And what about after Playboy takes off? Also, man, I think you're underestimating "famous actress" to be "very well paid".
*edit because even though I said it before, hey again is still valid!* You are also acting as though this was the famous, at the top of her career Marilyn who had these photos taken. Read my first paragraph. Over, and over again if you need to. She took these because she needed them. They were great, sure, they were a scandal of the time, and Hugh profited off of that.
He profited off of how high her career was going with something that she did when she needed. That isn't sex revolutionary. That sounds a lot like people leaking nudes of celebrities than it does being revolutionary.
Then what about Madonna? He was famous enough then to get in some type of contact with her (although hey, even back in the 50s, I'm sure he could have let Marilyn know, or her agent, something- with some kind of effort.) or the woman who begged him not to release the photos? Was he just a "poor guy" then? Trying to start up a company off of the backs of women? Hm? (The answer is nah.)
Just because you can doesn't mean it isn't a shitty thing to do.
You keep thinking you, though! Lmfao.
Sure in 1949, she was poor and needed the money. I pretty sure many maybe even most women who get naked in front of a camera do so because they are poor when they started.
But not in 1953, in 1953 according to Wiki
Rising star (1953)
As Rose Loomis in the film noirNiagara (1953), which dwelt on her sex appeal
Monroe starred in three movies that were released in 1953 and emerged as a major sex symbol and one of Hollywood's most bankable performers.[114][115]
She was hell of a lot richer than Hugh Hefner, her boyfriend was one of the best paid athletes in the world.
By the time Hef had anywhere near the fame and fortune (say 1971 when Playboy went public) Marilyn Monroe had been long dead
What is depressing is that you want to treat these women like Madonna and Marilyn as poor exploited woman incapable of protecting themselves. They were rich and famous and had an agent and a lawyer, and probably a business manager. Plus one distinct advantage that no one else in the world had, they know when they posed and who the photographer was. If Marilyn, or Maddona, or Vanna White, were really concerned about nude photographs, all they had to do was send one of the minions back to the photographer and buy the rights back. Yes it probably would have cost Marilyn more than $500 that Hef paid.
There are a hell of a lot sex tapes and nude photos of celebrities we don't see because that's what their agents/business manager do.
In fact, I'd highly recommend if any of you become rich and preferably before you famous, you have your lawyer go back to MFC/SM/Chaturbate and make an offer to buy back the license you gave the streaming sites to use your images forever and through out the known universes. It won't prevent all videos of your camgirl performance but it will prevent people from profiting from them.
As I said I'm more sympathetic Reality TV "stars who had their Playboy casting pictures run years after they posed. I think it is shitty. However, what Hef did is no different than what anyone else in the entertainment industry does back then or today. But then I think lots of people in the adult industry (especially the men) behave badly.
