The Playboy Mansion, the legendary party house where Hollywood?s elite cavorted with scantily-clad ?bunnies,? is being sold to the billionaire Twinkies owner who lives next door, a spokesman said Monday. Hugh Hefner, the 90-year-old owner of the Holmby Hills estate in southern California and founder of Playboy Magazine, will be permitted to continue living there […]The post Playboy Mansion Sold to Billionaire Twinkies Chief appeared first on Pursuitist.

The Playboy Mansion, the legendary party house where Hollywood?s elite cavorted with scantily-clad ?bunnies,? is being sold to the billionaire Twinkies owner who lives next door, a spokesman said Monday.Hugh Hefner, the 90-year-old owner of the Holmby Hills estate in southern California and founder of Playboy Magazine, will be permitted to continue living there for the rest of his life.The buyer is Daren Metropoulos, a 32-year-old business tycoon who lives on the property next door to the mansion, which he bought from Hefner in 2009 for $18 million.?We can confirm that the Playboy Mansion is in escrow with Daren Metropoulos as the buyer,? a Playboy spokesman said.?Due to confidentiality restrictions, we are not able to comment on any specifics, including what contingencies need to be cleared to close the sale.?Metropoulos is a principal at private-equity firm Metropoulos and Co., which co-owns Hostess Brands, the maker of Twinkies, an iconic American snack.He intends to connect the two estates into a combined 7.3-acre c...