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HUGH HEFNER

Hugh Hefner is an American publisher. He was born in 1926 at Chicago, Illinois. He is best known as the founder of the Playboy soft-porn organisation. In June 1963 he was arrested on obscenity charges by Chicago police after his Playboy magazine published a pictorial entitled, 'The Nudist Jayne Mansfield'. The trial resulted in a hung jury that voted 7-5 for acquittal. Extraordinarily, he also has had a rare species of marsh rabbit named after him: Sylvilagus palustris hefneri.
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