"Exclusive" photo of JFK on a boat with naked women is a Fraud

From USA Today:

See - http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2009/12/exclusive-photo-of-jfk-with-naked-woman-a-hoax/1

The celebrity gossip site TMZ.com got punk'd today when it fell for a photo hoax purportedly showing John F. Kennedy sunning on a yacht full of naked women.

Trumpeting an "exclusive," with the headline "The JFK Photo That Could Have Changed History," TMZ said it obtained the "never-before published photograph" that "could have altered world events." TMZ said it believed the crumpled black-and-white snapshot was taken in the mid-1950s, before Kennedy was president.

But the only thing altered was the photo, which, a "a forensic photo expert" told TMZ, "appeared to be authentic."
The Smoking Gun did a little due diligence and found that the image — featuring a naked lady jumping into the sea — appeared in the November 1967 issue of Playboy. The color photo was part of a spread headlined "Charter Yacht Party: How to Have a Ball on the Briny with an Able-Bodied Complement of Ship's Belles."

The lounging man in the photo? A paid model.

After being e-mailed about the hoax, TMZ said it called Playboy. A rep said, yep, the photo was from the 11/67 issue. TMZ then declared its exclusive a fake.
(Posted by Michael Winter)