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Hugh Hefner

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Lindsay Lohan Nude Playboy Photos Leak One Week Early: Oops.

    Editor's note: The photos of Lindsay Lohan previously published in this post have been removed at the request of Playboy Enterprises International, Inc. ("Playboy"), which did not grant permission for use of its materials. Updated at the bottom: Hef decides to release the issue early after making ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Lindsay Lohan Leaked Playboy Cover: As Nude and 'Classy' as Promised

    TheInsider.comLarger-than-life version, below.​Sorry for caring, when there's real Los Angeles news on the line -- but the second we saw, via New York Post Tweet, that Lindsay Lohan's much-hyped Playboy cover had leaked, we couldn't help fawning over it a little. "It's a classic tribute, insp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Mike Edison's Book Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Five Dirtiest Secrets of the Porn Mag Industry, From Hugh Hefner to Larry Flynt

    ​ At first, the idea of a three-hundred page cultural history of dirty magazines seems quaint, like somebody writing a book-length ode to the telegram. After all, it's been a long time since Playboy stood for anything other than bad reality TV, and you couldn't purchase a Penthouse right now i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Kandyland at the Playboy Mansion: Sugar Daddies, Paul Oakenfold and Girls Flashing their Oompa Loompas

    Lina Lecaro A rainbow of femme flavors. ​Half naked ladies (make that completely in the case of babes in body-paint), a gluttonous amount of booze and food (which only about a fifth of the females would actually eat), Dayglo Chocolate Factory décor, and throbbing sounds by Paul Oakenfold-- Ka ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Doug Hutchinson, 51-Year-Old Actor, Marries 16-Year-Old Beauty Pageant Contestant: They Plan to Live in L.A.

    E! OnlineHutchinson and Stodden.​In the Creep File comes the story of 51-year-old Green Mile actor Doug Hutchison, who reportedly married his 16-year-old victim sweetheart, beauty contestant and aspiring country singer Courtney Stodden. We were double checking the calendar to make sure it was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Sex Survey Finds Angelenos Do it More Than Anyone Else in America

    Jimi Photog​It should be no surprise that the city that's home to the porn industry, Hugh Hefner and Charlie Sheen is also the place where people have the most sex in America. The latest Trojan "U.S. Sex Census" puts L.A. the top of the horn-dog heap: We have it 135 times a year, beating ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Kiss and Pay Up: Drake Settles with Playboy

    He's got money to blow, right?​Playboy gets (Young) Money. Last June, Playboy Enterprises Inc. sued rapper Drake for copyright infringement. The Hefner empire claimed that The Young Money/Cash Money Records artist's breakthrough song "Best I Ever Had" used samples from the 1975 song "Fallin' ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2011

    The Hills Have Fonts

    He's got money to blow, right?​Playboy gets (Young) Money. Last June, Playboy Enterprises Inc. sued rapper Drake for copyright infringement. The Hefner empire claimed that The Young Money/Cash Money Records artist's breakthrough song "Best I Ever Had" used samples from the 1975 song "Fallin' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Pneumonia Outbreak at the Playboy Mansion: Could It Have Festered in the Grotto?

    Girls of the Grotto: Worth subsequent diarrhea?​Updated after the jump: At least one "model" (is that what they're calling 'em these days?) who worked the Febuary 3 Playboy event contracted the bug. VIDEO of her harrowing tale, and more proof it came from the grotto. Update: The infection cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Animal Chefs Shook and Dotolo Reveal New Seafood Restaurant: Son of a Gun

    N. GalutenAnimal (and Son of a Gun) chefs Jon Shook (right) and Vinny Dotolo​After much speculation and many rumors, Animal chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo have released the name and concept of their new restaurant, opening at 8379 West Third Street. As the Animal team told Food & Wine Magazi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    The American Salumi Calendar: Finally, A Centerfold For Guanciale Lovers

    ​Who needs centerfolds when you have charcuterie? Or salumi, to be more specific and a bit more, well, I don't know, centerfold-y. Thanks to American Salumi, you can now get a salumi calendar, supposedly the first of its kind. Technically it's the Year of the Rabbit now, and not the Year of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Hef Admits To Not-So-Safe, Condom-Free Sex With Multiple Girlfriends (Like A Porn Star) At The Playboy Mansion

    playboy.comShocking: Crystal Harris, Hef's bride-to-be, is blonde.​In the wake of his announcement that he'll marry a 24-year-old girlfriend, Angeleno Hugh Hefner defended himself against regurgitated dirt about life at the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, although he seemed to confirm many of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Hugh Hefner Can't Stop Tweeting About Engagement To 24-Year-Old Playmate Crystal Harris

    Hugh Hefner's latest boob job​The horniest old man in history has never let age be more than a number, and his youthful Twitter account -- clocking in at 21 Tweets yesterday -- is further testament to the man's utterly ageless, uh, text-erity. (Unless he's got a Playmate on smart-phone duty, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Sean Connery's lack of underpants & 20 other bizarre celeb facts from Rona Barrett

    ​ So, like Zardoz in reverse, fully-dressed Sean Connery spent the '70s going commando. Meanwhile, Sammy Davis, Jr., collected pornography, and Diane Keaton admitted an oral fixation! Click on through to our Style Council blog to learn all of this and more in this week's Studies in Crap post. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    8 Reasons Why Your Drug Dealer Hates You

    Open for business. Unless you suck. ​It's been said that miserable circumstances are incited when you piss off your bartender, hairdresser or leader of your preferred religious denomination, in addition to a slew of people in other professions (your pizza delivery guy, your fitness instructor) ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    July 29, 2010

    Master of the House of Playboy

    Hef, still doing it his way (does he really have a choice?)

  • Film+TV

    July 29, 2010

    Movie reviews: Get Low, Life During Wartime

    Also: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno and more

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    LA Weekly Cover Story: Hugh Hefner Defiant In His Defense Of His Empire And The Playboy Lifestyle

    Steve ApplefordHef and girlfriend Crystal Harris.​Amid a buyout attempt by the owner of rival Penthouse magazine and decreasing fortunes at the hands of free internet porn, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner remains defiant in his attempts not only to buy the portion of his nudie empire he doesn't ow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Over The Weekend: Playboy Jazz Festival

    The 32nd Annual Playboy Jazz Festival had its typical big-name veterans play - George Benson, Marcus Miller, Chick Corea, Manhattan Transfer - but it was the lesser known performers who almost stole the show. Trombone Shorty and Orleans Ave. and Naturally 7 made their first appearances and the Pete ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Money Raised To 'Save The Peak' Near Hollywood Sign

    ​Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday morning that the final amount of money has been raised to "Save The Peak" around the Hollywood sign, preserving a ridge line and preventing it from being developed. At a morning press conference the governor said the state of California has previou ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 26, 2010

    BOGIE AT THE BIJOU

    ​Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday morning that the final amount of money has been raised to "Save The Peak" around the Hollywood sign, preserving a ridge line and preventing it from being developed. At a morning press conference the governor said the state of California has previou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Playboy Magazine Could Move To L.A.

    ​We know -- you're thinking, Playboy already is in Los Angeles. Nope. That's just Hef, who's been known to approve proofs of the adult glossy from the comfort of his robe at home in Holmby Hills. The bread-and-butter work on America's nude-girl-next-door mag has been done out of editorial hea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Gleaming, New LAPD HQ Has Brown Lawn, Wilted Palms

    ​Former Chief William Bratton called it the most-expensive, state-of-the-art police headquarters in the nation, a $437-million, green-friendly monument to the original boys and girls in blue. And yet, something's amiss at the Los Angeles Police Department's new, gleaming, high-tech Police Admi ... More >>

  • Music

    January 7, 2010

    Rock Picks: Al Kooper, Year Long Disaster, Steven Severin, the Phenomenal Handclap Band

    Also, Kimya Dawson, the Cigarette Bums, Willi Williams and others

  • Columns

    December 24, 2009

    Entertainment for Men

    Also, Kimya Dawson, the Cigarette Bums, Willi Williams and others

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    L.A. Country Club Pays Ultra Low Property Tax Rate; Faces Possible Review

    ​The Los Angeles Country Club, protected under Prop. 13 limits and loopholes, pays an ultra-low rate of about $200,000 a year in property taxes based on 313 acres of prime Westside property that could be worth nearly $20 billion or even more if it were developed, according to the Garment & Cit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Lenny Bruce: How to Talk Dirty and Influence Auctions

    It's been 43 years since "sick," "dirty" standup comedian Lenny Bruce died of a morphine overdose in Los Angeles, but his legacy lives on -- not only in the candid ways in which Americans from academia to the pulpit now feel free to discuss human behavior, or the liberating (and sometimes not so lib ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Tomb With a View: Bids for Crypt Above Marilyn Monroe's Reach $4 Million

    The Ebay bidding on the cemetery crypt space located directly above Marilyn Monroe's is now up to $4 million. For a final resting place, the spot has had a bit of turnover, according to an L.A. Times piece. Originally owned by baseball slugger Joe DiMaggio, it was sold by the Yankee Clipper to Los A ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 20, 2009

    IS IT ART? OR JUST NUDIES?

    The Ebay bidding on the cemetery crypt space located directly above Marilyn Monroe's is now up to $4 million. For a final resting place, the spot has had a bit of turnover, according to an L.A. Times piece. Originally owned by baseball slugger Joe DiMaggio, it was sold by the Yankee Clipper to Los A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Last Night: The Marijuana Policy Project Party at the Playboy Mansion--The Dandy Warhols, Playmates, and Pinball

    Laurie ScavoI don't need to explain the Playboy Mansion. You've probably seen Girls Next Door, the E! Entertainment show that managed to successfully de-mystify the estate like the channel did Saved by the Bell, Puff Daddy, and Fabio. But despite the camera's depiction of Heff as goofy and groping g ... More >>

  • Music

    May 28, 2009

    Kim Fowley's Lipstick Orgy, Banana Split Sundaes and more

    Laurie ScavoI don't need to explain the Playboy Mansion. You've probably seen Girls Next Door, the E! Entertainment show that managed to successfully de-mystify the estate like the channel did Saved by the Bell, Puff Daddy, and Fabio. But despite the camera's depiction of Heff as goofy and groping g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    This Tallowed Ground: Wax Museum to Sell 200 Celebrities

    If you can't take the heat -- well, let's just say that the Hollywood Wax Museum has announced plans to auction off James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and nearly 200 other wax figures on May 1. The housecleaning sale is the first in the museum's 44-year history and offers something for every genre of c ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 12, 2009

    Snoop Dogg After Dark: Interview Lite

    If you can't take the heat -- well, let's just say that the Hollywood Wax Museum has announced plans to auction off James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and nearly 200 other wax figures on May 1. The housecleaning sale is the first in the museum's 44-year history and offers something for every genre of c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Filming Snoop's Dogg After Dark: Behind the Scenes at The Kress

    We members of the press are gathered on the roof of The Kress in Hollywood, four floors of elaborate clubby terrain beneath our feet, and menacing gray clouds above. It's cold and Snoop Dogg is late by almost an hour. Down on the sidewalk, the doormen are screening and waving through a slow line ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 18, 2008

    It's Just Sex

    We members of the press are gathered on the roof of The Kress in Hollywood, four floors of elaborate clubby terrain beneath our feet, and menacing gray clouds above. It's cold and Snoop Dogg is late by almost an hour. Down on the sidewalk, the doormen are screening and waving through a slow line ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 16, 2008

    Hugh Hefner is Still Alive!

    We members of the press are gathered on the roof of The Kress in Hollywood, four floors of elaborate clubby terrain beneath our feet, and menacing gray clouds above. It's cold and Snoop Dogg is late by almost an hour. Down on the sidewalk, the doormen are screening and waving through a slow line ... More >>

  • Music

    August 14, 2008

    From Decor to Door Whores

    A peek inside some Hollywood hot spots. Plus, LCD Soundsystem and Mondo Hollywood shows

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    Why Don't We Do It in the Dirt?

    Top 10 e-mail responses to the question, “Where would you have your last lay in apocalyptic L.A.?”

  • News

    January 11, 2007

    Immortal Mayhem

    It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

  • Music

    August 24, 2006

    Sweatin' Safari

    It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

  • LA Life

    August 21, 2003

    Bust a Move

    It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

  • Music

    March 29, 2001

    Babes in Babylon

    It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

  • News

    December 21, 2000

    Auctioneer Hef

    It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

  • Stage

    December 14, 2000

    Field of Wet Dreams

    Build it and they will cum

  • Music

    October 12, 2000

    Style and Substance

    Build it and they will cum

  • Music

    May 11, 2000

    Mope Springs Eternal

    Build it and they will cum

  • News

    May 28, 1998

    Scientology, cont.

    Build it and they will cum

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    Why Do You Think They Call ’Em Hams?

    Build it and they will cum

  • News

    February 5, 1998

    Def Hef

    Build it and they will cum

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