Biography
Hugh Hefner is an American journalist, publisher and founder of the popular Playboy magazine ("Playboy"), and just a lover of beautiful women who began a new era of the sexual revolution in the world of the media.
Hugh Hefner was born on April 9, 1926 in the cultural capital of the Midwest, in the historically famous city of Chicago, located in Illinois. According to rumors, Hugh is a cousin of the former president of the United States George Bush.
It cannot be said that Hefner had a happy childhood: the boy was grew and brought up in the average and strict family. Paradoxically, the parents of the famous publisher - Grace Caroline Swanson and Glenn Lucius Hefner were zealous pastors of the puritans and adhered to harsh morals prescribed in the Protestant religion.
For example, Puritans led the recovery lifestyle, limited their needs, they worked a lot and missed intimate relationships, believing that the proximity between a man and a woman is needed solely to continue the human race. Hefner recalled that in the family there was taboo on cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, because his mother and dad were told by the phrase in one voice: "God wants so much!".
HEF (such a nickname awarded hers in childhood) recognized that the love of the Almighty from Hefner Elder was so great that sometimes a man even for the smallest household matters for advice to the local pastor. It is not surprising that God-fearing husband and wife brought up the future of the creator of Playboy according to religious rules. They controlled every step of their firstborn, trying to promote the boys selfless and ascetic life. Pious parents forbade Hepu to raise friends, as they believed that new acquaintances do not lead to anything good.
Therefore, when neighboring boys from morning to evening played in the courtyard, young Hugh watched them into the window and dreamed of spending at least a day without strict adult supervision. Hefneer was also forbidden to go to the cinema, since, according to Glenn and Grace, the fascination of the films was equated with sin despite the fact that in the American film industry of that time, the ethical "Code of Heisa" was operating, according to which the paintings undermining the moral courts of the audience were incomplete .
From the monotonous boredom of young Hefner saved the books that he readpieces. At the insistence of Grace Hugh studied the works of the school program, but the boy managed secretly from the parents to carry the book "King of Horrors" Edgar Allan By, who made an indelible impression on him. When Hef became older, he studied the works of Alfred Kinsey and Sigmund Freud.
It is known that Hugh studied at Chicago High School. The teachers immediately noticed the guy love for literature and writing talent, so the journalistic future journalism was proper. However, the exact sciences of the young man were not given due to the lack of effort and the perfection.
After graduating from school in 1944, the future publisher was called up to the army, where he worked as a military correspondent. There he understood that postcards with semi-nailed women are popular with the soldiers. Commissioning, Hefner entered the University of Illinois at the Faculty of Psychology.
Publishing
The interest in publishing activities appeared at Hefner in his student years, then in the mind of a young man and the idea of Playboy magazine was born. During study, Hugh managed to work out in the Shaft magazine, at the local artistic studio and even published his own Satyric Comic book that Town Toddlin, which tells about the life of a large and noisy Chicago. But the creative profession of the comic player quickly bored a guy, so he got a promotional manager to a local plastic container manufacturing company.
Already later, in the winter of 1951, Hugh was asked as editor of the department of the famous Men's Esquire magazine, which tells its readers about business, politics, fashion, etc. But Hefneru had to abandon the career in this edition, since he was answered by a sharp refusal to the request for wage. After unsuccessful negotiations with the chief Esquire, Hugh fired from the posts of the editor and his personally began to engage in his dream - the creation of a "playboo".
"Playboy"
Playboy is a magazine for men who publish Hugh Hefner and his colleagues since 1953. Edition with naked beauties, fictional articles and sensational photos of Hollywood stars and to this day is popular in many countries. The word "playboy" became a nominal for lovelaes, and a permissable rabbit logo with a butterfly tie is everywhere used by designers worldwide.
Few people know that the path of Hugh Hefner to the periodic edition of his own magazine with erotic subtext was long and thorny. To carry out a cherished dream, HEF worked in a bank where he received $ 600, and the rest of the 9,000 $ he took into debt among investors and took away from his own mother.
From the biography of the journalist, it is known that he initially wanted to name his Stag Party magazine (from English - "Stallion Party", "Bachelor Party"), but I thought for a long time, what kind of girl will decorate the cover of the glossy edition. But suddenly he caught an old army card with naked Marilyn Monroe, who as if he winked him from the picture.
Inspired by the beauty of the famous blonde Hugh came up with a new name magazine - Playboy, and the black and white photo of Monroe began to decorate the cover of the debut edition. Before the start of the first issue of the magazine "Playboy" (70,000 copies), Hugh was not confident that his edition would pass censorship and would be a success in the male audience. Therefore, to some extent configured to fail, Hefner did not numbered the debut edition, strongly doubting that the second will follow him.
But the success of the "playboy" did not make himself wait: only in the first week a quarter of circulation was sold, thus, the era of the "sexual revolution" was sold in the mass media. Hefner himself never considered the Playboy magazine about sex, because the edition with the rabbit was drastically different from the pornographic print Hustler, Penthouse and Screw.
Erotic for the magazine "Playboy" was only a beautiful wrapper: on the pages of the gloss appeared both fiction and interviews, and serious topics were discussed, for example, articles were published, where Martin Luther King reasoned about the problems of segregation in America, and Fidel Castro spoke about the revolutionary struggle.
Also in the "playboy" columns printed small stories of writers: Vladimir Nabokov, Stanislav Lema, Stephen King and other literary figures. It's no secret that star beauties appeared on the pages of the publication of Hugh, who were not afraid to appear in front of readers "in all its glory." These were Elizabeth Taylor, Pamela Anderson, Cindy Crawford and many other adorable ladies.
Personal life
No wonder that the creator of the erotic magazine was not dedicated to the attention of women. His classmate Mildred Willyams became the first wife of Lovelace, the marriage with which was launched for 10 years. It is noteworthy that piously brought up Hugh and Milli did not enter intimate relationships before the wedding.
Williams presented a journalist two children: in 1952, the beloved was born daughter of Christie, and in 1955 the son of David Paul appeared. In 1959, the family idyll Hefner collapsed, and Milli, taking a son and daughter, filed for a divorce, which was accompanied by a loud scandal: on the slandering words of the ex-wife Hefner, the publisher "Playiboy" was a home rapist and tyrant.
After the departure of Willes, Hugh 30 years lived the life of an enviable bachelor and had a messy sex. And only in 1989, he tied his bonds with the Kimberley Konrad model, which was married for about ten years. Since 2000, the insatiable "American Don Juan" lives in a large cottage with seven beautiful girls, arranging loud parties.
In winter, 2010 it became known that Hugh was preparing for a wedding with a blonde crystal Harris, but shortly before the celebration, Hefner said twitter in his account that Crystal changed his mind. But in 2012, the 86-year-old seducer still achieved the hands and hearts of a 26-year-old beauty, and they played a wedding.
Last years
The editor-in-chief of the "Playiboy" Corey Jones with the permission of Hefner proposed to modernize the publication: to remove the fully naked girls from the pages to increase the target audience thus to increase the target audience. But in 2017 the journal returned to the original direction.
Hefner continued to rejoice in life in a mansion with his wife Crystal and, despite the honorable age, arranged noisy parties. It is known that Hugh was an avid user "Instagram", on his official page you can see various photos of old times and everyday days. Also in 2017, a documentary series "American Playboy: History Hugh Hefner", which tells how the millionaire made its condition.
Death
September 28, Hugh Hefner died on the 92th year of life. The famous publisher died for natural reasons in his home surrounded by native people.