Hugh Hefner, the enigmatic figure behind Playboy magazine and the de facto empire it launched, was found dead in his home, the Los Angeles manse nicknamed the
Hugh Hefner, the enigmatic figure behind Playboy magazine and the de facto empire it launched, was found dead in his home, the Los Angeles manse nicknamed the Playboy Mansion, on Wednesday. He was 91. Considered the quintessential and iconic ladies’ man of the mid-20th century, the dawn of Hefner’s Playboy enterprise began in 1953 with the first issue of Playboy, a publication which the then-27-year-old married