Hugh Hefner — who rarely, if ever — slept alone, died a bankrupt and wrinkled recluse, withered to a skeletal 90 pounds, and cut off from even those he most loved!
Hugh Hefner: Naked Truth About His Last Days
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Hugh Hefner — who rarely, if ever — slept alone, died a bankrupt and wrinkled recluse, withered to a skeletal 90 pounds, and cut off from even those he most loved!
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In a world exclusive, The National ENQUIRER has gone inside the Playboy Mansion to reveal the tortured final days of America’s most legendary Lothario. “The end, by any account, was nothing like the life Hef lived,” said a Hollywood insider.
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“He lived in shocking, urine-soaked squalor," the source told The ENQUIRER. “He had to be lifted into and out of a wheelchair. Hef was desperate to hide his true condition. He wanted so badly to have his memory preserved as the swashbuckling playboy he was in youth.
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“The truth is he became a modern-day Howard Hughes — alone, refusing to see guests, his fingernails overgrown, his breath a putrid stench, the air around him suffocating and musty!”
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Hef, who died at 91 on Sept. 27, spent his final months waging a private war to hide the truth of his decline. In May, The ENQUIRER ripped the lid off his pitiful physical condition, reporting that the media mogul was cancer-ravaged and weeks from death, though he denied the report.
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“Hef is deteriorating rapidly,” The ENQUIRER quoted an insider as saying. “He’s also stopped eating, which is a sure sign the end is near.” The few guests allowed to see him were forced to sign legal documents barring them from discussing his condition.
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“This is a very proud man who’s spent his lifetime epitomizing the sexual prowess of a red-blooded male,” a source said. “He’d rather be remembered as the virile stud with millions of hot girlfriends.” The truth was far different — and impossible for Hefner to accept.
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He built Playboy Enterprises into a global brand starting in 1953 with $8,000 he borrowed from his mother. In 2016, he tried — and failed — to sell the company for $500 million, and died broke.
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Sadly, like Hefner, the company withered with the rise of easily accessible online sleaze. In December 2008, he fired his daughter Christie (left), who had faithfully helmed the company as CEO for 20 years, and served him since 1975.
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By one account she rarely, if ever, spoke to her father again. One son, Marston, fled to Japan after a domestic violence incident with a Playmate. Another son, Cooper (right), tried to assume Hefner’s mantle, hosting the parties after an 18-month exile spurred by boardroom battles.
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“It was like drinking watered-down, gas-station coffee,” said a source. “It just didn’t sit right.” In 2014, former lover and “The Girls Next Door” star Kendra Wilkinson squealed about cheating on him at local hotels and the horror of having to sleep with him.
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“At about the minute mark, I pulled away and it was done. It was like a job,” Kendra said. “Clock in, clock out. It’s not like I enjoyed having sex with him.” It was a bitter pill — and one that sources told The ENQUIRER left Hefner obsessed with taking revenge.
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“He was bitter and wanted to destroy Kendra’s career!” said an insider. In 2015, Hefner was betrayed again — this time by his beloved No. 1 girlfriend Holly Madison, who exposed his darkest secrets in a scathing tell-all.
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Holly revealed Hefner’s pot smoking, quaalude-popping and the mandatory, bizarre bedtime orgies. Of one sex session, Holly blabbed: “There was zero … No kissing, nothing. It was so brief that I can’t even recall what it felt like beyond having a heavy body on top of mine.”
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In April 2016, Hefner’s “dear brother and best friend,” Keith (left), died after battling cancer. Hefner never recovered — and his decline accelerated. Symbolically, the Playboy Mansion, once the gold standard of high living, was sold in June 2016 for $100 million — half of its asking price.
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Hefner was allowed to live out his final days there, but refused visitors. “This has left a lot of longtime pals in the lurch,” said an insider. “Friends like James Caan (left) and Regis Philbin didn’t realize how badly Hugh had deteriorated until it was too late.”
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The final time Hefner was spotted in public was in February at a Coffee Bean on Santa Monica Boulevard, less than a mile from his own grave. At the time, he’d already bought the burial vault next to Marilyn Monroe's in Westwood Village Memorial Park.
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A source said: “Hefner knew a million lovers, but he spent his final months pining for the only two to whom he ever gave his heart — Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. Now, he can see them again. God rest his soul!”
Hugh Hefner — who rarely, if ever — slept alone, died a bankrupt and wrinkled recluse, withered to a skeletal 90 pounds, and cut off from even those he most loved!
Photo credit: Getty Images
In a world exclusive, The National ENQUIRER has gone inside the Playboy Mansion to reveal the tortured final days of America’s most legendary Lothario. “The end, by any account, was nothing like the life Hef lived,” said a Hollywood insider.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“He lived in shocking, urine-soaked squalor," the source told The ENQUIRER. “He had to be lifted into and out of a wheelchair. Hef was desperate to hide his true condition. He wanted so badly to have his memory preserved as the swashbuckling playboy he was in youth.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“The truth is he became a modern-day Howard Hughes — alone, refusing to see guests, his fingernails overgrown, his breath a putrid stench, the air around him suffocating and musty!”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Hef, who died at 91 on Sept. 27, spent his final months waging a private war to hide the truth of his decline. In May, The ENQUIRER ripped the lid off his pitiful physical condition, reporting that the media mogul was cancer-ravaged and weeks from death, though he denied the report.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“Hef is deteriorating rapidly,” The ENQUIRER quoted an insider as saying. “He’s also stopped eating, which is a sure sign the end is near.” The few guests allowed to see him were forced to sign legal documents barring them from discussing his condition.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“This is a very proud man who’s spent his lifetime epitomizing the sexual prowess of a red-blooded male,” a source said. “He’d rather be remembered as the virile stud with millions of hot girlfriends.” The truth was far different — and impossible for Hefner to accept.
Photo credit: Getty Images
He built Playboy Enterprises into a global brand starting in 1953 with $8,000 he borrowed from his mother. In 2016, he tried — and failed — to sell the company for $500 million, and died broke.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Sadly, like Hefner, the company withered with the rise of easily accessible online sleaze. In December 2008, he fired his daughter Christie (left), who had faithfully helmed the company as CEO for 20 years, and served him since 1975.
Photo credit: Getty Images
By one account she rarely, if ever, spoke to her father again. One son, Marston, fled to Japan after a domestic violence incident with a Playmate. Another son, Cooper (right), tried to assume Hefner’s mantle, hosting the parties after an 18-month exile spurred by boardroom battles.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“It was like drinking watered-down, gas-station coffee,” said a source. “It just didn’t sit right.” In 2014, former lover and “The Girls Next Door” star Kendra Wilkinson squealed about cheating on him at local hotels and the horror of having to sleep with him.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“At about the minute mark, I pulled away and it was done. It was like a job,” Kendra said. “Clock in, clock out. It’s not like I enjoyed having sex with him.” It was a bitter pill — and one that sources told The ENQUIRER left Hefner obsessed with taking revenge.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“He was bitter and wanted to destroy Kendra’s career!” said an insider. In 2015, Hefner was betrayed again — this time by his beloved No. 1 girlfriend Holly Madison, who exposed his darkest secrets in a scathing tell-all.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Holly revealed Hefner’s pot smoking, quaalude-popping and the mandatory, bizarre bedtime orgies. Of one sex session, Holly blabbed: “There was zero … No kissing, nothing. It was so brief that I can’t even recall what it felt like beyond having a heavy body on top of mine.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
In April 2016, Hefner’s “dear brother and best friend,” Keith (left), died after battling cancer. Hefner never recovered — and his decline accelerated. Symbolically, the Playboy Mansion, once the gold standard of high living, was sold in June 2016 for $100 million — half of its asking price.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Hefner was allowed to live out his final days there, but refused visitors. “This has left a lot of longtime pals in the lurch,” said an insider. “Friends like James Caan (left) and Regis Philbin didn’t realize how badly Hugh had deteriorated until it was too late.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
The final time Hefner was spotted in public was in February at a Coffee Bean on Santa Monica Boulevard, less than a mile from his own grave. At the time, he’d already bought the burial vault next to Marilyn Monroe's in Westwood Village Memorial Park.
Photo credit: Getty Images
A source said: “Hefner knew a million lovers, but he spent his final months pining for the only two to whom he ever gave his heart — Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. Now, he can see them again. God rest his soul!”
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