He made a joke that he wanted to spend eternity between them."Ĭomedian, designer and St. "We were at a funeral once, and he actually showed us his grave site next to Marilyn Monroe and Bettie Page. "We asked him what he thought happened, and he always joked, 'There's no heaven without sex'," Kristina said. He accepted everyone as they were - we had been sort of trouble teens - and he was kind to everyone."īoth twins recalled Hefner saying he wasn't worried about getting older or death. "He surrounded himself with friends and love. "The main thing he taught us was to love," said Karissa Shannon, 27, a Clearwater native who, along with twin sister Kristina, appeared in a Playboy centerfold in 2009 and later lived at the Playboy Mansion. Petersburg was once home to one of Hefner's Playboy Clubs, where guests were served food and drinks by Playboy Bunnies. Playboy Club Bunny Cheri upon arrival at La Guardia aboard the Big Bunny, Heffner's personal $5-million DC-9 jet, March 1970, New York.Ī number of Playboy models have hailed from the area, including the original Hooters girl, Lynne Austin. Hugh Hefner, left, and girlfriend Barbi Benton, center, are served by N.Y.
His influence was global, but he touched many lives personally in Tampa Bay, from the locals who posed for the magazine to people who never met him.
He also sustained continued criticism from feminists and detractors who called him a pornographer who profited from objectifying women.
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He published work by some of the greatest writers of the 20th century alongside photographs of nude women, and upset the norm by making his Playboy-themed nightclubs and TV shows integrated during the Jim Crow era.
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Hefner and his magazine sowed controversy, fought for free speech and ushered in new attitudes about sex and race that influenced generations. Hugh Hefner, the creator of Playboy magazine and one of the most recognizable brands on earth, died of natural causes at his home, the Playboy Mansion, Wednesday at 91.īy most accounts, the man who in 1953 started the magazine at his kitchen table with a $1,000 loan from his parents, then spun it into a global empire of publishing, television and beyond, lived up to the suave, gentlemanly and libidinous persona he cultivated - the benevolent king of a manor where the parade of a specific type of beautiful women, lavish parties and a certain red-blooded American male archetype never died.
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