Immigration Officials Promise Investigation Into Playboy Playmates’ Detention Sofia Lotto Persio - Newsweek
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Playboy Playmates Elif Celik, Lauryn Elaine, and Marie Brethenoux were arrested in Mexico after alledgedly entering the country on tourist visas but working (Instagram)

Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) promised to investigate nine immigration officers who detained seven foreigners, including three Playboy models, over the weekend in the state of Yucatan.

But Oswaldo Ortiz Matú, a local representative of the INM, denied reports of abuse of authority or human rights violations in a statement to local media, claiming that the authorities had found irregularities in the documents presented by the travellers.

The group had arrived in Mexico to take part in the Playboy Music Fest, organized in the city of Mérida by Playboy México. Three foreign models - Elif Celik, from Turkey, Lauryn Elaine, from the U.S. and France’s Marie Brethenoux - held tourist visas that allowed them to enter the country as visitors but not carry out paid work.

The trio were arrested alongside four other Playboy staff - three women and a man from Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela - during a raid Friday. They were then taken to an immigration center.

There, Elaine told Fox News, they were held for almost 24 hours in a cell and had to “beg for food or water.”

In a statement, Playboy México called the incident a misunderstanding but also accused the agents of "abuse of authority from the Mérida immigration and the federal police who deprived Playboy México staff and three of our guests of their freedom.

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