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Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles. Hefner extended the Playboy brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs.
Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and legacy of Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine and a cultural icon of the sexual revolution. Explore his background, achievements, controversies, marriages, children and death.
Sep 27, 2017 · Hugh Hefner, who created Playboy magazine and spun it into a media and entertainment-industry giant — all the while, as its very public avatar, squiring attractive young women (and sometimes...
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May 1, 2024 · Hugh Hefner (born April 9, 1926, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died September 27, 2017, Los Angeles, California) was an American magazine publisher and entrepreneur who founded (1953) Playboy magazine. Hefner, Hugh. Hugh Hefner with the waitstaff of the original Playboy Club, Chicago, 1960.
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Sep 27, 2017 · The Associated Press. LOS ANGELES — Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions,...
Sep 28, 2017 · Playboy founder and sexual revolution symbol Hugh Hefner has died at age 91. The magazine released a statement saying Hefner died at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes on Wednesday night, Sept. 27, 2017, surrounded by family.
Sep 28, 2017 · “Hugh M. Hefner, the American icon who in 1953 introduced the world to Playboy magazine and built the company into one of the most recognizable American global brands in history, peacefully...
