Ted Turner, who died on Wednesday at 87, was known for creating CNN and transforming the media landscape with the 24-hour news cycle.

But he was also a playboy, even through his three marriages and well into his 70s. His paramours had countless stories and grudges about his brazen infidelity, but he somehow still managed to remain friends with many of them — perhaps a testament to his famed charm.

Turner may have been polyamorous before polyamory hit the mainstream.

Known for traveling between his dozens of homes in different places, Turner met girlfriends out and about, everywhere from the CNN headquarters to sailing adventures on his boat. A tall, powerful and charismatic man, he was unabashed about pursuing women and loved the thrill of chase.

“Ted loved women, loved romancing them and was very attracted to beauty,” said Ken Auletta, the longtime media reporter who spent about four months with Turner for a 2001 profile published in The New Yorker. “There was a lot of vanity there.”

When Auletta visited Turner’s apartment above the CNN headquarters at CNN Center in Atlanta, he said he noticed in the small bedroom a large bed under a completely mirrored ceiling — presumably so that he could watch himself.

Turner’s three marriages were often rocked by his infidelity and drinking.

He met his first wife, Julia Nye, with whom he had two children, at a college sailing regatta. Their tumultuous marriage ended in the 1960s, after she believed him to be unfaithful, according to Auletta.