Jean Bell

About Jean Bell

When she appeared in the October 1969 issue of Playboy, Bell was only the second African American woman to appear as the centerfold (the first was Jennifer Jackson, in March 1965).

Her centerfold was photographed by Don Klumpp. A few months later, Bell became the first black person to appear on the magazine's cover. Bell was featured with four other playmates in the January 1970 cover of the magazine.

After Bell's appearance in Playboy, she enjoyed a brief acting career, working on such films as Mean Streets and The Klansman, sometimes credited as Jeanne Bell. She posed nude again for Playboy in the December 1979 pictorial "Playmates Forever!"