Some big fan of Playboy's articles bought Hugh Hefner's typewriter for $162,500
It didn’t include the nightmarish severed head of old McDonald’s mascot Mac Tonight, but an auction was held this weekend to sell off some of the personal belongings of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who died in September of last year. It didn’t include any nightmarish severed heads, as far as we can tell, but the big item from the event was Hefner’s Underwood Standard Portable typewriter, which he had apparently used in college and while publishing the very first issue of Playboy. That comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which doesn’t say who bought the typewriter, but we do know that it went for $162,500. That sounds like a lot of money, but the idea of Hugh Hefner’s typewriter does sound like it would carry some kind of Twilight Zone-style magic. Like, if a mysterious man welcomed us into a dark room, gestured toward Hugh Hefner’s typewriter, and explained that writing on it could make all of our dreams come true but at some horrible price, we’d absolutely believe it.
