The Night Hugh Hefner Saved Hollywood

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One insouciant evening on 29 June, 1978, Hugh Marston Hefner’s ivy-wreathed, Holmby Hills home at 10236 Charing Cross Road brimmed with the stars of the Sunset pantheon: actors, artists, celebrities, directors, models, and writers gathered at the Playboy Mansion to save Los Angeles’ fabled Hollywood Sign.

Hefner’s restoration of “Hollywood’s Eiffel Tower”, which wanders high above the city across Mount Lee, was orchestrated by an elegant fundraising gala. (“To Save…