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Originally Posted by SGS
You better hope he doesn't buy it. Branson has zero interest in anything adult let alone anything remotely associated with porn.
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I haven't read any of the articles, but on the face of it, I've surmised that Branson is an unlikely candidate to purchase PB. Unless there is inside information I'm unaware of, I don't see what interest Playboy (along with its hardcore properties - adult.com, etc) would hold for a mainstream billionaire. Mainstream fat cats don't typically delve into porn, and the current incarnation of PB is porn since it now owns adult.com, gfy, etc. Secondly, with all his mainstream successes why would he want to attempt to turn around a company in an industry that is being turned upside down (Branson is a music industry man - he knows the pitfalls that the free music revolution has created; porn is a mirror image if not worse).
Even if he were to be successful at putting PB on top again, what would he lose by being associated with porn. Third, he'd always be the rich guy that bought PB - he would never be the "new Hef". He doesn't have the same history or cachet, and doesn't throw the same kinds of parties, and doesn't have groups of naked bunnies all over him.
For the same reasons I doubt Trump would seriously entertain a purchase. Pageants aren't even erotica (not nude erotica, anyway) let alone porn, and the pageants appear to be getting by these days due to controversy created around the contestants, rather than genuine interest in the actual contest.