Conger
LOS ANGELES - So it wasn't the money, stupid: ill-fated Who Wants To Marry A Multimillionaire bride Darva Conger will show her figure in exchange for a mere six in a forthcoming issue.
Her reported $120,000+ fee for the Playboy pictorial is a considerable drop downward from the $1 million Internet Entertainment Group mastermind Seth Warshavsky offered Conger to appear in the nude at ClubLove.com.
Playboy director of communications Bill Farley didn't return a call from AVN On The Net for comment. But Warshavsky said he was surprised by Conger's potential Playboy deal, considering the difference in money offered.
"I guess maybe she felt Playboy would be better for her career," Warshavsky said. "So this is very interesting."
In March, Warshavsky took out an ad in the Los Angeles Daily News inviting Conger to appear at ClubLove.com. "Attention: Darva Conger," the ad read. "The whole world has fallen in love with you. We want to make sure you have a real chance to earn the money you so richly deserve, so we hereby offer you $1 million to pose on Clublove.com." That was followed by Warshavsky's telephone number.
He said IEG had heard from Conger's agent and "another broker," but they "never would really give us concrete information." He wondered aloud whether Conger might have been "using us" to get more from Playboy, but then he pondered earlier rumors that the Hefner empire might have been offering as much as $3 million to get her to pose.
"I definitely think she should have gone with us," Warshavky said, "but it depends, I guess, on what she thinks, what she feels she's going to gain by doing something with Playboy."
Indeed, Conger - who has otherwise avoided the public eye, mostly, since the TV fiasco - was reported at the Playboy Mansion West recently, with a Playboy spokeswoman saying only, "What do you think?" when asked why the world's most famous television bride was at a mansion party.
Conger won't be appearing at ClubLove.com, but there is at least one Website featuring nudes of her which it admits are faked, www.hotresume.com/darva. And another Website, www.whowantstomarrydarva.com, is a fan's site inviting bachelor surfers to Conger and let her pick her own mate. The site's host has said he posted it to show Conger support - but before you think about popping the question, the site doesn't exactly guarantee she will see the proposals.
Not to mention, Conger had said recently she's too concerned about healing and rebuilding her life to think about romance for the time being. The striking-looking nurse's medical career was throttled when her hospital fired her in the wake of the Who Wants To Marry A Multimillionaire fiasco.
What Conger called a lark that blew up in her face involved her television marriage to comic Rick Rockwell. No sooner had the nuptials been completed and the couple started their so-called honeymoon than reports surfaced saying Rockwell's past included assaults on at least two former girlfriends.
It later turned out that credit card reporting regulations played a factor in Rockwell's past being kept from television exposure at the time of the show.
But the embarrassment caused both a planned re-run of the Conger/Rockwell union and the show itself to be yanked. The marriage was annulled in early April. Rockwell has since made his way as an aspiring stand-up comedian, while various Websites have had something of a field day in hoisting up materials related to the television couple.
Most of those geared toward or including Conger appear at least sympathetic and affectionate.
