# What's the most that PLAYBOY magazine has ever paid to someone to pose nude?

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**Created:** [March 26, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-that-playboy-magazine-has-ever-paid-to-someone-to-pose-nude/100190 "2002-03-26T15:16:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-that-playboy-magazine-has-ever-paid-to-someone-to-pose-nude/100190/1 "2002-03-26T15:16:44Z")

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A girl from Temptation Island was on Howard Stern last night and said that she was offered $1.5 million fromk Playboy. I found that a little hard to believe. Does anyone know where these statistics exist?

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**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-that-playboy-magazine-has-ever-paid-to-someone-to-pose-nude/100190/2 "2002-03-26T15:56:59Z")

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I remember hearing somewhere that playboy makes offers like this:

“We’ll give you $100,000, but we won’t deny it if you say that we gave you $1.5M. Thus you can help your career by making yourself seem worth more than you are.”

As for people that didn’t actually do a photo shoot for them, they’re probably just lying, for the same reason though.

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**Author:** ![Beetle99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Beetle99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beetle99)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-that-playboy-magazine-has-ever-paid-to-someone-to-pose-nude/100190/3 "2002-03-26T17:17:26Z")

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I dunno about playboy, but Playgirl offered me 2.5 Million to do a layout with Harrison Ford. I had to turn em down.