The late and great Hugh Hefner, who died at 91 on Wednesday in his Beverly Hills home Playboy Mansion, was God’s gift to men with adult reading habits. He gave readers 766 Playboys with their titillating nude  covers and centrefolds since the time he started the men’s magazine in December 1953. Do the math. But Hefner didn’t account for one more cover of Playboy that Bollywood starlet Sherlyn Chopra has been telling the Indian media she posed for in 2014. And that too nude!

There is, of course, no evidence of the issue featuring Sherlyn Chopra. Not in hard copy. Nor on the net. Yet, she claimed in a statement in 2014 that “the experience of having shot for Playboy has been one of the most liberating ones that I’ve had so far”. But every other Playboy since Hefner started the magazine in December 1953 with Marilyn Monroe as his cover girl is up for close and lascivious scrutiny on the net.

Wikipedia lists every issue and names its cover and centrefold models. There’s no mention anywhere of Sherlyn Chopra. Which is not surprising because the Bollywood wannabe has been notoriously loose in the past too about flaunting connections in Hollywood that she didn’t actually possess. Pictures of her reportedly at one of Hefner’s wild parties are up on her social media. And she somehow got media coverage in 2014 announcing her arrival on Playboy’s cover several months down the line. Nobody thought to check, nobody bothered to remember.

Until Hefner passed away and Sherlyn Chopra posted an unbelievable picture of herself with the American media mogul on Instagram saying he was “a true visionary who chose to not conform to the dogma set by the self-proclaimed guardians of society but instead followed his bliss by acting on his excitement consistently”. If Hefner, after being laid to rest on October 4 at the Westwood Memorial Park, LA, next to Marilyn Monroe, were to hear of this, he would undoubtedly turn in his grave!

Meanwhile, just for the record, the only Indian girl to appear on a Playboy cover was the 1980s Bollywood sex symbol Katy Mirza. She dared to bare for Hefner’s popular men’s lifestyle magazine. Katy, who was Aden-born, was working in London’s Hilton Hotel when she was spotted by a roving scout of Playboy magazine. Apparently, Hugh Hefner himself auditioned Katy for the magazine’s centerfold and cover. And this is on the net.

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