Hefner married former Illinois state senator William A. Hefner First Amendment Award in honor of her father, and has helped to raise $30 million to build the CORE Center in Chicago, the first outpatient facility in the Midwest for people with AIDS. Offutt company, an international, multi-billion dollar family owned agricultural conglomerate and Edge Beauty, the world's leading direct-to-consumer company in creating, designing, manufacturing and marketing unique, culturally relevant niche fragrance brands. Christie also serves on the advisory boards of the R.D. based Center for American Progress Action Fund, a progressive public policy think tank. Īs of 2015, Hefner was chairman of the board of Hatchbeauty Brands and served on the board of the D.C. In May 2011, Hefner was named executive chairman of Canyon Ranch Enterprises, a resort company that operates six premier spa destinations and an online website providing health and wellness advice. She stepped down from her position at Playboy on January 30, 2009. "Just as this country is embracing change in the form of new leadership, I have decided that now is the time to make changes in my own life as well", she said. president had inspired her to give more time to charitable work, and that the decision to step down was her own. Hefner said that the election of Barack Obama as the next U.S. On December 8, 2008, she announced her plans to step down as CEO of Playboy. In 2008, she released a memo to employees about her efforts to streamline the company's operations, including eliminating its DVD division and laying off staff. For three years, she was named to Fortune 's list of "Most Powerful Women". When she left over 40% of her executives were women. In her last year as CEO, Playboy generated close to $1 billion in global retail sales, 80% of the sales to women. And, she greatly expanded the leveraging of the Playboy brand via licensing. She also built a highly profitable direct marketing, catalog and e-commerce business in film and music through both acquisition and organic growth. Continuing the company's electronic expansion, in 1994 Christie led the company onto the Internet with the launch of, the first national magazine to launch a web site, and built an international, profitable, multi-revenue stream business including premium content, e-commerce, advertising and gaming, both online and mobile. The company also acquired adult-oriented businesses such as Spice Network and ClubJenna. She extended its magazine franchise overseas, to 25 localized foreign editions and also developed the company's profitable pay television business - the first time a magazine successfully leveraged its brand into a television network. She was the longest serving female CEO of a publicly traded company. In 1982, she became president of Playboy Enterprises, and was made chairman of the board and CEO in 1988. Thereafter, she moved back to Chicago and started working at Playboy.
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Career Īfter college, she free-lanced for the Boston Phoenix for a year, writing movie reviews. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. She graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a bachelor's degree in English and American literature in 1974.
She attended the National Music Camp at Interlochen during the summers from 1964 to 1969.
There she graduated from New Trier High School.
When her mother remarried, she moved to Wilmette, Illinois. Her parents had separated by the time she was five. She is the daughter of Mildred (Williams) and Hugh Hefner.