He produced TV shows and the company's jazz festival and spent more than 50 years as Hugh Hefner's right-hand man. Dick Rosenzweig, whose 61-year tenure with Playboy Enterprises included serving as president and executive producer of the Playboy Jazz Festival, has died.
He was 84. A longtime friend and trusted adviser to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, Rosenzweig died May 6 at his home in Beverly Hills of pancreatic cancer, a family publicist announced.
Rosenzweig also was a founding member of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and The Wallis Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. "Dick was a thoughtful, elegant and extremely trustworthy man.