https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/hugh-hefner-playboy-magazine-mogul-dies-91-n657521
 
Had to happen eventually, ya?

Recovering from brain damage a few years ago, my doctor used a Hefner reference:  "Hugh Hefner dies - does he go to Heaven or Hell, and why?"
My answer was that he'd go to Heaven.  As he's already lived there for decades, he should be entitled to some sort of permanent residency or citizenship.
 
RIP Hef.  I wasn't a big fan of Playboy itself, but he certainly helped to preserve journalistic freedom.

Hef was the epitome of cool before being cool was cool.
 
RIP.

Inventor of the sea captain in a bathrobe look.
 
May that look forever now rest on the ocean floor.

I was a fan in the mid 60's. I can still remember the Marilyn Monroe issue 
He must have one hell of a heaven to go to!

RIP Hugh Hefner !
When I was very young and just starting out on the guitar , I used your magazine to help loosen up my right hand , wrist and forearm .
The hot pics in your magazine did a lot more for my picking hand than what practicing scales could have ever done for my guitar playing .
 
thank you ,
 
Kenny

Kenny is da man.

I've finally stopped crying.  Which is why I've been able to get back on the forums and join this Fred!!

RIP HEF U WILL BE MIST

 
 
Goodbye Hugh, and thanks for all the wonderful mammaries.

Very interesting interview with Marilyn Cole on BBC R4 this morning. She was the first full frontal centrefold in Playboy magazine, 1972 I think. She had a high regard for Hefner, and brushed off John Humphries (the presenter) suggestion that he was a 'toxic influence' on the way women were viewed. She told Humphries it was media misrepresentation that was 'toxic'.