Hugh Hefner

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Birthday: April 9, 1926
Age: 86
Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Hometown: Hollywood, CA
Big Break: Playboy
Biography
American icon Hugh Hefner was born on April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from college in 1949, Hugh founded Playboy magazine in 1953. The first issue featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover. The magazine sold over 7 million copies in 1972.

Hugh moved into the Playboy Mansion in 1971 for about $1.05 million. Hefner has been married twice and has four children. Playboy celebrated its' 50th anniversary in 2004. It remains the best selling men's magazine in the country. Hefner currently stars on the E! series The Girls Next Door with his three live-in girlfriends.

Did you know…
  • He shares a birthday with Jenna Jameson.
  • Hugh has experimented with bisexuality.
  • The Playboy Mansion is the only private residence to have a firecrackers license
  • Hugh is the ninth cousin twice removed from President George W. Bush.
  • His daughter Christie is the chairman of Playboy.
  • He bought the mansion next door and his ex-wife and children live there.
  • He was a virgin until he was 21.
  • His parents were farmers.
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After Hugh Hefner’s son got into a physical altercation with his girlfriend (allegedly) and was arrested for domestic violence, Hugh has something to say about the matter.

“If they care about each other, they’ll patch it up,” the Playboy head told PEOPLE.

Hmmm. Let’s take a look at some of the details. After Marston Hefner got into a fight with his Playboy Playmate girlfriend, Clair Sinclair, she called her family, and they then called police. Police arrived, found her with injuries
Hugh Hefner’s oldest son, Marston Hefner, was arrested on Sunday after allegedly attacking his Playmate of the Year girlfriend, Claire Sinclair.

You kidding me? Most guys would kill to be Hugh Hefner’s son. They need to revoke his access to any more Playmates. You’re cut off, man.

According to TMZ, cops were called to the couple’s home in Pasadena...
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James Franco has been caught on the set of the new porn biopic “Lovelace” dressed as Hugh Hefner. And I hate to admit it, but Franco looks good as a young Hugh Hefner.

I can’t imagine a time where Hugh Hefner didn’t look grandpa-ish in a captain hat, but Franco is proving that Hugh used to be an attractive guy.

Franco got his curly hair flat ironed and brushed into a comb-over and is wearing what looks like a velour shirt...
Reports surfaced this week that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are officially engaged, and while their reps haven’t confirmed anything, we’re hoping this rumor is true. Because a holiday proposal is just so romantic!

If Timberlake did indeed get down on one knee, in the snow, with a backdrop of sparking Christmas lights and as a horse-drawn carriage passes—okay, I have no idea how it could’ve gone down, but in my mind, that’s how it happened. Anyway, if he did indeed propose to Jessica over the holidays, he’s certainly not the first. Here are 7 celebrities who got engaged during the Christmas holidays.

Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard: Sad endings aside, Zooey announced her engagement to Deathcab for Cutie front man Ben Gibbard in December 2008. At the time, it was a match made in hipster heaven. I think they had the ceremony at Urban Outfitters.
While this is a ridiculously ageist thing to claim, who is actually surprised by this statement other than a raving feminist with a tramp stamp of Rosie The Riveter?

Hugh Hefner admits he's never slept with anyone over the age of 50, but when it comes to dating, he never dates older than women in their 30's. Oh right, because 20-somethings are so much more relatable to an 85-year-old man.
James Franco will appear as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in the new Linda Lovelace biopic. His part is just a cameo and reportedly will only take one day of filming.

He was originally going to play Lovelace’s husband Chuck Traynor, but then they probably looked deep into his lazy shark eyes and general creepy nonchalance and realized that James Franco IS Hugh Hefner.


Earlier today we posted that the Lindsay Lohan Playboy issue was selling like hot-cakes, assuming hot-cakes are magazine filled with images of naked women. But this might not be true!

According to Hugh Hefner's twitter (the most reliable of sources) and some TMZ sources (also, super reliable, probably just texts from Lindsay herself) they said many outlets had sold out of the LiLo Playboy spread and that NY and LA had to re-order more issues of the mag.
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"She's blonde and she has giant boobs but…then there's everything else. I don't know what to do! * sobs * I don’t know what to do…"

I think that pretty much sums up every straight man's perception of Lindsay right now.

Hugh Hefner approved Lindsay Lohan's anticipated Playboy photo shoot, but the t-tty mogul now admits, he wasn't sure about it initially.

"It really came as a surprise to me," Hefner told E! News. "I kind of had mixed emotions about it initially, and then it turned into something bigger than life."
I'm not sure Hugh Hefner knows who Lindsay Lohan is. In a recent interview about Lohan's infamous million dollar Playboy shoot, Hugh Hefner revealed details about what to expect.

Hefner told The Insider's Brooke Anderson: " It's a classic tribute inspired by the original Tom Kelly nude pictorial of Marilyn Monroe, a portion of which was the original playmate in the very first issue of Playboy."

Someone needs to put an end to Lindsay Lohan's Marilyn Monroe channeling. Because Marilyn is probably up in Heaven watching all of it and wondering what the hell.

Anderson also asked Hefner to confirm whether Lohan bares all: "Oh yes," the Hef said. "And classy, very classy."
From naming their kids weird things like Apple and Bronx and believing in aliens, I mean, scientology...Celebrities are a weird group of individuals. Another strange habit of the rich and famous is adopting very bizarre pets. From pet pigs that seem more like a domestic partner to chickens that double as handbags, these are the stars with the weirdest pets.

Tori Spelling: Tori Spelling doesn't have just one weird pet, she has a Noah's Ark variety of strange pets. She has the normals, i.e. cats, dogs and bunnies but she also has chickens and goats. Sometimes she strolls around LA carrying her chicken like a clutch. Or I guess you can call it a CLUCKtch. Get it? Because chickens cluck...never mind.

Kristen Stewart: Reason #137 why Kristen Stewart is an emotionless vampire woman without a soul...She owns wolves! What the hell!? Apparently she owns some kind of wolf/dog hybrid (Insert Twilight Joke here). She once did a photoshoot with her wolf/dog/Taylor Lautner/thing and said, "This is my pet. I know he looks kind of scary, he's a wolf. He's really sweet."

George Clooney: Clooney may not settling down with a woman anytime soon...

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