![]() He was compared to Jay Gatsby, Citizen Kane and Walt Disney, but Mr. Hefner was a stunning success from the moment he emerged in the early 1950s. Both were derided over the years - as vulgar, as adolescent, as exploitative and finally as anachronistic. Both advertised themselves as emblems of the sexual revolution, an escape from American priggishness and wider social intolerance. ![]() Hefner the man and Playboy the brand were inseparable. ![]() His death was announced by Playboy Enterprises. Hugh Hefner, who created Playboy magazine and spun it into a media and entertainment-industry giant - all the while, as its very public avatar, squiring attractive young women (and sometimes marrying them) well into his 80s - died on Wednesday at his home, the Playboy Mansion, in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles. ![]()
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