Hugh Hefner is an American journalist, publisher and founder of the popular Playboy magazine (“Playboy”), and simply a lover of beautiful women, who began a new era of the sexual revolution in the world of media.
Hugh Hefner was born on April 9, 1926 in the cultural capital of the Midwest, in the historically famous city of Chicago, located in Illinois. Hugh is rumored to be the cousin of the former President of the United States.
It cannot be said that Hefner had a happy childhood: the boy grew up and was brought up in an average and strict family. It is paradoxical that the parents of the famous publisher - Grace Caroline Swanson and Glenn Lucius Hefner - were zealous guardians of Puritanism and adhered to the harsh mores prescribed in the Protestant religion.
For example, the Puritans led a reclusive lifestyle, limited their needs, worked hard and condemned intimate relationships, believing that intimacy between a man and a woman was needed solely for the continuation of the human race. Hefner recalled that the family had a taboo on cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, because his mom and dad unanimously repeated the memorized phrase: “God wants it!”.
Hef (Hugh gave himself such a nickname in childhood) admitted that Hefner Sr.'s love for the Almighty was so great that sometimes a man, even on the smallest domestic issues, turned to the local pastor for advice. Not surprisingly, the God-fearing husband and wife raised the future Playboy creator according to religious rules. They controlled every step of their firstborn, trying to promote a selfless and ascetic life to the boy. Pious parents forbade Hef to make friends, as they believed that new acquaintances did not lead to anything good.
Therefore, when the neighbor boys played in the yard from morning to evening, young Hugh watched them through the window and dreamed of spending at least a day without the strict supervision of adults. Also, Hefner was forbidden to go to the movies, because, according to Glenn and Grace, the passion for films was equated with sin, despite the fact that the American film industry of that time had an ethical "Hayes Code", according to which films that undermined the moral foundations of the audience were unacceptable .
Young Hefner was saved from the monotonous boredom of books that he read voraciously. At the insistence of Grace, Hugh studied the works of the school curriculum, but the boy managed to secretly smuggle the book of the "King of Horrors" from his parents, which made an indelible impression on him. As Hef got older, he studied the writings of Alfred Kinsey and.
Hugh is known to have attended Chicago High School. The teachers immediately noticed the guy's love for literature and writing talent, so they predicted a journalistic future for the young talent. However, the exact sciences were not given to the young man due to a lack of diligence and perseverance.
After leaving school in 1944, the future publisher was drafted into the army, where he worked as a war correspondent. There he realized that postcards with half-naked women were popular with soldiers. After serving, Hefner entered the University of Illinois in the Department of Psychology.
Publishing
Hefner's interest in publishing appeared in his student years, then the idea of Playboy magazine was born in the mind of a young man. During his studies, Hugh managed to earn money in Shaft magazine, in a local art studio, and even published his own satirical comic book That Town Toddlin, which tells about the life of a big and noisy Chicago. But the guy quickly got bored with the creative profession of a comic artist, so he got a job as an advertising manager at a local plastic packaging company.
Later, in the winter of 1951, Hugh was the editor of the famous men's magazine Esquire, which tells its readers about business, politics, fashion, etc. But Hefner had to give up a career in this publication, as a request for a pay increase was answered with a sharp refusal. After unsuccessful negotiations with the Esquire chief, Hugh resigned as editor and personally began to pursue his dream - the creation of Playboy.
"Playboy"
Playboy is a men's magazine published by Hugh Hefner and his colleagues since 1953. The publication with naked beauties, fiction articles and sensational photographs of Hollywood stars is still popular in many countries to this day. The word "playboy" has become a household name for ladies' men, and the permanent logo of a rabbit with a bow tie is widely used by designers around the world.
Few people know that the path of Hugh Hefner to the periodical publication of his own magazine with erotic overtones was long and thorny. To fulfill his cherished dream, Hef worked part-time at a bank, where he received $ 600, and he borrowed the remaining $ 9,000 from investors and borrowed from his own mother.
It is known from the biography of the journalist that initially he wanted to call his magazine Stag Party (from the English - “Party of Stallions”, “Bachelor Party”), but for a long time he thought about what kind of girl would decorate the cover of a glossy publication. But suddenly he caught the eye of an old army postcard with a nude, which seemed to wink at him from the picture.
Inspired by the beauty of the famous blonde, Hugh came up with a new name for the magazine - Playboy, and a black and white photo of Monroe began to decorate the cover of the debut edition. Before the circulation of the first issue of Playboy magazine (70,000 copies), Hugh was not sure that his publication would pass censorship and be a success with a male audience. Therefore, somewhat set on failure, Hefner did not number the debut issue, strongly doubting that a second would follow.
But the success of Playboy was not long in coming: in the first week alone, a quarter of the circulation was sold, thus, the era of the “sexual revolution” began in the media. Hefner himself never considered Playboy to be a sex magazine, because the bunny edition was so different from the pornographic print of Hustler, Penthouse, and Screw.
Erotica for Playboy magazine was just a beautiful wrapper: both fiction and interviews appeared on the glossy pages, and serious topics were discussed, for example, articles were published where he talked about the problems of segregation in America, and talked about the revolutionary struggle.
Also in the Playboy columns were published short stories of writers: Stanislav Lem, and other literary figures. It's no secret that star beauties appeared on the pages of Hugh's edition, who were not afraid to appear before readers "in all their glory." It was, and many other lovely ladies.
Personal life
No wonder that the creator of the erotic magazine was not deprived of the attention of women. The first wife of the womanizer was his classmate Mildred Williams, the marriage with which lasted 10 years. It is noteworthy that the devoutly brought up Hugh and Millie did not enter into an intimate relationship before the wedding.
Williams gave the journalist two children: in 1952, the beloved had a daughter, Christy, and in 1955, a son, David Paul, appeared. In 1959, the Hefner family idyll collapsed, and Millie, taking her son and daughter, filed for divorce, which was accompanied by a loud scandal: according to the slanderous words of Hefner's ex-wife, the Playboy publisher was a domestic rapist and tyrant.
After the departure of Williams, Hugh lived for 30 years the life of an enviable bachelor and had promiscuity. It wasn't until 1989 that he tied his knot with model Kimberly Conrad, to whom he had been married for about ten years. Since 2000, the insatiable "American Don Juan" has been living in a large cottage with seven beautiful girls, throwing loud parties.
In the winter of 2010, it became known that Hugh was preparing for the wedding with blonde Crystal Harris, but shortly before the celebration, Hefner said in his account
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 forever 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.
Madison enjoys living a family life. But she urges not to evaluate the success of a woman only by the presence or absence of a family, because she is sure that everything has its time.
On September 27, 2017, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner died at the age of 92. He died surrounded by his family in his own home from old age. For the last five years of his life, he was married to model Crystal Harris, who was 60 years his junior.
At the beginning of 2016, the Planet publishing house published a book by Alexander PUMPYANSKY called Rollercoaster. The author worked for Komsomolskaya Pravda for many years, and traveled around the United States back in Soviet times. He managed to see the country at a turning point, in the most tense and stormy decades of the 20th century for it.
With the permission of the author, we are publishing excerpts from an essay dedicated to Hugh Hefner, the owner of Playboy, who entered the minds of millions of men as the very ideal, cheerful, cheerful and luxurious Playboy with a capital letter.
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Five lessons from Hugh Hefner's life.“Laugh at every opportunity, especially at yourself” (c) Hugh Hefner We recall the quotes of the legendary founder of Playboy
famous bed
1971 1340 North State Parkway is one of the most famous addresses in Chicago. Impressive four-story mansion. English Victorian style. The walls should hold the shadows of famous guests, including Teddy Roosevelt and Admiral Peary. The procedure is like entering Ali Baba's cave... ceilings frescoed with flowers, Italian marble fireplaces. Above one of them is Picasso's "Nude". Fountains and even caves... They talk about secret doors, sliding walls, secret passages. A special place in the house is occupied by a cinema hall with a screen like in a real cinema. All places are pre-scheduled - depending on the proximity to the Master, who appears last, without fail in silk pajamas, to occupy something indistinguishable from the throne.
The Playboy Mansion is a set for the filming of Girls of the Month, a place for receiving business partners, a hotel with five-star rooms for star guests.
Somewhere in the depths of this ever-swarming social hive, Hefner built for himself "private apartments" with several entrances, however, always closed, and without windows. Their heart is something that the language does not dare to call a piece of furniture. Artifact. Thing in itself. "The world's largest swivel bed" - 8.5 feet in diameter (2.6 meters. - Ed.), Which not only rotates 360 degrees, but also tilts at different angles.
And yet, they say, on the top floor of the mansion there is a dormitory - a hostel, the place of residence of two dozen girls who have descended from the pages of the magazine ...
Some doors swung open and Hefner entered. Luxurious glossy girls supported him under both arms. Hefner invited me to a bar for a short chat. “Now I need to talk to the guests,” he said, “and at two in the morning I have an interview with the correspondent of the English Guardian. Are you ready to chat together?" "OK". "See you then, but for now," Hefner gestured broadly, "you'll find all the drinks in the world here."
At two in the morning we met again. It was my shame. No matter what I asked, none of Hefner's answers could be printed in my newspaper...
Playboy was an absolute taboo in the Soviet Union. The customs officers hunted him with voluptuous zeal. For the sterile Soviet consciousness, this was the exact embodiment of the forbidden fruit.
500 dollars for Marilyn
Let's fast forward twenty years.
In September 1952, Hefner wrote a letter:
"Dear friend!
All the last time... I've been busy over my head, preparing a deal that will bring money to you and me. Stag party - a brand new magazine for men - will be released this fall. The first issue of the Stag party will feature a photo of Marilyn Monroe from the famous calendar - in color! In fact, each issue of the Stag party will contain an amazing, full-page color photo of a naked girl - in the most juicy and natural colors ...
Yours cordially
Hugh Hefner, general manager."
The letter was addressed to the 25 largest magazine distributors in the US. Quite a bold letter. Hefner was 26 years old, he had absolutely nothing behind his soul - no editorial office, no money. Even the name "Playboy" did not yet exist, but there was a rather stupid Stag party (stag - moose, bachelor, party - a party, together some kind of "porn-hoofed party"). But it turned out that he has an idea and it will shoot so that the most successful project in the history of American media will be born.
The cheeky letter to the publishers, oddly enough, turned out to be realistic. It already stated the formula of the publication, which will remain unchanged: brilliant, full-color, full-blooded female figures in full growth, plus high-quality liberal journalism.
And the jackpot was announced - a nude photo of Marilyn Monroe.
Takeoff on the "Golden Dream"
The math behind this deal is worth replicating. Three years ago, in 1949, the aspiring actress posed for a professional Los Angeles photographer. “There was nothing on me but radio waves,” Marilyn would later say in her inimitable manner to Life magazine. The photographer sold the entire photo shoot - 3 nude poses plus 3 semi-nude - to Hefner for $500, who bought such shoots for future use. But when the first film with Monroe came out on the screen, he decided it was time. Production costs cost another $600. In the light of Hefner will release the "sexiest" and previously unprinted photo, he will call it "Golden Dream". “I just don’t know how much this photo can be valued,” he will say later.
The first issue of Playboy sold 50,000 copies, which Hefner did not count on. It was almost a vertical takeoff...
The post office flatly refused to deliver the "obscene" magazine. It was a punch in the gut. Backed up against the wall, Playboy sued, accusing her of violating the first amendment to the constitution. Post Office vs Playboy. "Pornography" against "freedom of speech" - the process turned out to be louder than ever. By winning it, Hefner not only saved the distribution channels of the magazine, he raised Playboy to an ideological pedestal.
In 1956, Playboy surpassed Esquire magazine in terms of circulation. By 1959, the coveted one million copies had been reached.
In 1971, when I arrived at the Playboy mansion, it had a monthly circulation of 7 million copies.
The photographs in the magazine became more and more perfect. The magazine has developed its own nude culture, its own approach and choice. Of course, to show, say, Pamela Anderson in all its glory was a matter of honor for Playboy, and she appeared on the center spread 13 (!) times, at different times of her life, each time demonstrating the enduring perfection of her figure - a very clear lesson in resilience. But more often, not goddesses, not fatal beauties and not vamps were selected. The heroine of "Playboy" was "the girl from the next entrance."
"Playboy failed to awaken the seven beauties"
Fidel Castro, Martin Luther King, Jimmy Carter, Princess Grace, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles - together and separately, Wayne Gretzky, O. J. Simpson, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, Anthony Hopkins, Clint Eastwood, Carl Sagan, Steve Jobs... What a parade? All these people appeared in the magazine.
The best writers of the Anglo-Saxon world published their new stories here. Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Ian Fleming, Norman Mailer.
"Playboy" from the press sprouted into the movies. Like hot cakes, tapes with names like “Playboy. Barefoot beauties”, “Playboy. Hot lips, hot legs. Playboy clubs have opened in different cities with their branded "hostesses" in laconic rabbit costumes - "bannies".
And in the center of this victorious procession is a man in silk pajamas and with a smoking pipe - Hugh Hefner. Always surrounded by the girls of our dreams.
“Yes, I slept with, it seems, with eleven girls of the month,” he modestly looks around the 1960 lived.
“How many women have I had? Don't know. Probably over a thousand...
This is the patriarch summing up. A beautiful easy life - all for show. Everyone expects only feats and miracles from him - 60 years in a row. “Heard he has the twins Sandy and Mandy as his favorites, and how does he just tell them apart?” - “You have yesterday's news, today he lives with three“ bunnies ”- soul to soul, he tells it himself” ... And the music is getting louder, and the stakes are growing ... Gentlemen, an implausible sensation! A new attraction, and only once: on the famous spinning bed, the elderly Hef with seven beauties ...
The details that leaked later are sad. Seven beauties could not awaken the sleeping hero.
On December 31, 2012, at the age of 86, for the third time, on the second attempt, he joined the knot of legal marriage - with Miss December 2009. In the first attempt a year and a half earlier, the 24-year-old bride ran away right from the crown, just like in the movie of the same name.
However, as in the film, the heroes were waiting for a happy ending. “Only those who do not know us and think in stereotypes talk about age,” Hefner repeats, as if arguing with someone. “All our friends think it’s decided in heaven.”
And this is the "icon of the sexual revolution of the 60s"?
Orgon booth for Bond
The phrase "sexual revolution" belongs to Wilhelm Reich. His main book, published in 1948, is called The Function of Orgasm. Orgasm carries an energy he called orgone. “Physical ailments are the result of a violation of the natural capacity for love,” wrote Reich. This energy permeates nature and space, it is she who manifests herself in the northern lights.
Well, since it is a kind of physical energy, then it can be captured and collected. Why did he design a special steel booth. He even showed it to Einstein, but he quickly lost interest in the experiment.
Scientists were not imbued with the miraculous properties of the Reich booth. But the artists stood behind her mountain. Sean Connery is said to have regularly climbed into a magical booth during the filming of Bond to recharge with orgone. Judging by how impeccably sexy his character is, he succeeded.
All this, however, did little to convince the FBI. Reich was declared a charlatan, what he is doing is a “new cult of sex and anarchy” and a “sex racket” and was imprisoned. On November 3, 1957, he died in his cell from a heart attack.
Ten years later, Time magazine called him a "prophet," adding, "now it might seem that all of America has become a solid orgone booth."
Sexual revolution
And around sparkled and boiled new life! The Woodstock Festival thundered - 400,000th youth gathering in the open air. The language of Anglo-American idioms has been forever enriched by the great hippie slogan "Love, don't fight!". Make love not war!
Worth clarifying. Are revolutionaries making a revolution? It just seems so. In fact, it is the revolution that makes the revolutionaries.
What did every decent American girl think after 16? About how to get married by the age of 22, and then a house, children ... Divorce was not just a rarity - it was wildness, the scrapping of a life program. Sex before marriage is a family disaster. Sex outside of marriage is a venture for professional conspirators. The family is the main manifestation of maturity and social responsibility! What is left of this today?
A revolution of morals unparalleled in speed, depth and scope - that's what happened.
The contraceptive pill finally turned the world upside down, it appeared just in 1960. Pregnancy is no longer a burden, but a choice. In a conspicuous place on the shelves of bookstores - an unheard of thing - appeared a popular book by Dr. David Rubin with a top ten title - "Everything you always wanted to know about sex (But were afraid to ask)". Sex has shifted towards education. It has become a favorite subject of literature and cinema...
“I didn't set out to be a revolutionary at all,” Hefner says. - My idea was to create a mainstream magazine for men that would include sex. It turned out to be a very revolutionary idea."
The name of the creator of Playboy even adorned the Red Book. The name Sylvilagus palustris hefneri is given to an endangered subspecies of marsh rabbits. Hefner made a grant to save them...
And he also bought himself a plot in a cemetery in Westwood Village - next to Marilyn Monroe. During his lifetime, Hugh Hefner never met her. But she was his business angel. The moment will come, and this angel and the most desirable woman of the twentieth century will always be there.
The Star Life of Hugh Hefner.
1926, Chicago, USA) is an American publisher, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, and founder of Playboy Enterprises. Nickname - Hef.Biography
Mother - Grace Caroline Swanson, father - Glenn Lucius Hefner. He graduated from high school in Chicago, after which he joined the army in 1944, fought in the last months of the Second World War.
After the army, Hugh Hefner graduated in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ideas for Playboy appeared in his student years, he became interested in publishing. Worked as a magazine editor Shaft, drew cartoons for magazines.
Hugh Hefner raised the prestige of his offspring to such a height that John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Clancy agreed to publish their works in it, among the interviewees were Dennis Rodman, Tommy Hilfiger, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta and Bill Gates, and they were easily allowed to be photographed for the magazine agreement
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner Born April 9, 1926 in Chicago - died September 27, 2017 in Los Angeles. American publisher, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine and Playboy Enterprises. Nickname - Hef.
Father - Glenn Lucius Hefner.
Mother - Grace Caroline Swanson.
According to Hefner, at the age of nine he published his first one-cent news paper, and in the seventh grade he took up the school newspaper, which lasted quite a long time. He also created a small magazine called Shudder Magazine, or Shudder Club, out of love for monster and sci-fi movies.
“In the summer of 1942, I became obsessed with a certain girl. The girls at school had a club where they held parties to which they invited guys. And when the girl I was in love with, Betty Conklin, invited another to the party, I was crushed. But it pushed me to take action, and that's when I changed my name to Hef, changed my whole wardrobe, learned to dance to jazz music, became my "boyfriend" in school, and started making a comic book where I created my own world. , I clearly understand that in subsequent years I did the same with the magazine," he recalled.
He graduated from high school in Chicago, after which he joined the army in 1944, fought in the last months of World War II.
After the army, Hugh Hefner graduated in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ideas for Playboy appeared in his student years, he became interested in publishing. He worked as an editor for Shaft magazine, drawing cartoons for magazines.
Later, Hefner worked in the advertising department of Esquire magazine, but soon quit after being denied a pay raise. From that moment on, Hefner begins to raise money to create his own magazine. He earns $600 in loans, borrows $8,000 from investors and $1,000 from his own mother, and gets started.
The magazine's working title was "Stag Party" ("Bachelor Party"), but Hefner abandoned this name so as not to conflict with the "men's magazine" Stag Magazine that existed at that time, and he did not lose.
In December 1953, the first issue of Playboy magazine was published with a circulation of 70,000 copies on the cover.
Hugh Hefner strongly doubted that the first issue would be followed by a second, and even decided not to put the number on the cover of his magazine. But things went on. Three-quarters of the circulation was sold in the first week. The sexual revolution had begun.
"I didn't set out to be a revolutionary at all. My idea was to create a mainstream magazine for men that would include sex. It turned out to be a very revolutionary idea," Hefner said.
First Playboy cover with Marilyn Monroe (December 1953)
Hugh Hefner quickly became a world star.
"At the very beginning of the 60s, I got out of the backyard and began to really live. In August 59, at the Chicago stadium, we held a jazz festival called the best jazz festival in the history of jazz, in which all jazz stars participated, and thus celebrated our five-year anniversary I was looking for ways to get the magazine to the top so I could get as many advertisers as possible.At the end of '59 we launched a TV show called Playboy Penthouse that covered parties at my house, and that was its differentiator from with studio TV shows, with a stage and an auditorium.So the audience was like guests of my parties and could contemplate Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald and other stars in an informal setting.We started work on the show in October 59th, and in January 60th It went on the air in December 1959. I bought the first Playboy villa on State Parkway in Chicago, and opened the first Playboy club in Chicago in February. changed his life and by the end of the 60th year he was world famous," he said.
Hugh Hefner raised the prestige of his offspring to such a height that John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Clancy agreed to publish their works in it, Dennis Rodman, Tommy Hilfiger, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta and Bill Gates were among the interviewees, and they were easily allowed to be photographed for the magazine consent Katarina Witt, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Sharon Stone and many other stars.
Playboy was banned in the USSR. And in 1989, an actress appeared on the cover of a magazine for men - the first of the Soviet women. The release of the issue caused a flurry of criticism in the Soviet Union.
Natalya Negoda on the cover of Playboy (1989)
His family mansion became famous. In August 2009, Hefner found a buyer for it - he decided to sell it in connection with the move of his sons Marston and Cooper to the university dormitory. The buyer was 25-year-old millionaire Daren Metropoulos, who offered $18 million for the property. The family mansion is located next to another building owned by Hefner, which houses the offices of Playboy magazine. The mansion, built in 1929, includes five bedrooms, seven toilets and a huge garden with a swimming pool.
Playboy Mansion- it was a location for the filming of "Girls of the Month", a place for receiving business partners, a hotel with five-star rooms for star guests. In the depths of this building, he built for himself a "private apartment" with several entrances and no windows. Their heart is the world's largest rotating bed - 8.5 feet in diameter (2.6 meters), which not only rotates 360 degrees, but also tilts at different angles.
In October 2015, it was announced that . The new rules came into effect in March 2016. In the future, pictures of women in seductive poses began to be printed, but not completely naked.
Media mogul for natural reasons.
He . The crypt next to the mausoleum of the legendary actress is located at Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles. Hefner bought it back in 1992 for $75,000.
Hugh Hefner Height: 175 centimeters.
Hugh Hefner Personal Life:
In 1952 their daughter Christy was born, in 1955 their son David Paul was born.
In 1959, Hugh divorced Mildred Williams and lived as a bachelor for 30 years, although he had ongoing relationships with many girls.
In 1989, he married a second time - to model Kimberly Conrad. He also lived with her for 10 years.
Since 2000, Hugh Hefner has lived in his mansion with 7 girls aged 18 to 28.
In December 2010, Hefner and 25-year-old Playboy model Crystal Harris announced their engagement. The wedding was to take place on June 18, 2011. However, on June 14, Hefner announced on his microblog on Twitter that the wedding was cancelled. "Krystal has changed her mind," Hugh wrote, without elaborating on the reasons why his now ex-fiancee called off the wedding. After that, Crystal Harris left the Hefner mansion, where she had lived since December 2009.
However, the couple later restored their relationship and on December 31, 2012, Hugh Hefner nevertheless married Crystal Harris, who is 60 years younger than him.
It is worth noting the high level of intelligence of the publisher. His IQ is 152.
How many women did Hugh Hefner have?
As the man who founded Playboy and the man who had plenty of beautiful young women on hand at all times, Hugh Hefner became almost synonymous with sex.
When asked how many women he had in his entire life, the Playboy owner answered confidently that "more than a thousand."
"How can I know how many? More than a thousand, I'm sure," Hugh said.
At the same time, he stressed, being in three marriages, he never cheated on any of his wives.
There were episodes in his life when he was married, and at that time he managed to have sex with one woman, i.e. legal wife. However, as soon as he had to get a divorce, he immediately indulged in all serious.
