LOS ANGELES – On the second floor of the Playboy Mansion, beyond the seemingly endless hallway lined with photos of the famous folks who have visited the legendary party playground, is a narrow staircase that leads to a small loft.
“LOCK DOOR,” signed “Hef,” reads a handmade note tacked to the loft’s tiny entrance.
“Excuse me if I sit?” asks Hugh Hefner, ever the gentleman as he leads a reporter into the cramped room that has only one chair. “I’ve got a bad hip.”
Here in this modest space is where Hefner keeps a detailed record of his life that spans more than 2,500 volumes and counting — a Guinness world record for a personal scrapbook collection.
Every Saturday, the 85-year-old founder of Playboy magazine spends a few hours scrapbooking — a hobby he began in 1943 with cartoons he drew of himself and his high-school classmates.
Those doodles were “probably just a way of
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