In December, the company's CEO Christie Hefner, announced she would be stepping down after 20 years at the helm of Playboy.

Playboy also slashed jobs, consolidated online and print operations and cut 14 percent of its workforce in 2008.

"The results of our efforts to date should be meaningful, but in the face of current economic conditions, it is clear that our streamlining initiatives need to continue," interim Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jerome Kern said in a statement.

Iconix CEO Neil Cole is reportedly looking for acquisitions to add more brands for Iconix to license to retailers and manufacturers.

"Neil Cole has done a phenomenal job of taking some of these lost brands and developing them into something," said Financo CEO Gilbert Harrison, a New York adviser and investment bank specializing in retail. "Certainly Playboy would fit that mold."

Hugh Hefner, the company's 82-year-old founder, still has a hand in operations, overseeing Playboy magazine as editor-in-chief and controlling nearly  28% of the stock. Hefner would have to be on board with the sale for it to go through. The bodog sportsbook has all your celebrity odds and more! Don’t have an account yet? Join bodog now. It’s free.

Check out this video from "premium gambling clothing" company KSINO featuring their newest spokesmodel, and one of our favorite people, poker pro Lacey Jones. In this video, Lacey makes a revelation that many will find very interesting. After several years of dismissing a Playboy appearance out of hand, it would appear that she has changed her mind and would now be open to posing for the gentlemen's magazine… if asked.

We know what question your asking, but we think Playboy would have to be the ones to ask, not you… or even us. Do notice though that the Bodog logo does adorn her, uh, Playboy-specific parts in one of the photos, which makes us closer than you. Just sayin'.

The bad news is it seems Carano is a bit of a prude and refuses to let the world see her sans MMA shorts. D'oh! Carano's agent told TMZ that Playboy has propositioned her "multiple times" over the past year, but the fighter has shot down their offers so quickly that "it never even reached to a point where we would talk about money."

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Sorry fight fans, but the only skin you'll get to see any time soon is on Dana White's head.

In December, the company's CEO Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, announced she would be stepping down after 20 years at the helm of Playboy.

Last month, Playboy announced it was slashing jobs, consolidating online and print operations and take an in depth audit of their losses. The company cut 14 percent of its workforce in 2008.

"The results of our efforts to date should be meaningful, but in the face of current economic conditions, it is clear that our streamlining initiatives need to continue," interim Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jerome Kern said in a statement.

Hugh Hefner, the company's 82-year-old founder, still has a hand in operations, overseeing Playboy magazine as editor-in-chief.

Things keep getting better for the golden boy, who recently tried his hand at poker and ended up cashing at the Caesars Poker Classic. And now, word on the street (via the Las Vegas Review-Journal) is that Phelps been seen all over Vegas with none other than Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's not-so-sloppy seconds.

Anyone want to wipe that grin off Phelps' face? Get in line, homies, Get in line.

"They [Karissa and Kristina Shannon twins] very much want to be girlfriends and now under the present circumstance, they probably will become my girlfriends," Hefner said.

The girls have reportedly been sleeping in the same bed with the 82-year-old Playboy founder.

"What’s Going on
Current mood: lonely

Hef and I will always be friends. I do have my own place, but I am still at the Mansion, too, right now. I'm too busy to move! hahaha.  Bridget, Kendra and I are all still best friends and plan on doing several projects together in the future even though Bridget is in Europe right now and I am sad and lonely without her.

You will see how it all happens in Season 5. Sunday nights on E! How lame, I just turned that into the most shameless plug ever. lol!

Love-Holly"

Now, word on the street (and by "street" we mean Perezhilton) is that Angel has bagged Hugh Hefner's babe, Holly Madison.

Man, he is the master of trickery.

"Look into my eyes. When I snap my fingers, you will no longer see the douchebag before you, but instead, a decent man who doesn't wear eyeliner."

Perez reports that Holly is very close to moving out of the Playboy mansion and into the world of illusion. A world that has her believing Criss Angel is a prize.

Page Six reports: "'If there's nudity, then the answer's no. She's not going down the [New York] magazine road again,' Lohan's rep told Playboy's creative consultant, Hal Lifson, referring to Lindsay's naked Marilyn Monroe tribute last winter. Lifson said he hoped to have Lohan do a tribute to '60s sex kitten Ann-Margret and her film Kitten With a Whip."

However, Perez reports that Hefner is still married to wife number two, Kimberley Conrad. The fact that the Girls Next Door reality show is floundering may just be a publicity stunt.

Hefner has publicly stated that after his two previous marriages, he'd never marry again.