Working as a copywriter for Esquire, he left in January 1952 after being denied a $5 raise. In 1953, he lent his furniture for $600 and raised $8,000 from 45 investors – including $1,000 from his mother, “Not because she believed in the venture,” he told E! in 2006. “But because she believed in her son” – to launch Playboy, which was initially going to be called Stag Party. The undated first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot.

The rest is history.

Images: Life.com

At the Playboy Mansion, Halloween 2009 came a week early, but we aren’t complaining. If anything, it gives us a glimpse of what to look forward to this Saturday. That is of course if we’re lucky enough to find a venue comparable to the Mansion and have it be filled with hundreds of the world’s most beautiful scantily-clad women.

Hope for the best.

Photo credit COED Magazine.

Over the weekend, the Heffer threw a ‘preview party’ for what to expect this coming Friday at the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills. It was essentially the same thing that will occur on Halloween, only with the word preview affixed to the end of the title.

Kendra Wilkinson came dressed as what appears to be herself.

For more interesting Halloween costume ideas, you will want to check out BANNED’s Top 10 Halloween Costumes Guaranteed to Keep Your Weekend Sex Free.

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HOLLYWOOD – Holly Madison made an appearence at The 4th Annual ‘Bowling for Boobies’ fundraiser at the Lucky Strike Lanes on Monday.

Though the fundraiser seemed more like an event aimed at financing breast implants than battling breast cancer, Holly Madison, sophomoric jokes aside, claims it was a success commenting:

“Like, like, like, haha, like, and stuff like that.”

Holly isn’t the only Playmate to leave the 82 year old with nothing but wrinkled balls and a medicine cabinet full of Viagra. Kendra Wilkinson disbanded from the aging Heffer for Philadelphia Eagle Hank Baskett in similar fashion (more here)

But don’t feel bad for the Playboy founder who seems to have succumb to inevitability, check out the beautiful new twins that have moved into the mansion. Karissa and Kristin Shannon aren’t really hot, but at least they’re not in their mid-eighties, right? Plus maybe they’re smart… Well, no.

Air Force Wife Melissa K. wants to pose for Hefner, and I don’t mind if she does. She doesn’t seem like the brightest, well spoken, intellectual or thoughtful, which is why she looks better in print than on youtube. It’s gotta be tough for this chick’s air force husband.

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