Died the founder of Playboy Hugh Hefner
The founder of the erotic magazine Playboy Hugh Hefner died in the United States at the age of 91 years.
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Founder and chief editor of the iconic men’s magazine Playboy Hugh Hefner died in the United States at the age of 91 years.
Hefner, whom Time magazine once called a prophet of hedonism, died at his home in Los Angeles.
As reported in Playboy Enterprises, Hefner had died of natural causes.
American Icon and Founder of Playboy, Hugh M. Hefner passed away today. He was 91. #RIPHef pic.twitter.com/tCLa2iNXa4
— Playboy (@Playboy) July 28, 2017
“Life is too short to live someone else’s dream,” said Hefner.
“My father lived … as a virtuoso of the media and culture and the man who was behind some of the most significant social and cultural movements of modernity in the protection of freedom of speech, civil rights and sexual freedom,” — said in an interview with People, the son of Hugh Hefner, Cooper, creative Director at Playboy Enterprises.
Cooper added that his father will be missed very much.
How it all began
The first issue of the magazine Hugh Hefner produced in 1953 in the kitchen. Under the heading “girl of the month” on the cover of the first issue of the magazine then appeared naked of Marilyn Monroe. Her photos taken during a photo shoot for a calendar in 1949, Hefner bought for $ 200.
The money for the publication of the first issue of Hefner had to take, including his own mother. However, very soon the brainchild Hefner became the best-selling men’s magazine in the world.
He legendary founder of the popular magazine considered himself the mastermind of the sexual revolution of 1960-70-ies.
“I never thought of Playboy as a sex magazine, said Hefner in 2002 in interview of si-EN-EN. For me it has always been a magazine about lifestyle in which sex is an important part”.