After more than a decade of separation, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (83) is seeking an official return to his bachelor status.
Hefner has filed for divorce from his wife and former Playmate, Kimberly Conrad Hefner.
The couple were married in 1989, the same year she was named Playmate of the Year. They separated in 1998.
Hefner, Playboy’s public ambassador, has been living with three girlfriends at the infamous Playboy Mansion. Their relationship has been the subject of the E! show The Girls Next Door since 2005.
Hefner continued to live at the mansion, and Kimberly Hefner moved into a home next door with the couple’s two young sons. Records show she filed for divorce around that time, but the petition was eventually withdrawn.
Hefner is asking a judge to order him to pay his wife $20,000 a month in spousal support, half of the $40,000 a month that he has been paying her since they separated in 1998, the records state. He wants the monthly payments to end in two years, or after a trial on the couple’s divorce is held, whichever comes first.
Kimberly Conrad Hefner sued her husband last month, claiming he owes her $4 million under their prenuptial agreement and for proceeds from the sale of the home she is living in. Her lawsuit stated Hefner agreed to pay her $250,000 per year for every year they were married after their fourth anniversary.
AP