Playboy Mansion

Top Zip Code For Top-Dollar Home Sales Includes City Of L.A?

Beverly Hills real estate is often overshadowed by pricier digs in Holmby Hills, home to the Playboy Mansion, Bel Air, which boasts of many 10,000-square-foot-plus abodes, and Pacific Palisades, where Arnold Schwarzenegger and many other celebs live. But the gilded city is back in its rightful plac ... More >>

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Sunday Night Movie Tweet-Along: How a Hashtag (#SMTA) Is Helping Several Thousand People Watch a Film at the Same Time

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. On December 5 of last year, a few self-described movie geeks put a simple idea into practice: they all watched a movie at the same time and tweeted along to it. Called the Sunday Night Movie Twe ... More >>

Jaclyn Swedberg, Chino Hills High School Graduate, Named Playmate of the Year

Updated with Jacyln Swedberg's top ten Facebook photos. Originally posted at 10:24am. Meet Jaclyn Swedberg, Playboy's newest Playmate of the Year. Or, if you're a graduate of Chino Hills High School, get re-acquainted with your former classmate. Swedberg, who was awarded the honor at a ceremony a ... More >>

Paul Stanley, Lita Ford, Kip Winger -- Playboy Mansion -- 11/12/11

Eric Charbonneau, Le StudioPaul Stanley and friends​See also: Paul Stanley Analyzes KISS's Success: "I don't want to buy a t-shirt with a guy on it who looks like my neighbor." If you're like most folks, your rock star fantasies require nothing more than a pair of tight jeans, an air guitar, ... More >>

Playboy Mansion Denies Claim of Unfair Cover Charges: Men Pay up, Average Women Are Half-Price, And Hotties Are Free

Brian WalshFree / pay / half price.​Seems to be a regular thing at the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills: Hot chicks get in for free; sugar daddies and not-so-attractive women pay -- a lot. Playboy Enterprises International Inc., owner of the grounds, says this week it has nothing to do with th ... More >>

LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: Booze and Boobs On A Boat To Mexico!

Lina Lecaro Crookers crank it out at Control, Friday​There is never a better excuse for excess and revelry than a birthday or anniversary. This week, two such occasions are mark-the-calendar-worthy, at the Avalon Hollywood and at the new Los Globos. An overnight excursion, a popular Italian DJ ... More >>

Party House Crackdown: New L.A. Ordinance Targets Notorious Ragers in the Hills

Lina Lecaro"Kandyland" at the Playboy Mansion​It's no secret: An almost institutionalized circuit of L.A. house parties has long operated in the sprawling estates above Ventura and Hollywood Boulevards. Druggy, boozy, Sheeny "privates" have become integral to city nightlife for a number of re ... More >>

Submit Your Stories From the Hollywood Trenches

Flickr/smileymanwithahatHollywood, seen inside-out​ I'm still surprised by the things people do in L.A. Last week, I met a guy who was a personal trainer at the Playboy mansion. "Was," because his client, Crystal Harris, suddenly broke off her engagement to the Hef -- and with it went the trai ... More >>

Kandyland at the Playboy Mansion: Sugar Daddies, Paul Oakenfold and Girls Flashing their Oompa Loompas

Lina Lecaro A rainbow of femme flavors. ​Half naked ladies (make that completely in the case of babes in body-paint), a gluttonous amount of booze and food (which only about a fifth of the females would actually eat), Dayglo Chocolate Factory décor, and throbbing sounds by Paul Oakenfold-- Ka ... More >>

Crystal Harris, Hugh Hefner Call Off Wedding?!

Trouble in paradise?​Updated after the jump: Hef squeezes out a sad, sad Tweet. (Breakup confirmed.) Egads! Say it ain't so, TMZ: "Our sources -- who are all at the mansion -- say Crystal and Hef had a nasty argument this weekend on the phone. When the dust settled Crystal decided to 86 the n ... More >>

Sean Bean, 'Lord of the Rings' Star, Stabbed With Shard of Glass in Totally J.R. Tolken-Worthy Bar Brawl

IMDBReady to rage​We're about to OD on stupid celebrity news today, but this one's too amazing to pass up -- a perfect "Game of Thrones" stabbing, involving one of Hollywood's biggest badasses, come true at some low-brow London pub. The Playboy Mansion is even involved (sort of)! So late Sund ... More >>

Legionella Bacteria at the Playboy Mansion: OK. It Totally Festered in the Grotto.

MySpaceBack away slowly​Update: Confirmed, once and for all, by the LA Times: Health officials identified legionella bacteria in a whirlpool spa at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles during an investigation in February that began when people were sickened after attending a fundraiser. We're n ... More >>

'Playboy' Magazine Moving to Los Angeles? Looks Like It

Here and now.​Is Playboy magazine moving to Los Angeles? What, you ask? You didn't even know the publication wasn't here? It's based in Chicago, its birthplace, with its "Studio West" offices in Santa Monica. And yeah, the founder, Hef, is here too, in his Holmby Hills Playboy Mansion, as we ... More >>

Benedict Canyon Palace 'Size of Hearst Castle' Proposed, Will Make Playboy Mansion Look Like a Bungalow

Save the regular-size mansions, man!​A rich guy trying to build a mega-mansion in a neighborhood of just-regular mansions? How dare he! What sucks about having a Hearst Castle-sized home go up next to your Playboy Mansion-sized home in Benedict Canyon is the relative size. Must be like thinki ... More >>

Pneumonia Outbreak at the Playboy Mansion: Could It Have Festered in the Grotto?

Girls of the Grotto: Worth subsequent diarrhea?​Updated after the jump: At least one "model" (is that what they're calling 'em these days?) who worked the Febuary 3 Playboy event contracted the bug. VIDEO of her harrowing tale, and more proof it came from the grotto. Update: The infection cou ... More >>

Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Playboy of Discriminating against Men

​You know how some night clubs and big party events charge guys more than women to get in? Well, David Long Jr. of California is calling bullshit. Long is pissed off that the fine folks over at Playboy had the gall to charge him hundreds more than women guests for a ticket to a bash at Hef's ma ... More >>

Hef Admits To Not-So-Safe, Condom-Free Sex With Multiple Girlfriends (Like A Porn Star) At The Playboy Mansion

playboy.comShocking: Crystal Harris, Hef's bride-to-be, is blonde.​In the wake of his announcement that he'll marry a 24-year-old girlfriend, Angeleno Hugh Hefner defended himself against regurgitated dirt about life at the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, although he seemed to confirm many of ... More >>

Mystery Of The Female Orgasm To Be Revealed In SoCal: MRI Study From Rutgers Prof Barry R. Komisaruk Shows The Way

MGMSally schooled Harry, but will science, er, come through?​It was a legendary question that Sally put to Harry way back when: "How do you know that they're really ... ?" (Stumped? Video after the jump will explain). You don't really know. But one man knows. He's the Neil Armstrong of the bi ... More >>

Master of the House of Playboy

Hef, still doing it his way (does he really have a choice?)

Nightranger: Mo BET-ta Booze?

Mo' BET-ta Booze? Eminem and Dre, Prince and Monae at ASCAP's Rhythm & Soul Awards

Diddy was at Les Deux (and Playboy Mansion's Kandyland). Interscope held a velvet-roper at Playhouse. Will.i.am did his Dipdive at My Studio. And there was a mysterious Prince after-party and 3 a.m. jam session... somewhere. It seemed everyone hosted a shindig of some sort around the BET Awards. ... More >>

Aqua Teen Hunger Force's Dave Willis and Dana Snyder Hit the Road

For almost a decade, night owls have been tuning into Adult Swim, sometimes on a nightly basis, for the eleven-minute rush of absurdist humor that is Aqua Teen Hunger Force. After a feature film, video games and, more recently, a Christmas album, co-creator/writer Dave Willis (also the voice of Carl ... More >>

BOOBS FOR BUCKS

Transformers, Bel-Air Brats and Kobe, Oh My! Lakers Parade at Coliseum Brings L.A. Together

Jeff CowanLakers fans: Storm Troopers and Transformer Bumble BeeLos Angeles doesn't really do civic pride. We're too aloof and jaded for that sort of thing. We're a secular, sunglasses indoors, windows up, bowling alone type of town (except that when we bowl, it's usually at some swanky alley with a ... More >>

Fairwell to World of Wonder, Hello Bettie Page Clothing Store

Last Night: The Marijuana Policy Project Party at the Playboy Mansion--The Dandy Warhols, Playmates, and Pinball

Laurie ScavoI don't need to explain the Playboy Mansion. You've probably seen Girls Next Door, the E! Entertainment show that managed to successfully de-mystify the estate like the channel did Saved by the Bell, Puff Daddy, and Fabio. But despite the camera's depiction of Heff as goofy and groping g ... More >>

Wine Guy Explains Wine Things: Love for the Grotesquely Beautiful, aka the Willem Dafoe Wines

Anne FishbeinHmm, is this wine grotesquely beautiful or just beautiful? Lou Amdur returns to the Squid Ink lineup this week with some grotesquely beautiful thoughts. SQUID INK: Recently, you described a wine on your list at Lou: A Wine Bar as "grotesquely beautiful." What does that even mean? LO ... More >>

Venus Prototype's Fashion Show; Miss Kitty's Latest Adventures

Your Halloween Guide to the Best Parties

Nightranger: Maggie Barry, Box 8, Shin BBQ, Brian Lichtenberg, and Fashion Accessories by Cobrasnake

ROCK ’N’ WEAR CIRCUS EIGHT’S GREATS

WORN OUT: Bound Babes at the VMAs and Beyond

Fetishistic frocks may have abounded at MTV’s VMAs (Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Pink), but whip cracking wearables aren’t just for the stage. We've been seeing the look everywhere lately. We’re not even talking about all the gothic clubs, where black everything, corsetry, leather and vinyl ... More >>

MTV Video Music Awards: Keeping Up With the Vamps

VIP = Very Irate People

Queens and Things

Dogtown Days: Memory of a Skateboarding Youth

J. Michael Walker

Desperately seeking saints

Revenge of the New Year

Hollywood vs. downtown...

The Freaks Come Out at Night

Where to go for Halloween

Best Whey Out

Ludobites at Breadbar

Shoot to Thrill

The ever-evolving photo booth

We’re a Happy Family

And Sweet Tarts in the pink

’Stache Box

And Falcon Fest

Fashion Fridays

The Single Guy

He rented his spare room to make ends meet . . . meeting the models just happened

Ring of the Fellowship

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

Auctioneer Hef

Notes From E3

A day with the booth babes at the Electronic Entertainment Expo

Schmooze Dot Com

My season on the Internet party circuit

Mope Springs Eternal