Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy, founder Hugh Hefner, died at 91 years. He died calmly in his home, says a press release from the publishing house. Hefner is one of the people who contributed to the emergence of the Sexual Revolution in the 1960s with its iconic Playboy magazine, famous for a series of provocative pictures like the purely naked Marilyn Monroe. It was around the magazine that he founded his business empire.
Hefner was famous for his peculiar hare of young blondes he held in his famous Playboy Mansion near Los Angeles and the noisy parties there.
"I will never grow up," said Hugh Hefner in a CNN interview when he was 82, "Staying young is all about me."
Hugh Marston Hefner was born on 9 April 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He is the eldest son of Grace and Glen Hefner, strict Methodists. At school, Hefner earned 152 points for an intelligence test, although his teachers described him as "unenthusiastic".
Hefner served two years in the army until the end of the Second World War. He studied at the Chicago Art Institute before joining the University of Illinois with a degree in Psychology. He graduated in 1950. In 1949, Hefner first married his classmate Mildred Williams, who had a 10-year marriage and two children. Hefner then had another marriage - with Playboy's playwright for 1989, of which he also had two children.
Hugh with Pamela Anderson
Hugh Hefner was in love with Crystal Harris, who is 60 years younger than him, but in 2011 she broke up the engagement, and the wedding was not over.
After being denied a $ 5 salary increase in Esquire magazine, Hefner left and decided to start his own edition. He collected $ 8,000 from 45 people, including $ 1,000 from his mother to launch Playboy. The first issue of Playboy Magazine with Marilyn Monroe's famous picture was created at the kitchen table at Hefner's apartment. When it was released in December 1953, the cover was out of date, as Hefner did not know if and when he would be able to issue a second issue. From the first issue, however, more than 50,000 copies have been sold - enough to pay for paper and printing costs and to finance another edition.
By 1971, Playboy has sold seven million copies a month, has 23 Playboy clubs, resorts, hotels and casinos with more than 900,000 members around the world. Playboy also produces popular television movies, such as "The Third Girl From The Left", "The Death of Ocean View Park," "The Cop and the Kid," and "A Whale For The Killing".
Hefner continues to be Chief Creative Director and Editor-in-Chief of Playboy and manages the corporation's activities related to cable TV, video production, and licensing. In July 2010, the Playboy Enterprises media company, which has branches in more than 150 countries, announced it has received an offer from its owner, Hugh Hefner, for the purchase of all the shares it still does not own (30.5%) at a price of 5 , $ 50 each. Hefner's state is estimated at over $ 300 million.
Hugh Hefner is known for his numerous conquests among the gentleman, although he claims to have remained virgin until his 22nd birthday when he met his first wife.
Hugh with his son and last wife
The trademark for the playboy is the pipe and the bathrobe, as well as his Los Angeles mansion, built in 1971, where drug use is unacceptable.
My father lived an extraordinary and influential life and would be missing for many people, says his son Cooper Hepner. He defined the way of life that is the basis of the Playboy brand, one of the most recognizable and durable brands in history, "says Hefner, adding that his father had" an extraordinary and influential life, "that he was" a pioneer in media and culture, "he calls him a defender of free speech, civil rights and sexual freedom.
Marilyn Monroe and Hugh
Playboy magazine was founded more than 60 years ago. Hefner started Playboy in the kitchen in his home in 1953. The first double page was with Marilyn Monroe.
It becomes the best-selling male magazine in the world. Its peak is 7 million copies sold in one month.
The "bare" magazine turns Hefner into a multi-millionaire. It creates a business empire that includes casinos and nightclubs.
The silk-dressed pajamas magician became famous for his hedonism and his Playboy model weddings.
Most Playboy girls are believed to have gone through Hefner's bed. Hugh claimed to have slept with more than 1,000 women.
I will aways remember you like that!
