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Playboy is an American soft-porn men's magazine founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and world famous for it's 'bunny head' logo. Since the magazine, Playboy has extended into cabaret clubs, the first club being opened in Chicago, Illinois in 1960, famed for their waitresses dressed as 'Playboy Bunnies', a television channel and in 1994 a web site. In 1988 the last American Playboy club closed and in1991 the last international Playboy club, in Manila, closed.
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Bebe Buell (real name Beverle Lorence Buell) is an American glamour model. She was born in 1953 at Portsmouth, Virginia. Moving to New York, she started modelling when she was seventeen years old. A fashion model, in 1974 she became the first fashion model to pose nude for Playboy magazine, a contract which resulted in her being discharged by the Ford modelling agency.
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George Bryan Brummell (Beau Brummell) was an English playboy and expert on etiquette and fashion. He was born in 1778 at London and died in 1840. He was educated at Eton and at Oxford, and at the age of sixteen made the acquaintance of the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV, who made him a cornet in his own regiment of the 10th Hussars, and secured his rapid promotion. The death of his father in 1794 brought him a fortune which he squandered on sumptuous living over a twenty-one year period. His creditors at length became clamorous, and in 1816 he took refuge in Calais, where he resided for many years, partly supported by the remains of his own fortune and partly by remittances from friends in England. Subsequently in 1830 he was appointed consul at Caen, but on the abolition of the post was reduced to absolute poverty, and died in a lunatic asylum at Caen in 1840.
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Hugh Hefner is an American publisher. He was born in 1926 at Chicago, Illinois. He is best known as the founder of the Playboy soft-porn organisation. In June 1963 he was arrested on obscenity charges by Chicago police after his Playboy magazine published a pictorial entitled, 'The Nudist Jayne Mansfield'. The trial resulted in a hung jury that voted 7-5 for acquittal. Extraordinarily, he also has had a rare species of marsh rabbit named after him: Sylvilagus palustris hefneri.
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Alejandra Gutierrez is a Venezuelan glamour model and actress. She was born in 1979 at Caracas. She appeared in Playboy magazine and was Miss Playboy TV Latin America 2001.
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Alison Armitage (also known as Brittany York) is an English actress and model and former Olympic swimmer. She was born in 1965 at London. She started swimming when she was four, and competed for Hong Kong in the Olympics before having to give up when her body developed. She was Playboy playmate of the month in October 1990 under the name of Brittany York.
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Anna Nicole Smith (real name Vickie Lynn Hogan) was an American pornography model, actress and television presenter. She was born in 1967 at Mexia, Texas and died in 2007. Most of her acting work has been in Playboy films, though towards the end of her life she became a celebrity in the USA for her 'reality' televison show.
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Bettie Page is an American actress and former glamour model. She was born in 1923 at Kingsport, Tennessee. A soft-porn model, she was Playboy Playmate of the Month January 1955. During the 1960s she disappeared from public view unsuccessfully trying to live a domestic married life, she then later entered a religious seminary, briefly working as a Christian missionary.
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Bo Derek (real name Mary Cathleen Collins) is an American actress and glamour model. She was born in 1956 at Long Beach, California. Bo Derek became famous after appearing as the sultry, sexy Jenny Hanley in the 1979 comedy 10. Bo Derek is less renowned for her acting ability - she was awarded the title worse actress for her role in the 1981 film Tarzan the Ape Man - than for her willingness to undress for the camera. This willingness to undress (including being photographed for Playboy magazine) led to her being a favourite pin-up of the 1980's.
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Carmen Electra is an American actress. She was born in 1972 at Cincinnati, Ohio. She played the role of 'Lani McKensie' in the popular television series 'Baywatch' from 1997 to 1998. Carmen Electra claims that she only posed nude for Playboy magazine in order to overcome her fear of undressing and changing clothes in front of people (notably her mother), however her predominant appearance half-naked in roles such as in Baywatch and the Scary Movie series would seem to indicate she simply enjoys showing off her body.
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