Hugh Hefner, Playboy Founder and Leader of the ’60s Sexual Revolution, Dies at 91
Hugh Hefner, the man who parlayed $8,000 in borrowed money in 1953 to create Playboy has died. He was 91.
By his own account, Hefner had sex with more than a thousand women, including many pictured in his magazine. However, Hefner maintained he was a relative late bloomer, remaining a virgin until he was 21.
Hefner married a classmate, Millie Williams, in 1949, but “the troubled marriage faced growing pressure from Hugh’s increasingly active sexual imagination”. The couple hosted risque parties that included stag films. Hefner began suggesting wife swapping, and he eventually slept with his brother’s wife, though Millie backed out of sex with his brother Keith.
In 1989, Hefner married Kimberly Conrad, a former Playmate of the Year, and the couple had sons Marston and Cooper. They divorced in 2010, and Hefner married Crystal Harris two years later.
