The Press: Hugh and Marlene and Bob and Helga

"There is no Helga but Helga," pants the copy accompanying a nude layout in the December Penthouse, "and Helga is her name." While there is demonstrably a girl hi the Penthouse pictures, there is no Helga, and Helga is not her name. She is Model Marlene Appelt, and when she learned in Munich last week that she was on display in Penthouse, she was fit to be clothed. She remembers posing for German Photographer Michael Holtz last spring. But, she claims, "I was paid a piddling fee, and I was never informed that I...

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