By Mark Gray
12:02pm PDT, Oct 11, 2023
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Playboy fired creator Mia Khalifa — a former adult film actress — after she took to social media to publicly celebrate Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel. So far, at least 1,500 people have died as a result of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, but Mia seemed to make light of the situation.
"I can't believe the Zionist apartheid regime is being brought down by guerrilla fighters in fake Gucci shirts," she wrote on X. "The biopics of these moments better reflect that."
Playboy acted swiftly to cut ties with her as she shared more tweets supporting the Hamas attacks.
Keep clicking to see what Playboy said about her messages…
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Earlier this year, Playboy launched Centerfold — a subscription service inspired by OnlyFans — that allows individual creators to charge a monthly subscription fee for their content. Mia Khalifa took advantage of that opportunity and began making content for Centerfold.
That all came to a crashing halt after Mia shared pro-Hamas messages on X on Oct. 7.
Subscribers can no longer access Mia's page on Playboy's website.
Click to read Playboy's statement about Mia's online behavior…
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"We are writing today to let you know of our decision to terminate Playboy's relationship with Mia Khalifa, including deleting Mia's Playboy channel on our creator platform," Playboy said in a statement. "Over the past few days, Mia has made disgusting and reprehensible comments celebrating Hamas's attacks on Israel and the murder of innocent men, women and children. At Playboy, we encourage free expression and constructive political debate, but we have a zero tolerance policy for hate speech. We expect Mia to understand that her words and actions have consequences."
What exactly did she say? Click to find out…
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Following the Hamas attacks on Israel — during which many innocent people were murdered, injured and kidnapped — Mia Khalifa asked for different angles of videos depicting the violence so she could have a better view of the carnage.
"Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal?" she wrote.
She also posted a photo of a pickup truck full of Hamas gunmen driving down the streets of Israel, which she described as a "Renaissance painting."
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After a few days, Mia Khalifa seems to have toned down her rhetoric a tad: "I just want to make it clear that this statement in no way shape or form is enticing spread of violence, I specifically said freedom fighters because that's what the Palestinian citizens are… fighting for freedom every day," she wrote on X.
Ironically, when Mia joined the Centerfold platform, Playboy actually applauded her outspoken opinions.
"Mia's fearless, direct, thought-provoking and fun-loving approach to life and her career make her an important addition to our Centerfold community," Playboy CEO Ben Kohn said at the time.
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Mia Khalifa — who has been banned from Lebanon, her home country — doesn't seem to be worried about her lost jobs.
"I'd say supporting Palestine has lost me business opportunities, but I'm more angry at myself for not checking whether or not I was entering into business with Zionists. My bad," she wrote.
After a company called Red Light Holland dropped her, she wrote, "That's the most press you'll ever get out of me for your s***** little company you quite literally couldn't pay me to post about it publicly before because I thought it was so bad it's FREE PALESTINE until Palestine is FREE."
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Not only did Mia Khalifa blast companies for firing her but she also took aim at celebrities supporting Israel.
The model wrote of Jamie Lee Curtis's pro-Israel messages, "Decolonize that Oscar and give it back to its rightful owner: Angela Basset." (Earlier this year, Jamie won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her work in "Everything Everywhere All at Once" over Angela, who was thought to be the favorite for the award for her performance in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," making Jamie's win a bit of an upset.)
The former adult film actress also slammed Kylie Jenner, who expressed her support for Israel. Although Kylie took down her messages, Mia wasn't going to let the reality TV star off the hook.
"If true journalism exists, the next person to talk to Kylie Jenner will ask for her opinion on geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and not break eye contact until she can string one coherent sentence together since she wants to take a stance to her 400M followers so badly," Mia wrote.
She later added, "If you see a celebrity supporting just TRUSTTTT it's the money that's talking- these people have no soul or opinions of their own or the ability for critical thinking and will do/say anything to appease their investors in their businesses."
