Hugh

I started my magazine "Playboy" in 1953, a mainstream lifestyle publication that celebrated sex at a time when Americans were none too willing to talk about such things in public. The first issue included a now-famous calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe and quickly sold out. Playboy, not without controversy, became a smashing success, known for its high quality of writing as well as its regular photos of naked women. I also opened nightclubs in the 1960s and '70s, featuring scantily clad women known as "Bunnies." I even had a TV show, Playboy's Penthouse, in the early days of cable television. I had a stroke in 1985 that slowed my swinging lifestyle, and in 1988 i turned over business operations to my daughter, Christie. After nearly a decade of being a husband and father, I bounced back in the late '90s as a swinging senior citizen, once again enjoying the limelight and boasting a harem of much younger girlfriends.