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9 unusual facts about Hugh Hefner


Adelina Tattilo

By launching Playmen, Tattilo engaged publishers like Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt in an ideological battle to liberate sexual attitudes and free them from bigotry and false moralisms.

Graphic animation

Graphic animation was also used as a History of Playboy Magazine piece used on Saturday Night Live when the magazine's founder, Hugh Hefner, appeared on that show during the late 70s or early 80s.

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Hugh Hefner (born 1926), an American magazine publisher, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises

Ilsley Boone

The victory enabled not only legitimate nudist magazines and men's magazines to feature full frontal nudity (including Hugh Hefner's Playboy Magazine), but also unintentionally helped make possible the later oncoming flood of explicit adult publications during The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s.

Leo Jansen

His works hang in the Hugh Hefner's Playboy corporate headquarters and in the mansion.

Phoenix Command

It was revealed there that, not only was Hugh Hefner a fan of role-playing games, but that he refereed a weekly Phoenix Command game at the Playboy Mansion.

Rodolfo Escalera

Escalera’s painting entitled “The Mailman” was donated to Hugh Hefner in 2003 by Escalera's sons Robert and Rudy Escalera.

Sherlyn Chopra

She also shared photos of her with the Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder is a 1974 film from Playboy Enterprises directed by Arthur Hiller and produced by Hugh Hefner.


Al Goldstein

In his 2011 book Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! - of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers, an American Tale of Sex and Wonder, former Screw writer and editor Mike Edison documents Goldstein's rise and fall against the successes of his peers Larry Flynt of Hustler, Bob Guccione of Penthouse, and Hugh Hefner of Playboy.

Art Paul

Paul was working as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator in a small office under the Chicago 'L' tracks when in 1953 he was contacted by Hugh Hefner.

Ashlyn Martin

In The Playmate Book, Hugh Hefner says that Laura's pseudonym was inspired by a character in the Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises, most likely Brett Ashley.

Bettie Page Reveals All

Individuals offering commentary on Page and her significance include Dita Von Teese, Hugh Hefner, Rebecca Romijn, Tempest Storm, Bunny Yeager, Paula Klaw, Mamie Van Doren and Naomi Campbell.

Izabella St. James

In September 2000, she met Hugh Hefner and his girlfriends in a Los Angeles nightclub, and began attending parties at the Playboy Mansion.

Playboy TV

The original programming and style of the Playboy Channel was developed by Hugh Hefner and Michael Trikilis.

Robert Blue

Collectors of Blue's art have included Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand and Hugh Hefner, as well as numerous corporate collectors, including the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles, and the Atlanta Hilton Motel.

Russell Miller

Russell Miller (born 1938) is an award-winning British journalist and author of fifteen books, including biographies of Hugh Hefner, J. Paul Getty and L. Ron Hubbard.

Sylvilagus palustris hefneri

Sylvilagus palustris hefneri (Lazell, 1984), common name Lower Keys Marsh Rabbit, is an endangered subspecies of Marsh Rabbit named after Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.


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Laura Lyons

Sherlock Holmes fans speculated that Lyons was named after a character in The Hound of the Baskervilles, but Hugh Hefner confirmed it was indeed her real name in an interview in the Baker Street Journal.