“I want to play him. I want to understand him.”
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Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner was an American magazine publisher and businessman. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with sexualized photographs of women, articles, and fiction, and lengthy interviews with politicians, musicians, artists, and writers. Hefner extended the Playboy brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs. He also resided in luxury mansions where Playb…
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business · American magazine publisher (1926–2017) · editor · journalist · writer · publisher · nightclub owner · entrepreneur · actor · film producer · activist · socialite · also Hugh Hefner, Hef, Hefner
Born 9 April 1926 · Died 27 September 2017 · Q194280
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2026· 2 entries
“would encourage competition—and body image issues—between his multiple live-in girlfriends. His legacy is full of evidence of the exploitation of women for professional gain.”
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2025· 1 entry
Lead Stories rated the claim “Hugh Hefner say that Donald Trump was not allowed in the Playboy mansion after he found out he was a pedophile” Never Quoted.
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2017· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Hugh Hefner paid $75,000 to be interred next to Marilyn Monroe in a Los Angeles cemetery.” True.
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Died 2017-09-27.
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2016· 2 entries
One day before Hefner's 90th birthday
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Hefner's brother Keith died at age 87 on April 8, 2016, one day before Hefner's 90th birthday.
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2012· 3 entries
Hefner and Harris subsequently reconciled and married on December 31, 2012.
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Hefner announced that his youngest son Cooper would succeed him as the public face of Playboy
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Supported Barack Obama's reelection campaign
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2011· 1 entry
Referred to himself as an independent due to dissatisfaction with both the Democratic and Republican parties
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2010· 3 entries
Became engaged to Harris, but she broke off their engagement on June 14, 2011, five days before their planned wedding
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Children of the Night founder and president Lois Lee presented Hefner with the organization's first-ever Founder's Hero of the Heart Award in appreciation for his unwavering dedication, commitment and generosity
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Hefner donated the last $900,000 sought by a conservation group for a land purchase needed to stop the development of the vista of the Hollywood Sign
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2009· 3 entries
Hefner filed for divorce from Conrad in 2009 after an 11-year separation, citing irreconcilable differences.
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Was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for his performance as himself in Miss March
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After an 11-year separation, citing irreconcilable differences
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2007· 1 entry
The university's audiovisual archive at the Norris Theater received a donation from Hefner and was renamed to the Hugh M
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2006· 2 entries
"but because she believed in her son") to launch Playboy, which was initially going to be called Stag Party
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“but because she believed in her son”
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2005· 1 entry
Guest-starred on the HBO shows Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage
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1999· 2 entries
Hefner financed the Clara Bow documentary Discovering the It Girl
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“She defined an era and made her mark on the nation”
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1998· 1 entry
After which she moved into the house next door to the mansion
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1985· 1 entry
Hefner had a minor stroke at age 58, whereupon he re-evaluated his lifestyle, making several changes
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1978· 1 entry
Hefner helped organize fund-raising efforts that led to the restoration of the Hollywood Sign
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1971· 2 entries
Established a second residence in Los Angeles with the acquisition of Playboy Mansion West, and moved there permanently from Chicago in 1975
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Acknowledged that he experimented in bisexuality
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1970· 2 entries
Hefner stated that "militant feminists" are "unalterably opposed to the romantic boy-girl society that Playboy promotes" and ordered an article in his magazine against them
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“What I want is a devastating piece that takes the militant feminists apart. They are unalterably opposed to the romantic boy-girl society that Playboy promotes.”
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1966· 2 entries
For the newly established 1962 "playboy interview"
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Hefner sent Alex Haley to interview American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell, much to Rockwell's shock because Haley was black
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1964· 1 entry
Hefner established the Hugh M
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1963· 2 entries
Awarded Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award (1963).
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Hefner was arrested for promoting obscene literature after he published an issue of Playboy featuring nude shots of Jayne Mansfield in bed with a man present
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1961· 1 entry
Hefner watched Dick Gregory perform at the Herman Roberts Show Bar in Chicago, and he hired Gregory to work at the Chicago Playboy Club
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1955· 1 entry
So Hefner agreed to publish it in Playboy
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1953· 1 entry
Took out a mortgage loan of $600 and raised $8,000 from 45 investors (including $1,000 from his mother—"not because she believed in the venture," he told E
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1949· 1 entry
With a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a double minor in creative writing and art, having earned his degree in two and a half years
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1926· 2 entries
Born 1926-04-09.
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In Chicago, the first child of accountant Glenn Lucius Hefner (1896–1976) and his wife Grace Caroline (Swanson) Hefner (1895–1997) who worked as a teacher
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