Hugh Hefner
@hughhefner
American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)
Building Playboy Enterprises as Founder · United States
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Key facts
- Lived
- 1926–2017
- Educated at
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · School of the Art Institute of Chicago · Northwestern University · Steinmetz College Prep
About
Hugh Hefner (1926–2017) was an editor and journalist. They were born in Chicago. They studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. They served as editor-in-chief.
In context
Playboy Enterprises was founded in 1953 and has no closure on record. Among the 174 other business companies founded in the 1950s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 38 years.
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