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Hugh Hefner Biography
Birth Name:
Hugh Marston Hefner
Birth Place:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profession
Entrepreneur, magazine publisher, producer
Fast Facts
- Descendant of Plymouth colony governor William Bradford (1590-1657)
- Served in the US Army as an infantry clerk and cartoonist for military newspapers
- Produced the inaugural December 1953 edition of Playboy magazine, which featured a nude photograph of Marilyn Monroe, in the kitchen of his Chicago apartment
- Funded a course on censorship in cinema at the University of Southern California
- Named "Harvard Lampoon's Best Life-Form in the History of the Universe" by the humor magazine in 2002
Relationships
- Mildred Williams -- Ex-wife
- Glenn Hefner -- Father
- Grace Hefner -- Mother
- Cooper Hefner -- Son
- David Hefner -- Son
- Marston Hefner -- Son