Midweek Sport

Heff’s jacket makes packet

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A SMOKING jacket worn by founder Hugh Hefner fetched £30,000 at an auction of the late publisher’s possession­s.

Fans and collectors also snapped up items like his college typewriter and the mag’s first issue.

Bidders at the two-day auction conducted in Los Angeles included comic Jim Belushi, who bought a leather-bound script for a 1977 show that the late Hefner hosted for £2,750.

The typewriter, which he used to write Playboy’s first issue in 1953 went for £130,000, while his personal copy of the issue itself, featuring Marylin Monroe, sold for £25,000.

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