Playboys editorial director, James Kaminsky, says his first peek at the Hugh Hefner property came while he was growing up in Westport.
According to TorontoҒs Globe and Mail, Kaminsky started reading Playboy when he was 15 and restless in the tony but boring Connecticut town of Westport. (His dad left the mag lying around the house.) It gave him a view of a larger world.Ӕ
His father is former Westporter Leonard P. Kaminsky, who now lives in Shelton, Conn. Leonard Kaminsky is a former chair of Westport’s Planning and Zoning Commission and most recently served on the Board of Assessment Appeals.
Kaminsky, 41, joined Playboy last October from Maxim magazine.
At the time, he said: As a writer and editor, IӒve long admired Playboy for its ability to demonstrate the power that a magazine can have. This is the magazine that convinced me to go into this business.”
Prior to Maxim, Kaminsky was a top editor at Conde Nast Womens Sport & Fitness, which he helped launch in 1997. In the mid-1990s, he was a senior editor at MenҒs Journal while also serving as editor-in-chief of the top-selling Mens Journal BuyersҒ Guide
A graduate of Boston University with a B.S. in journalism, Kaminsky also has been a freelance writer and project editor during his career.
