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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:27 PM
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Hugh Hefner to sack Playboy bunnies amid financial crisis
Tycoon Hugh Hefner has been advised to cut back on staff at his multi-million dollar glamour empire as it struggles to cope during the global economic turmoil.

The 83-year-old has been told to lay off some of his staff at his Los Angeles and New York offices as soon as this month or go bankrupt.

The company has recently seen shares fall from £6.20 to £1.55.

An insider at the company told the Daily Star that bosses had been aware of the worsening situation for "a while".

"Only the top brass has known for a while how bad things have been for Hef recently."

Spokeswoman Elizabeth Austin would not confirm the sackings, saying: "It is our policy not to comment on corporate matters such as employee issues."

The news will be another blow to Hefner who recently discovered that two of his "bunnies" may have been cheating on him.

Holly Madison, who has previously been named as Hefner's "No.1" girlfriend, is alleged to have had an affair with magician Criss Angel and another bunny, Kendra Wilkinson, is reportedly dating football star Hank Baskett.

Playboy spokesman Rob Hillburger denied the rumours, saying: "The rumours that Holly left Hef for Criss Angel are not true. Holly and Kendra are all still living at the Mansion."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3077911/Hugh-Hefner-to-sack-Playboy-bunnies-amid-financial-crisis.html

A McHugh McHefner whose day has gone and went? :shrug:
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:29 PM
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1. hm. *tries to come up with rationalization for wife for hiring new babysitter*
:)

just kidding, folks.

hon?

hon?

WHACK


ummph....
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:32 PM
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2. Hasn't he been sacking them since the very beginning?
...asks the Yank who innocently pretends he doesn't know what "sack" means in the Queen's English...
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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:37 PM
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6. : )
:rofl:
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SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 03:39 PM
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24. Yeah, didn't he set the NFL record for sacks? (nt)
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:34 PM
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3. No fool like an old fool.
The bunnies are "cheating on" their decrepit 83 year old lecherous keeper. Imagine that. :eyes:
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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:38 PM
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8. : ) : ) : )
:rofl:
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 02:24 PM
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15. I would think that would be encouraged.
I mean, he's already banged them, time to move o to the next 18year old from Kansas with chest implants that he bought for them.
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:36 PM
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4. He could save some money
Edited on Tue Oct-07-08 01:36 PM by Turbineguy
by switching to a discount pharmacy for those Viagra tablets.:evilgrin:
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:37 PM
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5. Cue up "You Can't Hide Those Lying Eyes"...
:rofl:
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:37 PM
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7. Can you cheat on someone
if your "relationship" is actually a business deal that has little to do with feelings, sex, or anything else?


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dhpgetsit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:46 PM
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9. Somehow, I think the bunnies are going to make out OK.
So to speak...
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:49 PM
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10. Final proof of the collapse.
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:56 PM
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11. All he has to do...
is promise an earthshattering expose of sexual hypocricy with rethugs at the center and DU would be there buying his product, therefore bailing him out, and calling him a hero of the left. Just like Larry Flynt.
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EmeraldCityGrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 01:57 PM
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12. This will be an Ebay auction to remember...n/t
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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 02:19 PM
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13. Sub Prime Meat Market - All T&A Half Off!
We've got to move these old playmates...
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 02:22 PM
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14. They might as well simply drop down to one model shoot per issue
Playboy can never compete with Internet porn, even soft-core. Stack it full of good reporting and make the skin an afterthought.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 03:26 PM
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21. Playboy is beset on all sides
Originally it was just Penthouse and Hustler, then soon there were dozens of more explicit mags.

Amateur videos have hedged in on Playboy's so-called girl-next-door brand as if anorexic models with a couple of implanted chest cantaloupes is anyone's idea a "girl next door."

The Girls Gone Wild franchise has honed in on Hef's drunken college girls theme.

FHM, Stuff and Maxim are competing on the lifestyle magazine front.

And then there's the internet which I understand has free porn on it. Somewhere.

I'm frankly surprised that Playboy has lasted this long. I think it's running on inertia.

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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 02:58 PM
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16. I thought Hugh's daughter was the one running the Playboy enterprise..
I don't think Hugh has anything at all to do with it any longer...
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Sheets of Easter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 03:02 PM
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17. In other news, silicon futures plummet...
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 03:06 PM
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18. Headline made me laugh, thought it would be Borowitz or the Onion.
"sack" being the operative funny term.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 03:06 PM
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19. What a mensche.
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eowyn_of_rohan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 03:07 PM
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20. burn baby burn
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entanglement Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 03:36 PM
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22. Playboy has been displaced by far more exploitative and dehumanizing kinds of pornography
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 03:48 PM
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25. Rumor has it that you can find this stuff on the Internet
;)

Which may explain why Hefner's 20th Century business model is going the way of Pan Am Airways.
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eowyn_of_rohan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 05:41 PM
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27. It all comes from the same place
Playboy was the 1st to legitimize "soft" porn, by mainstreaming it in a "sophisticated" package. (more lipstick on a pig)
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 03:38 PM
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23. "Cheating" on Hef ???
Is it even technically possible to "cheat" on Hef? This guy expects monogamy from his females?! Is he kidding? :rofl:
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Runcible Spoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 03:55 PM
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26. good. he helped create/perpetuate that disgusting fake everything aesthetic
I'm not old enough to remember when there were real beauties in Playboy, but I've been told by nostalgic old curmudgeons that there were. What happened with peroxide and silicone in the 80s and beyond is just sad.
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-07-08 05:50 PM
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28. Agreed.
Tits are not supposed to look like cantaloupes.

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