Elle Macpherson and Cindy Crawford Playboy Pictures To Be Auctioned

A series of steamy shots of ELLE MACPHERSON and CINDY CRAWFORD are going under the hammer in a Playboy auction later this month.

The sexy snaps feature the Aussie beauty completely nude in a set taken for Hugh Hefner's magazine in 1994, while Cindy Crawford can be seen cupping breasts in another racy image.

The pictures, along with a Marilyn Monroe photo, will be sold at New York's Christie's auction house on 8 and 10 December and are expected to fetch $4.5 million. Hefner says, "We're paying tribute to our greatest contributors."

WHILE other women go to great pains to defy it, the ageing process is particularly appealing to Elle Macpherson. "Only as I get older do I feel really beautiful, sexy and charismatic, enigmatic and interesting and all those things one likes to feel about oneself," Elle tells the latest issue of Harper's Bazaar.

As if to prove the point, in the fashion bible's photo shoot Elle has cloned Mrs Robinson, the movie role made famous by Anne Bancroft in The Graduate.

In the shoot, Elle is seen lounging on a bed in her underwear as a young man stands in the doorway. At 43, Elle doesn't think there is some magic elixir to living a good life.