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Playing it by ear: Francesca Emerson, who was one of the first black Playboy Bunnies.
FRANCESCA EMERSON

The Playboy Bunny with all the brass and the balls

Francesca Emerson chats about her colourful life in the Hefner empire

  • Charles Leonard
14 min read
Top floor: Actresses Sasha Vinni and Leslie Glass with publisher Bob Guccione at a Penthouse event in New York in 1994. Photo: Steve Eichner/Getty Images
BIG INTERVIEW

The witty words of the 20th century’s dirty magazines laid bare

Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler — you read them for the articles, right? The joke might be as untrue as it is clichéd

  • Luke Feltham
15 min read