There was no main playboy of the world! In the US, on the 92nd year of life, a cult American publisher who founded the legendary tabloid Playboy, the inimitable Hugh Hefner, died. This is written on Twitter on the official page of the magazine.
Information about death
At night in the Playboy account in Twitter social network appeared a short mournful post:
"The American icon and the founder of Playboy, Hugh Hefner, passed away today. He was 91 years old. "
Details of his death and the date of the funeral will be announced later. In 2012, for 75 thousand dollars, Hugh purchased a place in the cemetery of Westwood Memorial Park next to the crypt, where the ashes of Marilyn Monroe lie.
In the meantime, the Playboy Enterprise press statement says that he died from quite natural causes on September 27 in the Playboy Mansion, located in Los Angeles, surrounded by his beloved and close people.
Hefner's son, Cooper Hefner, who is also the chief creative director of Playboy Enterprises, in an interview with People magazine, said:
"My father lived an unusual and influential life as a pioneer of the media and culture, the main voice of some of the most important social and cultural movements of our time, propagandizing freedom of speech and civil rights, freedom in sex. He defined the style and image that underlies the Playboy brand, one of the most recognizable and iconic in history. "
Legendary person
After working as a military correspondent in the fields of World War II and in the publication of Esquire, Hefner, born in 1926, in 1953, at his own expense, released a pilot number Playboy, on the cover of which was Marilyn Monroe. An innovative approach to creating a new magazine for men, in which there were not only erotic pictures, but articles on sports, politics, fashion, hobbies, made the gloss unusually popular, bringing its founder millions.
In the last years of his life, Hugh had problems with his back and moved with the help of walkers, rarely appearing in public, not wanting people to see him old and frail.
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The legacy left after the death of Hefner is claimed by his 31-year-old widow Crystal Harris, with whom he bound himself in marriage in 2012, and four children of the publisher - daughter Christie, son David Paul from the first wife Mildred Williams and sons from the second wife model Kimberly Conrad - Marston and Cooper.