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Fiction or not?

In its latest issue, Citizen Culture magazine publishes in the fiction slot a story by Playboy Playmate Divini Rae Sorenson about forced sex and abuse inside the Playboy mansion. But in its press release, the magazine not-so-subtly suggests that "others have said that similar events have actually happened...Divini Rae may have written the story as fiction to protect herself." Sounds like the mag wants to have it both ways.

Divini Rae Sorenson's story is so important because she is currently still working for Playboy, and has expressed interest in maintaining her ties to Playboy. It will be interesting to see how she is treated after her story hits newsstands on November 29, 2004 in Issue # 3 of Citizen Culture Magazine, the Entertainment Issue.

Playboy, incidentally, announced today that it now has an online feature called the "Women of McDonald's."

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