Hugh Hefner, 80, and playmates including Pamela Anderson introduced a collection of rare images to the public Tuesday night, 16 January 2007.

The Playboy Legacy Collection is a rare retrospective of Playboy’s most alluring and iconic photography. It showcases seductive smiles and elegant curves of the magazine’s leading ladies. In Hefner’s acceptance speech, he thanked Pamela Anderson for showing up and noted she was the 21st Century Marilyn Monroe of our time.