NATION : Playboy Twin Models Indicted
Twin sisters who appeared nude in Playboy magazine evaded income taxes on about $1 million they were paid by an elderly millionaire in exchange for sex, the government alleges.
A grand jury indictment returned Tuesday charges Leigh Ann Conley of Milwaukee and her sister Lynette Harris of Arlington, Tex., with failing to report income for several years beginning in 1984. The sisters, now 35, appeared nude together in Playboy in 1981. They also appeared in the movies “I, the Jury,” based on a Mickey Spillane novel, and “Sorceress.”
They were paid over a four-year period by David Kritzik, a widower who died June 1 at 89, the indictment alleged. Kritzik founded General Merchandising Co., a mail-order company that established a regional chain of Treasure Island discount stores and was sold to J. C. Penney Co. in 1962 for $11 million.
Conley was paid a total of $326,000 and Harris received $685,000, the government said.
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