Playboy was forced to sell a club in 1982 that it had purchased from an English zoo owner who used gambling to move to the centre of what?
Clermont Set: The Clermont Set was an exclusive group of rich British gamblers who met at the Clermont Club at 44 Berkeley Square, in London's fashionable Mayfair district now located at 27–28 Curzon Street and called Aspinall's. Clermont Set:  Clermont Club had become famous among British celebrities at once but Aspinall sold this club in 1972 to Playboy Enterprises; Playboy was forced to sell this club in 1982 when it lost its licence. John Aspinall (zoo owner): John Victor Aspinall (11 June 1926 – 29 June 2000) was an English zoo owner and gambling club host. John Aspinall (zoo owner):  From middle class beginnings he used gambling to move to the centre of British high society in the 1960s.
British high society