Hefner has his legacy. It’s not positive, in my opinion. He is something of the “Godfather” of the sexual revolution.
Was the sexual revolution really a good movement for society? All of us have our opinions. Mine is that it was not good, overall.
I had heard, just hearsay, that Hefner was more upset about the public image of Playboy being hurt by the Dorothy Stratton murder, rather than having any real remorse over her death. Because, in his world, all the girls are interchangeable. There’s always a new playmate the next month. Etc.
He got a lot of publicity from the reality show “The Girls Next Door”, which featured three of his playmates/live in girlfriends at that time. But, what people may not realize, is that he had been living that way for decades, even though that show started in 2005. He had a revolving door of girls moving in and out over the decades.
A cute dark headed girl called Barbie Doll was his long time girlfriend ...
Hefner said the thing he was proudest of in life was that he helped make sex outside of marriage acceptable. American society is much the worse on account of Hef’s “achievement”. It was disgraceful when writers such as William F. Buckley published in Playboy, thereby giving a patina of respectability to what was. however take it may have been in comparison to publications that came after it, still pornography.