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Hugh Hefner, the pipe-smoking Playboy publisher who turned silk pajamas into a work uniform, women into centerfolds and sexual desire into a worldwide multimedia empire that spanned several generations of American life, has died at age 91. Hefner died of natural causes at his home, the Playboy Mansion, surrounded by loved ones on Wednesday night, Playboy Enterprises said. Cooper Hefner, one of Hugh Hefner’s four children and the chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, said his dad “will be greatly missed by many.” With Playboy, Hefner helped slip sex out of the confines of plain brown wrappers and into mainstream conversation. In 1953, a time when states could legally ban contraceptives and the word “pregnant” was not allowed on “I Love Lucy,” Hefner published the first issue of Playboy, featuring naked photos of Marilyn Monroe and an editorial promise of “humor, sophistication and spice.”