Playboy founder to be laid beside sex symbol Mag’ 1st edition cover girl

Founder of playboy magazine, men exclusive monthly, Playboy Magazine, Hugh Marston Hefner who died on September 27, will be buried beside the beautiful model Marilyn Monroe’ who graced his magazines first edition cover page in 1953.

Agency reports said that Hefner had wished in his life time to be buried beside the world’s most iconic sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe. “I’m a believer in things symbolic,” Hefner, who died aged 91 Wednesday, once told the LA Times. “Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up.”

Hugh Marston Hefner was an American businessman, magazine publisher and playboy. He was the editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, which he founded in 1953, and as chief creative officer of Playboy

He was born in Born on 9th April 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States and married three different women in his life time, his spouses were Crystal Harris whom he married in 2012 till date. He had earlier married Kimberley Conrad in 1989 and divorced her in 2010 and Millie Williams in 1949–1959. He had four children.

Marilyn Monroe was one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era’s attitudes towards sexuality. Her nude image occupied the centerfold of the first ever edition of Playboy magazine in 1953. And now Hugh Hefner, the man who put it there, is going to be buried beside the Hollywood icon that jumpstarted his career.

Marilyn Monroe, born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on 1st June 1926 and died 5th August 1962, was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comic “dumb blonde” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era’s attitudes towards sexuality.

Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962.[1] More than half a century after her death, she continues to be considered a major popular culture icon.