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Known around the world as the ‘king of horror’, author Stephen King doesn’t need to try too hard to sell his books.

But after writing his latest tale Morality, King decided to give the story maximum publicity, by ‘publishing’ it on the naked body of Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s model girlfriend features nude on the July cover of the U.S. edition of men’s magazine Esquire, with the opening paragraphs of King’s short story written across her famous curves.

The 23-year-old beauty had several sentences from the story, along with the title ‘Morality’ and Stephen King’s name written in scrawly black ink across her tanned physique.

Morality is billed as a story about a married couple who are struggling financially.

The wife Nora ‘is approached by her employer with a proposition that could make their dream of a home in Vermont a reality. But will it be worth the moral consequence?’

Bar posed naked to launch the magazine’s special Stories of our Time edition.

Bar enthused: ‘I haven’t seen anything like that ever. So I wanted to be the girl who did it.’

The model lay still while graphic designer James Victor painted first 48 of the story’s 6,657 words on her naked flesh.

Victor told Esquire: ‘She’s a perfect canvas because her skin is so flawless. It’s going to be amazing.’

This is the second time this year Bar has features in a revealing magazine cover.

In February, she was unveiled as the coveted cover girl for Sports Illustrated’s annual Swimsuit Issue.

She appeared in a barely-there bikini, tantalising male readers as she pulled down her bikini bottoms to reveal a tan line.

Being chosen to model in the swimsuit issue is considered a benchmark in any supermodel’s path to success and is seen by 66 million readers every year.

Check out more pics of Bar and the interview here:

http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/bar-refaeli-naked-0709

LEONARDO DiCaprio’s girlfriend, Bar Refaeli (above), just missed being on the coveted cover of last year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. But insiders said the beauty is back in the running to grace the cover this time around – as is leggy mannequin Jessica Hart – if “she can keep her mouth shut. It’s very secretive, and the magazine likes to keep people guessing. Last year, she opened her mouth about it, so they gave the cover to Marissa Miller instead.” Meanwhile, “Leo wants Bar to be on the cover – it will really piss off Gisele [Bundchen],” Leo’s ex-girlfriend and current Tom Brady squeeze.

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The “Titanic” star and the Israeli supervixen have been partying apart over the past few weeks.

Refaeli appears bereft, say spies, like she’s looking for a good time but not finding it.

Leo? The good times find him. The other night, at a Chelsea club, an exquisite brunette glommed onto him. (Isn’t that disgusting, guys?) But we’re assured they did not exchange phone numbers. At least in public.

In fact, Bar and Leo have ridden out other tempests since they met in December 2005 (shortly after his split with his last Amazon, Gisele Bundchen, after almost five years together). The couple were said to have hit their first bump in January 2007. But, by April, British tabs had them expecting a baby and talking marriage.

In October of the same year, more reliable sources confirmed that the pair were taking a breather. But they reunited shortly after Bar’s fling with surfer Kelly Slater and have stuck together through most of this year.

Even now, a reconciliation may be afoot. They’ve been spotted the last couple of nights at Marquee and 1Oak. Which means you might see her on his arm by the premiere of his “Body of Lies” next month and “Revolutionary Road” in December.

Says one friend: “With these two, you never know, and they probably don’t either.”

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Leonardo DiCaprio isn’t shy about letting people know he is back on with ex Bar Refaeli: They had a hot-and-heavy make-out session at new Las Vegas club, The Bank in the Bellagio Hotel, on New Year’s Eve.

DiCaprio and Refaeli arrived around 11:10 with actor Lukas Haas and 15 other pals. The group sat at a VIP table (stocked with $30,000 bottles of three liter Moet White Gold champagne!), overlooking the dance floor. Throughout the night, says an on-looker, the crew took countless pictures on their personal cameras. (At one point, DiCaprio even extended his arm and took a shot of him and Refaeli.)

At the strike of midnight, the duo “shared a long, passionate kiss,” the eye witness tells Usmagazine.com. They then downed Dom Pérignon champagne.

Kissing wasn’t their only activity — they danced a lot too.

When the DJ played Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone,” DiCaprio began jumping up and down, the witness said.

While dancing to the Beyoncé hit “Crazy In Love,” he and Refaeli made out some more. The pair also boogied to the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize,” Britney Spears’ “Piece of Me” and the Stevie Wonder classic “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours.”

At 2:20 a.m., they called it a night and left the club hand-in-hand.

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Despite their brief break in October, Leonardo DiCaprio, 33, and Bar Refaeli, 22, were spotted holding hands at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills on Dec. 20.

Are they back on? “They were never really ‘off,’” a DiCaprio source tells Us Weekly in its new issue, on newsstands now.

“It was always a distance thing,” the source adds. “Leo was making a movie in Morocco [this year], and Bar had her modeling career.”

Refaeli’s mom, Zipi, tells Us: “Bar is working all over the world.

Says the DiCaprio pal, “It’s a struggle to make a relationship like theirs work, but yes, they’re together.”

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LEONARDO DiCaprio’s Israeli model girl friend, Bar Refaeli, dodged her country’s mandatory military service – and couldn’t be prouder. “I don’t regret not having been drafted . . .because I made out big,” she told an Israeli paper. “Why is it good to die for one’s country? Isn’t it better to live in New York?”

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FASHION fotog and painter Raphael Mazzucco yesterday flew to Israel to shoot Leonardo DiCaprio’s model girlfriend, Bar Refaeli, for the 2008 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, which hits stands in February. Mazzucco took off right after a party in Southampton, where he showed his prints to potential buyers Petra Nemcova and Rachel Hunter. One insider said Refaeli could land SI’s coveted cover because she is the only one Mazzucco is shooting in a different location. When he is finished with her, he flies to St. John in the Virgin Islands, to shoot the rest of the girls.

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s model girlfriend Bar Rafaeli is being sued for $300,000 by her former agent, who claims she ditched him after finding fame.

The 21-year-old appeared at Tel Aviv Magistrates Court in Israel yesterday to answer the claims made by Rafi Agiv.

Agiv claims he was sacked by Rafaeli a year ago – after he had helped build her career up, following her marriage to an older man, a union she used to avoid compulsory military service in the Israeli Army.

Rafaeli insists the claims are untrue. The trial will begin in the Israeli capital in February.

The Victoria’s Secret model began dating DiCaprio earlier this year, following his split from Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen.