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26 unusual facts about Playboy


2007 West Virginia Mountaineers football team

Running back Steve Slaton sported the uniform when he attended the 2007 Playboy All-American honoring at the Playboy Mansion at the beginning of the preseason wearing it with white bottoms.

2011 Boise State Broncos football team

Kellen Moore also won the Anson Mount Scholar/Athlete award on the Playboy Preseason All-America Team.

Brooke, Norfolk

She appeared as a James Bond girl and was the first acknowledged transsexual to pose for Playboy magazine.

Crim Dell bridge

Tour guides at the College often tell prospective students that Playboy magazine once rated Crim Dell as "the second most romantic spot on a college campus" in America.

Dino Drpić

He is married to Playboy model and former singer Nives Celzijus, whose revelations in her autobiography, The Naked Truth, led to Drpić being kicked out of Dinamo.

Emílio Garrastazu Médici

Official censorship tightened its grip over the media, and the import of the men's magazines Playboy, Penthouse and Lui, as well as the West German news magazine Der Spiegel, was banned because they offended “morality and proper behavior”.

Escadaria Selarón

National Geographic Channel, American Express, Coca-cola, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Time and Playboy are just some of the media that the steps have appeared in/on.

ExitMundi.nl

The website got many good reviews on- and offline, in magazines as diverse as New Scientist, Playboy and several Dutch leading newspapers.

Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko

Red Dwarf star Danny John-Jules provided the voice for Gex in the UK and European release, but comedian Dana Gould reprised the role for the American release, also starring the Playboy model Marliece Andrada as Agent Xtra, the only character that is featured in live-action.

Greenberg v. National Geographic

Since National Geographic's victory in the Second Circuit, several publications (including The New Yorker, Playboy, Atlantic Monthly, and Rolling Stone) have either produced or announced plans to produce complete reproductions of their prior paper magazines on DVD or a restricted website for subscribers.

Jackie Paris

He won many jazz polls and awards, including those of Down Beat, Playboy, Swing Journal, and Metronome.

Jersey Girls

Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy.

Jolt Online Gaming

The game consisted in the player being a talent agent managing supermodels in an attempt to beat other agents to a prized spot as a Playboy supermodel.

LGBT history in Singapore

As a token of this restriction, to placate social conservatives, prominent porn websites such as Playboy and Penthouse were blocked.

Playboy Foundation

It gives grants and in-kind contributions, such as advertising space in the Playboy magazine to organizations concerned with US First Amendment freedoms.

Playboy: The Mansion

It features house tracks by many renowned producers like Armand Van Helden, DJ Sneak or Kaskade.

Playboy's Penthouse

It was first broadcast on October 24, 1959 and ran in syndication for slightly more than one year with a second season starting on September 9, 1961 with Jack E. Leonard, Anita O'Day, Buddy Greco, and George Wein.

Ray Russell

His most famous short fiction is "Sardonicus", which appeared in the January 1961 issue of Playboy magazine, and was subsequently adapted by Russell into a screenplay for William Castle's film version, titled Mr. Sardonicus.

Sexbox

At the same time she promoted the release of her autobiography La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family and her second appearance in Playboy in November 1991.

Sloggi

Past winners have been featured in publications such as Playboy.

Stefan Meller

One of his sons – Marcin Meller was the editor-in-chief of the Polish edition of Playboy magazine.

Sure Feels Good

The video stars Mike Di Scala and Chris Henry from Ultrabeat, Darren Styles, Rebecca Rudd, and Playboy model Lisa-Marie Bourke with other models as the strippers.

Sylvilagus palustris hefneri

Sylvilagus palustris hefneri (Lazell, 1984), common name Lower Keys Marsh Rabbit, is an endangered subspecies of Marsh Rabbit named after Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

The Delta Star

An excerpt of the first published version was featured in the February, 1983 issue of Playboy magazine.

Transit of Earth from Mars

This short story was first published in the January 1971 issue of Playboy magazine.

Vadim Khomitsky

She is a figure skater who, in 1998, had posed for the Russian edition of Playboy magazine.


6th Dalai Lama

He led a playboy lifestyle and disappeared, near Kokonor probably murdered on his way to Beijing in 1706.

Alyssa Nicole Pallett

She is known for her brief career as an actress and glamour model in the United Kingdom, and has been photographed by several well-known photographers including Patrick Demarchelier and Los Angeles Playboy photographer Josh Ryan.

B. Kliban

The income from Playboy provided financial security that allowed him to move his family to an old house in the town of Fairfax in Marin County.

Brad Darrach

His reporting for Playboy on the 1972 Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess match is included as one of four “Best of the Best” in David Halberstam’s Best American Sportswriting of the Century.

Bridgette Monet

Monet achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the March 1984 issue of Playboy magazine, photographed by Playboy photographer Ken Marcus.

Byron Newman

During the time Byron has worked for them, he has photographed some of Britain's top glamour models ncluding Samantha Fox, Katie Price aka Jordan, Jessica-Jane Clement, Marina Baker (whom he had discovered and photographed for her Miss March 1987 pictorial), and 2006 Playboy Special Edition model of the year Louise Glover.

Celoron, New York

Janis Hansen (former actress and Playboy Bunny, now an agent/manager), best known for playing "Gloria", Felix Unger's ex-wife on the TV series The Odd Couple, was born in Celoron.

Cindy Rakowitz

She served on the board of the Playboy Foundation and became involved in AIDS research and education (she helped and supported Rebekka Armstrong when she came out as HIV-positive and became one of the best-known public faces of heterosexual HIV transmission).

David Looker

After his education at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, he went on to enjoy a playboy lifestyle during the 1930s.

Dlisted

While Michael K posts general celebrity gossip, Dlisted is known for covering the exploits of particular celebrities in detail, including Britney Spears, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Lady Gaga, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lindsay Lohan's mother Dina Lohan, UK glamour model Katie Price, media personality Phoebe Price, Courtney Stodden, and former Playboy model Shauna Sand .

Frank Thorne

His most notable works include being the creator/artist/writer of "Moonshine McJugs" for Playboy magazine, as well as Ghita of Alizarr for Fantagraphics Books, "Lann" for Heavy Metal magazine, Ribit for Comico, The Iron Devil and Devil's Angel for Eros Comix, and Danger Rangerette for National Lampoon and High Times.

Game Show Moments Gone Bananas

Other wardrobe malfunctions involved a contestant on Family Feud, Gary Burghoff on Tattletales, Playboy Playmate Tawnni Cable on Family Feud, and a contestant on The Price is Right.

Georgeanna Tillman

Tillman would sing on a total of thirteen Marvelettes singles including the follow-up hits "Twistin' Postman", "Playboy", "Beechwood 4-5789" and "Too Many Fish in the Sea" but not without the group going through some changes.

Hartmarx

In 1974 the company rolled out a line of tailored clothing under the Christian Dior name, followed by Nino Cerruti, Allyn St. George, and Playboy.

Hatstand, Table and Chair

A set of the sculptures was purchased by German playboy, Gunter Sachs, at the time of their release.

Heather Rene Smith

She also appears in an episode of Playboy TV's "Hot Babes Doing Stuff Naked" (Camping - Episode 18), where she goes camping with three other Playmates (Lindsay Wagner - Miss November 2007, Sara Jean Underwood - 2007 Playmate of the Year, & Nicole Voss - Miss August 2006).

Invasion of Your Privacy

Beau Hill produced the album, and the cover-model is Playboy model Marianne Gravatte, who also made an appearance in the "Lay It Down" music video.

Janis Hansen

A one-time Playboy bunny, Hansen may be best-known for her recurring role as "Gloria", the ex-wife of Felix Unger on The Odd Couple (1971–75).

Jennifer Jackson

Jennifer Lyn Jackson (1969–2010), model and Playboy playmate, April 1989

John Buffalo Mailer

He has freelanced for Playboy, New York Magazine, Provincetown Arts, Lid, Stop Smiling, Corriera De La Sera, The Norman Mailer Review, ESPN Books and The American Conservative.

Juliet Cariaga

She was named, along with Alexandria Karlsen as one of several women connected with Philadelphia businessman Andrew Yao, who was convicted of bankruptcy fraud, and later plead guilty to ten counts of fraud and money laundering for lying about and concealing gambling expenditures and extravagant gifts to former Playboy and Penthouse models.

Kari Kennell

Representing PETA, and wearing plastic lettuce-leaf bikinis, Kari Kennell and fellow Playboy Playmate Lauren Anderson (Miss July 2002) sold vegetable hot dogs to members of Congress outside the Rayburn Office Building in Washington D.C.

Kelly Gallagher

Kelly Wearstler (born 1967), interior designer and former Playboy model (under the pseudonym Gallagher)

Lindsey Vuolo

The fact that she attended synagogue while she was active with Playboy led to a fair amount of media attention, including an interview with columnist Shmuley Boteach, who criticized Vuolo for her pictorial, and argued that she was exploited by Playboy, and that it and pornography in general dehumanizes women, and could lead to things like rape and spousal violence.

Martin Gero

He co-wrote and directed the Toronto Film Festival romantic comedy favourite Young People Fucking, is a Writer/Supervising Producer on the HBO series Bored to Death, and is set to direct the new Playboy movie.

Massapequa High School

Jessica Hahn, (1977) Playboy model, actor, focus of Jim Bakker scandal

Melissa Harrington

She has appeared in magazines including FHM, Gallery, Maxim, Hustler, Perfect 10, and Playboy, and was once attributed as the ninth most searched-for name on the internet.

Michael ffolkes

Ffolkes contributed to such newspapers and magazines as Strand, Lilliput, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, the Sunday Telegraph, Playboy, Private Eye, the New Yorker, the Reader's Digest, Krokodil, and Esquire.

Millionaire Playboy

Park Avenue Logger, also known as Millionaire Playboy, a 1937 American film directed by David Howard

Patrick Nagel

Because of the intense stylization and reduction of facial features into clean lines, generally the figures resemble each other, though Nagel worked with many models, including Playboy Playmates Cathy St. George, Tracy Vaccaro and Shannon Tweed.

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Welles

The Plaintiff was relying on the decision in Brookfield Communications, Inc. v. West Coast Entertainment Corp., to support the contention that the Defendant’s use of Playboy trademark in her web site infringes on its trademark by causing likelihood of confusion shown on the basis of initial interest confusion.

Ralph Whitworth

Although he won an award for his work on the Profumo Affair and even got a vote in the newspaper's Man of the Century poll (he swore he didn't vote for himself), lifetime membership of the Playboy Club (never taken up) and gained a reputation as a cartoonists' cartoonist, the man himself remained private.

Richard Fegley

Fegley also photographed many covers for Playboy, as well as several celebrities, including adult film star Marilyn Chambers.

Roy, Utah

Playboy Playmate and actress Cynthia Brimhall lived in Roy and graduated from Roy High School in 1982.

School of Sex

Based almost directly on the Playboy Latin America series of the same name, School of Sex features one hostess and various attractive "Teacher's Aides".

Sherlyn Chopra

She also shared photos of her with the Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

Stacy Arthur

In addition to her nude pictorial and centerfold in that issue, Arthur was featured on the cover, wearing a pageant-style banner that said "Miss January 1991." She continued working for Playboy, appearing in numerous Playboy videos.

Suburban Girl

Struggling to become a full-fledged editor, a task made harder after her mentor and boss is fired and replaced by Faye Falkner (Vanessa Branch), Brett meets the notorious and much older publishing playboy Archie Knox (Alec Baldwin).

Swing, Swing

"Swing, Swing" is featured on the soundtrack of the American comedy film American Wedding, the video games Playboy: The Mansion, Lego Rock Band, "MVP Baseball 2003" and on the compilation album Sky High Invasion - Volume 1 as a remix by DJ Loopy.

The Flying Saucer

A wealthy American playboy, Mike Trent (Mikel Conrad), who was raised in that remote region, is recruited to assist a Secret Service agent in exploring that area to determine what the Soviets have found.

The Playboy Radio Show

The Playboy Radio Show is a Playboy TV reality series that follows the weekly antics of the various shows on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Playboy Radio channel.

Tom Hilditch

His longform investigations into the plight of the Thai Elephant, The Hello Kitty Murders, methamphetamine abuse and other topics have been widely published in magazines including British Esquire, The Sunday Times, GQ, Maxim, Marie Claire, The Independent on Sunday, Stern, US Playboy and Asiaweek.

Valérie Bègue

On a previous occasion, Fontenay had obtained the temporary suspension of Miss France 2004, Lætitia Bléger, for much more suggestive pictures published in the French edition of Playboy magazine, as a Miss France winner is contractually obligated not to pose for controversial pictures for five years after winning the title and an entrant in the Miss France contest must state that she has never posed for nude or partially nude pictures beforehand.