— 5 Sad Details Revealed About His Death, Final Years And Burial Plans
"Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream." —Hugh Hefner
"Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream." —Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner, the founder of the Playboy Magazine empire, died on Weds, September 27, 2017 at the age of 91.
“Hugh M. Hefner, the American icon who in 1953 introduced the
world to Playboy Magazine and built the company into one of the most
recognizable American global brands in history, peacefully passed away
today from natural causes at his home, The Playboy Mansion, surrounded
by loved ones.”
While he leaves an enormous missing space that can never be filled in
our cultural lexicon as a true one-of-a-kind icon, his passing is a
difficult one to refer to a tragic.
1. His family.
Born Hugh Marston Hefner on
April 9, 1926, in Chicago, Illinois to parents Grace Caroline and Glenn
Lucius Hefner, the founder and CEO of Playboy Enterprises is survived by
his third wife, Crystal Harris, 31, whom he married in 2012, as well as
his four children:
- Christie (64) and David (62), from his first marriage to Mildred "Millie" Williams, whom he married in 1949 and divorced in 1959.
- Marston (27) and Cooper (26), from his second
marriage to Playmate of the Year Kimberly Conrad, whom he married 1988,
separated from in 1998, and divorced in 2010.
2. His declining health in the last few years.
In April of 2017, his son Cooper responded to rumors that his father was in rapid decline in an interview with E!, the network on which Hugh became a reality star in the series Girls Next Door:
“He’s
doing fine,” Cooper assured. “My dad has always made the joke that if
the mansion was your house, why would you want to leave?”
“I
think because he has stepped back from the day to day operations of the
business, people have thought that his health was not very good,” he
continued to E! News. “The reality is he has a really bad back—that
happens when you’re 90—and he is enjoying life at the mansion.”
Just
one month ago Cooper, who took over as Chief Creative Officer of
Playboy Enterprises, shared that watching his father age was beginning
to get rough.
“It’s tough to watch him struggle,” he told The
Hollywood Reporter of his father getting older. “But I’m just happy it’s
physical and not mental."
3. The fate of the Playboy Mansion.
Hefner purchased the Playboy Mansion in the posh Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1971 for $1 million.
The
residence, built in 1927, is a Gothic/Tudor home on a
22,000-square-foot, 5 acre lot, which includes 29 rooms, a tennis court,
a four-bedroom guesthouse, the famous swimming pool featuring the
infamous "grotto", and — yes, really, a fully licensed zoo complete
with monkeys, peacocks, flamingos and ducks.
Hef put the residence
on the market for $200 million in January of 2016. It sold after 6
months (and a nearly 50 percent reduction) to financier Daren
Metropoulos $105 million, with the provision that Hefner be allowed to
remain living in and working on the property until after his death.
Sources
say Metropoulos plans to reconnect the Playboy Mansion property with
the neighboring estate Hefner purchased for Conrad and their two sons
upon their separation, and which Metropoulos purchased in 2009,
combining the two into a 7.3-acre compound to serve as his own private
residence.
4. His burial site.
In 199, Hefner bought the burial crypt next in Westwood Village Cemetary directly next to Marilyn Monroe for $75,000.
Monroe was featured on the first cover and as the first centerfold of Playboy when is premiered in 1953.
5. His final Tweets.
In his final moments on
Twitter prior to his death, Hefner offered words of support to those
affected by hurricanes Harvey and Irma and reach out for people to make
donations to those in need.
... Please join me in supporting ongoing relief efforts for all those affected by donating to One America Appeal.
— Hugh Hefner (@hughhefner) September 19, 2017
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