Victor Aubrey Lownes III (born 17 April 1928, Buffalo, NY, USA). An executive with Playboy Enterprises in various capacities, various vice-presidencies, always a close confidant of Hugh Hefner. Headed Playboy Europe and the UK Playboy Clubs from the mid-sixties until his dismissal in the early eighties. During this time he was Britain's highest paid executive, drawing a salary of $113,800 and was Playboy Entrerprises second biggest shareholder. H...
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Victor Aubrey Lownes III (born 17 April 1928, Buffalo, NY, USA). An executive with Playboy Enterprises in various capacities, various vice-presidencies, always a close confidant of Hugh Hefner. Headed Playboy Europe and the UK Playboy Clubs from the mid-sixties until his dismissal in the early eighties. During this time he was Britain's highest paid executive, drawing a salary of $113,800 and was Playboy Entrerprises second biggest shareholder. He was constantly in the gossip magazines and tabloid newspapers for his antics. Where Hefner always seemed in the grip of his obsession, Lownes, in contrast, was an immensely attractive and shrewd philanderer. It was said that he used to have five girls a day, sometimes two at a time. He remarked “What is a playboy? It is usually someone who is getting more sex than you are.”
He was born to a wealthy family in Buffalo, NY but they later moved to Florida. At the age of 12 his father, gave him a cigar to smoke as aversion therapy. The young...
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