Australian Playboy Australian Playboy Australian Playboy was an Australian imprint of "Playboy" magazine. In 1979 Kerry Packer's ACP Magazines secured the Australian rights to "Playboy" magazine. "Australian Playboy" featured similar content to the lead US edition, and included interviews, feature articles and entertainment reviews. The magazine would rely heavily on the US edition for pictorials, and thus reprinted many pictorials featuring popular US Playmates and celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Erika Eleniak and Anna Nicole Smith. An Australian Playmate of the Year would be crowned annually. The first edition issued February 1979, featured Rosemary Paul on the cover and Karen Pini as the
Darine Stern died on February 5 1994 due to complications of breast cancer. Darine Stern Darine Stern (November 16, 1947 – February 5, 1994) was an American model and the first African-American model featured on the cover of "Playboy" magazine by herself. Stern was the first black woman to appear by herself on the cover of "Playboy" in the magazine's October 1971 issue. Her appearance followed Jean Bell who was featured on the magazine's January 1970 cover, but with four other models. Following her cover on "Playboy", Stern went on to become a high-profile model and she was represented by Ford Models,