Economics

Hugh Hefner, Roger Ailes, David Rockefeller: The Year in Deaths

Playboy magazine founder, Fox News chief, oldest billionaire
Notable obituaries in business, finance and government in 2017

Hugh Hefner in 2009.Photographer: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images

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By Steven Gittelson

December 26, 2017 at 10:00 AM UTC

Updated on

December 29, 2017 at 11:09 PM UTC

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Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, Fox News Channel Chief Executive Officer Roger Ailes and billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller were among newsmakers in business, finance and public affairs who died in 2017.

The business world lost Raymond Sackler, who bought Purdue Pharma LP, producer of the controversial pain pill OxyContin; Taizo Nishimuro, former head of Toshiba Corp. and the Tokyo Stock Exchange; Jeffrey Brotman, co-founder of Costco Wholesale Corp.; Paul Otellini, former CEO of chipmaker Intel Corp.; and Joan Tisch, the billionaire matriarch of the clan that started Loews Corp.