Confidential (magazine) Quigley Publishing that he previously worked for, the emphasis was Hollywood, but with a twist—"exposés of star secrets" became "Confidential"s prime focus. The first "Confidential" issue was dated December (released November) 1952 under the caption "The Lid Is Off!" Its circulation was 250,000 copies. But when the breakup of Marilyn Monroe's marriage to Joe DiMaggio was reported in the August 1953 issue ("Why Joe DiMaggio Is Striking Out with Marilyn Monroe!"), the circulation jumped to 800,000. The quarterly magazine then became bimonthly and was the fastest growing magazine in the US at the time. Harrison would claim its circulation reached
Australian Playboy centerfold, selling nearly 200,000 copies. In 1982 Packer sold the rights to Mason Stewart Publishing, publishers of surfing magazine, "Trax", and rock music magazine, "RAM". Sales settled at around 140,000. The biggest selling edition of "Australian Playboy" was the October 1995 issue with Dannii Minogue on the cover and Cynthia Brown as the centerfold. By 1996 sales of the magazine had fallen to 36,000 and in 1997 Mason Stewart Publishing was taken over by British publisher EMAP International Limited, with Philip Mason becoming non-executive chairman of EMAP Australia. Playboy was not sold in the state of Queensland during 2004 and