Early years, childhood and Hugh Hefner's family
Our today's hero was born in the city of Chicago in the family of Grace Caroline Swanson and Glenn Lucius Hefner. As a child, Hugh Hefner was the most ordinary guy, and therefore it is quite difficult to tell something interesting about his youth. He, like all other guys, loved sports, beautiful cars and beautiful girls. Due to his athletic physique, he was always popular with the opposite sex, but it was difficult to call him a real womanizer in the full sense of the word.After graduating from the Chicago high school, our today's hero went to the army and very soon was sent to Europe. In 1944, he took part in the fighting in France and Germany, thus recent months World War II.
Hugh Hefner had a chance to return to his homeland only in 1946. During this period, he moved to the town of Urban-Champaign, where he began to study at the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois. According to some biographers, it was during his student years during dashing parties that the idea of Playboy magazine first came to the future publisher. It was then that he began to engage in publishing for the first time.
Hugh Hefner first came into contact with the world of glossy journalism while working for Shaft magazine, for which he drew cartoons for several years.
Subsequently, our today's hero also worked in another major print publication - Esquire magazine. Having managed to feel all the subtleties of big journalism, Hugh Hefner finally established himself in the idea that he could create his own magazine, and some time later he began to implement his old idea.
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In the early fifties, Hugh Hefner began to raise money to create his own magazine. He made about $600 in loans, borrowed $8,000 from several interested investors, and borrowed another $1,000 from his mother. Having collected the necessary amount, "Hef" set to work.Model Harris reveals why she dumped Hugh Hefner
The basic name for the new edition was Stag Party (“Bachelor's Party”), but subsequently Hefner abandoned this brand, rightly believing that it could create unnecessary associations with the already existing men's magazine Stag Magazine. From that moment, work began on a new brand, which very soon formed into a simple and concise name Playboy.
In December 1953, the first issues of the magazine appeared in all newspaper shops in the United States. The Marilyn Monroe nude edition was released in 70,000 copies, three-quarters of which were sold out within the first week. Hugh Hefner did not even count on such a stunning success.
Some time later, a new issue followed, followed by another. Thus, already in the mid-fifties, Playboy magazine became very famous among American buyers.
The erotic, bright and provocative magazine appealed to the local public, who had been living in anticipation of a real sexual revolution for several years. The grains fell into fertile ground, and a few years later, Hugh Hefner's edition acquired a truly legendary status.
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The popularity of the magazine was strengthened by the publication of photographs of many American celebrities - Cindy Crawford, Sharon Stone, Naomi Campbell and others. Many lesser-known representatives of American show business even offered their erotic photos to Hugh Hefner in order to raise their rating in the eyes of American men in this way.
In the seventies and eighties, Playboy magazine became not just an erotic publication, but a real symbol of a beautiful life. Hugh Hefner himself tried with all his might to strengthen the popularity of his offspring. Creating an aura of a mysterious womanizer around himself, he excited the public with news of sexual parties in his mansion, as well as many high-profile novels. They tried to imitate him, and therefore the brilliance and attractiveness of Playboy magazine did not fade over time. In the seventies, regional editions of the magazine began to appear in different parts of the world. Currently, Playboy has its own publications in most countries of the world, including Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, Estonia and many other states of Eastern Europe.
AT different years Erotic photographs of many representatives of the Ukrainian and Russian stage appeared in Playboy magazine.
Hugh Hefner's personal life, girls and Playboy today
Even before the formation of the legendary magazine, Hugh Hefner was married to a girl named Mildred Williams. Together they lived for about ten years, during which the daughter Christy and son David Paul were born.This couple broke up in 1959. After that, our today's hero cohabited with various models for thirty years, and also often held famous sex parties in his mansion. It is known for certain that for several years it took place in love relationships with seven models at the same time.
Only thirty years after the dissolution of his first marriage, Hugh Hefner married again. His second wife was model Kimberly Conrad. The famous playboy lived with her for ten years. Subsequently, he returned to his usual way of life. However, on December 31, 2012, he married again. The third wife of 87-year-old Hugh Hefner was the model Krystal Haris.
Death
On September 27, 2017, the Playboy founder passed away at the age of 92. This was announced by the official account of the magazine on Twitter. Officially, he died of natural causes. surrounded by family and friends in his mansion.Millie Williams
The main woman of Hefner and all of Playboy is his first wife. It is Millie Williams who produces the world famous magazine. They were married for 10 years - from 1949 to 1959, and they had two children: Christy and David Hefner. Millie has always referred to her husband as a great father, despite the hedonistic lover image that made him world famous.
Kimberly Conrad
One of the few girls who managed to become not just a lover, but Hefner's wife. They tied the knot in 1989. A year later, exactly on the playboy's birthday, Kimberly gave him a son, and in 1991, a second. Thanks to her, life in the mansion has become less turbulent and the number of models living in it has noticeably decreased. In 1999, they broke up, but officially divorced only in 2009, 20 years after the wedding. Conrad used her popularity to become an animal rights activist.
Tina Jordan
Another reference Playboy beauty who was in a relationship with Hefner in the early 2000s. In 2002, she became the girl of the year according to the magazine, has repeatedly appeared on the covers and is considered the canonical "bunny".
Holly Madison
She was brought to Hefner's bedroom by then acting girl No. 1 - Tina Jordan. Holly Madison's appearance meets all the gold standards of the Playboy house of beauty: a platinum blonde with a fourth breast size, with a face that was made perfect by diligent plastic surgeons. She shared a bed with the owner of the house until 2008, but in October she decided to leave, as she was tired of the loose lifestyle. Since the Playboy Mansion, she has made several film and television appearances. In 2015, she released the memoir Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny.
Bridget Marquardt
Perhaps the most media girl Hugh. Together with her, he starred in a reality show about life behind the doors of the most famous mansion. She became the girlfriend of America's main lover in 2002, and left his house in 2009, following Holly Madison, with whom they were friends and starred in many films. In the same year, she became the host of the TV show Bridget's Sexiest Beaches. He holds degrees in communications and journalism.
Kendra Wilkinson
The trio of the most famous bunnies of the early 2000s is completed by another platinum buxom blonde Kendra Wilkinson. She met Hefner in 2004 at a party in honor of his 78th birthday. He immediately spotted the girl, as she was absolutely in his taste. At that time she was only 18 years old. He invited her to live in his house, and she immediately agreed. Later, she admitted that she only dreamed of how to move out of there. Like her girlfriends and reality show co-stars The Girls Next Door, she left Hefner in 2009 and almost immediately married football player Hanks Baskett.
Crystal Harris
The third wife of the most famous lover of the turn of the XX-XXI centuries. They got married in 2012, and before that they had been in a relationship for three years. At the wedding, she said that she wanted to stay with her husband for the rest of her life. And so it happened. In addition, the millionaire left real treasures to his widow.
Daria Astafieva
In Hefner's arsenal there are not only reference American women, but also beauties with Slavic roots. Perhaps the most famous of them is the Ukrainian model Dasha Astafieva. According to her confessions, the bride, and then the legal wife of the playboy, Krystal, was always jealous of Hugh for her. She made the decision to leave when the couple announced their engagement. Hefner personally invited her to the mansion after he saw her photo shoot in the Ukrainian Playboy. She came to the US to compete for the right to grace the 55th anniversary cover and won.
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He died on September 28 at his home in Los Angeles. While the whole world is mourning, including, the media have already begun to find out who will get the multi-million dollar fortune of the founder of Playboy magazine. As it turned out, his children will receive the money, but the third wife, 30-year-old Crystal Harris, will be left without everything.
Even before marriage to Crystal, Hugh insured himself in case an attractive wife wants to ruin him. The day before the wedding, Harris agreed to sign a prenuptial agreement, which stated that after the death of her husband, she would get absolutely nothing.
Hugh's four children from different marriages will share a fortune of $43 million, and part of the money will be transferred to the accounts of the University of Southern California and charitable organizations that the journalist has helped throughout his life.
Recall that Hefner's wedding ceremony with Krystal, who is 60 years younger than him, took place the second time. The couple was engaged in 2011, but a few days before the ceremony, the celebration was canceled because of the bride: the blonde just ran away. Harris admitted that she was afraid of responsibility, and the proximity of an intimate nature did not suit her:
Sex lasted no more than two seconds
the widow said.
But a year later, in 2012, the couple still got married. After which Crystal insisted that the age difference does not matter.
Sex, drugs and rock and roll at the old man's mansion.
Hugh Hefner, the founder of the popular men's publication Playboy, died today, according to The Mirror. This Peter Pan in the world of sex, surrounded by eternally young blondes with immense breasts, died at the age of 91 in his mansion, surrounded by his closest people.
The causes of death are quite natural - Hefner's age.
Nobody asked the girls if they wanted to have sex with Hugh, and they themselves never talked about it among themselves. It was clear: if you want to live in a mansion, accept the rules of the game.
Group sex took place twice a week - on Wednesdays and Fridays. Hugh had a bad hearing, so during the orgies the girls even laughed and commented on what was happening with sarcasm.
The feeling that she was being sold for a beautiful life made the girl feel very bad.
The show made Madison and two other girls famous, whose lives in and out of the mansion were put on public display.
But when the writers asked her to stay as Hefner's only girlfriend, she decided to leave because she didn't want to be with him.
She realized that she justified many of his shortcomings in order to remain in the rays of his glory.
After leaving Hefner, Madison took part in Dancing with the Stars, in the TV series Peep Show, married a millionaire and gave birth to a daughter.
