Only half a billion and you get a big house, several waterbeds, a failing magazine, and all the smut you could ever want!
Posted on 03/24/2016 9:04:18 PM PDT by Zakeet
Playboy Enterprises, the parent company of the iconic men’s magazine, has retained investment bankers and has begun exploring a sale, people with knowledge of the discussions said on Thursday.
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Playboy ... would be valued at around $500 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Only half a billion and you get a big house, several waterbeds, a failing magazine, and all the smut you could ever want!
And Hugh Hefner for the rest of his life.
Will there be a balloon payment?
Buyer is sure gonna get screwed.
NY Times article...it appears that Playboy is worth a million times the value of the NY Times.
I don’t really follow the pornography business. But thought that Playboy had been bypassed by all the more explicit porn available nowadays. Does Playboy really have a big value as a business as a going concern?
$500 mil strikes me as a bit over-inflated, like so many of Hefner’s other fantasies.
Saw my first nekkid woman in a Playboy. A couple of the “bad boys” down the block had managed to sneak one into the treehouse. I was probably around 7 or 8 yrs old.
I couldn’t afford the silicone.
” But thought that Playboy had been bypassed by all the more explicit porn available nowadays.”
I thought people bought it for the incisive commentary.
It should be valued at about 3 bucks.
That playmate in that pic is Donna Michele....one of the best ever
My dream as a little boy in the 60s
She’s long gone but I’ll never forget her
Well they say it takes 3 generations of kids to spend/lose the fathers fortune. Hef was there in his life to have spawned the 3 generations before he croaked ..good on him
This country doesn’t even know what playboy mag is.
Thanks Al Gore.
Or ‘Over Inflated’ silicon enhancements
I was invited 3 times to the mansion, went twice. It’s big, old and lots of hot women. And Hugh Hefner up close looks like a corpse. He was very good host though.
It was 9 PM and he disappeared. His assistant told us he’s napping which is code for actual sleepy time.
Can't imagine what kind of beasties are in that pool.
Is it a virgin?
She’s long gone but I’ll never forget her
She is? Damn, I be old.........
http://www.statista.com/statistics/191775/us-magazine-audiences-2010-playboy/
From the above:
The statistic shows circulation of Playboy in the United States in the first half of 2015, by type. The magazine sold 780.17 thousand copies over its subscription service and 36.76 thousand copies at newsstands. Its total paid circulation amounted to 816.93 thousand copies.
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