Playboy: 'Multi-Millionaire' Bride Has Posed

Magazine Chief Executive Tells Shareholders The News

Nancy Martinez, Staff Writer
It's official: Darva Conger, the game-show bride who rejected her instant husband and their bizarre marriage in a bid to restore her "privacy," has bared all for an upcoming issue of Playboy magazine, Reuters reported Wednesday.

Ending weeks of rumor and speculation, Christie Hefner, chief executive of Playboy Enterprises, told the company's annual shareholders meeting Wednesday that Conger has posed for the magazine's photographers.

Darva Conger"One celebrity I can tell you is Darva Conger, who was married to a millionaire for about 28 seconds," Hefner said, adding that she had already seen the pictures and that they were "beautiful."

"Darva is meeting with Hef right now to work out a schedule for promoting the issue," added Hefner, the daughter of Playboy founder and editor-in-chief, Hugh Hefner.

Christie Hefner did not elaborate on the 34-year-old Conger's pictorial. A spokeswoman said that she decided to make the announcement because of speculation in the press.

A spokesman for Conger refused to discuss Playboy's announcement or the pictorial and Rockwell could not immediately be reached for comment.

Hefner told shareholders that Conger, a former emergency room nurse, was just one of several celebrities planned for upcoming issues of the magazine, but declined to reveal any other names.

Conger married 42-year-old Rick Rockwell in front of 22 million television viewers on "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-millionaire," a ratings sensation for the Fox network.

But the show triggered a national scandal after a Web site revealed allegations of violence in Rockwell's past.

Conger, who was fired from her job as an emergency room nurse because of the flap surrounding "Multi-Millionaire," was granted an annulment from Rockwell by a Las Vegas judge in April.

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