In 2023, Paris Hilton released her book “Paris: The Memoir,” in which she got candid about a plethora of public and private moments from her life. Importantly, she decided to set the record straight about appearing on the cover of Playboy’s March 2005 issue. In her book (via People), Hilton recalled Playboy’s publisher Hugh Hefner making her multiple offers to appear in the magazine, all of which she turned down. “Even when he offered seven figures, I turned it down, because I knew my mom would lose her mind,” she explained.
Despite rebuffing all of Hefner’s offers to pose for Playboy, the socialite still found herself gracing the magazine’s cover for its March 2005 issue. According to Hilton, no one from the magazine notified her about the magazine cover, and she instead found out about the release from a friend. “Hef had ‘honored’ me with the Sex Star of the Year Award, which means they can claim it’s ‘news’ and not a pictorial,” Hilton explained in her book.
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As for how Hefner had secured photos of Hilton posing in lingerie, the reality star explained, “He got a picture from an old test shoot with a woman photographer.” Understandably, Hilton and her parents were shocked by the publication, with the star of “The Simple Life” writing, “My parents were pissed, and I cried, but none of us confronted [Hugh Hefner], because you just didn’t do that.”
