PHOTOS! Here are Katarina Witt’s Playboy pictures from 1998. Katarina Witt’s Playboy pics at the time were controversial. Today in the face of pics by Lindsey Vonn and other skaters splashed across men’s magazines for these Winter Olympics, it’s the norm.

Katarina Witt won gold in 1984 and 1988 along with 4 World Championships and 6 European Championships.

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At the time, the spread was seen as groundbreaking. Witt’s December 1998 issue was only the second issue to sell out in the magazine’s history, the first being Marilyn Monroe’s inaugural edition.

The next year she won “Favorite Female Athlete in the United States” and “Favorite Female Skater of the Century”. Time magazine called her “the most beautiful face of socialism.”

She would appear in Ronin opposite De Niro and host Live Earth.

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Kelly Bensimon who looses her clothes in new Playboy photos was spotted at Fashion Week checking out new clothes. Kelly Bensimon’s Playboy pics simmer across the net this week with Bensimon clothing-optional.

But if she got rid of clothes then,  she is now looking for new threads at Fashion Week. That was the scene Saturday .

Reports the Daily News: “the Fashion Week parties in the Meatpacking District started opening up — and the alice + olivia presentation at hot spot Provocateur was certainly the place to be. It Girl Ke$ha and “Housewife” Kelly Bensimon were on hand to celebrate with famed designer Stacey Bendet”.

Hopefully the usual messy looking Ke$ha prepared for the show. I’m talking pedicure on her toes, toes for Trying on all those clothes, clothes!

Meantime, Kelly Bensimon’s Playboy photos for the Real Housewives of New York arrive this week.

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The Playboy pics of Kelly Bensimon hit newsstands this week after initial belief that they could fall December 2009. And so far, the reaction has bee nothing but lackluster. On the heels of Heidi Montag’s faux spread of 2009, readers are a bit tired of pics that - at least released in preview - look too tame to even appear in Maxim. Why release preview photos of Kelly holding a pillow the size of a small person? It’s sad, a bit embarrassing, and cheats readers.

In the case of Tara Reid, however, it was a winner from the beginning. Tara put her legs up on the chair, put the bunny ears on, and knew what mag she was being shot for. Kelly? It looks like a spread for an interior design fabric magazine. On the cover, she’s wrapped in ribbons, inside she’s holding a pillow. When props get tacky, they ruin the interest. This is just that (pillow) case

And how do Kelly’s pictures compare to Tara Reid’s Playboy spread?

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Kelly, widely covered on LALATE in 2009, is the former model ex wife of famed photographer Gilles Bensimon. Gilles Bensimon snapped the photos of Kelly for the publication

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TEXT! Here is the John Mayer Playboy Interview text. John Mayer Playboy’s interview is not going away anytime soon.

After years of being arguably Hollywood’s most arrogant celebrity alive, that arrogance has finally caught up on Mayer in a new interview in which he parses together words that make no utter sense. In mixing these words together, Mayer  is angering  a nation while making himself looking even more idiotic, than he normally already appears on a regular basis.

Along the way, he kisses and tells on two ex girlfriends. And rather than say - in simple words - hey, I’m not attracted to African American women, he instead says it’s the fault of his “white supremacist” manhoood.

He additionally says he rather hang around Twitter and TMZ than Jennifer Aniston because that’s current and she isn’t.

Mayer in fact admits arrogance was behind his poor word choice for the current Playboy Magazine in which he strings together series of words that virtually serve no meaning.

But he doesn’t apologize to either women. In fact, much of his apologies since have been a mess, like Mayer saying he needs to stop being “so raw” for interviews. Being “raw” is not what drives someone to say such outrageous comments in public about others and former girlfriends.

1. Jessica Simpson
For the Jessica Simpson remarks,  click here

2. Jennifer Aniston
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3. John Mayer’s Black Women Remarks
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PHOTOS! Here again are Playboy pics Kelly Bensimon aka Kelly Killoren Bensimon. Kelly Bensimon’s Playboy photos for the Real Housewives of New York star was first broke by LALATE in 2009. This week the pics arrived.

And as predicted several weeks back, the reaction to Bensimon’s photos have been nothing comparable to those of the mega-sensation Tara Reid brought weeks back.

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The Playboy pics of Kelly Bensimon hit newsstands this week after initial belief that they could fall December 2009. And so far, the reaction has bee nothing but lackluster. On the heels of Heidi Montag’s faux spread of 2009, readers are a bit tired of pics that - at least released in preview - look too tame to even appear in Maxim. Why release preview photos of Kelly holding a pillow the size of a small person? It’s sad, a bit embarrassing, and cheats readers.

In the case of Tara Reid, however, it was a winner from the beginning. Tara put her legs up on the chair, put the bunny ears on, and knew what mag she was being shot for. Kelly? It looks like a spread for an interior design fabric magazine. On the cover, she’s wrapped in ribbons, inside she’s holding a pillow. When props get tacky, they ruin the interest. This is just that (pillow) case

And how do Kelly’s pictures compare to Tara Reid’s Playboy spread?

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Kelly, widely covered on LALATE in 2009, is the former model ex wife of famed photographer Gilles Bensimon. Gilles Bensimon snapped the photos of Kelly for the publication

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INJURY UPDATE - Daron Rahlves believes his injury is his right hip. Daron Rahlves injury today came in the quarterfinals at the X Games.