– Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner has died at 91
– The American icon started publishing the mag from his kitchen in 1953
– Playboy grew to be the highest selling men’s magazine in the world and sold up to 7 million copies monthly at its peak
– Hefner in his lifetime was critized as a ‘sexist’
– He will be buried in a mausoleum drawer he bought next to Marilyn Monroe
Playboy founder and publisher Hugh Hefner is dead.
Hefner died at age 91 on Wednesday.
The business mogul died from natural cause.
“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, passed away from natural causes at his Playboy Mansion, in Los Angeles’ Holmby Hills neighborhood,” Playboy confirmed in a statement.
Hefner is said to have started Playboy with $1000 loan from his mum and funds from other associates. He began publishing the magazine in his kitchen same year, and the magazine become the highest selling men’s magazine in the world. At its peak, the Playboy magazine sold 7 million copies monthly and played an important role in the sexual revolution.
While alive, Hefner was criticised as a relic of a sexist era, especially in his later years, when he spoke openly of his Viagra-fueled sex romps at the Playboy Mansion, claiming to have had sex with 1000 women.
But many men envied his adolescent-fantasy lifestyle.
The silk robbed cassanova will be buried in Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, where he bought the mausoleum drawer next to Marilyn Monroe.
Hefner is survived by his daughter, Christie; and his sons, David, Marston and Cooper.
