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Hugh Hefner, Who Built Playboy Empire and Embodied It, Dies at 91 - chairman - 09-28-2017
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 marrying them) well into his 80s — died on Wednesday at his home, the Playboy Mansion near Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 91.
His death was announced by Playboy Enterprises.
Hefner the man and Playboy the brand were inseparable. Both advertised themselves as emblems of the sexual revolution, an escape from American priggishness and wider social intolerance. Both were derided over the years — as vulgar, as adolescent, as exploitative, and finally as anachronistic.
Re: Hugh Hefner, Who Built Playboy Empire and Embodied It, Dies at 91 - elcosteno - 09-28-2017
Can anyone honestly stand up at Hugh Hefner's funeral and say he's gone to a better place?
Re: Hugh Hefner, Who Built Playboy Empire and Embodied It, Dies at 91 - ketchim - 09-28-2017
oh boy! that avatar will live on
what a guy...may he rest in peace
Re: Hugh Hefner, Who Built Playboy Empire and Embodied It, Dies at 91 - chairman - 09-28-2017
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