Remember when an anonymous Wenner executive said “Kent Brownridge makes Karl Rove look like a Sunday school teacher?”

Well, these unidentified sources don’t lie.

Brownridge has scooped up Wenner Media’s Men’s Journal editor James Kaminsky to edit Maxim for a pay package reported to be worth around $600,000.

Jimmy Jellinke, Maxim’s EIC for the past year, is out, and out of print. “This will probably be my last job in publishing,” he said, and is looking for jobs in TV and online now. What, no ham radio?

Kaminsky, who was a beta editor at Maxim from 1999 to 2000, sees this as an opportunity to change perception about Maxim and said, “There are a lot of misconceptions about what Maxim is. I think it’s a matter of getting sharper, funnier and doing some real journalism.”

Kaminsky’s first issue will feature in an depth piece on push-up bras in Iraq.

Original post by Perez Hilton and software by Elliott Back