Playboy After Hours
July, 1993
Romeo's RevengeThere are a number of ways to deal with a romance gone bad. When Darby Romeo, a 24-year-old Los Angeles woman, broke up with Ben, she decided to start a magazine, and was soon joined by friend Kerin Morataya. Romeo calls her bimonthly glossy Ben Is Dead. With a circulation of 14,000, it is dedicated to covering L.A.'s demimonde. After Samir Husni—a scholar of magazines and the head of the magazine program at the University of Mississippi's journalism department—had familiarized hi...
