biography
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Hefner, Hugh (Marston)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Editor and publisher of Playboy magazine, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He grew up in a family of strict Methodists, studied at Illinois University, and had a variety of jobs. He worked in the subscriptions department of Esquire magazine until 1952, when he resigned to start a new magazine. Investing $10 000, he published Playboy in 1953, with Marilyn Monroe posing nude. Practical advice on sexual problems, men's talk, and other articles combined to make the magazine a notorious success, and Hefner a conspicuously wealthy man, frequently photographed at his mansion surrounded by a bevy of ‘playmates’. His Playboy empire extended into real estate, nightclubs (with the ‘bunny-girl’ hostesses), and sundry products. |
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