''Celebrity Skin'' is a pornographic magazine which specializes in showcasing images, either photographs or movie and TV screencaps, of nude or semi-nude celebrities. It is not to be confused with its rival '' Celebrity Sleuth''. The magazine has ceased publication.

Origin

''Celebrity Skin'' was a spin-off publication of ''

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'' magazine first published in 1986. Editor

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is credited with the idea to first publish revealing or scandalous images of celebrities in the magazine. The success and increased sales of issues with "celebrity skin" led to the new publication.

Lawsuits

Over the course of its run,

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and

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unsuccessfully attempted to sue the magazine after it published nude photos of them.

Jennifer Aniston

The September 1999 issue of ''Celebrity Skin'' contained photographs of

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in her back garden. The photographs also appeared in the December 1999 issues of ''High Society'' and ''Celebrity Sleuth''. The April 1999 issues of the Italian magazine ''Eva Tremila'' and the British newspaper, the ''

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'' carried the pictures, as well as the May 31–June 6 issue of the French publication ''

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''. Aniston filed a

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against Francois Naverre, who took the photos in February 1999. Aniston also filed suit against Man's World Publications and Crescent Publishing Group for publishing the photos. Crescent was charged by the United States government in 2000 with illegally billing for website access that was advertised as "free", and for billing others who had never visited the websites. The websites included www.playgirl.com and www.highsociety.com.

In popular culture

*Alternative rock group,

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, released "

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" as the title track and first single off their third studio album, ''

''. *In a scene of the

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movie '' Me, Myself and Irene'' the albino character Casper can be seen reading ''Celebrity Skin''. *In the episode "

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" of ''

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'',

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makes a reference to the magazine. *In the movie ''

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'', the motel clerk (

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) reads an issue of ''Celebrity Skin'' magazine with

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on the cover. At the time, Drew Barrymore was engaged to

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, who plays Barry.

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