Question: 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?
Context: John Victor Aspinall (11 June 1926 – 29 June 2000) was an English zoo owner and gambling club host.  From middle class beginnings he used gambling to move to the centre of British high society in the 1960s.  He was born in Delhi during the British Raj, and was a citizen of the United Kingdom. In finance, an option is a contract which gives the buyer (the owner or holder of the option) the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument at a specific strike price on a specified date, depending on the form of the option.  The strike price may be set by reference to the spot price (market price) of the underlying security or commodity on the day an option is taken out, or it may be fixed at a discount in a premium.  The seller has the corresponding obligation to fulfill the transaction—to sell or buy—if the buyer (owner) "exercises" the option.  An option that conveys to the owner the right to buy at a specific price is referred to as a call; an option that conveys the right of the owner to sell at a specific price is referred to as a put.  Both are commonly used in and by the old traded, but the call option is more frequently discussed. My Steve is a biographical account of Terri Irwin's life with her late husband, the zoo owner and television personality Steve Irwin.  It was published by Simon & Schuste Australia. The Aspinall Foundation (formerly The John Aspinall Foundation) is a British charity (Registered Charity 326567) which works to promote wildlife conservation.  It was set up by professional gambler and zoo owner John Aspinall in 1984 and runs the two zoos he set up, Port Lympne Wild Animal Park and Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent, England.  It also supports a number of conservation projects overseas to protect endangered species.  The charity is now run by John's son, Damian Aspinall. Namibia is a country of origin, transit, and destination for foreign and Namibian women and children, and possibly for men subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically conditions of forced labor and forced prostitution.  Traffickers exploit Namibian children, as well as children from Angola and Zambia, through forced labor in agriculture, cattle herding, involuntary domestic servitude, charcoal production, and commercial sexual exploitation.  In some cases, Namibian parents unwittingly sell their children to traffickers.  Reports indicate that vulnerable Namibian children are recruited for forced prostitution in Angola and South Africa, typically by truck drivers.  There is also some evidence that traffickers move Namibian women to South Africa and South African women to Namibia to be exploited in forced prostitution.  Namibian women and children, including orphans, from rural areas are the most vulnerable to trafficking.  Victims are lured by traffickers to urban centers and commercial farms with promises of legitimate work for good wages they may never receive.  Some adults subject children to whom they are distantly related to forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation.  Small business owners and farmers may also participate in trafficking crimes against women or children.  Victims are forced to work long hours to carry out hazardous tasks, and may be beaten or raped by traffickers or third parties. 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.  It was the first London casino opened by John Aspinall after he received a gaming licence under Britain's new gambling law.  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. The Phoenix Coyotes, a professional ice hockey team now known as the Arizona Coyotes and playing in the National Hockey League (NHL), filed for bankruptcy in 2009 after incurring several hundred million dollars of losses since their move to Phoenix, Arizona from Winnipeg, where they were known as the Winnipeg Jets.  Bankruptcy court rejected a plan to sell the team and move it to Canada, and the team was purchased by the NHL.  The NHL operated the team in Phoenix for four seasons while seeking a new owner.  After several prospective purchases fell through, the team was finally sold in the summer of 2013. Edward Cross ("baptised" 3 February 1774 – 26 September 1854) was an English zoo proprietor and dealer in animals. Sir (Hugh) Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (22 May 1881 – 24 October 1964) was a businessman, zoo owner and author.  Between 1915 and 1950, he was twelve times the Mayor of Maidstone, Kent and was High Sheriff of Kent in 1956–57. The Legends Resort & Country Club, often called simply Legends, is a hotel located on County Route 517 in Vernon Township in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.  In the 1970s, Hugh Hefner built it as The Great Gorge Playboy Club Hotel, officially opened in 1972.  The Playboy Club was closed circa 1982 and sold and turned into The Americana Hotel.  Later being sold again, was turned into The Seasons Hotel.  Seasons was later sold again to parent-company Metairie Corp (owned by Hillel A. "Hillie" Meyers), which turned into its current incarnation as the Legends Resort & Country Club.  The Hotel has been derelict and permanently closed to public operations for many years.  In February 2017 Vernon Township started to evict many of the low income full-time residents of the hotel.  It was revealed Andrew Mulvihill was the owner of many of the rooms rented out illegally to low income residents.  Mulvihill has a controlling interest in the derelict Great Gorge Village in Vernon Township and the nearby Crystal Springs Resort in Hardyston.  Some of the evicted residents are thought to have been relocated to these developments.
Answer: British high society