On This Day: July 8, 1985 - Playboy and Penthouse Published Nude Photos of Madonna

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On This Day: July 8, 1985 - Playboy and Penthouse Published Nude Photos of Madonna.

On this day July 8, 1985, both Playboy and Penthouse published nude photos of Madonna that had been taken in 1978 when she was a struggling dancer in New York. The images were sold by a photographer who had shot them years earlier under a modeling agreement, long before Madonna had become one of the biggest pop stars in the world.

The simultaneous release of the photos stirred controversy and media frenzy, landing at the height of Madonna’s early stardom following the success of Like a...

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