Jezebel: Playboy

Lindsay's Playboy Issue Is Either A Bestseller Or A Flop

Margaret Hartmann — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:01:00 EST

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After Lindsay Lohan's entire Playboy pictorial leaked online, Hugh Hefner decided to release the issue early. So how are sales? Well, the mag either "falls flat with consumers," or is "on fire." TMZ reports: More »

Lindsay Lohan Tells Playboy She's Learned From Her Mistakes

Cassie Murdoch — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:05:00 EST

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Lindsay Lohan's Playboy cover is out, and now we're hearing a bit about what she's said in the accompanying article which will be out next week. It seems after the drama of the past few years, LiLo thinks she should have done things a bit differently: More »

Hugh Hefner Says He'll Release Linsday Lohan's Playboy Issue Early, Just In Time For Christmas

Lane Moore — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:30:00 EST

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Christmas shopping can be so difficult, I know. What do you buy for the person who has everything? I mean, we're running out of time here and...oh! The Lindsay Lohan issue of Playboy is coming out early!!! More »

Man Sues Playboy For Shocking Hot-Ladies-Get-In-Free Policy

Anna North — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:10:00 EST

A man named Steve Frye apparently paid $1,000 to get into a "Leather and Lace" party last month at the Playboy Mansion. Then he learned — shocker — that "gorgeous ladies" had been admitted for free. Now he's suing on behalf of all men who suffered this cruel and unexpected discrimination. More »

Lindsay Lohan Accepts About A Million Bucks To Pose For Playboy

Luke Malone — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:00:00 EDT

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Lindsay Lohan's career has taken a turn for the inevitable now she's agreed to grace the pages of Playboy. Apparently the deal has been in the works for months after Hugh Hefner offered her $750,000 and she came back asking for a cool million. Though she didn't get quite so much, those hard-working source types say it got close. "I can neither confirm or deny at this time," says her rep of the talk. Which we all know roughly translates to: "It's on, y'all!" Heavy traffic for her New York mag nude shoot crashed the publication's site back in 2008, though it remains to be seen whether the public are all nippled out a few years on. [TMZ] More »

Barbie's Surprising Resemblance To The Playboy Bunnies Of Her Time

Whitney Jefferson — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:20:00 EDT

Some parents are up in arms about the latest, tattooed hipster Barbie that's sure to be a hit this Christmas, but maybe they should channel their anger into this, instead: a chart that makes a pretty interesting case for Barbie's looks mirroring those of Playboy's Playmate of the Year. Oh yes.

Gloria Steinem Calls For Boycott Of NBC's The Playboy Club

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:12:00 EDT

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Judging from The Playboy Club executive producer Chad Hodge's declaration that the NBC drama is all about "empowering" women, he didn't bother to read Gloria Steinem's ground-breaking essay about going undercover as a Playboy Bunny. However, Steinem did read up on the new show and shockingly enough, she doesn't think TV needs a soapier version of Mad Men that celebrates all the sexiness of the period without that pesky social commentary. More »

Mercede Johnston, Shit-Talker Extraordinaire

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:35:00 EDT

Levi Johnston's 19-year-old sister Mercede (apparently their mother had a thing for naming her children after brands, but dropping the "s") poses nude and gives an interview in the September issue of Playboy, in which she talks so much shit on the entire Palin family. More »

How The Playboy Club Gets It Wrong

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:30:00 EDT

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This week at the Television Critics Association panel for NBC's The Playboy Club — the new drama set in the 1960s and revolving around Hugh Hefner's infamous Bunny cocktail waitresses — executive producer Chad Hodge said, "Really, the show is all about empowering, and who these women can be, and how they can use their position to get what they want." His comment is a clear indication that this show will not be NBC's answer to Mad Men, as far as accuracy in portraying how these women really lived. Didn't this guy bother to read Gloria Steinem's infamous essay "I Was a Playboy Bunny" for research? More »

Was Hef & Crystal's Would-Be Wedding A Total Sham?

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:53:00 EDT

Considering how totally publicized the breakup (and the aftermath of said breakup) of Hugh Hefner and his ex-finacée Crystal Harris has been, it's really hard to tell if this entire saga is one big production for mutually beneficial promotion (for both Playboy and Crystal Harris' aspiring pop music career). Crystal has given interviews to everyone from Ryan Seacrest to Entertainment Tonight; Hef reserved his sit-down for Piers Morgan Tonight. Did Hef really get bamboozled by a woman 60 years his junior? After watching last night's one-hour special on Lifetime, Hef's Runaway Bride, the situation seems like something of a combination of the two. More »

Levi Johnston's Sister Will Appear In Playboy

Anna North — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:15:00 EDT

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Every member of the Palin and Johnston clans must have his or her moment in the sun, and now Levi's sister Mercede is claiming hers by posing nude for Playboy. More »

Hugh Hefner Turns Rejection Into Marketing Gimmick

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:20:00 EDT

Each copy of Crystal Harris's July issue will have a "Runaway Bride" sticker on it. Ta-dah! Collector's edition. It's getting harder and harder to believe that Crystal calling off the wedding five days before the ceremony wasn't all part of the plan. More »

Patti Davis, 58, Poses Nude (Again), Looks Awesome [NSFW]

Whitney Jefferson — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:18:00 EDT

The daughter of Ronald Reagan isn't new to stripping off her clothes for a photo shoot. She made history when she posed for Playboy when she was 42 years old — and sixteen years later, has done it again. More »

50 Foot Woman Star Found "Mummified" In Home

Anna North — Tue, 03 May 2011 12:05:00 EDT

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Yvette Vickers, Playboy Playmate and star of Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman and other B movies, has been found dead in her California home. Authorities think she may have been dead for months. More »

A Read On The Script From The "Playboy" TV Show

Sadie Stein — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:30:00 EDT

We were lucky enough to get our hands on a copy of the Playboy TV series pilot script. We already knew it was about the glory days of the Chicago-based bunny-empire. But things about it were...surprising. More »

Hugh Hefner Pretty Sure He Doesn’t Need A Prenup This Time

Lane Moore — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:15:00 EDT

For reasons it'd be far too easy to joke about, 84-year-old Hugh Hefner says neither he nor his 24-year-old fiancé Crystal Harris have any interest in signing a prenuptial agreement. More »

Is Playboy Retro-Fab Or Retro-Sleaze?

Sadie Stein — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:51:00 EDT

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It's not hard to see that Playboy, the new NBC show, is taking a cue from the retro-sexism of Mad Men. But can they pull it off? More »

Old Footage Of Hugh Hefner's Private Jet, Flying In Swinging 60's Style

Lane Moore — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:00:00 EST

You've gotta love a dialogue-free advertisement for a world that even the most anti-Playboy contemporary woman would briefly entertain the idea of joining — that is, until she remembered what happened outside of the martini lunches and go-go boot wearing. More »

I Was A Cog In The Playboy Machine

Chauncey Hollingsworth — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:17:00 EST

In light of a lengthy new profile of Hugh Hefner, a former editor muses on Hef's passage from icon to ghost. More »

Playboy, Your Source For The Unsexiest Garment Ever

Sadie Stein — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:08:00 EST

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On the other hand, we'd totally wear it. More »

Christina Hendricks Playboy Photos Released On Twitter

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:15:00 EST

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This week Playboy asked Twitter followers to identify the actress in this photo from the July 1999 issue. The nearly unrecognizable lass is Christina Hendricks, who looks fairly classy (for someone straddling a Speedo-clad dude while drinking with clowns). More »

Hugh Hefner & Fiancée Crystal Harris, Circa 2003

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:53:00 EST

He was 77; she was 16. [Images via Pacific Coast News Online.] More »

Hef Dodges The Baby-Oil Yeast Infection Issue

Sadie Stein — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:58:00 EST

America's most famous dirty old man dismisses the lurid tell-all Bunny Tales as "self-serving semi-fiction" and talks Viagra, curfews, condoms and allowances. More »

The Top Stories On Jezebel In 2010

Irin Carmon — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:40:24 EST

Here are a few things that the Internet loves: Fucking; Photoshop, fast food; Cats. Itself. And sexism, too! We had it all this year. Check out the most-read stories of the year and you'll see what we mean. More »

Ladies, You Must Save The Playboy Mansion!

Irin Carmon — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:26:00 EST

Last night, Kristen Schaal reminded us that "the first step to women breaking the glass ceiling is pressing our boobs up against it." More »

How Your Playboy Centerfold Sausage Is Made [NSFW]

Irin Carmon — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:29:27 EST

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It's not enough to make the cut to be a Playboy centerfold. Your nipples also have to be the right sort of pointy. Your butt has to have a "better curve." Enter Photoshop. Here, a rare view into the process. More »

The Playboy Wannabes

Irin Carmon — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:39:52 EST

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With names like Scamp, Rogue, and Vagabond, a new crop of men's magazines in the late 50s and early 60s tried to get a piece of the Playboy and Esquire action. (We get the girlie, but not the chest-hair backdrop.) More »

Katy And Russell Still Married; Rihanna A No-Show

Lauri Apple — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:30:49 EDT

A spokesperson for Russell Brand and Katy Perry called the newlyweds "Mr. and Mrs. Brand." It all feels so different now.

MTV Made JWoww Turn Down Playboy

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:45:00 EDT

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Today, the entire cast of Jersey Shore appeared on The Wendy Williams Show, where they were asked about their various side projects, including the $400,000 Playboy offer JWoww recently turned down, evidently due to MTV's contractual restrictions. More »

How Playboy Ruined Everything

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:30:00 EDT

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Do you think that things were better in the fifties? Do you feel that now, we're living in an immoral, STD-riddled age where people are rude to each other? Then you may have written an editorial for The Washington Times. More »

Playboy For The Blind Sounds Pretty Sexy

Anna North — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:26:00 EDT

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Sure, Playboy may be a dated publication with restrictive ideas about pubic hair. But Playboy for the blind is kind of awesome. More »

It's Not Just Men Who Are Objectifying Women

Kelly Harris — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:30:00 EDT

Earlier this month, Hugh Hefner was asked whether he objectifies women. His answer says a lot about our culture's confused attitude to female beauty. More »

Hugh Hefner As A Rebel, Without The Sleaze

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:23:00 EDT

The documentary Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel claims to go beneath Hef's bathrobed persona to reveal the man who championed civil rights, equality, and free speech. Critics say it's a two-hour infomercial that glosses over Playboy's objectification of women. More »

Hugh Hefner On His Role In Fighting Segregation

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:00:00 EDT

Hef appeared on Larry King Live last night in support of the forthcoming documentary Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, and Rebel. Here, he discusses how he fought racial segregation with his TV show Playboy After Dark, and denies setting feminism back. More »

Playboy's New Porn-Free Website Is Pointless, Awful

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:50:00 EDT

Playboy Enterprises has launched a new, safe for work website called TheSmokingJacket.com. Hef calls it "the best hangout on the planet." It is, without a doubt, the lamest website we've seen since Tucker Max was unleashed on the world. More »

Hugh Hefner Has Not Become Desensitized To Seeing Women Naked

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:09:00 EDT

Hef also says that fake breasts are not going out of style: "If you come up lacking in that department, one understands that that's what cosmetic surgery exists for." More »

The "Classy" Sex Magazine Is Dead

Irin Carmon — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:00:07 EDT

Whether Penthouse's parent picks up Playboy or Hugh Hefner succeeds in taking the company private, one thing is clear: trying to be the classy one in the print skinmag space is a waste of time. More »

Pics Of Wussy-Looking Christ At Lesbian Orgy Are Strangely Controversial!

Sadie Stein — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:25:00 EDT

Following a controversial cover that was, weirdly, apparently "a tribute to Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ," Playboy has canceled its Portuguese edition: More »

Alexis Texas Gets Cheeky For Playboy

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:10:00 EDT

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[Beverly Hills, June 30. Cover model/adult actress Alexis Texas poses at the launch party for Playboy & Taschen's "The Big Butt Book"]

How Playboy Tried To Manipulate Olivia Munn

Amanda Hess — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:05:00 EDT

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After initially declining to pose nude on the cover of Playboy, Olivia Munn agreed to do so, clothed . But once she got on set, Playboy team staged a day-long attempt to coerce Munn into taking it all off anyway. More »