These are 15 things you probably didn’t know about Hugh Martson Hefner, the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy. (Photo: Instagram)
He wasn’t always a playboy. In fact, Hefner said he was rejected by a girl when he was 16, which triggered his “Hef” transformation. (Photo: WENN)
He started Playboy after quitting a job at Esquire when he was denied a $5 raise. (Photo: WENN)
At the beginning, he planned on calling the magazine Stag Party. But there was already one called Stag, so he was force to come up with a new name. He landed on Playboy, and the rest is history. (Photo: WENN)
The first Playboy cover was a 5-yer-old photo of a then-unknown Marilyn Monroe. (Photo: Instagram)
Cher, Lindsay Lohan, Madonna, and Pamela Anderson were sonly some of the many, many celebrities who posed in Playboy. (Photo: WENN)
He holds a Guinness World Record for the longest career as an editor-in-chief for the same magazine. (Photo: WENN)
He was married 3 times, but he was known to be in public relationships with as many as 7 Playboy Bunnies. (Photo: WENN)
He had 4 children: Christie and David, with Mildred Williams, and Marston and Cooper, with Kimberley Conrad. (Photo: Instagram)
He earned a Guinness World Record in 2011 for putting together the largest personal scrapbook collection in the world. (Photo: Instagram)
Hugh donated about $900,000 to prevent the iconic Hollywood sign from being demolished. (Photo: Instagram)
In 2016, Hefner sold the famous Playboy Manson for $100 million. He paid $1 million a year to lease the property and remain in the residence for the remainder of his life. (Photo: WENN)
He had an estimated fortune of $50 million dollars. (Photo: WENN)
One of his most celebrated phrases was “Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.” (Photo: Instagram)
He bought the crypt located directly next to Marilyn Monroe’s crypt at the Westwood Village Memorial in Los Angeles. He’ll be buried there. (Photo: WENN)
The man in the jacket robe, the ultimate ladies’ man, the eternal playboy.
On Wednesday night, the world said goodbye to the man who made bunny rabbits sexy. Hugh Hefner quietly passed away at the Playboy Mansion at the aged of 91. His death marked the end of an era.
His magazine, his outfit, and his girls—as he liked to call them— made of Hef not only one of the most controversial figures of our time, but also an undeniable pop culture icon.
“Much of my life has been like an adolescent dream of an adult life,” Hefner told The Times in 1992. “If you were still a boy, in almost a Peter Pan kind of way, and could have just the perfect life that you wanted to have, that’s the life I invented for myself.”
Now that he has passed on to a better place (although I don’t think he’d agree there’s a better place other than the Playboy mansion), we share with you 15 little known facts about Playboy founder and editor-in-chief, Hugh Hefner.
