Hugh Hefner

Cooper Hefner, the 28-year-old son of the late Playboy founder, has launched an exploratory campaign to run as a Democrat for the California State Senate. He joined LX News to make his case for why voters should give him a chance.

The television community lost many beloved artists over the last year. During the 2018 Emmys on Monday, an “In Memoriam” tribute honored stars who’ve recently passed away.

The Playboy Mansion will be permanently protected under an agreement announced Tuesday by Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz and the property’s owner, Daren Metropoulos.

The German edition of Playboy magazine says it will feature a transgender model on its cover for the first time.

Since Hugh Hefner passed away in September, there’s been a lot of talk about all the boundaries his magazine has pushed in its 64 years of production. Playboy has always been closely linked to the public’s perception of women and sex, and the magazine doesn’t seem to be changing that any time soon. Meet Ines Rau.

Of the many women to come in and out of Hugh Hefner’s life, Holly Madison is one of the most famous. The late magazine mogul’s girlfriend for seven years–a majority of them as the “#1 girlfriend”–Madison was a prominent fixture in Hefner’s life for nearly a decade. Having frequently visited the mansion while a 20-year-old college student in Los Angeles,...

A North Texas woman remembers what it was like working as a Playboy bunny at the Dallas Playboy Club. Karen Drennan is now an algebra teacher at a private Christian school.

A North Texas teacher has a special connection to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who passed away Wednesday at 91 years old.

Karen Drennan, a former Playboy bunny at the Dallas Playboy Club in the late 1970s, discusses her time as a bunny and reflects on the death of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

Oppressor or liberator? Feminist in a silk robe, or pipe-smoking exploiter? Opinions were flying a day after Hugh Hefner’s death over just what he did — and didn’t do — for women. On one side, there were those who saw Hefner’s dressing women in bunny costumes with cottontails on their rears, or displaying them nude in his magazine with a...

Following the death of Hugh Hefner Wednesday, the fate of his swinging Los Angeles party pad, known as the Playboy Mansion, is now in the hands of its current owner — Hefner’s wealthy next-door neighbor. Daren Metropoulos, 33, scion of the Connecticut billionaire Dean Metropoulos and the co-owner of Twinkies-maker Hostess Brands, bought the sprawling, 20,000-square-foot home in August 2016....

Hugh Hefner and Marilyn Monroe were linked in life. Now they’ll be joined in death.

Playboy Enterprises announced Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, that founder Hugh Hefner died from natural causes at his home, surrounded by loved ones. He was 91.

High above Hollywood, nestled in brush lining a hiking trail that leads to the Hollywood sign, there’s a boulder with Hugh Hefner’s name on it — a reminder of the Playboy publisher’s key roles in helping to save one of Los Angeles’ most famous landmarks.

It wasn’t what he was expecting for the evening, but when tour guide Jeff Napshin of Star Track Tours received notice that Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner had died on Wednesday, he knew immediately where to take his passengers.

Hugh Hefner, the pipe-smoking Playboy publisher who turned silk pajamas into a work uniform, women into centerfolds and sexual desire into a worldwide multimedia empire that spanned several generations of American life, has died at age 91. Hefner died of natural causes at his home, the Playboy Mansion, surrounded by loved ones on Wednesday night, Playboy Enterprises said. Cooper Hefner,...

For decades, Hugh Hefner was the pipe-smoking, silk pajama-wearing center of a constant fantasy party at Playboy mansions in Chicago and then in Los Angeles. The icon left a mark on American culture and his death triggered an outpouring of tributes on social media.

The worldwide sale of luxury homes is slowing down, even though more homes worth over $100 million sold last year than ever before.