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.

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 ...

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, ...

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.

RatPac Entertainment has optioned the life rights to Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner ... He got to know Hefner during that early attempt to make the movie and when Hefner learned of Ratner ...

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 ...

Many of the women tweeted their tributes early Thursday ... “Rest In peace my dear sweet Hugh Hefner Forever in my heart and forever grateful for changing my life. I love you,” Gonzalez ...

but he’s beginning the festivities early with a hand-curated playlist exclusively on Amazon Music to accompany the premiere of his Amazon Original docu-series, American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner ...

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 ...

Related: Hugh Hefner: His Life in Pictures In the years since Hugh ... because there’s a replica of the London Bridge. So my early childhood was spent kind of more in England.” ...