Hugh Hefner will be buried next to Marilyn Monroe

Hugh Hefner, the iconic founder of Playboy magazine, has died  aged 91, Playboy Enterprises has said,

Playboy Magazine was founded by Hefner more than 60 years ago as an upscale men's magazine that featured nude images of famous women, as well as emerging models, actresses and singers.

“Hugh M. Hefner, the American icon who in 1953 introduced the world to Playboy magazine and built the company into one of the most recognisably American global brands in history, peacefully passed away from natural causes at his home, 

By 1953 he had saved $8,000 with which to put the first issue of Playboy together. Published in December that year, the cover featured Marilyn Monroe, along with a nude picture of her as the centrefold which Hefner had purchased to add some "oomph". 

The issue sold more than 50,000 copies.The nude images of women would be placed alongside in-depth interviews with high profile actors, artists and politicians, with literary articles, fiction and non-fiction, sourced by the publication's first literary editor Auguste Comte Spectorsky.

LOS ANGELES: Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner will be buried in a cemetery plot here next to his first magazine cover girl Marilyn Monroe.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hefner reserved the plot at Westwood Memorial Park here next to the movie star icon decades after her death in 1962. He purchased it for $75,000 in 1992, dailymail.co.uk.