Hugh Hefner

PLBY Group (NASDAQ: PLBY), the parent company of Hugh Hefner's Playboy, reported an impairment loss of $4.9 million on its Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) holdings. What Happened: The company accepted Ethereum as payment for the “Rabbitars” non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, that were...

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, better known as NORML announced on Tuesday that its newly updated and revised publication, Clinical Applications for Cannabis & Cannabinoids: A Review of the Recent Scientific Literature, 2000 — 2021, is now...

Playboy Enterprises, which launched in 1963 as a magazine business, is now more of a brand business given the downturn of print magazines. The company could be hitting public markets again via a special purpose acquisition company. What Happened: The New York Post reported Tuesday that Playboy...

Hugh Hefner was either a cultural revolutionary or a male chauvinist. That’s a matter of debate. But less deniable is the “Playboy” founder’s legacy in the print industry, where he sparked and sustained fresh professional standards ━ beyond his famously lascivious content...

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As the online video content battle intensifies, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has decided to place a bet on Playboy’s Hugh Hefner. The company announced it had green-lit the Amazon Original Series "American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story." This 13-episode docu-series will look...

Cool cat and billionaire Sir Richard Branson surprised an audience of entrepreneurs in a convention held in Chicago this week when he recommended parents smoke pot with their kids. “If they're going to have a joint, do it with them,” the 66-year-old father of two said on stage...

An historic ruling against the House that Hef Built. A federal jury in Los Angeles says Playboy Enterprises must pay the company's former controller $6 million as part of a wrongful termination lawsuit. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in California, ruled in favor of Catherine Zulfer...

Ever since Hugh Hefner tweeted that his famed magazine will be coming to the iPad, the Internet has been flooded with questions. Most notably: how can Playboy (NYSE: PLA) pull this off when Steve Jobs is so vehemently against the idea of porn invading his products? This afternoon, Playboy confirmed...