While sales of the magazine fall, the mansion is still a destination for Hollywood’s A-list. And in March 2015, Playboy reporters found blueprints that showed tunnels built from the mansion to the homes of celebrities including Jack Nicholson and Kirk Douglas. There is a rumor that John Lennon put a cigarette out on a Matisse there while separated from Yoko Ono. A-list celebrities are regularly invited into the estate’s gates, past the “Playmates at Play” sign, to extravagant parties where alcohol flows freely and scantily clad women abound. It has been a den of debauchery in the decades since. Hefner commuted between the Gothic-Tudor estate and his Chicago mansion before making the west coast his home in the mid-1970s. Playboy Enterprises bought the Los Angeles mansion for just over $1m in 1971. The mansion is part of this declining empire, which began in Chicago when Hefner founded the magazine there with an issue that included a centerfold of Marilyn Monroe. The magazine – founded in 1953 – is no longer profitable, and as part of an effort to reinvent itself, stopped printing photos of completely nude women in October. The listing comes as Playboy Enterprises works to confront a world where pornography of all kinds is easily accessible online.
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It is also one of the few Los Angeles homes with a zoo license – and complementary pet cemetery. The mansion includes a home theater, a wine cellar and a four-bedroom guest house. “The Playboy Mansion has been a creative center for Hef as his residence and workplace for the past 40 years, as it will continue to be if the property is sold,” said Playboy Enterprises’ CEO, Scott Flanders, in a statement. The Holmby Hills property – part of the Playboy magazine empire founded by Hugh Hefner – boasts 29 rooms, a grotto where Hefner held his infamous parties … and Hefner himself, who according to the terms of the sale gets to live on the property until he dies. The Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles is for sale – and available to anyone with $200m to spare and an ability to accommodate an 89-year-old roommate clad in crimson silk pajamas.