Its was all fun and games as usual this past weekend at the world famous home of Hugh Hefner, The Playboy Mansion, in Los Angeles, California, where he hosted the Playboy Summer Solstice Party 2010.

This year the party was held for the benefit of the Rescue Humanity Foundation. The event featured models and a fashion show from CopaWear International, Benchwarmer International, Dreamgirl International and AMI Clubwear, guided tours of the mansion grounds by Playboy playmates, sexy body painted models, a live and silent auction produced by Bang The Gavel, and over 250 gorgeous models from across the country in attendance.

Two of the main attractions at the party were past Playboy magazine cover girls, Bai Ling and Angelica Bridges who brought more than a splattering of glamour to the proceedings.

Angelica, already famous for her acting and singing career, made her Playboy debut when she was given a pictorial spread in Hef’s iconic magazine in the November 2001 issue when she was 27 and featured as the cover girl.

Bai Ling garnered Playboy attention following her appearance on the VH1 tv reality show, ‘But Can They Sing?’, where she became most famous for her risqué and raunchy get-ups and her performances of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”. Bai appreared in yet another raunchy outfit on the cover of Playboy magazine in June 2005.

It’s a long way by anyone’s standards from the People’s Republic of China to Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine, but if anyone could do it, Bai Ling could!

Born in China in October 1966, Bai (which means White) was one of three children born to a mother who’s career as a dancer and who’s father’s career was as a musician in the People’s Liberation Army, and later a music teacher, was destined for a life in the performing arts.

Bai has described herself as a very shy child who found that she best expressed herself through acting and performing and before long, she managed to pass the People’s Liberation Army’s exams, and became an “artist soldier” at Linzhi, Tibet. Her main activity there was entertaining in the musical theater. She also served shortly as an Army nurse. Three years later, she was discharged from the army.

In 1991 Bai moved to America to follow her ambition of becoming an actress which began with her role in the 1994 movie,  The Crow, playing the half-sister/lover of the main villain, Top Dollar and with Richard Gere in Red Corner in 1997, which was to be her break-out role in English film.

Being named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” in 1998 led to her being called upon by Hef to pose for her pictorial in Playboy magazine in June 2005.

But, although that was considered quite the accolade in the budding young actresses career, it was to lead to the editing of her role as Senator Bana Breemu in Star Wars Episode III, when her part was left on the cutting room floor.

Director George Lucas denied this, stating that the cut had been made more than a year earlier. Her scenes were included in the “deleted scenes” feature of the DVD release.

None of the adverse publicity has had any effect on making Bai Ling a sought after Playboy model on the cover of June 2005’s issue of Playboy magazine.