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In 2017, the 91-year-old famous entrepreneur Hugh Hefner passed away peacefully and unbelievably, his warm and modest smile was like an impenetrable deep pool, inadvertently revealing great satisfaction and good wishes for his glorious life in the past.
Under the care of medical workers, this business legend has said goodbye to this world, but it also symbolizes the perfect end to his life of passion and talent.
Looking back on Hefner's magnificent life, starting from an ordinary starting point, experiencing the heavy blow of his wife's betrayal, with perseverance and unique insight, he successfully founded the world-famous "Playboy" magazine, and finally created a "playboy" life with amazing wealth, which is amazing.
As Hefner said to his family and friends on his deathbed: "I have gone through every stage of my life, tasted its sweetness and bitterness, and now I can leave without regrets."
Indeed, from the painful memories of his first marriage, to the hardships of his entrepreneurial journey, to the glorious years at the peak of his career, Hefner wrote this legendary story with his firm faith and endless courage.
Even at the last moment of his life, he was still able to face all this with a smile on his face, showing his detachment and open-mindedness in life, which stemmed from his firm belief in his own worth and his unremitting pursuit of a happy life.
Traced back to his roots, Hefner was born into a middle-class family, and his parents were hard-working, conscientious, ordinary wage earners. It was they who deeply imprinted the educational concept of "being honest, conscientious, and sincere" in Hefner's heart through words and deeds, and subtly shaped him, so that he gradually grew into an honest and trustworthy young man.
During his college career, Hefner met a beautiful and energetic woman, and after a sweet love, they entered the palace of marriage hand in hand, and lived a plain and warm life like other ordinary families.
However, the good times were always short-lived, and it wasn't long before his wife gave birth to two lively and lovely boys for him.
As the breadwinner of the family, the young and promising Hefner worked hard every day to support the family's livelihood in order to shoulder the family responsibilities. He lives like a zombie, going back and forth between his work and home, often working overtime until late at night before he can return home.
His wife stayed at home with only loneliness and emptiness, and the dullness of married life made her feel bored.
Against this backdrop, Hefner's wife is caught in an increasingly heated affair. Initially, she had some simple physical contact with other men just out of curiosity and thrill-seeking.
However, as the relationship between the two deepened, the wife finally decided to turn her back on Hefner and chose a complete betrayal of her marriage.
When his wife filed for divorce from him, Hefner felt as if he had suffered the heaviest blow of his life. He recalled that his parents taught him the moral code of honesty and trustworthiness, responsibility and trustworthiness, and the "three views of positive energy" in his heart collapsed at that moment.
He began to reflect deeply on the true meaning and value of life, and what is the definition of success, and after painful reflection, he finally strengthened his determination to completely change the trajectory of his life.
Faced with his wife's cheating and betrayal, Hefner began to think deeply about the meaning and value of life, and what is the definition of success, and after some painful thinking, he finally made up his mind to completely change his life path.
So he had a bold and crazy idea: quit his career as a graphic designer and plunge into the wave of entrepreneurship.
Despite the strong opposition from his parents, Hefner had no choice but to seek the help of his friends, and finally raised $8,000 as start-up capital, and resolutely embarked on his own entrepreneurial path.
Hefner, who came from the graphic design industry, decided to start a weekly Playboy magazine that showcased the beauty of women in the field he was most familiar with and was good at.
He first spent $500 to buy a sexy photo of Marilyn Monroe, the glamorous actress of the time, as the cover of the magazine, and the content was completely centered on introducing beautiful women from various industries.
Initially, Mr. Hefner was only experimenting with a market exploration and did not have high hopes for it. However, something unexpected happened, and just as the magazine came out, it garnered an astonishingly strong following and enthusiastic popularity!
At the end of the Second World War, Playboy magazine quickly rose to become a sought-after star, selling an incredible 7 million copies of a single issue.
Mr. Hefner was encouraged by the boom in Playboy magazine, and he was acutely aware of the enormous business opportunities and growth potential of the long-neglected male market.
As a result, he decided to further focus Playboy magazine on men, focusing on outstanding and successful people in various fields such as politics and business, and digging deep into their inner pursuit of power, wealth and career success.
When Playboy Magazine bravely shifted its focus from showcasing femininity to interviewing successful people like politicians and business celebrities, the innovation quickly sparked a new trend in the fashion industry.
For a time, many magazines of the same type followed the strategy of Playboy and turned their attention to the elite who had achieved outstanding achievements in politics, business, military, academia and other fields.
As the founder of Playboy magazine, Mr. Hefner has successfully shaped the magazine's unique position in the fashion industry with his keen insight. In his eyes, in addition to appreciating women's external beauty, men's desire for power, wealth and career success is the real deep desire.
It is with this unique perspective that he skillfully uses the concept of "power, money, and desire" to lead the Playboy brand into a new era.
At the same time, Mr. Hefner also attaches great importance to the research and development of Playboy's peripheral derivative products, and continues to expand the influence of the Playboy brand by continuously expanding the depth and breadth of the brand.
In this process, no one realizes that Playboy has grown from an obscure small publication to a top media empire that has swept the world, and the business map behind it has made it one of the top companies in the world today!
Looking back, it is not difficult to see that Playboy's success today is due in large part to its founder Hefner's unique insight into male psychology and desire, as well as his visionary brand strategy.
It is these two key elements that have made this small magazine, originally designed to satisfy men's desires, gradually develop into a trendsetter for fashion.
After a successful venture, Hefner was finally able to realize the "playboy" luxury life he had always dreamed of. He bought a luxury apartment in the heart of bustling Manhattan and a sprawling villa estate in sunny Los Angeles.
The estate is a man's paradise, with thousands of hot, sexy, hot-looking bunny girls hustling indoors and outdoors day after day, night after night, creating an atmosphere of unparalleled luxury for Hefner.
However, for a greedy man like Hefner, it was clear that these were still not enough to satisfy his desires. Once again, he squandered a lot of money and rented a two-story guest room in one of the top hotels in Las Vegas, which he carefully transformed into his own private mansion with a large private pool.
Here, he can not only swim to his heart's content, but also enjoy the scene of bunny girls playing and playing, while also taking in the stunning night view of Las Vegas.
However, it seems that no matter how luxurious and crazy life is, it can't fill Hefner's black hole of desire! So, this materialistic "playboy" once again spent a lot of money and completely transformed a large passenger plane into his "castle in the sky", and since then he has opened a new chapter of luxury life with many glamorous and moving bunny girls in the blue sky and white clouds.
At that time, Hefner's life had undoubtedly reached the pinnacle of luxury. However, at this time, his physical condition began to deteriorate, and his health deteriorated dramatically.
Here, in order to be able to feel and enjoy the life of the famous "playboy" more deeply, Mr. Hefner did not hesitate to take large doses of various drugs with powerful aphrodisiac effects, in order to delay his physiological aging process as much as possible with the help of these drugs.
However, even a panacea could not resist the risk of getting sick from the mouth, and the serious consequences of an overdose quickly became apparent in Mr. Hefner, who suffered one of the heaviest blows of his life, a stroke, which caused a sharp deterioration in his health, which was undoubtedly a stern warning and a blow to Mr. Hefner's indulgent and luxurious lifestyle.
This sudden stroke brought a great shock and alarm to Mr. Hefner, and he finally realized that he could no longer indulge in luxury and extravagance as he had in the past, and that only by having a healthy body could he truly become the most precious treasure in life.
In order to regain his lost health, he resolutely decided to say goodbye to the bohemian lifestyle of the past, so he carefully planned and held an unprecedented bunny girl beauty pageant.