Magazines are also charging models to appear since the readerships of these publications has dried up, meaning there’s no money to stage exotic photoshoots in far-off locales. Models look to magazines so that they could then post the covers on their social media accounts - which in turn can open the doors to brand sponsorships and other sources of income.
#Playboy magazine covers for free#
'Sometimes you pay the magazine these days and sometimes they do it for free depending on the girl, her social following, her looks and what’s going on in her life,' Dwyer told the Post.
Ryan Dwyer, a photographer, said that in some cases magazines will feature a girl on the cover if she has a large following on social media. The Post reported that the lawsuit was settled last year. 'Maxim is defrauding the general public into spending money on purchases of fake Maxims along with defrauding models and commercial advertising that paid for placements in fake Maxims, resulting in damage in the amount of several million dollars,' the lawsuit said.
Hayes is alleged to have defrauded hundreds of models, netting some $1.5million, according to the Post. Pahomova alleges that she was tricked into paying money to appear on covers of Maxim that were fake, including supposed editions of the magazine from Muslim countries that had banned the publication. Hayes is then alleged to have told Pahomova to wire an additional $6,000 to his account so that she could land on the cover of the 2016 issue of Maxim South Africa. That lawsuit was reportedly settledĪccording to the Post, Hayes charged Pahomova $2,000 for a photo session as well as a follow-up session that cost her an additional $3,000. She filed a lawsuit against a photographer claiming that he duped her and hundreds of other models into posing for fake Maxim covers. 'We are proud to provide FREE submissions for those models who book photoshoots with me.' 'Some magazines … will ONLY publish my photos on their covers,' he allegedly wrote on his Facebook page in 2016. 'I wanted to share my story and I wanted to inspire people so that, to me, is worth more than a single bag.'Ī Russian woman, Marina Pahomova, also known as Marina Pamo, filed a lawsuit alleging that Hayes falsely billed himself as the exclusive photographer for Maxim Middle East and Maxim South Africa. 'It's just materialistic things,' Baez said of the designer bags she sold in order to get into Maxim. Hayes, as well as $10,000 ‘for Maxim to get published and to get a page spread.’ĭ has sought comment from Hayes. She told the Post she paid $2,000 for a photo shoot with a photographer, Brian B. 'We urge any model who has been approached to make us aware of the situation.'ĭ has reached out to Maxim and FHM seeking comment.īaez, a fitness buff from Santa Monica, told the Post that her cover story for Maxim New Zealand was cathartic in that she discussed her bout with depression in the wake of her breakup with her boyfriend in 2016. 'This practice is counter to Playboy's brand standards. 'Playboy Enterprises does not condone the practice of charging models to be in our pages or those of our international editions,' a Playboy spokeswoman told the Post. In November 2017, the French model Ines Rau became the first openly trans Playboy Playmate.A former editor and publisher of Playboy Slovakia told the New York Post that a photographer offered the publication $10,000 to have Amelia pose on its cover Volkova followed other trans women to appear in various editions of the publication, including Roberta Close, Caroline “Tula” Cossey, Giuliana Farfalla and Geena Rocero. Last year, fellow beauty influencer Victoria Volkova became the first transgender woman to appear on the cover of Playboy Mexico. The social media star’s historic appearance on Playboy’s cover also marks the latest instance of the magazine breaking barriers for the LGBTQ community. Rock is the third man to appear solo on the cover of the cult-fave publication - known for its high-gloss nude photographs of women - following the magazine’s founder, Hugh Hefner, and the musician Bad Bunny, who appeared on Playboy’s digital cover in 2020. “A total ‘is this even f- happening right now?’ type of vibe. “For Playboy to have a male on the cover is a huge deal for the LGBT community, for my brown people community and it’s all so surreal,” Rock, who is Filipino American, said.
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