Headline: Snopes, 4/21/2024
For years, claims have spread across social media platforms that Playgirl magazine ran a "Sleep with Donald Trump" contest in their August 1990 edition.\
An X (formerly Twitter) post from 2023 stated, "That one time #Trump was in Playgirl for anyone to win a trip to his bed." Attached were four images that allegedly showed the contest in question.
We found posts about the claims on other social media platforms, including TikTok, Reddit and Instagram.\
Playgirl did run a "Sleep with Donald Trump" contest, as we previously reported in 2020. We reached out for further details to Playgirl, which confirmed the magazine had run the contest in its August 1990 edition, as well as in the "Coming Up" section in its July 1990 issue. [emphasis added]
As we reported in 2020, Trump and his first wife Ivana were in the midst of their divorce around the time the photo contest was announced.
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