If Seth Warshavsky wants ill-fated television bride Darva Conger to pose nude for Club Love, he'll have to hope she reads the Los Angeles Daily News classified ads. That's where the ad sits, in its March 3 edition on page 15, with other adult entertainment and personals ads.
"Attention: Darva Conger," the ad says. "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 to you $1 million to pose on clublove.com. Please call me. Seth Warshavsky, 202.622.3385."
Three other high-profile media outlets have turned down the ad. Warshavsky says in a press release the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and L.A. Weekly rejected it. Warshavksy had announced on Feb. 28 that he was willing to pay Conger to pose in a "tasteful nude pictorial" for Club Love.
Warshavsky tells AVN On The Net he's had no response to the ad at this writing. He was somewhat surprised, though, that the other three media outlets turned the Conger ad down. "They said they wouldn't run any ads they felt could reflect negatively on the papers," he says. "The real interesting thing is, all those papers run ads for escorts, strip- clubs, but they're not willing to run this ad, it's kind of bizarre and a little hypocritical."
Warshavsky suspects the Times was trying to avoid criticism over "the wrong kind of ad" in the wake of the Staples Center controversy. The paper ran an entire section on the arena without telling readers Staples sponsored the section, a gaffe which touched off a furor in the nation's press and forced the Times to apologize to readers.
What are the chances that Conger will see the Warshavsky ad? "I don't know if she'll see it," he says, "but she'll at least hear about the offer, and that's all that matters."
Conger has told other interviewers she wants only to put the embarrassment of her Who Wants To Marry A Multimillionaire experience - which she says she did as a lark which blew up in her face - behind her. The lark turned into infamy when it was revealed her TV groom had once received a restraining order from a former girl friend who claimed he abused her, a claim he denies.
