Lindsay Lohan Playboy: Hugh Hefner Says Issue Is 'Breaking Sales'

Hugh Hefner is tweeting that the much-discussed Lindsay Lohan Playboy issue is breaking sales.

"The Lindsay Lohan January-February Double Issue is breaking sales records," Hef wrote on his Twitter page on Sunday, though what this means in terms of numbers or in sales exactly is unclear. In a bout of fact-checking, CNN reports that it made calls to twelve newsstands in cities from Los Angeles to New York, and found "just one that is sold out of the issue."

Lohan was allegedly paid $1 million for the Marilyn Monroe-inspired Playboy spread, which cast the troubled actress against a red velvet background clad in heels and stark red lipstick. The images of Lohan's Playboy pictorial first leaked online on December 9th, spurring Hefner to bump up the issue's release date several days early. The double-issue contains more than 200 pages and marks the first nude pictorial of the "Mean Girls" actress, who had previously done semi-nudes for another Marilyn Monroe-inspired photo shoot with New York Magazine, in 2008.

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Comments

[KellyRyan]

11:28 AM on 12/20/2011

"Record Sales," wishful thinking.

[aphextwin07]

11:11 AM on 12/20/2011

if it wasn't so heavily photoshopped I might consider buying it

[jh95697]

09:47 AM on 12/20/2011

c'mon be serious what else is Hefner suppose to say. He knows the shoot tanked. He was not pleased even with the 2nd shoot. Said that himself. He isn't going to badmouth his magazine.

[Eric Graff]

08:27 AM on 12/20/2011

Your average crack-ho is more interesting than this trainwreck..................

[PubicOption]

08:38 AM on 12/20/2011

She is your avg crack-ho.

[Pastor Casket]

06:37 AM on 12/20/2011

What's sad is that Lindsay WAS a very attractive young lady a few years ago. I'm sure she was on drugs then and had been for a long time. But to think that she pretty much has a dead-end career right now and usually Playboy is a last ditch attempt to get your name out there as well as cash in your bank account. Overall I think this just another piece of the puzzle before she OD's; and we're ALL witnessing it. Btw, with as much touch-up that Playboy does, she could have easily have been fully clothed and they could airbrush that out.

[Raejeanowl]

05:56 AM on 12/20/2011

It's a calculated lie just to stir up interest. Those who haven't seen the Internet pictures and buy the magazine, unless they are LL-obsessed, will see for themselves just how doctored and fake the photos are.

One look at Lohan in a bikini tells you that this is not the bod in the photos. Even the face is unrecognizable as hers. The only thing you can see of hers in one shot is the freckles.

[Aaron Maxwell]

03:36 AM on 12/20/2011

Personally, I think the "record breaking" claim is a desparate attempt to salvage a miserable fiasco. I think Hef and Playboy should pull the issue rather that propogate a further fraud on their readership. I wanted to see Linsay Lohan; not Lindsay Lohan hiding behind the facade of a past icon. And in this day and age, to not even include a full frontal "Full Monty" is tantamount to fraud. Hef and Playboy were ripped off by LiLo and want their readers to reimburse them for it. Shame on Hef. Shame on Playboy. And shame on Lindsay Lohan.

[eace356]

03:20 AM on 12/20/2011

SHE HAS NO ASS ! ICCCH ..

[Steve Heroux]

01:50 AM on 12/20/2011

Curiosity is to blame for people buying the magazine. Once the curiosity is dealt with, the magazine gets thrown away.

[Antoinette Anderson]

02:59 AM on 12/20/2011

All the pics leaked online a week before the mag came out.

[Steve Heroux]

11:01 AM on 12/20/2011

It's obvious that you do not have the right equipment to understand. Do you think people by Playboy to read the articles? LOL So what if they were leaked a week ago. Leaked pictures with crappy resolution and a full page spread are two totally different things.

[AwantNotAneed]

01:15 AM on 12/20/2011

People just want to see if the carpet matches the drapes. And if the carpet is shag.

[Heathcoatman]

01:30 AM on 12/20/2011

And if the carpet has scabs

[Adam Dray]

12:32 AM on 12/20/2011

LOL first playboy to make such sales NOT because of actually getting to see 'someone' nude, but so they can resell the mag later! Way to go Lohan! First playboy model that few actually even look at inside the cover! Most will keep it nicely snugged inside the black plastic it came in!

[rockgod]

12:20 AM on 12/20/2011

Better Lindsay then that scary creature she used to be in love with.

[omobob]

12:04 AM on 12/20/2011

Reality TV is as far as anyone has gotten posing in Playboy ( Dorothy Stratton the exception). Posing in Playboy is not a springboard but a boat anchor.

[scooterskeeter]

12:00 AM on 12/20/2011

Heff is really in the moth ball closet these days. No way a spokesman for todays male. Playboy is irrelevant. Should change the name to blue boy when jeff goes. This is why magazines are going out of print! They pay one million dollars to a crack fueled DUI sleaze and ask us to look at a make over of Marylin Monroe? For those who haven't been to the Playboy mansion Heff still watches his movies in Beta Max. What does that tell you about being current? Actually haven't seen a Playboy in about 14 years other than my ten year old sneaking a peak in dads ole mags in the garage box w/ dust. Good Luck LL and Hef, maybe he will offer to marry you.

[ohslimgoody]

11:47 PM on 12/19/2011

People must be using the pages for toilete paper.