I´m not an expert, but I highly doubt that mr. hefner is still choosing the models. he is a american icon, he *is* playboy. but I bet - not only due to his age - that there is an armada of people doing the work while he´s shooting videos with weezer, nelly or mtv cribs and doing the representative stuff. it was his style, and it still is playboy´s style: blondes.
I don´t wanna get too much off-track as this is a thread devoted to denise, but I really don´t like their pics and I hope that she´s not going that way at all. to me, she is even more adorable that she´s not doing any nude stuff - or maybe we just haven´t found out about it yet. former sbb-girl maggie is now at pinupfiles, and somehow I doubt their claim to have found her "at another site" (= sbb) and just asked her if she wanted to pose for them. I´m pretty sure that must of these girls are (semi-)professional models. some decide to go topless, some don´t.