Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner | |
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 Hefner in November 2010 | |
| Born | Hugh Marston Hefner (1926-04-09)April 9, 1926 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | September 27, 2017(2017-09-27) (aged 91) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (B.A.) |
| Occupation | Businessman, magazine publisher |
| Years active | 1953–2017 |
| Known for | Editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Board member of | Playboy Enterprises |
| Spouse(s) | Mildred Williams (m. 1949; div. 1959) Kimberley Conrad (m. 1989; div. 2010) Crystal Harris (m. 2012) |
| Partner(s) | Barbi Benton (1969–1976) Brande Roderick (1999–2000) Holly Madison (2001–2008) Bridget Marquardt (2002–2009) Kendra Wilkinson (2004–2008) |
| Children | 4, Christie, David, Marston, and Cooper |
| Website | Playboy.com |
Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher and life-stylist. He was founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a revolutionary publication, aimed at a sophisticated young readership, with revealing glamour photographs and sensational articles provoking charges of obscenity. The first issue, in 1953, featuring Marilyn Monroe in her nude calendar shoot, sold over 50,000 copies.
Hefner extended the brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs, as well as his own luxury mansions where the Playboy ‘playmates’ shared his wild partying life, keenly reported in the media. An advocate of sexual liberation and freedom of expression, Hefner was a political activist in other causes too, including the Democratic party, First Amendment rights, animal rescue, and the restoration of the Hollywood Sign.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 Playboy Mansion
5 Politics and philanthropy
6 Death
7 Criticism
8 Film adaptation
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links
Early life
Hefner was born in Chicago on April 9, 1926,[2] the first child of Grace Caroline (née Swanson; 1895–1997) who worked as a teacher, and Glenn Lucius Hefner (1896–1976), an accountant. His parents were originally from Nebraska.[3][4] He had a younger brother, Keith (1929–2016).[5][6][7] His mother was of Swedish descent, and his father had German and English ancestry.[8][9]
Through his father's line, Hefner claimed descent from Plymouth governor William Bradford.[10][11] He described his family as "conservative, Midwestern, [and] Methodist".[12] His mother had wanted him to become a missionary.[13]
He attended Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High School, then served from 1944 to 1946 as a U.S. Army writer for a military newspaper. Hefner graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1949 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a double minor in Creative Writing and Art, having earned his degree in two and a half years. After graduation, he took a semester of graduate courses in Sociology at Northwestern University, but dropped out soon after.[14]
Career
In January 1952, Hefner left his job as a copywriter for Esquire after he was denied a $5 raise. In 1953, he took out a mortgage, generating a bank loan of $600, and raised $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, which was initially going to be called Stag Party. The first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot and sold over 50,000 copies.[15] (Hefner, who never met Monroe, bought the crypt next to hers at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in 1992 for $75,000.[16][17])
After the Charles Beaumont science fiction short story "The Crooked Man" was rejected by Esquire magazine in 1955, Hefner agreed to publish the story in Playboy. The story highlighted straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. After the magazine received angry letters, Hefner wrote a response to criticism where he said, "If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too."[18] In 1961, Hefner watched Dick Gregory perform at the Herman Roberts Show Bar in Chicago. Based on that performance, Hefner hired Gregory to work at the Chicago Playboy Club; Gregory attributed the subsequent launch of his career to that night.[19] In 1959, Hefner reinvented himself and bought a Chicago mansion in December of that year, a move which brought Playboy into the public eye.[citation needed]
On June 4, 1963, Hefner was arrested for promoting obscene literature after he published an issue of Playboy that featured nude shots of Jayne Mansfield in bed with a man present.[20] The case went to trial and resulted in a hung jury.[21]
In the 1960s, "private key" clubs would be created by Hefner, and these clubs would be racially diverse, in a time where the scent of segregation was still lingering heavy in the air.[22] Also during the civil rights movement in 1966, Hefner sent Alex Haley to interview George Lincoln Rockwell, much to Rockwell's surprise because Haley was black. Rockwell had founded the American Nazi Party and would be later described by some as the "American Hitler". Rockwell agreed to meet with Haley only after gaining assurance from the Playboy writer that he was not Jewish, although Rockwell kept a handgun on the table throughout the interview. The interview was recreated in Roots: The Next Generations in 1979, with James Earl Jones as Haley and Marlon Brando as Rockwell; Brando won a Primetime Emmy Award for his portrayal of Rockwell.[23] Haley had also interviewed Malcolm X in 1963 and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966 for the newly established 1962 "playboy interview"; all three interviewees would be assassinated by 1968.[24]
Hefner with his trademark Playboy Pipe in 1966
In 1970, Hugh Hefner stated that "militant feminists" are "unalterably opposed to the romantic boy-girl society that Playboy promotes" and ordered a hit piece in his magazine against them.[25]
In the 1993 The Simpsons episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Hefner guest-voiced himself.[26][27] In 1999, Hefner financed the Clara Bow documentary, Discovering the It Girl. "Nobody has what Clara had. She defined an era and made her mark on the nation," he stated.[28] Hefner guest-starred as himself in the 2000 Sex and the City episode "Sex and Another City".[29] In 2005, Hefner guest-starred on the HBO TV shows Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage.[29] Hefner guest-starred as himself in a 2006 episode of Seth Green's Robot Chicken on the late-night programming block Adult Swim.[27] In the 2007 Family Guy episode "Airport '07", Hefner guest-voiced himself.[29] He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for television and made several movie appearances as himself on the small screen. In 2009, he received a "worst supporting actor" nomination for a Razzie award for his performance as himself in Miss March. On his official Twitter account he joked about this nomination: "Maybe I didn't understand the character."[30]
A documentary by Brigitte Berman, Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, was released on July 30, 2010. He had previously granted full access to documentary filmmaker and television producer Kevin Burns for the A&E Biography special Hugh Hefner: American Playboy in 1996.[31] Hefner and Burns later collaborated on numerous other television projects, most notably on The Girls Next Door, a reality series that ran for six seasons (2005–2009) and 90 episodes.[32]
In 2012, Hefner announced that his youngest son, Cooper, would likely succeed him as the public face of Playboy.[33]
Personal life
Hefner at the premiere of Sylvester Stallone's movie F.I.S.T., 1978
Hefner with his then-partners Holly Madison (left) and Bridget Marquardt, 2007
Known to friends and family as simply "Hef,"[34] in 1949, Hefner married Northwestern University student Mildred ("Millie") Williams. They had two children: daughter Christie (b. 1952) and son David (b. 1955).[35] Before the wedding, Mildred confessed that she had an affair while he was away in the army. He called the admission "the most devastating moment of my life." A 2006 E! True Hollywood Story profile of Hefner revealed that Mildred allowed him to have sex with other women, out of guilt for her own infidelity and in the hope that it would preserve their marriage. The two were divorced in 1959.[36][37]
Hefner remade himself as a bon vivant and man about town, a lifestyle he promoted in his magazine and two TV shows he hosted, Playboy's Penthouse (1959–1960) and Playboy After Dark (1969–1970).[38] He was also the chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, which is the publishing group that operates the magazine.[39] He admitted to being "'involved' with maybe eleven out of twelve months' worth of Playmates" during some of these years.[40]Donna Michelle, Marilyn Cole, Lillian Müller, Shannon Tweed, Barbi Benton, Karen Christy, Sondra Theodore, and Carrie Leigh – who filed a $35 million palimony suit against him – were a few of his many lovers. In 1971, he acknowledged that he experimented in bisexuality.[41] Also in 1971, Hefner established a second residence in Los Angeles with the acquisition of Playboy Mansion West and, in 1975, moved there permanently from Chicago.[42]
In 1985, Hefner had a minor stroke at age 59. After re-evaluating his lifestyle, he made several changes. The wild, all-night parties were toned down significantly and in 1988, daughter Christie took over the operation of the Playboy empire. The following year, he married Playmate of the Year Kimberley Conrad; they were 36 years apart in age. The couple had two sons: Marston Glenn (born 1990) and Cooper Hefner (born 1991).[43] The E! True Hollywood Story profile noted that the notorious Playboy Mansion had been transformed into a family-friendly homestead. After he and Conrad separated in 1998, she moved into a house next door to the mansion.[44]
Hefner became known for moving an ever-changing coterie of young women into the Playboy Mansion, including twins Sandy and Mandy Bentley. He dated as many as seven women concurrently. He also dated Brande Roderick, Izabella St. James, Tina Marie Jordan, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson. Madison, Wilkinson, and Marquardt appeared on The Girls Next Door depicting their lives at the Playboy Mansion.[45] In October 2008, all three girls decided to leave the mansion. After an 11-year separation, Hefner filed for divorce from Conrad citing irreconcilable differences.[46] Hefner has stated that he only remained nominally married to her for the sake of his children,[47] and his youngest child had just turned 18.[43]
In January 2009, Hefner began a relationship with Crystal Harris;[48] she joined the Shannon Twins after his previous "number one girlfriend", Holly Madison, had ended their seven-year relationship.[49] On December 24, 2010, he became engaged to Harris, to become his third wife.[50] Harris broke off their engagement on June 14, 2011, five days before their planned wedding.[51] In anticipation of the wedding, the July issue of Playboy, which reached store shelves and customer's homes within days of the wedding date, featured Harris on the cover and in a photo spread as well. The headline on the cover read "Introducing America's Princess, Mrs. Crystal Hefner".[52] Hefner and Harris subsequently reconciled and married on December 31, 2012.[53][54][55][56]
Hefner's brother Keith died at the age of 87 on April 8, 2016, one day before Hefner's 90th birthday.[57]
Playboy Mansion
In January 2016, the Playboy Mansion was put on the market for $200 million, on condition that Hugh Hefner would continue to work and live in the mansion.[58] Later that year it was sold to Daren Metropoulos, a principal at private equity firm Metropoulos & Company, for $100 million. Metropoulos planned to reconnect the Playboy Mansion property with a neighboring estate that he purchased in 2009, combining the two for a 7.3 acre (3-hectare) compound as his own private residence.[59]
In May 2017, Eugena Washington was the last Playmate of the Year to be announced by Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion.[60]
Politics and philanthropy
The Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award was created by Christie Hefner "to honor individuals who have made significant contributions in the vital effort to protect and enhance First Amendment rights for Americans."[61]
He donated and raised money for the Democratic Party.[62] In 2011, he referred to himself as an independent due to dissatisfaction with both the Democratic and Republican parties.[63] Nonetheless, in 2012, he supported Barack Obama's reelection campaign.[64]
In 1978, Hefner helped organize fund-raising efforts that led to the restoration of the Hollywood Sign. He hosted a gala fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion and contributed $27,000 (or 1/9 of the total restoration costs) by purchasing the letter Y in a ceremonial auction.[65][66]
Hefner donated $100,000 to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts to create a course called "Censorship in Cinema", and $2 million to endow a chair for the study of American film.[67]
Both through his charitable foundation and individually, Hefner also contributed to charities outside the sphere of politics and publishing, throwing fundraiser events for Much Love Animal Rescue as well as Generation Rescue,[68] an anti-vaccinationist campaign organization supported by Jenny McCarthy.
On November 18, 2010, Children of the Night founder and president Dr. Lois Lee presented Hefner with the organization's first-ever Founder's Hero of the Heart Award in appreciation for his unwavering dedication, commitment and generosity.[69]
On April 26, 2010, Hefner donated the last $900,000 sought by a conservation group for a land purchase needed to stop the development of the famed vista of the Hollywood Sign.[65]Sylvilagus palustris hefneri, an endangered subspecies of marsh rabbit, is named after him in honor of financial support that he provided.[70][71][72]
The Barbi Twins who are among a notable cohort of celebrity Playmates, including Pamela Anderson and Hefner's third wife Crystal Harris, praised the publishing icon for providing centerfolds and extended members of the Playboy family with a platform for activism and advocacy on behalf of animal populations in need.[73][72]
Hefner supported legalizing same-sex marriage, and he stated that a fight for gay marriage was "a fight for all our rights. Without it, we will turn back the sexual revolution and return to an earlier, puritanical time."[74]
Death
Hefner died at his home in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, on September 27, 2017, at the age of 91.[75][76] The cause was sepsis brought on by an E. coli infection.[77][78][79]
He is interred at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, in the $75,000 crypt beside Marilyn Monroe. "Spending eternity next to Marilyn is an opportunity too sweet to pass up," Hefner had told the Los Angeles Times in 2009.[80]
Criticism
In The Guardian, journalist Suzanne Moore wrote that Hefner threatened to file a lawsuit against her for calling him a "pimp".[81] Defending her position, Moore argued that "he was a man who bought and sold women to other men".[81] She further stated that "Part of Hefner's business acumen was to make the selling of female flesh respectable and hip, to make soft porn acceptable."[81]
Writing for The Independent, English writer Julie Bindel argued that Hefner "caused immeasurable damage by turning porn – and therefore the buying and selling of women's bodies – into a legitimate business."[82]
In the Los Angeles Times, Robin Abcarian wrote that Hefner "probably did more to the mainstream exploitation of women's bodies than any other figure in American history," adding that he "managed to convince many women that taking off their clothes for men's pleasure was not just empowering, but a worthy goal in itself."[83] She further stated that Hefner "embodied the aesthetic notion that images of women — and women themselves — exist to please men."[83]
Writing for Christianity Today, Ed Stetzer wrote that during his lifetime, when Christie Hefner visited the Playboy Mansion, he would have the residence systematically cleaned in order "to keep the realities from his own daughter".[84] Stezer further lamented the consequences of Hefner's role as a "general" of the sexual revolution:
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It's hard to fathom that anyone would have known what this would have turned into. Parents growing up today are fighting to keep their children pure. Spouses are fighting to keep their marriages intact. And many enslaved and trapped in the adult entertainment industry have been figuratively and literally stripped not only of their clothes, but their very value as people made in the image of God. If this does not concern us, what will?[84]
Hefner's former girlfriend, Holly Madison, said that while she lived in the Playboy Mansion, Hefner "would encourage competition—and body image issues—between his multiple live-in girlfriends. His legacy is full of evidence of the exploitation of women for professional gain."[85]
Film adaptation
On October 3, 2017, it was announced that Academy Award-winning actor Jared Leto would play Hugh Hefner in a biopic directed by Brett Ratner with the screenplay by Jeff Nathanson. However, the film was indefinitely put on hold and it was confirmed that Leto would not portray Hefner following an emergence of sexual harassment allegations against Ratner on November 2, 2017.[86][87]
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Further reading
Watts, Steven (2008). Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-52167-0.
Miller, Russell (1985). Bunny: The Real Story of Playboy. London: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-03-063748-3.
St. James, Izabella (2006). Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion – Reprint Edition–2009. Philadelphia: Running Press. ISBN 978-0-7624-3230-1.
Vile, John R.; Hudson, David L.; Schultz, David Andrew (2009). Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. p. 564. ISBN 978-0-87289-311-5.
External links
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