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LA's famous Playboy Mansion is spared the wrecking ball

LOS ANGELES - Hugh Hefner may have died, but the Gothic-Tudor facade of his famous Playboy Mansion will live on, thanks to a recent agreement between its new owner and the city of Los Angeles.

According to the agreement, which one official described as a permanent

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