Hugh Hefner, the Playboy magnate and lifelong champion of liberal philosophy, free expression, and sex-positive sophistication, died at 91 at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles on Sept. 27.

Hugh Hefner didn’t get a lot of hugs as a kid ... “Quite frankly, my early life is fresher in my mind than last Tuesday, but I think that is the way of things,” he said.

Hugh Hefner, the indomitable founder of Playboy magazine, spent his life living to the fullest Alex ... launched in 1959, was an early showcase for prominent black musicians like Ella Fitzgerald, ...

Over the course of my one-hour chat last week with Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion's library, the king of hedonism told me about his strict upbringing in Chicago, the early days of Playboy ...

s The Girls Next Door "I had a happy childhood," Hugh Hefner once said ... stopped running nude photos; still, Hefner insisted, "Playboy is a fantasy life for a lot of people.

This, in addition to his early support for same-sex marriage ... But Steven Watts, the author of "Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream," a biography on the late publishing tycoon ...

Hugh Hefner’s love life was unconventional ... “So it’s kind of nice to do that because first off, it’s a day early. And second, you get Christmas just to hang out and relax and not ...

Hugh Hefner was 66 then, in hindsight a spry senior citizen about to have his love life turbocharged in six ... fabled red silk bathrobe — it was early afternoon, people — and the odd ...

Hugh Hefner and the American Dream. “People tend to forget about how truly unique he was in those early days,” says Watts, whose 500-page biography paints the portrait of a driven man willing ...