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Another Hefner Makes $100M Bid for Playboy

Youngest son Cooper says the brand needs a new direction

(Newser) - From Hef to Coop? Hugh Hefner's youngest son Cooper has made a $100 million offer to buy the Playboy brand, reports the Wall Street Journal . The 33-year-old Cooper engineered the all-cash offer through his Hefner Capital private equity firm, per the Hollywood Reporter . "It's a great American...

Man Pays Big to Be Laid to Rest Near Marilyn Monroe

Crypt near star's sells for $195K at auction, while used lipstick nabs $7K

(Newser) - Beverly Hills tech investor Anthony Jabin "always dreamt of being next to Marilyn Monroe for the rest of my life." He didn't quite make that dream a reality, but he got close. With a bid of $195,000, Jabin nabbed a mausoleum crypt one row above and...

Hugh Hefner's Widow: 'I Must've Been Brainwashed'

Crystal Hefner talks to 'NYT' ahead of new memoir, in which she notes she wasn't 'in love' with Hef

(Newser) - Crystal Hefner, widow of the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, has a memoir coming out Tuesday on life in the Playboy Mansion—but don't expect it to be any kind of rose-tinted hagiography. The title of the 37-year-old former Playmate's book, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and ...

Playboy 'Strongly Supports' Hugh Hefner Accusers
Secrets of Playboy's
Hugh Hefner
Allegations
Are Graphic
in case you missed it
Jan 29, 2022 4:40 PM CST

Secrets of Playboy's Hugh Hefner Allegations Are Graphic

And Playboy 'strongly supports' all the accusers

(Newser) - A new 10-part docuseries paints Hugh Hefner as a rapist who drugged women at his Playboy mansion—and Playboy says it supports those accusing Hef of sexual misconduct. "We trust and validate women and their stories, and we strongly support the individuals who have come forward to share their...

Playboy Is Back—But It's Not Your Daddy's

Led by millenials, the magazine aims to be 'intimate' and not 'explicit'

(Newser) - "I hadn't paid attention to Playboy for many years, since I was a kid," says Ed Freeman, who shot the underwater cover for the summer 2019 issue of Playboy. "And I thought: 'Wait, they're hiring me to shoot the cover? Do they know I'...

FBI Releases Hugh Hefner File
FBI Releases 
Hugh Hefner's File
Jun 12, 2019 4:37 AM CDT

FBI Releases Hugh Hefner's File

He was 'too clever' to violate federal laws

(Newser) - The FBI has released its 58-page file on Hugh Hefner—which starts with a 1955 news clipping describing Playboy as an "oversexed young version" of Esquire, Hefner's former employer. The heavily redacted file, which can be seen in full here , reveals that the agency interviewed Hefner several times...

Internet Not Getting Behind Jared Leto as Hugh Hefner

Nor is the internet a fan of Brett Ratner directing the whole thing

(Newser) - Jared Leto will be playing Hugh Hefner in a biopic directed by Brett Ratner, according to the Hollywood Reporter . And let's just say that's not exactly a sentence making the internet happy right now. Ratner, who is also planning to reboot the talk show Playboy After Dark, which...

Hugh Hefner's Cause of Death Revealed

E. coli infection, blood infection contributed to his death from cardiac arrest

(Newser) - Hugh Hefner's death certificate from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, obtained by the Blast , reveals his official cause of death: The Playboy founder contracted the blood infection septicemia and a form of E. coli that was "highly resistant to antibiotics," and he ultimately died...

Hugh Hefner Was a 'Disgusting Old Sleaze'
Hugh Hefner
Was a 'Disgusting
Old Sleaze'
OPINION
Sep 28, 2017 6:59 PM CDT

Hugh Hefner Was a 'Disgusting Old Sleaze'

Columnist argues that we shouldn't be remembering him as a 'liberator of women'

(Newser) - Now that Hugh Hefner is gone, he's being remembered as "some kind of liberator of women," writes Suzanne Moore in the Guardian . But Moore—whom Hef once threatened to sue after she called him a pimp—says the Playboy founder sold a "fantasy of freedom" for...

Hugh Hefner Spent $75K to Be Buried Next to Marilyn Monroe

He bought the crypt next to hers in 1992

(Newser) - Marilyn Monroe was there when Hugh Hefner started Playboy—appearing on the cover of the first issue in 1953*—and will apparently be joined to Hefner permanently in the afterlife. TMZ reports Hefner, who died Wednesday at the age of 91, will be buried in a crypt immediately to the...

Hefner's Genius: Realizing America Was Ready for Him
Hefner's Genius: Realizing
America Was Ready for Him
THE RUNDOWN
Sep 28, 2017 6:46 AM CDT

Hefner's Genius: Realizing America Was Ready for Him

He was the first publisher to truly capitalize on changing social norms

(Newser) - A sampling of the coverage and tributes to Hugh Hefner in the wake of the death of the 91-year-old founder of Playboy:
  • Perfect timing: "Hefner the man and Playboy the brand were inseparable. Both advertised themselves as emblems of the sexual revolution, an escape from American priggishness and wider
...

Hugh Hefner Dead at 91
Hugh Hefner
Dead at 91
Sep 27, 2017 11:35 PM CDT

Hugh Hefner Dead at 91

'Playboy' founder led quite a life

(Newser) - Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, symbolized by bow-tied women in bunny costumes, has died at age 91, the AP reports. Hefner died of natural causes at his...

Mythic Playboy Mansion Is Hefner's No More

Sale of the ultimate man cave has closed for $100M

(Newser) - The party’s over: The sale of one of the most famous mansions in America—the five-acre Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles' Holmby Hills—has closed for a not-insubstantial $100 million, Reuters reports, though it's worth noting that the sale price is half of the original asking price. The...

Billionaire Heir Buys Playboy Mansion

Hugh Hefner is staying put

(Newser) - The Playboy mansion—complete with Hugh Hefner—has been snapped up by a party-loving neighbor. Daren Metropoulos, a 32-year-old billionaire heir who lives in an $18 million mansion next door to Hefner's longtime abode, is believed to be paying around $200 million for the 29-room mansion, the Guardian reports....

Suit: Hugh Hefner 'Complicit' in Cosby Assault

He introduced Cosby to sex assault victim: suit

(Newser) - A woman who accuses Bill Cosby of sexual assault now says Hugh Hefner was "complicit" in the act. In a lawsuit, Chloe Goins says Hefner introduced her to Cosby during a party at the Playboy Mansion in 2008. Goins says Cosby drugged her, then led her to a room...

All of Playboy May Soon Be for Sale

'Eyebrow-raising' company's expected asking price: $500M

(Newser) - The Easter Bunny gets top billing this weekend, but other famous bunnies are also making headlines with news of a possible big transaction. The Wall Street Journal reports Playboy Enterprises Inc. is in the exploratory stages of a sale, per sources familiar with the situation, with investment bank Moelis &...

For Sale: Playboy Mansion?
 For Sale: Playboy Mansion? 
Jan 10, 2016 1:07 PM CST

For Sale: Playboy Mansion?

Comes with your very own wrinkly, pajama-clad octogenarian

(Newser) - In the market for a Los Angeles mansion that's likely been the scene of more debauchery than any one residence ever should? Have we got the place for you: None other than the Playboy Mansion is going on sale at the end of the month, reports TMZ , and it'...

Shel Silverstein Was Hugh Hefner's Sidekick

His first real job? 'Playboy' magazine cartoonist

(Newser) - Shel Silverstein was kicked out of one college and dropped out of another, and he described those days gloomily: "I didn't get laid much. I didn't learn much. Those are the two worst things that can happen to a guy." His trouble with the ladies didn'...

Holly Madison: Hef Was Abusive

Former Playboy Bunny bashes her once-lover in new book

(Newser) - Holly Madison insists that she doesn't like talking about living at the Playboy mansion and dating Hugh Hefner, but believes "it's important to tell the truth of my story." The 35-year-old former Playboy Bunny writes about life before, during, and after the mansion in her new...

Lawyer: Witnesses Confirm Cosby Sex Abuse

Plus: latest accusation puts assault's timing within statute of limitations

(Newser) - A pair of witnesses support a woman's claim that Bill Cosby sexually abused her when she was 15, her lawyer says in a court filing. Lawyer Marc Strecker says he's seen pictures of his client, Judy Huth, at the Playboy Mansion with Bill Cosby in the 1970s, reports...

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