon reflection, that the marriage wasn't what she wanted, she says. "I'd been having second thoughts about everything, so I haven't really...

Hugh Hefner, Crystal Harris Split: What Happened Before Canceled Wedding?
 What Killed Hef's Wedding? 
Jun 15, 2011 10:45 AM CDT

What Killed Hef's Wedding?

Was it just a bad fight, or was Crystal looking for cash?

(Newser) - America was shocked yesterday when the, ahem, storybook romance of Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris came to an abrupt end . What could the problem possibly have been, other than their 60-year age difference?
  • The couple got into what E! calls a “rather explosive argument” over the phone, and Harris
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Hugh Hefner's Wedding Canceled

Crystal Harris calls it off just days ahead of time

(Newser) - After much fanfare—including 300 Swarovski crystal-adorned wedding invitations—Hugh Hefner and playmate Crystal Harris won’t be getting married after all, People reports. The Playboy Mansion wedding was set for Saturday , but Harris canceled it today. “The split was a mutual decision and the two remain good friends,...

Playboy Model Sues After Trampoline Photo Shoot

Denise Underhill wants more than $25K for injury that required surgery

(Newser) - Sexy: a model jumping on a trampoline. Definitely not sexy: tearing the meniscus in your right knee. But the latter is what Denise Underhill claims happened to her in a new lawsuit filed against Playboy. Underhill’s suit says she was asked "to jump on a trampoline ... in order...

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

(Newser) - 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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

Inside Hef's Bedroom, Sex Life
 Inside Hef's 
 Bedroom, 
 Sex Life 
nyt profile
Feb 4, 2011 10:12 AM CST

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...

Playboy's New Owner? Hugh Hefner
Playboy's New Owner?
Hugh Hefner
Jan 10, 2011 9:19 AM CST

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...

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...

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...

'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...

I Spy Anna Chapman Nude in Playboy
I Spy: Anna Chapman
Nude in Playboy
Dec 22, 2010 7:20 AM CST

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...

Playboy TV Hot for Women

 Playboy TV 
 Hot for Women 
Nov 17, 2010 7:45 AM CST

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...

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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