Hugh Hefner's son Cooper quits media company after leaving Playboy to enlist in Air Force and train overseas
Hugh Hefner's son Cooper, who had quit Playboy to launch his own media firm, has now resigned from the firm to join the Air Force.
The 28-year-old Cooper was the CEO of the company that his father had founded but left in April this year to launch his own media firm. This had also included the digital content platform HefPost that was designed to "arouse and inform" millennials which has not launched yet.
Cooper has already enlisted in the Air Force and departed for overseas training. His new wife Scarlett took to Instagram to share the news with a picture of the couple at his enlistment ceremony. Cooper had told the board of Hefner Media Corporation that he would be "stepping back".
He had said on Instagram, "Today I informed leadership and financiers of Stag and Hefner Media Corporation I would be stepping back from focusing on launching a new company and stepping towards greater service to community and country."
"In a week I depart for US Air Force basic training," he added. Cooper is one of Hugh Hefner's sons whom he had with his second wife Kimberly Conrad.
The family no longer has any interest in Playboy or running it. In April when Cooper resigned from his role, he said, "Stepping away from my executive position at Playboy Enterprises was a difficult decision to come to, though it is the right decision to make."
"The spirit and values of our Rabbit will remain with me always, as I with it, and I look forward to continuing to provide support in a board capacity as an adviser to the company's CEO," he added.
Hefner had four children — Cooper and Marston, and Christy and David. The four had inherited around $35 million worth of shares when Hefner had died but the estate sold them earlier this year and now has no business interest in the company.
Hefner had died in 2017 and left his fortune to his wife Crystal Harris and his four children.