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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, second from left, poses for a
photo with director Brigette Berman, second from right, and
three companions ahead of the screening of the film "Hugh
Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel". Photo by AP.
Hugh Hefner said he waited more than ten years to
complete his divorce "because of the children."
"I stayed married not because it was a marriage - the
marriage ended in 1998," he said.
"I stayed because she wanted me to."
But now his twin boys are turning 18, so the 83-year-old
Playboy magazine founder says, "Now is the time."
On Friday, Hefner filed for divorce from former Playmate of
the Year, Kimberly Conrad Hefner. The couple married in 1989,
and were legally separated in 1998. Since then, Hefner lived
with three girlfriends at the Playboy Mansion. That
relationship was documented on the E! Reality show The
Girls Next Door.
Hefner made the comments at the premiere of his documentary,
Hugh Hefner: Playboy Activist and Rebel, at the
Toronto International Film Festival.
At the premiere, Hefner described himself as "a
died-in-the-heart romantic who played some part in the
changing social sexual values of his time."
But the film shows a different side of him. Directed by
Academy Award winner Brigitte Berman, she chooses to depict
the making of the man and his stance as activist and
humanitarian. The film opens in North America in the spring
of 2010.
