Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication that changed American’s sexual attitudes. He revolutionized sexuality in America. Hefner was born in Chicago, his father Glenn Lucius Hefner was an accountant, and his mother Grace Caroline (Swanson) Hefner was a teacher.

In January 1952, Hefner left his job as a copywriter for Esquire after he was denied a $5 raise. In 1953, he took out a mortgage loan of $600 and raised $8,000 from 45 investors (including $1,000 from his mother ) to launch Playboy, which was initially going to be called Stag Party. The first issue was published in December 1953 and featured Marilyn Monroe from a 1949 nude calendar shoot she did under a pseudonym.

That first issue sold more than 50,000 copies, but Monroe was not paid by Playboy or Hefner for the photos. Playboy became popular gradually with every issue, Hefner brought it with new ideas on fashion, sexuality, party culture and entertainment. Play boy had everything in it for America of 50s which was witnessing a revolution in sexuality.

In next decade, in 1961, Hefner hired Gregory to work at the Chicago Playboy Club. Gregory attributed the launch of his career to that night. Hefner promoted a bon vivant lifestyle in his magazine and in the television shows that he hosted Playboy’s Penthouse (1959–1960) and Playboy After Dark (1969–1970).^[He was also the chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, the publishing group which operates the magazine. On June 4, 1963, Hefner was arrested for promoting obscene literature after he published an issue of Playboy featuring nude shots of Jayne Mansfield in bed with a man. In the 1960s, Hefner created “private key” clubs that were racially diverse. In 1970, Hefner stated that “militant feminists” are “unalterably opposed to the romantic boy-girl society that Playboy promotes” and an article was produced in his magazine against them. Feminist argued that Hefner built his legacy through images of women’s bodies. He was interested in sexual desire but only in how it benefited men. Hugh Hefner was not a feminist or liberator of women as some claim.

Personal -He married Northwestern University student Mildred (“Millie”) Williams in 1949. They had a daughter named Christie (b. 1952) and a son, David (b. 1955). Hefner remade himself as a bon vivant and man about town, a lifestyle that he promoted in his magazine and TV shows. He admitted to being “‘involved’ with maybe eleven out of twelve months’ worth of Playmates” during some years. Donna Michelle, Marilyn Cole, Lillian Müller, Shannon Tweed, Barbi Benton, Karen Christy, Sondra Theodore, and Carrie Leigh were a few of his many lovers. In 1971, he acknowledged that he experimented in bisexuality. In 198 he married Playmate of the Year Kimberley Conrad; they were 36 years apart in age. The couple had sons Marston Glenn (b. 1990) and Cooper (b. 1991). He and Conrad separated in 1998. In January 2009, Hefner began a relationship with Crystal Harris and married on December 31, 2012.
Hefner was an atheist, he stated in a 2000 interview with Playboy, “It’s perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It’s something we have invented to explain the inexplicable.”
Hefner died at the Playboy Mansion on September 27, 2017, at the age of 91.
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Hugh Hefner’s birth Chart

In Hefner’s chart 3rd house lord is exalted in house of entertainment and in exchange with 5th lord Saturn. Saturn is very strong in Scorpio. In Saturn major period in Mars sub-period he founded Playboy.