The Great Palimony Caper

The Great Palimony CaperIn the great hall of Playboy Mansion West hangs a portrait of Hugh M. Hefner, a 1987 Christmas gift from two dozen of his friends. The painting is a romanticized, more mature version of the boy entrepreneur who turned being a playboy into a philosophy of life. For three decades--since the breakup of a boyhood marriage convinced Hef that, for him, at least, matrimony was antithetical to romance--he has lived by Woody Allen's law: "Marriage is the death of hope."H...