The only Playmate to have fought bulls in Spain, Elaine was also the first to undergo breast-reduction surgery. "I must be 20 pounds lighter than I was then," she observes, "and I think I look better now." 

After her centerfold was published, Elaine worked as a Bunny in Chicago and Miami and as a showgirl at the Latin Quarter in New York. With her first husband, she moved to Majorca, where they owned three stables. "He was a rejoneador -- a bullfighter from horseback -- and he taught me to do it," she says. At the time, women in Spain were not permitted to be matadors, who battle the bulls on foot. That rule was rescinded in 1974, about the time of dictator Francisco Franco's death, but by that time Elaine was a mother, so she didn't pursue it. "Having a child makes you less adventurous," she observes. The son, now in his early 20s, keeps up the adventurous spirit, having recently backpacked through Peru. 

After her first marriage ended, Elaine returned to the States and earned a degree in comparative humanities (with a straight-A average) from the State University of New York. She taught riding, raised championship Viszla dogs, remarried and for a time did voice-over's for commercials. She and her spouse have now separated and she is living in Georgia, working in real estate and writing a book "about my divorce experiences."


PLAYBOY APPEARANCES: Centerfold, October 1959; "Playmate Review -- 1959," January 1960; "Playmate Holiday House Party," December 1961; "Silverstein's History of Playboy," February 1964; "Playmates Revisited," July 1964; "Bunnies of Miami," October 1965.

PLAYBOY NEWSSTAND SPECIALS: "Best From Playboy #2," January 1968; "Playmates: The First 15 Years," January 1983.

PLAYBOY VIDEO CREDITS: "Playboy's Playmates: The Early Years" (1991).

PLAYBOY CALENDARS: 1961, 1962.