Did you know that the Playboy Mansion was sold to Daren Metropoulos Daren Metropoulos for $100 million?

Did you know that Hugh Marston Hefner was an American businessman, magazine publisher and playboy died?

Did you know that Hugh Hefner was the founder of Playboy and editor-in-chief of the magazine, which he founded in 1953?^[2]

Did you know that Hefner was also the chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, which is the publishing group that operates the magazine.^[3] An advocate of sexual liberation and freedom of expression, Hefner was a political activist and philanthropist in several other causes and public issues?

(April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) 

Did you know that in 1985, Hefner had a minor stroke at age 59?

Did you know that after the stroke Hefner re-evaluating his lifestyle and made several changes which included toned down wild, all-night parties?

Did you know that in 1988, daughter Christie took over the operation of the Playboy empire?


Did you know that Hefner's brother Keith died at the age of 87 on April 8, 2016, one day before Hefner's 90th birthday?^[55]

Did you know that in January 2016, the Playboy Mansion was put on the market for $200 million, on condition that Hugh Hefner would continue to work and live in the mansion?^[56]

Daren Metropoulos

Did you know that the Playboy Mansion was sold  to
Daren Metropoulos, a principal at private equity firm Metropoulos & Company, for $100 million?

Did you know that Metropoulos planned to reconnect the Playboy Mansion property with a neighboring estate that he purchased in 2009, combining the two for a 7.3 acre (3-hectare) compound as his own private residence?^[57]

Did you know that Hefner died at his home in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, on September 27, 2017, at the age of 91?^[70][71]

Did you know that the causes Hefner death were cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, sepsis and an E. coli infection?^[72][73][74]

Did you know that Hefner is interred at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, in the $75,000 crypt beside Marilyn Monroe. "Spending eternity next to Marilyn is an opportunity too sweet to pass up," Hefner had told the Los Angeles Times in 2009?^[75]

Jared Leto

Did you know that On October 3, 2017, it was announced that Academy Award winner actor Jared Leto would play Hugh Hefner in a biopic directed by Brett Ratner with the screenplay by Jeff Nathanson but the biopic was put indefinitely on hold and was confirmed that Leto would not portray the Playboy founder following an emergence of sexual harassment allegations against Ratner on November 2, 2017?^[80][81]

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