If he'd lived two more years, he probably would have had obituaries like that. The Guardian did give him a obit like that. "The man who created Playboy, who has died aged 91, has been remembered as an American icon – but others recall a controlling, emotionally abusive manipulator"[1]
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/28/hugh-hefner-pl...