Enron's women offered full disclosure
news.independent.co.uk
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
27 March 2002
The company and their savings may
have gone up in smoke. But for the
ladies if not the gentlemen of the
scandal-shrouded Enron corporation,
consolation of a kind beckons - an
appearance on the pages of Playboy magazine.
Hugh Hefner's venerable organ is planning a a future "Women of
Enron" issue, in which the company's comeliest female employees
will be invited to bare a good deal more than most of their male
colleagues have revealed to the host of congressional committees
investigating America's biggest business failure.
Interested employees, both past and present, are being asked to
send photos of themselves in bikinis to the magazine. "This is an
opportunity for them to do something fun in the midst of the turmoil
in their lives," Elizabeth Norris, a Playboy spokeswoman said.
It would not be the first time Playboy has provided a remunerative
outlet for protagonists of American scandals - among them Paula
Jones, who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton,
and Jessica Hahn, whose charms lured the televangelist Jim
Bakker to disgrace in 1987.
This time however, if Ms Norris is to be believed, scandal has
nothing to do with it. These were not women of scandal, she
insisted, "these are women who are out of a job. We are offering
what you could interpret as a part-time job, or what might turn into a
new career."
Deborah DeFforge, of the Severed Enron Employees Coalition, said:
"It's kind of a highlight. We've had so much depressing and stressful
news, and now this. It's kind of cute." |
