Janet Lupo Bio 
Janet Lupo was an American glamour and nude model. She was born Janet Paula Lupo on January 26, 1950, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Playboy named her its November 1975 Playmate at 25. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Lupo had natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 39-24-36.
Janet Lupo’s Playboy story began not in a photographer’s studio but on the floor of the Playboy resort at Great Gorge, New Jersey, where she had been working as a Bunny since 1974. Photographers approached her more than once about testing for the magazine, but she initially refused; posing nude was simply not something she could picture herself doing. Photographer Pompeo Posar eventually persuaded her to reconsider, and he went on to shoot the centerfold that introduced her to Playboy readers.
That decision required some negotiation at home. Lupo came from a close, conservative Hoboken family, and her father was strongly opposed to the idea at first. Her mother was more encouraging and helped make the case that the pictorial could be a genuine opportunity. Lupo herself was refreshingly practical about the money: she planned to pay bills, put a down payment on a car and buy something for her parents. Her father’s resistance softened only later, when he overheard strangers in a grocery store proudly discussing the Playboy model from Hoboken and announced, “That’s my daughter!”
Playboy remained part of her life well beyond that first centerfold. Lupo travelled on promotional assignments for the magazine in the United States, Canada and Japan, and later returned for reunion material, including the 1984 pictorial “Playmates Forever! Part Two.” Her career then moved in decidedly less glamorous but more enduring directions. In 1977 she relocated to Key Biscayne, Florida, and worked as a flight attendant before eventually returning to New Jersey.
By 1981, Lupo had obtained a real-estate license and built a long career selling property in Hoboken, reportedly spending more than two decades with Liberty Realtors on Washington Street. She later qualified as a cosmetologist, became a mother in 1986 and launched her own Fountain of Youth body-oil business. She also remained connected to Playboy fandom through appearances at Glamourcon events in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Lupo died in Jersey City on November 13, 2017, after a four-year battle with cancer. Her later life makes an appealing counterpoint to the larger-than-life image preserved in her centerfold: the Great Gorge Bunny who once had to be talked into posing for Playboy went on to build a career in real estate, raise a son and remain proudly associated with the magazine decades after her pictorial first put another Hoboken name into the spotlight.
