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isobella jade
Short, Crazy Model Triumphs
In 2006, Isobella Jade was just another homeless 5'2 model writing her memoirs at the Apple Store, all day. And now, three years later, that book is actually being released. Crazy dreams of models come true. [Her site, Previously]
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Comment by MissCast: Yeah, but did she dance on the counter at closing time? 2 Responses | Other threads
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media
Why Can't Gisele Sell Magazines?
If Gisele Bundchen covers can't sell magazines, what is it that you people really want? This may be Michelle Obama's fault. More »
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Comment by ChanRasit: I'll tell you why. Because she's a MODEL... They're typically uneducated and pretty uninteresting, having led charmed lives solely due... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Beef!
Karl Lagerfeld vs. Heidi Klum: Round 2
The most exciting beef of the weekend has arrived: Mugatu inspiration Karl Lagerfeld and Heidi Klum are having a war of words.
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By Foster KamerComment by Looker: Well, in his defense, Heidi really was sort of a blip in the high fashion world. I don't recall her... 9 Responses | Other threads
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scandals
Dick Parsons Secret Love Child!
Richard 'Dick' Parsons is fallible, after all! The (married) former Time Warner boss and most popular black man in corporate America after Vernon Jordan has a (formerly) secret love child, with a much younger model:
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Comment by blogissuchanuglyword: It seems like "model" is a term which is thrown around very loosely the last few years. Attention attractive people:... 4 Responses | Other threads
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gossip roundup
No One Going to Met Costume Gala, It's Too Crowded
No one is attending this party tonight except everyone. Plus: John Mayer is single and Maggie Gyllenhaal isn't. And lots of people from the '90s are still totally relevant! More »
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By PareeneComment by LvV: I thought Kate and Naomi were great friends. I know they were at some point. What happened? 3 Responses | Other threads
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paparazzi
'Shooting' War: Tom Brady and Gisele's Hired Thugs Protect Mag Exclusive With Gunfire
Paparazzi life is war! Two photographers who were trying to photograph Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's wedding ceremony in Costa Rica say the couple's bodyguards shattered their car window. With a bullet, from a gun! More »
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Comment by Perhaps Not: Folksy Sex Troll: I submit that these photographers shot out their own rear windshield in an attempt to defame the bodyguards, Brady, and... 2 Responses | Other threads
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photoshop
Kim Kardashian, In Reality
UH OH: Complex magazine put Kim Kardashian on its cover this month, but it forgot to Photoshop one of its images of her (left) until Bucky Turco caught it. Huzzah for real womanhood! [Animal NY]
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Comment by BitterDiva: Alas, not even Photoshop can erase Dead-Eyed Skank. 65 Responses | Other threads
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models
Censorship, Ho! The Blank of the Skank
Oh no, "Skanks in NYC," the city's top craptastic Blogspot blog about the alleged skankiness of cover model Liskula Cohen, has been pulled from the internet in the wake of Cohen's ridonkulous lawsuit. Never forget: More »
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Comment by hesperid: I'm confused. Are those pictures supposed to be evidence of skankiness? Because I don't see anything wrong... Pretty people having... 4 Responses | Other threads
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scandals
Lawsuit Threatens Right to Call Out Bastards, Seedy Tramps, Big Skanks
Court hearing yesterday for cover model Liskula Cohen, who's suing Google to try to force it to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger who calls her a skank, which "impugned her chastity." Hilarity ensued. More » -
gawker pin-up
'Beautiful Banker' David Webb Hates Shirts
Oh look, just this morning laid-off banker and male model David Webb was profiled in the Observer, and here it's only lunchtime and we have an absolute treasure trove* of beefcake photos of him. More »
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dating
Five Creepy Old Men Who Should Settle Down (And One Who's Cool)
A tipster tells us billionaire Clinton pal Ron Burkle (and his model wrangler!) was "lurking around" Justin Timberlake's William Rast show at Fashion Week last night. Time for a listicle of creepy old ladies' men! More »
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events
Your Fashion Week Craiglist Ticket Guide
Fashion Week this year will just be full of commoners and riff-raff, because people are scalping "tickets" for it all over Craigslist! The five priciest—and five cheapest—"tickets" below. Buy some for the hobos! More »
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Comment by slainte_pants: Why does the phrase "I am a hot female with blonde hair and big boobs" just conjure of the image... 5 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
SI Swimsuit Issue Cover Model: Bar Refaeli
Computer illiterate masturbators of the world, take heed: your 2009 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl is Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriend Bar Refaeli. Allegedly. More »
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Comment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: I was secretly hoping for Octomom. That woman has a very athletic reproductive system. 4 Responses | Other threads
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field guide
Hilary Rowland
This morning we told you about internet microcelebrity Hilary Rowland, the modelesque blond fond of name-dropping and self promotion. But who is she, really? Time for a field guide! More »
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Comment by SultanaEleusis: That picture with the red background is how she looked after her escape from being trapped in the Playboy Mansion,... 6 Responses | Other threads
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models
Brazilian Beauty Queen Dies From Infection
We're obligated to tell you that Mariana Bridi, the 20 year-old Brazilian model who had her hands and feet amputated over the past week, has died. More »
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Comment by VoxPopuli: God, what is this bacterium and how do you go about making sure you never get it? 18 Responses | Other threads
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pic of the day
Floating Down the Runway
[A Maria Bonita Extra dress is modeled at a fashion show in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. Where are the model's legs? Image via AP]
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Comment by BadUncle: Come on Richard. There's always room for beauty in the world of magic. 11 Responses | Other threads
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fashion
Fat Chicks and Furry Beasts Menace Karl Lagerfeld
Delightfully insane fashion person Karl Lagerfeld is not afraid to formulate patently ridiculous defenses of decadence. Fur is bad and models are too skinny? More like animals are dangerous and girls are too fat! More »
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Comment by robmorsexxx: I can only imagine what would happen if someone undid that high collar on his shirt: His neck would spill... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Kiliaen van Rensselaer
Wealthy Society Man Will Grit His Way Through Hard Times
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer has a breezy attitude about this current financial apocalypse, but not because he's the fabulously wealthy direct descendant of the founder of the Dutch West India Company; it's because he knows that he's a self-made man, and he knows that while recessions are ruinous for the poors, they are only setbacks for plutocrats. Like his own family, for instance! Kiliaen (pictured with unpopular socialite Olivia Palermo, who we hear he used to date) is confident that the world judges him on his actions alone. Foolish rich people, when will you learn not to be profiled by the Observer? Spencer Morgan will just hang you with your own quotes: More »
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Comment by Hey_mikey: Wow. That dude totally used to own my great-great great grandfather. (We're from South America and Dutch East India had... 6 Responses | Other threads
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isobella jade
Isobella Jade's Ass Soldiers Through The Recession
Elite media types and financiers aren't the only ones suffering during this economic downturn, you know. Models are suffering too! And who better to shine a light on the travails of modeling these days than Isobella Jade, the short, self-made woman who rose from homelessness to microniche prominence by writing her memoir in the Apple store and then triumphantly eating a burger. Remember her? Yea! She's still a hardworking self-promoter, so we checked in and got her take on the crucial question, "How Does the Economy affect a Body Parts Model?": More » -
kanye west
40 Nude Models: Tacky?
Well Kanye West, we've got to give it to you. In the past we've mocked you for your blog, your anti-hippie rants, your comical self-importance, and your muppet show. But that was before you filled a room with dozens of nude women as a backdrop for your record release party. Critics who enjoy nude women loved it! Here's how these creative, out-of-the-box tactics worked for Kanye and his media friends—Nakedness below: More » -
advertising
The Least Subtle Ad Ever
"We all know insurance is dull," announces this ad for Trident, which is apparently an actual insurance company in the UK that sells legitimate insurance, and not just some viral front company. To offset said dullness, Trident's new commercial is nothing but 85 seconds of bikini-clad models bouncing up and down on pogo sticks, filmed from the most porny angles possible. Also, a few slogans are thrown in! Honestly, it's left me too dazed to really be able to sort out whether it's despicable or...brave? It's certainly not clever, per se. Perhaps one more ad with male pogo models would head off the impending backlash. Watch it below and consider its sociosexual implications: More »
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Comment by themediatrix: Brave??? No, it's despicable. I'm so f*ing sick of reverse psychology sexism, where women are bombarded with these images regularly and... 22 Responses | Other threads
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the gays
Gay-Panicking Model Defended By Gay Magazine Exec
Meet Ben Massing, a smoldering young (straight) model from Florida, who recently graced the pages of gay magazine Genre. And he was not happy about it. Indeed he's filing a lawsuit, claiming his privacy was violated because he only intended to use the be-underweared photos for his portfolio. This caused something of a foofaraw in the ogling gay community, people accusing him of being a homophobe. Now a gay magazine publisher has come to young Massing's defense. More »
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Comment by Pope John Peeps II: Which, OK, fine. But why then did Massing freak out so much? What kind of model doesn't want to appear... 20 Responses | Other threads
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ron burkle
Why Ron Burkle Will Never Be Happy
You would think that Ron Burkle would lead a charmed life, considering all the perks he enjoys as a billionaire mogul. He flies around on a private jet! He cozies up to starlets! He hangs out with fellow horndog Bill Clinton! He secretly backs Radar, and has the best flacks money can buy to control his press coverage! But no amount of money will allow Burkle to have it both ways; he wants the parties and models, but not the notoriety that comes with them. Sorry Ron, you have to choose one or the other. Because when you're out bothering models and sharing girls with Leonardo DiCaprio, we hear all about it:
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Comment by BookishLookish: Someone needs to tell Ron that dating women that young puts ten years on your face. Hamilton, why doesn't the Kreepy... 5 Responses | Other threads
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scandals
What Vogue "Super Model" Is Suing Over Nude Photos?
Nude supermodel photo scandal lawsuit alert! An anonymous model has filed suit in Miami against Egotastic.com and Splash photo agency for taking pictures of her sunbathing in her birthday suit (NAKED) in her own backyard—"as is often done by professional models to avoid tan lines." Invasion of privacy and emotional distress! But who is this mysterious, super-beautiful plaintiff? She helpfully includes several clues [UPDATE: the case may already be cracked!]: More »
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Comment by moneyries: Yup, it's Elsa. Here's an update at that Egotastic article: *** Sorry, the images have been removed for legal reasons.... 1 Responses | Other threads
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american apparel
American Apparel For Afrikans
You thought that all American Apparel clothing was inspired by Dov Charney's endless parade of sexual fantasies? Not true. Some of it is inspired by Africa! Or as Bambaataa and fey hipsters spell it, Afrika. Is it bad that the company doesn't use any black models for these products? It might be worse if they did use black models, actually. Check out more of this season's most authentic adornments for those in the struggle, after the jump. Real hipsters still have their Cross Colours from '92: More »
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Comment by Meeg: @Meeg: That should be "Afrikaans", thanks AA now I can't spell the name of the continent anymore. more » | Other threads
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advertising
Models in ads: they're all jumping now! [Copyranter]
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advertising
Nipples: Dependably Driving Web Traffic
Posters for Cabana Cachaca, a brand of Brazilian rum that is determined to bully its way into the market through sheer advertising mass, are plastered all over Manhattan. But they're cropped so that the model is just barely free of nipple (a body part banned in the USA). But the posters direct you to the company's website where—in a keen display of digital marketing strategy—you can see the model's nipple (Copyranter made sure of it). I think they've hit on a solid online agenda here. Click through for the (NSFW) uncensored version of the ad. None of this contributes to high quality rum, as if you cared: More »
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Comment by imjustskinny: @Unfun: I certainly don't think that anyone is more or less sexy due to their weight, in fact, I take... more » | Other threads
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advertising
Skinny Models Turn Women To Masochists
Ladies, have a look at this ad featuring skinny supermodel Kate Moss. How does it make you feel? Wait, let me tell you how it makes you feel: it makes you hate your own body, but really want to purchase that handbag Kate Moss is advertising! What am I, psychic? No, I'm just telling you what the advertising industry has discovered in a breakthrough new study about skinny models. Women love to hate themselves and keep coming back for more, apparently! More » -
dov charney
From The Cocksuckers At American Apparel
It must really kill Dov Charney not to be able to advertise his hipster robot clothes via hardcore porn movies starring himself and a bevy of 18-year-old Eastern European beauties recently unloaded from a shipping crate in the dead of night. So the pervy American Apparel CEO and hero to the downtrodden keeps edging as close to that vision as possible. His latest effort: a foreign ad featuring a model licking some dude's boxer shorts—and some believe the dude in them is Dov himself, based solely on the hairy legs. Full ad that will haunt you, below: More »
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Comment by Dror Poleg: Ok. But he did he manage to convince Julia Allison to pose this way? more » | Other threads
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gisele
Famous Photographers Woo Stars Into Lewdness
A-list stars are extremely selective about how they're portrayed in pictures. They routinely have specific language in their contracts for movies and photo shoots dictating just how much flesh can be shown, and in what way. But magazines have figured out a way around this: get one of the world's most prominent photographers to do the shoot, and hey, the stars let it all hang out! New York got Lindsay Lohan to strip for Bert Stern, the photographer who once shot Marilyn Monroe in the same poses. And Vanity Fair used Annie Leibovitz's cachet to goad the young Miley Cyrus into a creepy come-hither pose. And now, sadly, supermodel and man-curse Gisele Bundchen has fallen victim to the same trend. Oh no! More »
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Comment by The Bacon Man: this pretty much just rocks. retro. hott. totally 80's. denim ass chaps! don't listen to these haters, pour your sugar... more » | Other threads
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vogue
Vogue Brings Black Models To Otherwise-Occupied Readers
The feel-good issue of Italian Vogue featuring all black models in honor of Obama is about to hit the newsstands, washing away the last remnants of racial strife in the world. But some people are asking: why do they have to do the all-black issue during the slowest time of the year for magazines? Why not put it out in the busy season and really make a statement? We hate to even suggest it, but could it have something to do with... money? More »
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Comment by Public Relations: What good is having an all Black issue if they all are made to appear like Caucasians with sun tans. Long... more » | Other threads
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fashion
American Apparel Needs Models To Show Their Junk
You'll be kicking yourself for missing this party in an LA American Apparel store last Friday. It was not just an event in honor of gay pride; it included a contest to "win" a chance to "Show Your Stuff" in an American Apparel ad. "Winner chosen @ Stallion after party." Isn't that how it always turns out? Dov Charney continues to find new and innovative ways to trick dudes and girls alike into helping him skeeve out the world. The full flier, with NSFW lime green underwear shot, after the jump. More » -
enough
Shocking Tom Ford Ads No Longer Shock
Tom Ford is using nudity in his advertising! Hard to believe, I know. Mr. Ford may be one of the world's most influential designers, but his latest ads have largely completed the evolution from provocative to simply boring. Which is a difficult stunt to pull off, considering the subject matter. But these three spots, starring Brazilian Alex Schultz, are so in-your-face that they lose the sense of allure which should, ideally, accompany any fashion ad—penis-showing or otherwise. Also hard to pull off when using naked people: making your target audience think about clothes. See the disconnect there? We're ready for the cultural needle to swing back towards fully clothed models, thank you. After the jump, the three ads—which are all, predictably, NSFW. More »
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Comment by ShyamasriJalookhi: As I wonder where is Tom Ford doing these days? Here comes the ads... Hurray, Tom Ford, you got people talking...Score!!... more » | Other threads
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you wanna be on top
Tyra Banks Wants Us To Feel Better About Ourselves So She Can Feel Better About Cashing In On It
"I think I was put on this earth to instill self-esteem in young girls," Tyra Banks tells Lynn Hirschberg, who wrote this Sunday's New York Times Magazine cover story on the model turned mogul. And that's what she's been telling the rest of us for the past five years since ANTM debuted. Throughout the lengthy article, Tyra — who named her company Bankable Productions — seems to be justifying her crossover success and subsequent mega-wealth. ("Banks makes an estimated $18 million a year, and her net worth is around $75 million.") She'd have you believe that, ultimately, she's in this media game to help out 18 - 34-year-old women. How fitting then, that that happens to be the exact demographic coveted by advertisers! It's not so weird that we question whether someone is only interested in"instilling self-esteem in young women" when that someone built her empire on a competition-based reality show about modeling. What is weird is that Tyra feels the need to couch her seemingly endless career goals in humanitarianism, as though her ambition needs to have a heart as big as her weave. The answer is that she knows if she doesn't say that shit, she'll look like a money-grubbing asshole. The question, however, is: Why aren't women allowed to be as shamelessly mercenary as men? [Jezebel] -
porn 2.0
Deep Inside Zivity: What Kind Of Porn Site Does $7 Million Buy? [NSFW]
We've been itching for a chance to peek inside the members' section of Zivity ever since we heard about their $7 million in funding, since nothing gets us more worked up than a throbbing, swollen seven figure price tag. Okay, actually we've been itching for a chance to peek inside since we heard that there would be naked models there too ... but all that cold hard capital made things all the more intriguing. Just what kind of porn site can you make with $7 million anyway? What kind of masturbatory wonders does that kind of money buy? [Fleshbot]
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By Lux AlptraumComment by dllacina: I think the real question is do they rape their photographers of all their usage rights like SG? Because... more » | Other threads
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the literary life
Meet the 'Paris Review's' American Apparel Model
Legendary literature magazine The Paris Review is still publishing, you know, despite the death of founding editor George Plimpton and the requisite identity crisis that followed changes introduced by new editor Philip Gourevitch (color photos! shorter poems!). One thus far unmentioned change: while the magazine used to be put together entirely by a small crew of Plimpton friends, protégés, and well-groomed young acolytes (Yale-graduate interns and "editorial assistants" who'd use the magazine's famous parties to establish themselves in the literary scene, such as it was), now their staff is branching out a bit from that rarefied Ivy League lit-mag milieu. At least in the case of the notorious American Apparel Model Paris Review intern.
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By PareeneComment by SucharitaPlatypus: Um. And by spelling Barack's name wrong. For reals, yo. What kind of literary chow hound doesn't know how to spell... more » | Other threads
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breaking
Tragic Kids TV Star's Heartbroken Boyfriend Found Dead
Natasha Collins—the British former model who starred in the TV show See It, Saw It, and who a coroner's report revealed was scalded to death in her bathtub in January while she had more than five times the lethal dose of cocaine in her system—left behind a fiance who went missing in London six days ago. His body was found today "in a remote spot at Paddington railway station. Officers said he was not struck by a train." The boyfriend, children's TV presenter Mark Speight, disappeared days after appearing at Collins' inquest looking "drawn and gaunt." More »
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Comment by SeaBassTian: There is a heated debate going on in the IMDB forums about this topic! My personal favorite thread is... more » | Other threads
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art
Nude Supermodel Photos Sell For Lots Of Money
The nude photo of French first lady Carla Bruni in her supermodel days sold at Christie's yesterday for $91,000, which was a bit better than its estimated price of $4,000. Some connoisseurs said the photo, by a lesser-known artist, wasn't that great, but maybe they missed the naked supermodel in it. Janet Jackson's iconic Rolling Stone cover shot brought only $10,000, but her boobs were covered up in that one, so it's understandable. The nude Gisele Bundchen picture brought $193,000 (estimate: $40,000). But the highest earner of the night was Helmut Newton's "Naked and Dressed" diptych, which sold for $241,000. We bring it to you for free, after the jump—NSFW, in an artsy way. More »
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Comment by famousauthor: Carla Bruni is looking for an athlete to marry, to raise the price of her photos to match Gisele. ... more » | Other threads
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marketing
Caddies Will Now Take Care Of Your Balls
Las Vegas: where every imaginable tactic of sex-related extortion will eventually become a business plan. Are you a rich, lecherous man who enjoys escort services as well as golfing, and are frustrated at your inability to combine the two? Well wait no longer, because The Platinum Tees are here to take care of your leering needs. The PT's are essentially a bunch of models from an agency in Vegas, with one key difference: they have been "put through rigorous training" to learn how to be golf caddies. Yes, they "know the difference between a putter and wedge, take care of your ball, clean your clubs, drive your cart, fix divots, tend the pin, and most importantly keep you smiling!" I bet they do. -
animal rights
Save This Monkey From Modeling!
Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, a chimp-rights group, is assailing Sports Illustrated with a vicious letter-writing campaign! The group is upset that the magazine used a macaque (FANCY WORD FOR "MONKEY") and a bear in its photo shoot for this year's Swimsuit Issue [Folio]. S.I. is like, whoa! We take care of the animals, and besides, what mammal wouldn't be happy nestled up against the thighs of a swimsuit model? The two bear/ model-relations pictures, which have caused all the human outrage, after the jump. The bear does look kind of annoyed by that muzzle. More »
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Comment by Rosewater: A bear in a muzzle and costume and a monkey with shorts on? what the fuck? And then people get... more » | Other threads
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