Sasha Grey in Playboy

Tonight Sasha Grey sent out a tweet to her 34,000 some odd followers that said …. “OH! If you haven’t checked out my set for @playboy grab it now while it’s still on stands!”  … as if it was no big deal, like you get picked to be in Playboy every day.

To be honest I’m quite surprised people didn’t make more of a deal out of this.  A porn star getting picked to be in Playboy really doesn’t happen as often as you might think.  Well it turns out Sasha Grey is in fact in a special feature in this months issue of Playboy.  You can click HERE to read more about it directly from Playboy itself – but basically it is a special promotion for a movie she has done.  The movie is called Lolita  and apparently Sasha Grey plays Dolores Haze.

The adult actress unleashes her inner Lolita in an exclusive Playboy pictorial! Published in 1955, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was the book that no one thought would ever end up on the silver screen. Playboy explores the making of the most notorious film of the 1960s in this homage starring crossover movie actress Sasha Grey as Dolores Haze!

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Bunnies Don’t Gossip, Don’t You Know?

Playboy Issues ‘No Comment’ Statement about a pending buyout of the company who has long reported to be experiencing financial woes.

CHICAGO, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (PEI) (NYSE: PLA, PLAA) today said that, in response to inquiries related to a potential sale of the company, in keeping with its policy, PEI does not comment on matters of this type.

Playboy is one of the most recognized and popular consumer brands in the world. Playboy Enterprises, Inc. is a media and lifestyle company that markets the brand through a wide range of media properties and licensing initiatives. The company publishes Playboy magazine in the United States and abroad and creates content for distribution via television networks, websites, mobile platforms and radio. Through licensing agreements, the Playboy brand appears on a wide range of consumer products in more than 150 countries as well as retail stores and entertainment venues.

In the man time two of the new Girls Next Door are enjoying Twitter (@ShannonTwins) and even have a new fancy Twitter background, probably one of the best I’ve seen.  Man those girls have some long ass legs.  I had no idea how tall the Playboy twins really were and in heels, holy fuck.

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Mike South and Friends say FUCK YOU Playboy

Last week I got an email with some photos put out by the Playboy owned and operated site RealJanine.com, in which they proudly proclaim it to be Janine’s OFFICIAL website. The problem is, Janine hasn’t had anything to do with that website in years, and rumor has it, they haven’t been paying her any money from the site either. Janine’s actual OFFICIAL site, that she endorses, creates new content for and that actually gives her money for her work is FreeJanine.com. So for Playboy to mislead their consumers if if nothing else at least a little shady, wouldn’t you say?

Well Playboy also happens to own a website called GFY, for years it was a popular message board for adult webmasters to hang out and talk shit.  Recently they got a new paid advertiser, which just so happened to be a company who also owns an illegal tube site.   This is one of the posted messages in response from the webmasters who frequent the board.

Dear playboy stockholders,

It has come to my attention that one of playboys assets has been advertising sites that steal its own product and then gives it away. I find it hard to believe supporting sites that give your product away will make you money. Playboy shares have dropped steadily since gfy started advertising sites that directly profit from the theft of playboy content.

Do you think playboy should take a stronger stance when it comes to who it advertises for ? Do you think playboy should stop supporting these sites ? or do you think supporting these sites that give away your product will improve sales ?

As you can imagine there was a huge uproar over GFY taking money from a site that not only owned an illegal tube site with tons of stolen content but that also included stolen owned by Playboy and Playboy owned properties. So here is Mike South and his friend’s response.

We are proud to announce the formation of a new webmaster resource board, www.gofuckgfy.com

When asked why a new board was needed board co-founder Mike South had this to say:

“Last week gofuckyourself.com decided to slap adult webmasters across the face by accepting advertising from and skinning their site with ads from a company that runs tube sites that steal adult content. At that point I intentionally got myself banned for life by calling them what they are, sell outs and scumbags.

I wasn’t alone, many of GFY’s top posters and most influential webmasters pulled advertising and got themselves banned as well. I looked at this situation and I told DirtyWhiteBoy that we should fuck them back by starting gofuckgofuckyourself.com. At that moment we knew it had to be done. We bought the domains and quickly got gofuckgfy.com up and running.

Truth is DirtyWhiteBoy and Nate deserve all of the credit, they worked all night to make the board look and feel familiar to GFY users, even to the point that we can restore your post count.

We want all of GFY’s participants to come join us and make this the industry’s best resource board, after all it is he posters that make a board like this successful and we welcome you all.”

Indeed gofuckgfy.com has barely been up twenty four hours and has already attracted such luminaries as Dean Capture and Gonzo and is already over 100 posts and growing by the minute.

Reading the rules on the board kind of sums up the atmosphere. The rules are “Use common sense”.

3 Just Isn’t Enough for Hef

Only Hugh Hefner could juggle so many women in his life and not go fucking insane. Hugh Hefner tweeted tonight that he has added two more young hotties to his harem from 3 to five. The two new girls are Melissa Taylor and Anna Berglund, who join Crystal Harris and The Shannon Twins. All five girlfriends will be on the next season of The Girls Next Door. All 5 of his new girlfriends, much like his last three are blondes.

Hugh Hefner and his play mates

This photo shows Melissa Taylor to the left of former girlfriend Holly Madison with Hugh Hefner in the middle, then you have Crystal Harris and Anna Berglund. The night this photo was taken in Las Vegas the Shannon Twins were on a promotion for their issue of Playboy.

The Mansion Has Sold

The mansion has sold … no not the Playboy one, but close, it is the one next door. Last March the LA Times reported the house next door to Hef’s, which he happens to own was up for sale. The asking price at the time was almost $28 million.  Well tonight Hugh Hefner tweeted that the house has sold. Although no price was disclosed in his tweet, no doubt it went for a pretty penny, however I suspect not quite as much as he and his estranged wife Kimberly had wanted.

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Here is the listing the agents selling the home had for it. They sold the house in under 6 months and in today’s economy that is really saying something.

Sister Property to the Esteemed Holmby Hills Playboy Mansion — S. Mapleton Drive. Exquisite 2.3 Acre European Holmby Hills Manor. List price: $27,995,000, ADJACENT TO LOS ANGELES COUNTRY CLUB. This magnificent walled estate includes remarkable grounds and privacy. Extensive Original wood paneling, hand carved staircase, leaded glass windows and hand painted walls lend a sense of history to this extraordinary property. Enter the two story entry to the spacious living room with fireplace and beautiful garden vistas. The paneled study with center fireplace is a wonderful retreat. A large family room adjoins the dining room and updated eat-in gourmet kitchen opening to charming outdoor terrace. Beautiful verdant views from the upper level. Wonderful master suite including an exceptional marble bath and a large separate dressing rom. Three additional family bedrooms plus a maids room complete the property. Enormous motor court with three car garage. Rolling lawns, mature trees, country club vistas beyond and wonderful private pool area. All of which affords a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire the finest.   www.MapletonManor.com

UPDATE : TMZ is reporting the house sold for $18 million.

Gemma Massey is Hot as Fuck

I don’t know why I haven’t ever heard of this chick before but damn this chick Gemma Massey is so fucking hot it’s not even funny. I first learned of her when Twistys sent out the notification that she would be their treat of the month this month. You little perverted fucks can click that link to see more.


As far as Gemma Massey goes, it’s hard to find any real data about her. She seems to come from Britain, first came to some fame with modeling from Playboy and is now slowly transitioning into nude Internet model. That’s about all I could find about her. Anyway, guess all we really need to know is that she is one hot looking chick.


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Holly Madison minus her hunny bunny

TMZ is reporting that Holly Madison has gone to extreme measures to shed her Bunny past as she has recently removed a Playboy tattoo.

Post-Hefner, a slightly less trampy Holly Madison is emerging — because girl’s getting her Playboy tramp stamp removed! Here’s Holly this past weekend at the Wet Republic at the MGM (left), and the same pink bunny tattoo back in ’05 (right). This is one move we can really get behind.

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Playboy up for sale for $300 million?

The NY Post is reporting that Playboy may be up for sale for $300 million. There is a lot of speculation in this article so who knows how much of it is true but here is the story nonetheless.


FULL STORY FROM THE NY POST – PLAYBOY Enterprises, the far-flung empire founded by Hugh Hefner in 1953, is quietly being shopped around for $300 million, sources tell Media Ink.


But so far, well-heeled suitors that have been approached, like Apollo Capital Partners and Providence Equity Partners, haven’t stepped up.


The battered company’s market capitalization is now around $100 million and nobody has been willing to pay the substantial premium that it would take to persuade Hef to sell.


Sources said the sellers are looking for far more than the company’s market capitalization because that would ensure Hef has enough on hand to maintain his lavish lifestyle.


“Everyone says he’ll never let go, that he’ll take it with him to the grave,” said one source.


The empire’s iconic bunny ears are one of the most identifiable trademarks in the world, but the empire has fallen on hard times as the Internet and video-on-demand have eroded its core brand, the magazine.


Hefner, now 83 years old, said recently that one of his biggest regrets was taking Playboy public.


He still controls about 70 percent of the voting stock, and as of March 31, the second-biggest shareholder was Wells Capital, which held a 10 percent stake. Fidelity is third at 7 percent.


Sources said that James Griffiths, a former president of the entertainment group, has been involved in the potential sale process.


Playboy has been under intense pressure and has been furiously cutting costs. In the most recent quarter, the company said it lost $13.7 million, compared with a loss of $4.2 million a year ago. Revenue eroded to $61.6 million in the quarter from $78.5 million a year ago.


Christie Hefner, Hef’s daughter, stepped down as CEO in January and formally left the board at its annual meeting last week, severing her ties.


A Playboy spokeswoman said, “We have not received a proposal for purchase, nor has Mr. Hefner indicated that he will listen to proposals regarding a sale. However, as a public company, we will listen to proposals that could create value for all of our shareholders.”


Worth more


In the wake of the folding of Condé Nast Portfolio and the well-chronicled struggles of business magazines like Fortune and Forbes, now would appear to be an inauspicious time to launch a financial magazine.


Yet Sandow Media has relaunched Worth magazine — complete with a cover price of $18.95.


The new magazine is edited by Richard Bradley, an author and one-time executive editor of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s now-defunct George magazine. Bradley joined in April 2008, just as Sandow Media was taking over the magazine from Bill Curtis’s CurtCo.


Patrick Williams, formerly the manager of national financial advertising at Portfolio, is Worth’s publisher.


At the time that Williams left Portfolio in August 2008 for Worth, many thought he was crazy to leave cushy Condé Nast. Less than a year later, he’s been vindicated.


“It turned out to be an astute move obviously, but I didn’t think they were going to close the magazine down,” Williams said in a recent interview with Media Ink.


Meanwhile, Williams defended Sandow Media’s decision to launch Worth during one of the worst economic periods in a generation.


“All of those magazines are aimed at people who are worried about what they are going to do about their 401(k)s,” said Williams. “We are not going to advise people what to do about that.”


But what about that newsstand price of $18.95?


“If you’re the person who is nervous about paying $18.95 for a magazine, then this magazine is not for you,” said Williams.


The recession may have depressed the local real estate market in the Hamptons and thinned the publishing ranks, but surviving publications are gearing up for a busy, if somewhat more frugal, publishing scene.


Dan’s Papers, now owned by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Brown Publishing Co., pulled the plug on Hampton Style for this year, leaving Editor Kristina Ward out of a job.


Meanwhile, Vox magazine has also disappeared from the scene.


But the survivors are still going.


The Miss California Sex Tape

I just found this story over at AdultFYI. I couldn’t believe it, but then again, why not? She got naked how many times while modeling? So why not make a sex tape too? The way things are going it looks like Miss California may be taking Vivid up on their offer because at this rate she won’t be able to get any other kind of work.  At the very least she could always pose for Playboy for a quick buck or two.


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The AdultFYI story – Following Topless Photo, Claims of Carrie Prejean Sex Tape? From www.edgeboston.com- Web site thedirty.com–which posted a photo of a topless Carrie Prejean, “Miss California”–has followed up that bombshell with a claim that they have in their possession a “sex tape” featuring Ms. Prejean.


The claim was met with skepticism and a degree of disinterest. Even the reliably verbal participants at the conservative online chat forum FreeRepublic.com–which solicits donations from its users with an ad reading, “Hate ’em? End ’em!”–had little to say as of the afternoon of May 14, with only a handful of postings to the article, most of which had little to offer outside of the boilerplate accusations regarding “hateful” and “vile” liberals, etcetera.


One user offered a glimmer of wit, writing, “I believe I’m the only unhip human being who has never made [a sex tape].”


FreeRepubic drew its story from ButAsForMe.com, which viewed the claim as bogus, and which criticized the site for having in the past made explosive assertions, promising evidence that it never presented.


Others wondered whether a May 1 press release from the National Organization for Marriage, which hastened to star Prejean in an anti-gay commercial, might have been an attempt on the part of NOM to “distance” the anti-gay group from the beauty queen, whose April 19 on-air comments about marriage equality drew both praise and ire.


Prejean, “Miss California” in the Miss USA beauty pageant last month, was asked by openly gay celebrity blogger and pageant judge Perez Hilton about her opinion on marriage equality.


Saying she was from a religious background, Prejean praised the freedom that some states in America offer for gay and lesbian families to wed, but said that her own opinion was that marriage ought to be reserved for heterosexual couples.


Hilton later posted a video blog in which he insulted Prejean for her comments, calling her a “dumb bitch.”


That blog garnered Prejean support from across the political spectrum, with Hilton’s remarks offending people of all political and sexual persuasions. However, the religious right used the comments to bolster claims that Christians are a “persecuted” minority, and to reiterate dubious assertions that all “liberals” and GLBT people seek to muzzle free expression and limit freedom of religion.


The National Organization for Marriage, which had supported California’s ballot initiative to rescind marriage equality for gay and lesbian families, was quick to feature Prejean in a new ad decrying family equality, but as Prejean–who reportedly began to neglect her job duties as “Miss California”–continued to make media appearances to talk about her status as a victim of “anti-Christian” sentiment and to speak against marriage equality, the story began to take on other dimensions.


A reported breast enhancement procedure that Miss California USA, Prejean’s employer, paid for hit the headlines, as did news of a topless photo Prejean said she had posed for at age 17.


The NOM’s May 1 press release sought to clarify that Prejean was not an employee or spokesperson for the group.


The group’s president, Maggie Gallgher, stated, “Carrie appeared with NOM as a private citizen; she does not work for the National Organization for Marriage. She is a spokesperson for her own views, as anyone watching her can tell.”


Gallagher’s statement continued, “We are grateful to Carrie Prejean for her willingness to stand up for marriage.


“We would love to work with Carrie in the future if she chooses, and we wish her well in all her future endeavors whatever she chooses.


“We’re proud of her. Americans are proud of her. She is a remarkable young woman. Thank you, Carrie.”


But the release’s tone of praise notwithstanding, some, including GLBT site Towleroad, wondered whether the group might be trying to put some distance between itself and Prejean.


The rumored sex tape was mentioned in online conversations about the statement and its meaning.


Sarah Palin was a relative latecomer to the party, posting a comment at Sarahpac.com in which Palin, who ran for vice president last year, spoke of a “liberal onslaught of malicious attacks” targeting Prejean and calling the purported wave of anti-Prejean press “despicable.”


Wrote Palin, “Carrie and I spoke soon after the attacks started; I can relate as a liberal target myself.


“What I find so remarkable is that these politically-motivated attacks fail to show that what Carrie and I believe is also what President Obama and Secretary Clinton believe – marriage is between a man and a woman,” Palin went on.


The reference to President Obama was an echo of Miss USA owner Donald Trump’s May 12 press conference, in which Trump announced that despite the topless photo, Prejean would be allowed to keep the “Miss California” title.


Trump also observed that President Obama, who has said that gay and lesbian individuals and families should be protected equally by the law and not singled out for discriminatory treatment, had said that he believed in reserving marriage as a special right for heterosexual couples.


Such comments, together with a perception that the Obama administration has lost interest in advocating for GLBT equality issues, has brought concern among GLBT leaders into the headlines.


It seems that speaking of Prejean in jest constitutes just such a “malicious attack” in the eyes of the right. Conservative site Newsbusters.com indicated displeasure at what it seemed to regard as blasphemy against Prejean in the form of a comic remark made by Joan Rivers on The CBS Early Show.


A May 13 article at the site focused on Rivers saying, “God wants you to shut up,” and declared that, “Co-hosts Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez, and Julie Chen all laughed in response and shared in mocking Carrie Prejean.”


Rivers expressed exasperation at the Prejean story, calling a Prejean interview “Totally irrelevant,” and adding, “I am against gay marriage. That two men can get married and I can’t get a damn date? I am so pissed off.”


Rivers went on to say of the flap, “It’s all so stupid and she’s taking it so seriously and [Prejean is] so well coached.”


Asked co-host Maggie Rodriguez, “So… your advice to her is just chill out a little bit?”


Answered Rivers, “My advice is oh, relax. God wants you to shut up.”


Rivers’ book “Men Are Stupid… And They Like Big Boobs” was also referenced in the chat, in the context of Prejean’s reported breast enhancement procedure.


Another celebrity unwilling to genuflect to Prejean was former “Miss Nevada” Katie Rees, who, like Prejean, had posed semi-nude before going on to win her title.


Unlike Prejean, however, Rees lost her title when the photo came to light. To Rees, the difference in how she and Prejean were treated constitutes a “huge double standard,” reported a May 12 E! Entertainment story carried at Comcast.net.


Rees said that the photo of herself was not taken professionally, as was the semi-nude photo of Prejean; still, because she had signed a contract stipulating that she had never posed for “nude or semi-nude” pictures, Rees lost her crown at Trump’s behest.


Not so Prejean, who was excused by Trump.


The article quoted Rees as saying, “Semi-nude photos are semi-nude photos.”


Added Rees, “I don’t know why I am the only one who was punished for their behavior.


“I was only 19 when those photos were taken of me, and it was me in my personal life, far before I was crowned Miss Nevada,” continued Rees.


“Carrie actually posed for these professional semi-nude photos. I think that’s worse.”


Nor has Rees, like Prejean, been elevated to the status of culture war saint. Rather, she indicated that her reputation had suffered.


“I have been scrutinized in the press and have tried to move on with my life, but it’s hard,” the article quoted Rees as saying.


“Everywhere you go, people judge you on these photos and already think they know the type of person you are.”


Rees compared her conduct in the midst of controversy to Prejean’s, saying, “At least when those pictures of me came out, I admitted I was wrong and told young women in America how big of a mistake it was and to be careful because everything can affect your future.


“That’s more than Carrie has done. She has lied about her age when she took the photos, lied about how many there were and hasn’t acknowledged that she was wrong by breaking the contract.


“I don’t think that is a good role model and I hope young women recognize that,” Rees added.