Playboy executive Victor Lownes passes away aged 88
Former Playboy executive Victor Lownes, who helped establish the magazine, passed away on Wednesday aged 88. Lownes, a close confidant of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, ran the Playboy casinos and clubs in the UK. The highest-paid executive in Britain during his tenure as head of Playboy Europe, he was married to former Playmate of the Year Marilyn Cole. 