End of an era: Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy died

American businessman Hugh Hefner, best known as founder and editor-in-chief of the iconic men's magazine Playboy, died at his home at age 91.


The official statement from Playboy Enterprises noted that its legendary founder "passed away in peace".

Hefner marked a season with his extravagant lifestyle, always surrounded by beautiful young women despite his old age, recalls Reuters. In several interviews throughout his life, he pointed out that "staying young was everything to me."

Although at first glance, Playboy magazine shows only naked women, Reuters acknowledges that Hefner's philosophy, reflected in his life and in the famous "Playboy parties," also had a lot to do with romanticism, style and rejection of traditional morality, something that was unleashed in a whole sexual revolution of the sixties, concludes the medium.




Playboy magazine is one of the most well-known brands in the world. Its first edition came out in December of 1953, with 51 thousand copies. Nowadays the magazine is published in several languages all over the world.