Collection of Hugh Hefner's Property to Be Auctioned Off Next Month

Collection of Hugh Hefner's Property to Be Auctioned Off Next Month

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Possessions of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who passed away last year, are set to go under the auction hammer next month.

Julien’s Auctions will be selling numerous pieces of lifestyle ephemera, memorabilia, Playboy Mansion decorative arts and more.

All proceeds of the auction, to be held Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1, will benefit the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation, which supports organizations defending civil rights and civil liberties.

Highlights include Hefner’s bespoke smoking jacket and silk pajamas; his complete personal set of bound volumes of Playboy magazines; the entrepreneur’s Playboy Legacy Collection Gold, a limited-edition set of 48 chromogenic and gelatin silver prints by various photographers in a folio case with gold-embossed title, published in 2007; and a vintage 1946 coin-operated Wurlitzer jukebox programmed by Hefner from his game house containing 24 original 78 rpm record albums by artists such as Artie Shaw, Frank Sinatra, Harry James, Johnny Mercer, Lena Horne and others.

Other highlights include Hefner’s five large folio volumes of Salvador Dali's “Biblia Sacra” and a custom 1974 Monopoly board game that includes a pipe smoking Hefner and a Playboy Bunny, among other Mansion regulars, custom Hefner Monopoly money, houses, hotels, cards and more in a custom wooden box marked "Monopoly Parts for HMH.

The auction house also will sell his personal copy of the first issue of Playboy magazine, in 1953 featuring Marilyn Monroe on the cover; Hefner’s leather bound “Saturday Night Live” script when he hosted the show in October 1977; and his Playboy logo cuff links, breakfast tray, white captain’s hat, monogrammed playing card deck holder and Playboy VIP card.

Julien’s Auctions will offer a public exhibition prior to the auction, which is free to the public, at its Beverly Hills headquarters from Monday, Nov. 26, to Friday, Nov. 30, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The live and online auction will be held Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1.

The Julien’s Auctions exhibition and sale will be held at 257 N. Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210.

  

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