Hefner went to Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High
School in Chicago, then served in the U.S. Army during the
closing months of World War II.
After his service, he majored in psychology at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and resumed his
relationship with Mildred Williams. Despite spending less
than three years in college before graduating, Hefner found
time to edit the magazine Shaft and sold cartoons to
magazines. His first salaried job was with a firm that
produced and printed cardboard cartons. In 1949 Hefner also
completed a semester of graduate courses in sociology and
women and gender studies at Northwestern University, where
he wrote a term paper examining U.S. sex laws in light of
the newly published Kinsey Institute research on male human
sexuality.[4] Hefner graduated from the University of
Illinois in 1949 with a major in psychology and a double
minor in creative writing and art. He explains that some of
the ideas for the Playboy magazine came to him while he was
a student there.
Hefner married fellow Northwestern student Mildred
Williams[4] on June 25, 1949, and had two children, Christie
and David Paul (b. 30 August 1955). Christie is Chairperson
of Playboy Enterprises. Mildred and Hugh divorced after ten
years of marriage in 1959.
After serving in the subscription department and as a
copywriter for Esquire, he left in January 1952 after being
denied a $5 raise. He worked at Children's Activities, then
took his biggest gamble in 1953 by lending his furniture for
$600 and raising $8,000 from 45 investors -- including
$1,000 from his mother ("Not because she believed in the
venture," he told E! in 2006, "but because she believed in
her son") -- to launch Playboy.
Private life
Before their wedding, Mildred told Hefner that she had had
an affair; he has called the admission "the most devastating
moment of [his] life." A 2006 E! THS profile of Hefner
revealed she allowed him to cheat on her, out of guilt for
her infidelity and the hopes that it would preserve their
failing marriage.
After his first marriage, Hefner became the world's most
famous and envied womanizer. He has said that during some
years, he was "'involved' with maybe eleven out of twelve
months worth of Playmates."[5] Hefner has had sustained
relationships with Donna Michelle, Marilyn Cole, Lillian
Muller, Patti McGuire, Shannon Tweed, and Brande Roderick,
all of whom were chosen "Playmate of the Year." Others
include Barbi Benton, Karen Christy, ex-Sunday school
teacher Sondra Theodore, and actress Carrie Leigh, who filed
a $35 million alimony suit against him. Benton, who dated
him for 8 years, remains a fixture in Hefner's life and a
regular visitor to the Playboy Mansion, which she found for
him. In 1971, Hefner has acknowledged, he experimented in
bisexuality.[6]
On July 1, 1989, he ended a 30-year run as a bachelor and
married Kimberley Conrad, that year's Playboy Playmate of
the Year. They separated in 1999, though have yet to
divorce.
Hefner has 4 children: Christie Hefner (born November 8,
1952) and David Hefner (born August 30, 1955) with Mildred
Williams, and Marston Hefner (born 9 April 1990) and Cooper
Hefner (born 4 September 1991) with Kimberley Conrad.
After his separation from Conrad, Hefner began living with
an ever-changing coterie of women, ranging in age from 18 to
28. He told Vanity Fair: "And here's the surprise bit—it's
what they want!" Soon, Hefner assembled another coterie of
girlfriends, notably Brande Roderick. In 2000 she left to
take a role in popular series Baywatch. Hefner soon selected
27-year-old Yazmin King as favorite. Later, Tina Marie
Jordan became Hefner's "primary" girlfriend, and he quickly
selected more young blondes for a posse of seven, one of
whom was Holly Madison who joined in 2001. Shortly after
Playboy's 50th anniversary, five of the girlfriends,
including Izabella St. James, left, leaving Holly and
Bridget Marquardt to tend to Hefner.
In 2004 Kendra Wilkinson (also blonde, aged 18) was asked to
move into the Mansion to become girlfriend number 3. The
2005-06 E! reality television series The Girls Next Door
follows these three girlfriends, Holly Madison, Bridget
Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson in their life with Hef around
the Mansion and on travel.
An urban legend persists about Hefner and the Playmate of
the Month related to markings on the front covers of the
magazine. From 1955 to 1979 (except for a six month gap in
1976), the "P" in Playboy had a number of stars printed in
or around the letter. The legend claims that this was either
a rating that Hefner gave to the Playmate according to how
attractive she was, the number of times that Hefner had
slept with her, or how good she was in bed. Another rumor
was that if the stars were inside the "P", Hefner had slept
with the Playmate, while if they were outside, he didn't
sleep with her. In reality, the stars, which ranged in
number between zero and twelve, were solely used to indicate
the domestic or international advertising region for that
particular printing.
Politics
Hefner has always espoused a shared liberal/libertarian
stance in his editorials and in his life. On June 4, 1963,
Hefner was arrested for selling obscene literature after an
issue of Playboy featuring nude shots of actress Jayne
Mansfield was released. Six months later, a jury was unable
to reach a verdict.
His former secretary, Bobbie Arnstein, was found dead in a
Chicago hotel room at the age of 34 after an overdose of
drugs in January 1975. Hefner called a press conference to
allege that she had been driven to suicide by narcotics
agents and federal officers. Hefner, whose mansions in
Chicago and Beverly Hills had come under the scrutiny of
federal agents because of alleged drugs parties, claimed the
Government was out to get him because of Playboy's
philosophy and its advocacy of more liberal drug laws.
The Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards were created by
daughter Christie in 1979 "to honor individuals who have
made significant contributions in the vital effort to
protect and enhance First Amendment rights for Americans."
Hefner and his family have donated and raised great amounts
of money for the Democratic Party.[7]
"Hefner" in pop culture
* "The stuff that dreams are made of," a favorite quote
Hefner often uses to refer to the success of Playboy, comes
from Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon; both are
misquotations from Act IV, Scene I of Shakespeare's The
Tempest ("We are such stuff as dreams are made on").
* Hefner owns the crypt in the Westwood Village Memorial
Park Cemetery in Westwood, California, beside Marilyn
Monroe.[8]
* Has a subspecies of rabbit named in his honor (Sylvilagus
palustris hefneri).
* His first professional movie was Roman Polanski's film
adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, where he served as the
executive producer.[9]
* He has a cameo appearance in Mel Brooks film History of
the World, Part I.
* He made a cameo in the episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled" of
The Simpsons.
* He is the sponsor for the letter 'Y' in the famous
Hollywood Sign in Hollywood. In 1978 he also threw a
'Playboy Party' at the mansion in order to raise money for
the renovation of the sign.
* He makes a cameo appearance in the Family Guy episode
"Airport 07" where he prompts Glenn Quagmire to save his
friends from a plane crash.
* Hefner also makes a cameo appearance in Curb Your
Enthusiasm Episode 46 "The Smoking Jacket".
Books
* Miller, Russell (1985). Bunny: The Real Story of Playboy.
London: Corgi. ISBN 0-03-063748-1.
References
1. ^ Tungate, Mark (2004). Media Monoliths : How Great Media
Brands Thrive and Survive. Kogan Page, 175. ISBN
978-0749441081.
2. ^ Playboy Enterprisese Inc. Corporate Officers
3. ^ SEC Def14A see "Playboy Stock Ownership"
4. ^ a b Playboy Time Line.
5. ^ Acocella, Joan. "The Girls Next Door." New Yorker, 20
March 2006.
6. ^ "Faces of the Week." BBC News. 26 May 2006.
7. ^ Tapper, Jake. "Hef in a Huff." Salon.com, 11 August
2000.
8. ^ Westwood Village Memorial Cemetery
9. ^ The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
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