Tributes have since poured in for the on-screen star as fans paid tribute to June. One person penned: “God rest her soul. June was an amazing actress.” Another simply wrote: “RIP.”<\/p>\n
Born in Eastbourne on March 27 1940, the daughter of Robin Wilkinson, a window-cleaner and part-time bandleader, and his wife Lily, n\u00e9e Curryer.<\/p>\n
June had initially wanted to become a ballet dancer but soon gave up those ambitions.<\/p>\n
In 1958 she posed for her debut nude photoshoot in Hugh Hefner\u2019s Playboy, where she was dubbed “The Bosom”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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She also secured several film roles, including the lead in The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962).<\/p>\n
June also had a small role alongside Bobby Darin in John Cassavetes\u2019s Too Late Blues (1961).<\/p>\n
She also appeared in films like The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960), and The Candidate (1964), as Angela Wallace, a glamorous model involved in a political campaign.<\/p>\n
Her TV appearances included guest spots on popular shows like Batman, The Doris Day Show, and The Jack Benny Program.<\/p>\n
June is survived by her beloved daughter Brahna.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jane Wilkinson famed for her work as a Playboy model has died aged 85. She gained international fame and was affectionately known as “The Bosom,\u201c becoming one of America\u2019s most photographed women and was featured in Playboy magazine dozens of times. The model, who also worked as an actress, sadly died on July 21, reports […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1977197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,25615,353488,353489,353490],"class_list":["post-1977196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-elvis-presley","tag-june-wilkinson","tag-playboy-model","tag-sussex-born-actress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/June-Wilkinson-dead-Sussex-born-model-who-dated-Elvis-Presley-dies.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}