Hugh Hefner’s Infamous Playboy Mansion Finds a Buyer

The Playboy Mansion just got sold. Find out who the lucky buyer is!

Carmella DeCesare, 21, poses Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner after being named Playboy’s “Playmate of the Year 2004” at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, California (File Photo: Reuters)

The most famous party den in the world has been sold. Hugh Hefner has found a buyer for the Playboy Mansion in his next door neighbor Daren Metropoulos, a billionaire private equity banker.

According to a report by The Telegraph UK, the nearly 20,000-square-foot mansion, which sits on five acres in Los Angeles’ Holmby Hills, has been sold for a “9-digit” sum, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Hugh Hefner with a couple of “bunnies” at the mansion (Photo courtesy: Twitter/@Bravotv)

(In)famous for its hedonistic parties and bunny girls, the 29-room mansion has been on the market since January and is valued at US$200 million.

Hefner had added the unusual proviso that the buyer would have to let him live there for the rest of his life - and leave the famous Hefner bedroom untouched until after his death.

The Playboy Mansion sits on five acres in Holmby Hills in Los Angeles (Photo: Twitter/@latimes)

Metropoulos is said to have agreed to the conditions and has said in a statement that he was keen to preserve the 1927 mansion’s historic architecture.