Regardless, the first issue was released in December ... In 1953, former copywriter Hugh Hefner saw a demand for a gentleman's magazine. Recruiting 45 investors who cobbled together $8,000 ...

Hugh Hefner, American founder of the international adult magazine Playboy ... empire that included casinos and nightclubs. The first edition featured a set of nude photographs of Marilyn Monroe ...

Hugh Hefner relaxes in red satin pajamas with the first copy of Playboy magazine, the then-scandalous men's magazine he founded in the 1950s, in his Holmby Hills estate in Los Angeles recently.

Hugh Hefner was an American magazine publisher and reality TV star ... Purged Her Social Media Holly Madison Recalls 'Traumatic' First Night with Ex Hugh Hefner: He Was 'Pushed on Top of Me ...

Playboy tycoon Hugh Hefner is buried right next to movie star Marilyn Monroe at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery ...

In 1953, a time when states could legally ban contraceptives, Hefner published the first issue of Playboy, featuring naked photos of Marilyn Monroe Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking ...

Along with clothing items, an original copy of the first issue of Playboy magazine ... on the interior of the premiere issue of Hugh Hefner's famous magazine in an article on pages 17 and 18 ...