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Liliana Gasinskaya on the cover of a penthouse
Gasinskaya was given political asylum in Australia and became a nude centrefold for Penthouse magazine which ran the cover line: ‘The Red Bikini Girl – Without The Bikini.’
In 1979, an extraordinary story of a Ukrainian woman Liliana Gasinskaya dubbed as the ‘Red Bikini Girl’ made to the headlines in Australian papers and quickly spread worldwide. In the time when there was no internet or social media platforms, the story made to the places no one had expected. 18-year-old Gasinskaya, the glamourous Soviet teenager had off a cruise ship into Sydney Harbour to start a new life. As she was only wearing a red-coloured swimsuit, she is often dubbed as the ‘Red Bikini Girl’. This is her astonishing story that will keep you on the edge of the seat until the end.
