"The Original Playboys relied upon a perfect storm of pleasurable circumstances: The world was at peace; airplanes began flying internationally; their parents were members of the 1920s café society and raised progressive, well-mannered, fashion-forward children; they possessed unparalleled wealth, there was no Internet – as a result, they will forever remain an inimitable breed of elite, professional pleasure seekers, the likes of which the world will never see again.
"[1] Initially the term was used in the eighteenth century for boys who performed in the theatre,[2] and later it appears in the 1888 Oxford Dictionary to characterize a person with money who is out to enjoy himself.
Postwar intercontinental travel allowed playboys to meet at international nightclubs and famous "playgrounds" such as the Riviera or Palm Beach where they were trailed by paparazzi who supplied the tabloids with material to be fed to an eager audience.
He was linked to other famous playboys of the time Aly Khan,[6] Jorge Guinle,[7] "Baby" Francisco Pignatari,[8] and later, Gunther Sachs,[1] his acolyte, who termed himself a homo ludens.
[3] Other people who adopted the playboy lifestyle included Alfonso de Portago,[9] Barry Sheene,[10] Hugh Hefner, Dan Bilzerian, Julio Iglesias, George Best, Adam Clayton, Imran Khan, Michael Douglas, James Hunt, Howard Hughes,[11] Averell Harriman,[12] Errol Flynn,[7] Gianni Agnelli,[8] Silvio Berlusconi, John F. Kennedy,[11] Alessandro "Dado" Ruspoli,[8] Carlos de Beistegui,[7] Count Theodore Zichy,[citation needed] David Frost,[13] Bernard Cornfeld, Wilt Chamberlain, George Clooney,[14] Maurizio Zanfanti, Mario Conde,[15] Fabrizio Corona,[16] and Richard Harris.