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Hugh Hefner Wiki Biography

Hugh Marston Hefner was born on April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He is a successful businessman known around the world, in particular because Hugh has founded Playboy Enterprises and works as a chief creative officer of the company. He is also known as a host and creator of television shows made by Playboy Enterprises.

Under the latest estimations, it has been reported that the net worth of Hugh Hefner has reached the sum of $50 million. It has been declared that Hefner has more than $36 million of assets in stocks and bonds. Every month he receives a salary from Playboy of $116,000, and every year he earns about $1.5 million in dividends and interest.

Hugh Hefner together with his brother was raised in the family of two educators. In 1949, he graduated with a bachelor degree from the University of Illinois. Later, he studied at Northwestern University but after several semesters dropped out. In 1953, Hugh raised investment funds for the start of a new business: magazines for adults. He clearly felt that this new venture would be very successful and profitable. The first magazine was published at the end of 1953, featuring nude photographs of Marilyn Monroe: more than 50,000 copies were sold. It proved to be a prosperous business which soon expanded and offered an extensive range of adult entertainment. Until 1982 Hugh controlled the company, and from 1982 to 2009 the CEO and chairman of the board was his daughter, Christie Hefner. Hugh Hefner has a strict anti-drug policy in his company.

Being a popular personality on television and the whole entertainment industry, Hugh has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has been working on a number of television projects and shows, the most notable work was reality television series titled “The Girls of the Playboy Mansion” (2005-2010) created by Kevin Burns and Hugh Hefner, in which Hugh has also been starring alongside Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, Kendra Wilkinson, Crystal Harris, Kristina Shannon and Karissa Shannon.

Hefner is also an active philanthropic. He helps to raise funds and donations for a number of initiatives, from the Hollywood Sign restoration to the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts course of censorship in cinema creation. Having in mind that Playboy Enterprises was created decades ago, it is still a very profitable business which adds large amounts into Hugh’s net worth every day.

Hugh Hefner has been married three times. In 1949, he married his first wife Mildred Williams, and two children were born into their family. They divorced after ten years of marriage in 1959 as Hugh could not forgive the affair his wife had while Hugh served in army. From 1969 to 1976, he was in a long-term relationship with Barbi Benton. In 1988, Herfer suffered a mini stroke after which he changed his lifestyle. In 1989, he married his second official wife Kimberley Conrad. They have two children together, both boys named Marston and Cooper. However, in 2010 the couple filed for divorce, though Hefner had a relationship with Brande Roderick in 2000 for almost a year. In 2012, Hefner married his current wife Crystal Harris.

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Hugh Hefner Quick Info

Hugh Hefner Trademarks

1. Always seen with a collection of girlfriends when in public
2. Smokes a pipe often attends press conferences dressed in his bed robe

Hugh Hefner Quotes

• [on being dumped by his 25 year old bride-to-be]: This was going to be my wedding day, but life is full of surprises. After all is said and done, staying single is probably for the best.
• [on feminists] They were wrong! The part of the women’s movement that was anti-sexual was ill-conceived. The notion that women, in escaping from the bondage of over 2,000 years, should view Playboy – which helped set them free – as the enemy is an indication of real confusion. Historically it’s understandable: we are a puritan people in America and women’s suffrage was directly connected to the prohibitionists.
• The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it’s sex.
• [talking about the risk of putting a nude woman in a magazine] It was risky enough that I didn’t put my name on the first issue.
• Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex, too.
• [asked if blondes have more fun] They do with me.
• Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.
• [on publishing Playboy magazine] If there was going to be a sexual revolution, I would be its pamphleteer.

Hugh Hefner Important Facts

• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6126 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on his 54th birthday [April 9, 1980].
• Playboy get stories sold to them, including horror stories. In the Christopher Pike novel The Eternal Dawn, the novel makes oblique references to the Twilight book series, e.g vampires and werewolves are mortal enemies, vampires can move in daylight, vampire gods, etc. But it’s a story sold to Playboy.
• Longtime gay rights activist. In 1955, Hefner personally agreed to have Playboy publish “The Crooked Man”, a science fiction story by Charles Beaumont, in which a heterosexual man is persecuted in a world populated by homosexuals. When critics attacked him for publishing such a story, Hefner replied “If it is wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse is wrong, too.”.
• His father had German and English ancestry. His mother was of Swedish descent.
• Between 1959 and 1974 the hub of the Playboy universe was located at 1340 North State Parkway, Chicago, IL 60610 (USA), just a block away from the Cardinal’s residence.
• His all time favorite film is the Humphrey Bogart classic “Casablanca (1942).” They (Playboy’s staff and guests) run it every year on his birthday weekend.
• Has an extensive film collection and runs a “Saturday Night Mansion Movie” every week at the Playboy Mansion. Among the titles are often movies that haven’t even been to theaters yet.
• As a young boy, his most prized possession was a blanket covered with little bunnies. This provided the inspiration to name his magazine.
• His original plan had been to call his magazine Stag, but there was already a magazine with that title. Playboy was his second choice.
• Former father-in-law of William A. Marovitz.
• Formerly engaged to Crystal Hefner. Harris called off the engagement days before their wedding in June 2011, but Hefner allowed her to keep her engagement ring and customized Bentley. [December 26, 2010].
• Lived with Barbi Benton [1969-1976].
• Mentioned by Arsenio Hall (as Rev. Brown) in Coming to America (1988) while giving a sermon.
• Magazine mogul “Jerry Caesar” from Dragnet (1987) is based partly on him and Larry Flynt.
• Has had legal battles with Hustler Magazine, over his photo collections.
• Personally interviewed every “Girl of the Month” in his magazine’s 50-plus years.
• Has a round-the-clock kitchen staff to serve him his meals on a tray in bed. He also has his own drawer of cookies in the Playboy Mansion’s kitchen.
• He grew up in the Montclare neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
• In 2005, Hugh attempted to create and Indian version of Playboy for India, which would feature South Asian women and Indian pop culture articles, but no nudity. He wanted to have Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on the cover of the first issue. The magazine was rejected.
• Used to work for Esquire magazine. He left to found Playboy after being denied a pay raise of $5 a week.
• Children: Christie Hefner (born on Saturday, November 8th, 1952) and David Paul Hefner, (born on Tuesday, August 30th, 1955) by Mildred Williams; Cooper Hefner and Marston Hefner by Kimberley Conrad. David owns a computer consulting firm.
• Owns the burial vault next to Marilyn Monroe’s. She is interred at Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Corridor of Memories, crypt #24.
• Adamantly against drug use, and refuses to allow them in any of his houses. Anyone caught doing drugs at any Playboy Mansion is subject to immediate and permanent expulsion.
• Was raised by rigid Methodist parents. His mother was one of the 45 investors Hefner recruited to launch “Playboy.”
• In 1988 turned his empire over to his daughter Christie Hefner.
• A full-size replica of him is on display at the Madame Tussaud’s Interactive Wax Museum at the Venetian Casino/Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Unlike the other models, Hefner’s likeness is not wax, but rather silicone.
• A brass plaque over the front door of his Chicago mansion reads, “Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare”, which roughly translates from Latin as “If You Don’t Swing, Don’t Ring”.
• Claims to be a direct descendant of pilgrim leader William Bradford.
• Pictured on a souvenir sheet issued by Grenada & the Grenadines on 1 December 2003, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Playboy Magazine. Six stamps in the sheet feature various Playboy covers, including the first issue with Marilyn Monroe and the May 1964 cover with Playmate of the Year Donna Michelle.
• Plays a major role in the James Bond short story “A Midsummer Night’s Doom” by Raymond Benson.
• Marilyn Monroe was the centerfold in the very first issue of his Playboy Magazine in December 1953. This was the only issue to name its playmate “Sweetheart of the Month”. In the March 1965 issue, Playboy Magazine featured the first African-American centerfold: Jennifer Jackson. Playboy Magazine was originally going to be titled “Stag Party”.
• Hefner and Jenna Jameson share the same birthday (April 9th).
• At one time owned a 119-foot long DC-9 jet called the “Big Bunny”. The jet was painted black with the well known white playboy bunny logo on its tail. It was equipped with a galley, living room, disco, movie and video equipment, wet bar and sleeping quarters for 16 guests.
• Served in the U.S. Army in WWII after graduating from Steinmetz H.S. in Chicago, IL (1944).
• Parents Glenn Hefner and Grace Hefner were from Phelps County, Nebraska.
• Hefner had a Genius IQ of 152 in H.S., but was described as an “unenthusiastic” student.
• Created the world-famous Playboy Mansion of Los Angeles in 1971.
• Arrested in Chicago, Illinois, USA in 1963 for possessing “indecent” photos of actress Jayne Mansfield in 1963’s movie, Promises….. Promises! (1963).
• First magazine publisher to become a major celebrity.
• Originally worked on the publishing staff of “Child Life” magazine.
• Older brother of Keith Hefner.
• Has a species of rabbit named in his honor (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri).
• Creator and publisher of Playboy Magazine.
• Graduated from Steinmetz High School (Chicago, IL). As a child often visited the now demolished Mont Clare Theatre in Chicago. Graduated from the University of Illinois.

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