Harris called off the wedding just 5 days before they were due to be wed. As of June 2012 Harris and Hefner have resumed their relationship.

Hefner donated $ 100, 000 to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts to create a course called " Censorship in Cinema ," and $ 2 million to endow a chair for the study of American film.

Her appearance in the magazine opened the door for her to headline and operate two different Playboy Jazz Clubs, both under Hugh Hefner ’ s overview, which she called Lainie ’ s Lounge East and West on opposite coasts, one in Los Angeles and the other in Manhattan.

After the band's final gig at the ICA in London on 10 December 2001 and the release of an EP called The Hefner Brain the following March, the band went on a seemingly permanent hiatus, save for one reformation for the " Keeping It Peel " tribute show, marking the death of one of their biggest supporters, Radio 1 DJ John Peel.

Kevin Burns approached Hefner in 2005, which resulted in a pilot called " Hef's World " being filmed.

True Hollywood Story, the billboard, and the press that came from it, caught the eye of Hugh Hefner.

Teresa Carpenter's " Death of a Playmate " article about Dorothy Stratten's murder was published in The Village Voice and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize, and while Bogdanovich did not criticize Carpenter's article in his book, she had lambasted both Bogdanovich and Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, claiming that Stratten was a victim of them as much as of her husband, Paul Snider, who killed her and himself.

In 1992 Smith was chosen by Hugh Hefner to appear on the cover of the March issue of Playboy, where she was listed as Vickie Smith, wearing a low-cut evening gown.

* A similar segment was shot in 2003, when WWE diva Nidia Guenard made an appearance at the Mansion during an episode of SmackDown, where she attempted to get past security in order to speak to Hefner.

Hugh Hefner sued the producers of the film because he did not like the way he was portrayed, perhaps in part because the article the film was based on suggested that Stratten was as much a victim of Hefner and Bogdanovich as she was of Snider.

For the work that Mary Morello put in to this, she won a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in 1996.

On the March 30, 2006 episode of Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, Brewster revealed that she had recently received a handwritten note indicating Hugh Hefner would like her to pose for Playboy.

Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, was the President from 1982, and Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from 1988, until she left the company in 2009.

Early on, Hefner required Playboy centerfolds to be portrayed in a very specific way, telling photographers in a 1956 memo that the " model must be in a natural setting engaged in some activity ' like reading, writing, mixing a drink '...... should have a ' healthy, intelligent, American look — a young lady that looks like she might be a very efficient secretary or an undergrad at Vassar.

* When Buffy meets Giles in company with a lightly dressed Olivia in his flat, she compares him with Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy Enterprises.

Following that film she starred in several TV movies including Modern Vampires, Hefner: Unauthorized, and The Shaggy Dog.

In February 2009, she quit working for the company altogether due to the split from Hefner making her position " awkward ".

During her time with Hefner, Madison stated that she wanted to marry Hefner and have his children.

On October 7, 2008, Madison announced in a video posted on TMZ. com that her relationship with Hefner had ended, but that she, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson are " still filming stuff together.

He had previously granted full access to documentary filmmaker and television producer Kevin Burns for the A & E Biography special Hugh Hefner: American Playboy in 1996.

Hefner had a minor stroke in 1985 at age 59.

Hefner has said that he only remained married to her for the sake of his children, and his youngest child had just turned 18.

Hefner and Harris had planned to marry June 18, 2011.

That morning, he had mailed two suicide notes, one to Dorothy ( who at a coroner's inquest testified that he had given his reasons ) and one to his friend and boss, Playboy editor-publisher Hugh Hefner.

In those 11 years, Martin and his panel of pals successfully ridiculed and made fun of these legendary stars in this order: Ronald Reagan, Hugh Hefner, Ed McMahon, William Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Bette Davis, Barry Goldwater, Johnny Carson, Wilt Chamberlain, Hubert Humphrey, Carroll O ' Connor, Monty Hall, Jack Klugman & Tony Randall, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Leo Durocher, Truman Capote, Don Rickles, Ralph Nader, Jack Benny, Redd Foxx, Bobby Riggs, George Washington, Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, Hank Aaron, Joe Namath, Bob Hope, Telly Savalas, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Landon, Evel Knievel, Valerie Harper, Muhammad Ali, Dean Martin, Dennis Weaver, Joe Garagiola, Danny Thomas, Angie Dickinson, Gabe Kaplan, Ted Knight, Peter Marshall, Dan Haggerty, Frank Sinatra, Jack Klugman, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Betty White, Suzanne Somers, Joan Collins, and Mr T. For nearly a decade, Martin had recorded as many as four albums a year for Reprise Records.

The original Playboy Mansion was a 70-room classicizing French brick and limestone residence in Chicago at 1340 North State Parkway, which had been built in 1899 for Dr. George Swift Isham ; it was acquired by Hefner in 1959.

Hugh Hefner had high hopes Stratten could have meaningful crossover success as an actress.

Ms. Hefner said that the election of Barack Obama as the next President had inspired her to give more time to charitable work, and that the decision to step down was her own.

The magazine featured glossy ( and costly ) production standards and had the misfortune of debuting at the same time that a financial crunch forced publisher Hefner to scale back his non-Playboy publishing interests.

Hugh Hefner and Roberts ' mother were arrested as a result, but the case was subsequently dismissed because Roberts ' mother had signed a statement that her daughter was eighteen before the photo shoot.

's Torrie Wilson and Sable, who had recently been featured in a pictorial in Playboy, against Raw's Stacy Keibler and Miss Jackie, who had protested the decision made by Hugh Hefner to not feature them.

According to Weeks, the charismatic Bulger, " had more women than Hugh Hefner.

During his monologue at a Friars Club roast of Hugh Hefner three weeks after the September 11 attacks, Gottfried joked that he had intended to catch a plane, but couldn't get a direct flight because " they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first.

In 2004, Hugh Hefner, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Playboy, who had previously worked for Esquire, wrote that " The US Post Office attempted to put Esquire out of business in the 1940s by taking away its second-class mailing permit.

Hefner had, at this point, recorded a large number of singles and EPs.

Boxing Hefner collected some of those tracks that had not appeared on the previous albums, often as new recordings.

Dead Media, released in 2001, continues the interest that Hefner had shown in exploring new ways.

The youth wing of the NU had been active in the persecution not only of communists but of ' Javanist ' or ' anti-Islamic ' elements within Sukarno's Indonesian Nationalist Party ( PNI ) during the early phase of the killings ( Hefner 1987 ).

Playing out of Hefner Stadium, Fever had a rocky start to life in competition: they lost their first ever competitive game 2-0 to state rivals Indiana Invaders, but did pick up a couple of wins in their first encounters, 2-1 over Columbus Shooting Stars and 4-2 on the road at Kalamazoo Kingdom.

* Discovering that Hugh Hefner has been posing as the " Phantom of the Fens ", a masked highwayman who regularly holds up Aunt Meg in order to steal the supplies of laboratory rabbits that her farm provides for vivisection purposes.

Reinsdorf has been involved ( along with the likes of Playboy Enterprises ' Christie Hefner ) in Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's initiative to improve standardized test scores in the 559 Chicago Public Schools.

The bands ' songs have been covered by Hefner (" Goethe's Letter to Vic Chesnutt ") and The Delgados (" The Dirge ").

Since 2004 Olivia has been a monthly contributor to Playboy Magazine, where her art pinup page appears with captions written by Hugh Hefner.

Russell Miller had been an investigative journalist for the Sunday Times and had written well-received biographies of Hugh Hefner and J. Paul Getty.