<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even as multiple women accuse the late </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/playboy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Playboy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> founder </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hugh-hefner"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hugh Hefner</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of sexual depravity, at least one person is coming to his defense. </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kate Moss</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> claims she saw no examples of bad behavior during her visit to Hefner’s famous Southern California mansion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 48-year-old supermodel made her assertions during a recent </span><a href="https://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/article/kate-moss-cosmoss"><span style="font-weight: 400;">interview</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with British Vogue. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Well, I met Hugh Hefner, I went to his house. I really liked him and he was there with his kids and a few of his bunnies and one of his bunnies took me round the house and gave me a tour and stuff,” she told the publication of visiting the Playboy Mansion in 2013 while shooting for the cover and an 18-page spread in the magazine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I met his secretary who’d been with him for like 70 years, they’re just like a lovely institution or something, family vibes. I don’t know, I really liked it, there was nothing like seedy or gross about it. It was kind of really playful,” Moss continued. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plenty of other mansion visitors tell a different story, however. Many claims were recently made with the release of the 10-part A&amp;E network docuseries “Secrets of Playboy,” which included interviews with Hefner’s former girlfriends and employees. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Director of Playmate Promotions Miki Garcia described the overall atmosphere as toxic, The Daily Wire previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/playboy-responds-to-claims-of-bestiality-other-atrocities-by-hugh-hefner-revealed-in-secrets-of-playboy-docuseries"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She said, “It was cult-like. The women had been groomed and led to believe they were part of this family. [Hefner] really did believe he owned these women. We had Playmates that overdosed, that committed suicide.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many documentary participants said Hefner was so desensitized to sexual acts that he demanded bizarre situations to become aroused. The documentary participants accused the media mogul of watching snuff films and engaging in sex acts with animals.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Former Playboy bunnies and “The Girls Next Door” stars Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt recently launched a podcast called “Girls Next Level” which explores more details about their time as Hefner’s live-in girlfriends. The women claim that they were reluctant participants in orgies and other sex sessions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Madison claims she was drunk the first time she had sex with Hefner and that the “whole experience” was “traumatic” for her. She and Marquardt also alleged that Hefner would </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hugh-hefners-ex-girlfriends-say-former-playboy-founder-would-fake-cry-to-get-his-way-with-a-girl"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fake cry</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to get his way, including when it came to having sex with the women in the mansion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was insanity and something I would have never expected from a cultural icon,” Madison said. “I just had this idea in my mind of what I thought Hеf was gonna be based on what he&#8217;d accomplished … and he&#8217;s a fake crier.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hefner died in 2017 at the age of 91.</span></p>


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Kate Moss Defends Hugh Hefner, Says Playboy Mansion Had ‘Family Vibes’ And Wasn’t ‘Seedy Or Gross’

Kate Moss Defends Hugh Hefner, Says Playboy Mansion Had 'Family Vibes' And Wasn't 'Seedy Or Gross'

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<p>Hugh Hefner&#8217;s ex-girlfriends, Holly Madison and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-still-traumatized-hugh-hefners-former-gf-talks-rewatching-girls-next-door">Bridget Marquardt,</a> said that the Playboy founder would &#8220;fake cry&#8221; in order to &#8220;get his way with a girl&#8221; and more.</p>
<p>During the former &#8220;The Girls Next Door&#8221; stars’ latest podcast, &#8220;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3xgLlHIyNVEsFRgEOoHy7G?si=ccX2v7JDR2mwW2jIxyZ4jA">Girls Next Level,</a>&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hugh-hefner">Hefner&#8217;s</a> ex-girlfriends spilled more details about what they said happened during the time they lived in the Playboy mansion. One of those things was that they said Hugh would &#8220;start fake crying&#8221; if the girls got emotional about something.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hef [Hefner] would fake cry when he was trying to get his way with a girl,&#8221; Holly explained.</p>
<p>&#8220;Like, if we were emotional about something or asking for something, he would start fake crying and it was such bad acting and so obvious,&#8221; she added. &#8220;For the longest time I never talked to anybody about it because I thought maybe I was the only one noticing this.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But I remember, not long after Kendra [Wilkinson] moved in, she goes, &#8216;Does Hef fake cry? Because I was talking to him and he started fake crying,'&#8221; Madison continued. &#8220;And I was like, &#8216;Finally, I know I&#8217;m not insane.&#8217; &#8230;It was insane just how obvious it was and how bad acting was, but you can&#8217;t say anything because he&#8217;s the one who has all the power in the relationship.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The former &#8220;Girls Next Door&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daddy-do-you-wanna-get-the-new-girl-playboy-bunnies-recall-disturbing-details-about-hugh-hefner-orgies">star,</a> Madison, went on to explain how weird she found it that she couldn&#8217;t come straight out and accuse the late-Playboy mogul of it &#8220;fake crying &#8221; — she compared it to him gaslighting her and the other girls.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was insanity and somеthing I would have nеvеr еxpеctеd from a cultural icon,&#8221; Holly shared. &#8220;I just had this idea in my mind of what I thought Hеf was gonna bе basеd on what hе&#8217;d accomplishеd &#8230; and hе&#8217;s a fakе criеr.&#8221;</p>
<p>Marquardt agreed and said the &#8220;fake crying&#8221; was &#8220;a hundred percent for real.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Girls Next Level&#8221; podcast centers on the former Playboy Playmates rewatching their hit show, about life inside the Playboy mansion that ran from 2005 to 2010, as they dish about what they said happened behind-the-scenes.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/playboy-responds-to-claims-of-bestiality-other-atrocities-by-hugh-hefner-revealed-in-secrets-of-playboy-docuseries">Playboy Responds To Claims Of Bestiality, Other Atrocities By Hugh Hefner Revealed In &#8216;Secrets of Playboy&#8217; Docuseries</a></strong></p>


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Hugh Hefner’s Ex-Girlfriends Say Former Playboy Founder Would ‘Fake Cry’ To ‘Get His Way With A Girl’

<p>Former Playboy bunnies and “The Girls Next Door” stars Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt recalled disturbing details about unprotected orgies they would engage in at the behest of late Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner.</p>
<p>Madison and Marquardt, who dated Hefner, detailed sexual encounters they had with the multi-millionaire on the pair&#8217;s new <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6JFajL91KQchGYjO5ylMU8?si=7-SJR2NGS0eszxC0ABPPRA&amp;nd=1&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA72N3QqCMACFn2be5c8s%2BwEJKxTsX%2Bmiq1hz5nRtw03Inr4Z9ArBuTicj49TaS3VwnGUFJqWvY2ktBnljbOUrSg6rEMhCbcAHJcdY7euZWE1KMCPAIxNBmz%2FbCyeZiKSKlEQ04I0RvVu7m3PuEqu9XHSs%2F1lBvxYUeBvpqM8zeAhyV2i3q%2B1G61Opyz6fiHG7gg3%2F%2FgDMOCFoZ5VEqS7loSifSBO8QcluaOjGwEAAA%3D%3D&amp;product=open&amp;%24full_url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F6JFajL91KQchGYjO5ylMU8%3Fsi%3D7-SJR2NGS0eszxC0ABPPRA&amp;feature=organic&amp;_branch_match_id=905864237978241989">podcast</a>, &#8220;Girls Next Level.&#8221;</p>
<p>The first time Madison had sex with Hefner, a girl the pair dubbed the &#8220;recruiter&#8221; for anonymity, beckoned Hefner to take Madison with multiple other girls in the room.</p>
<p>&#8220;Daddy, do you want to get the new girl?&#8221; the girl allegedly posed to Hefner. At the time, Madison said she was extremely drunk and naked on end of the bed, where numerous vibrators were laid out.</p>
<p>&#8220;And I s*** you not, next thing I know, he&#8217;s on top of me,&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;And then I don&#8217;t even remember what else happened the rest of the night.&#8221;</p>
<p>Madison said she knew she had to move in after she had sex with Hefner. &#8220;There was no other option for me at that point,&#8221; she said, adding that within two days she was moved in.</p>
<p>The former bunny said the &#8220;whole experience&#8221; was &#8220;traumatic&#8221; for her, emphasizing that she didn&#8217;t know she was going to have sex with Hefner that night. Madison added that she felt particularly betrayed by the recruiter.</p>
<p>“I just remember feeling so gross and so used,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I felt like this girl was being so nice to me and so welcoming, but really I was just another piece of meat for her to throw under him so she looks better.&#8221;</p>
<p>In a past documentary, Madison revealed that Hefner did not want the women to use protection during their sexual encounters.</p>
<p>“It was really gross to me how Hef didn’t want to use protection,” she said, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/playboy-bunnies-fed-to-hef-like-meat-in-gross-hoarder-orgy-room/">highlighted</a>. “I never expected to be the first person to have sex that night or to be pushed into it. I definitely felt humiliated by it.”</p>
<p>For Marquardt&#8217;s part, she said she felt forced to participate in the sexual activity and wanted to get it over with “as quickly as possible.” It was a “10-second thing,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p>Earlier in the podcast, the former bunny revealed that the first time she appeared nude in a Playboy magazine she was not informed, nor was she paid for the published snaps.</p>
<p>Madison said Playboy at the time felt it had full ownership of any nude photos taken.</p>


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‘Daddy, Do You Wanna Get The New Girl?’: Playboy Bunnies Recall Disturbing Details About Hugh Hefner ‘Orgies’

Playboy Bunnies Recall Disturbing Details About Hugh Hefner ‘Orgies’  

<p>Late Hugh Hefner&#8217;s former girlfriend Bridget Marquardt admitted she&#8217;s &#8220;still traumatized&#8221; after recently rewatching her reality show &#8220;Girls Next Door,&#8221; and explained that it&#8217;s because of how she said she was portrayed.</p>
<p>During the former Playboy Playmate&#8217;s recent appearance on the &#8220;Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OFDHcTTu30">podcast</a>, Marquadt was joined by co-star Holly Madison, of the hit show about life inside the Playboy mansion that ran from 2005 to 2010. The two former girlfriends of Hefner shared how emotional it&#8217;s been watching those old episodes again. It starts at the 59:56 minute mark <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OFDHcTTu30">here</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Holly warned me that the first three episodes were really hard to watch, and when she said that I thought she just meant like kind of getting used to watching them again and once you get past like three episodes, you&#8217;re good,&#8221; Marquardt shared.</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize until I just watched them not last night, but the night before, and I&#8217;m still traumatized,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Like, I&#8217;m sick to my stomach, I can&#8217;t sleep, I&#8217;ve been crying.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Bridget continued, explaining that it was the way she and Holly &#8220;were portrayed&#8221; on the show from the very start, as she explained she felt that the editing was done to make her look like &#8220;just this jealous b****, that I was getting people drunk and sabotaging their pictorials.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So we are immediately, immediately in episode one, being made out to be the bitches,&#8221; she added, and Madison agreed.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that&#8217;s messed up and borderline illegal,&#8221; Holly shared, noting she experienced problems with the show&#8217;s producer after deciding to leave the mansion.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it was more the producer who wanted the drama and wanted us to look mean and didn&#8217;t care,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And that&#8217;s confusing, too, because we went on to feel like we had a close friendship with Kevin and now that we get older and look back and see what he did, it&#8217;s really, it&#8217;s a bad feeling.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Madison and Marquadt recently announced plans about their podcast, titled &#8220;Girls Next Level.” During the show, the two promise to rewatch &#8220;every episode of Girls Next Door&#8221; and give “you all of our stories behind the scenes,&#8221; Madison shared on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgz7c_sPCMm/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=c54dcc42-26bf-4f22-9937-ee1e4b8bbf44">Instagram</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/playboy-responds-to-claims-of-bestiality-other-atrocities-by-hugh-hefner-revealed-in-secrets-of-playboy-docuseries">Playboy Responds To Claims Of Bestiality, Other Atrocities By Hugh Hefner Revealed In &#8216;Secrets of Playboy&#8217; Docuseries</a></strong></p>


‘I’m Still Traumatized’: Hugh Hefner’s Former GF Talks Rewatching ‘Girls Next Door’

Hugh Hefner’s Former GF Talks Rewatching ‘Girls Next Door’

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<p>According to Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriend, the founder of Playboy was a “monster” who spoke to her about getting sexual pleasure from watching snuff films and even got sexual with one of his dogs.</p>
<p>Speaking in the A&amp;E 10-part documentary “Secrets of Playboy,” Sondra Theodore, who dated Hefner from 1976-1981, said Hefner forced her to sleep with other men and women while he recorded it.</p>
<p>She said, “He was like a vampire, he was sucking the life out of me. Really, he was a monster. The things he was turned on by – nothing was enough. Nothing&#8230; He would tell the public, even good girls enjoy sex, healthy sex. And there was nothing healthy about the sex with Hefner because he took it too far.”</p>
<p>She recalled, “I walked in once and he was [makes sexual hand gesture] to our dog and I was like, what are you doing? And he said, ‘well, dogs have needs.’ And I went, stop that! Just stop that,” Theodore added, “And I never left him alone with the dog again. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I could not believe what I was seeing.”</p>
<p>“Theodore said that her breaking point was when Hefner began talking about getting sexual pleasure from watching snuff films, which are first-person videos of people committing actual homicide,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10515501/Hugh-Hefners-ex-girlfriend-calls-monster-latest-episode-Playboy-docuseries.html">The Daily Mail</a> reported. Theodore continued, “What kind of mind is so far gone that it takes killing somebody to get them excited for that big release? He was opening my eyes to this monster. I mean, really, he was a monster.”</p>
<p>“When we started dating in the 1970s he [Hefner] was fascinated and obsessed with Charles Manson,” Theodor said. “Couldn&#8217;t talk enough about him. How does this guy, these women who have been in jail for how many years and when they have a chance to get out they still adore him and will until the day they die. Hef liked that.”</p>
<p>Alexandra Dean, who directed the 10-part series, told <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hugh-hefner-ex-girlfriend-sondra-theodore-secrets-of-playboy-062531259.html?guccounter=1">Yahoo Entertainment<strong> </strong></a>that of all the sources for the documentary, Theodore was the most difficult to persuade to appear. She asserted, “The thing that shocked me the most is the depth of her scarring around what happened to her with Hef&#8230;It was so profound and that is what convinced me more than anything else that this was a much darker story than I had initially started to make. Just looking at Sondra, listening to Sondra, you could hear all those traces of trauma.”</p>
<p>Calling the era of his dating Theodore the “height of his depravity,” she continued, “I think it was the height of his drug use as well. I think it unleashed things or at least it eradicated certain boundaries he might have had otherwise. The real Hef came roaring out&#8230; it&#8217;s dark.”</p>
<p>Theodore has <a href="applewebdata://185E346D-AFC6-4988-9A2F-6ABA6C089024/v">stated</a> that Hefner sent her on “countless” trips to buy cocaine, admitting, “I&#8217;ve never told anybody any of this before. I was too ashamed, for a lot of reasons, but I was a drug mule for Hef. &#8230; It was nothing to him. It was like sending me out for a quart of milk. If I got caught, my life would be over. And do you think he would have said, ‘Oh, it&#8217;s my fault?’ No, it would have been me, it would have been my problem.”</p>
<p>Former porn star Linda Lovelace claimed she was forced to perform oral sex on a German Shepherd while Hefner observed along with his friends.  Former Playboy Bunny Mother PJ Masten commented, “The guys were laughing when she got out of the limousine. She was drunk and drugged&#8230;All of a sudden out of nowhere a German Shepherd shows up. They got her so messed up they made her give the German shepherd oral sex. You want to talk about depravity? This is despicable!&#8217;”</p>
<p>Playboy issued a <a href="https://playboy.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-our-team-community-9e3f1a68b0aa">statement</a> in January prior to the airing of the documentary saying:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>As you know, the Hefner family is no longer associated with Playboy, and today’s Playboy is not Hugh Hefner’s Playboy&#8230;</em></p>
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25th Anniversary Party for Playboy Magazine

Hugh Hefner’s Former GF Tells All: Hefner Said He Got Sexual Pleasure Watching Snuff Films

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 10-part A&amp;E network docuseries “Secrets of Playboy” just premiered Monday, but it’s already making waves in the entertainment industry. Followers were mostly aware of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s highly unconventional lifestyle and penchant for exploring the boundaries of sexual promiscuity. But the claims being made in the documentary are truly shocking.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most fans know Hefner, who died in 2017 at the age of 91, as the man who commercialized pornographic images. He smoked pipes, wore silk pajamas, and ruled over a revolving harem of young, blonde women. The hedonistic, drug and orgy-filled parties at the Playboy mansion are the stuff of legends.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the women who once participated in Hefner’s lifestyle are now claiming there were acts of depravity happening that even the most sexually progressive people would condemn. They are claiming incidents of rape and bestiality behind the mansion’s walls, Daily Mail </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10400345/Hugh-Hefner-referred-Quaaludes-leg-spreaders-new-doc-reveals.html?ito=push-notification&amp;ci=CQecuZz-pB&amp;cri=LmmpoTZKgp&amp;si=33696377&amp;xi=8d9a1e8f-1bab-4085-88bd-d33eebccba53&amp;ai=10400345"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some of the strongest voices on the docuseries so far come from Hef’s former Playmate girlfriend Sondra Theodore, Director of Playmate Promotions Miki Garcia, and long-time “Bunny Mother” PJ Masten, who managed the staff at Playboy nightclubs. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Garcia described the overall atmosphere as toxic. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">She said, &#8220;It was cult-like. The women had been groomed and led to believe they were part of this family. [Hefner] really did believe he owned these women. We had Playmates that overdosed, that committed suicide.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most documentary participants agreed that Hefner’s insatiable appetites led to desensitization, meaning he required more extreme, bizarre sexual acts to become aroused. This is what led to him watching snuff films and, allegedly, forcing others to engage in sex acts with animals or doing so himself.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theodore claimed, “I walked in on him with my dog and I said, ‘What are you doing?’ I was shocked. He made it seem like it was just a one-time thing, and that he was just goofing off. But I never left him alone with my dog again.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At another point, the former Playmate said, “He scared me at the end&#8230;you couldn&#8217;t satisfy him. He wanted more and more and more.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She also discussed Hefner’s effect on the women who entered the mansion. “I watched girl after girl show up, fresh faced, adorable and their beauty just washed away. We were nothing to him,” Theodore said. “He was like a vampire. He sucked the life out of these girls for decades.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately, the story about Hefner and a dog isn’t the only alleged incident of animal cruelty to come out of “Secrets.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Mail reported that one episode includes an interview with 1970s “Deep Throat” porn star Linda Lovelace, who recalls being treated like a “piece of meat” and made to perform oral sex on a German Shepherd with Hefner and his friends watching.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since the episodes aired, the Playboy brand has been working to distance itself from its founder. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Playboy&#8217;s group leadership team released an </span><a href="https://playboy.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-our-team-community-9e3f1a68b0aa"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open letter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> just ahead of the January 24 premiere. It said in part that they “trust and validate women and their stories” and “strongly support the individuals who have come forward to share their experiences.”  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“As a brand with sex positivity at its core, we believe safety, security and accountability are paramount, and anything less is inexcusable,” the letter said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Today’s Playboy is not Hugh Hefner’s Playboy. Together we are building upon the aspects of our legacy that have made a positive impact, including serving as a platform for free expression and a convener of safe conversations on sex, inclusion and freedom,” the letter continued.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We will continue to confront any parts of our legacy that do not reflect our values today, and to build upon the progress we have made as we evolve as a company so we can drive positive change for you and our communities.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The letter also mentioned that the Hefner family is no longer affiliated with the brand. </span></p>


Playboy Responds To Claims Of Bestiality, Other Atrocities By Hugh Hefner Revealed In ‘Secrets of Playboy’ Docuseries

Dogs

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Like a train wreck you can’t look away from, fans continue to obsess over what went on at Hugh Hefner’s storied Playboy Mansion. The notoriously salacious setting served as the backdrop for all sorts of sexual perversion from some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Hefner died in 2017, but the legacy lives on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His former girlfriend Holly Madison has been vocal about her experiences living in the Playboy Mansion. Most famously, Madison starred in the reality series “The Girls Next Door,” which took viewers on a journey inside the mansion, with all its intrigue. Now the former playmate is focused on the darker side of the mansion with the release of a tell-all docuseries.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The A&amp;E special “Secrets of Playboy” is slated to premiere on January 24. In the new </span><a href="https://youtu.be/kXLcxiIeFw8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">trailer</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Madison recounts some of the worst aspects of being Hefner’s romantic partner.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I got to a point where I kind of broke under that pressure and being made to feel like I needed to look exactly like everybody else,” Madison explained. She described having naturally long hair but wanting to set herself apart from the other blonde, big-chested women who also frequented the Playboy Mansion. So she boldly chopped her hair to her shoulders.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I came back with short hair and [Hefner] flipped out on me,” the former Playmate revealed. “He was screaming at me and said it made me look old, hard and cheap.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hefner’s friend Jonathan Baker corroborated the story, explaining that the media mogul was, at heart, a control freak. “I remember when [Holly] cut her hair,” Baker said. “He was very unhappy about it. Yup, his world.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another former girlfriend, “Girls Next Door” alum Bridget Marquardt, recounted how Hefner was especially hard on Madison compared to other women in his life. “Hef would be pretty abrasive in the way he said things to Holly,” the former girlfriend explained. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[Madison] came down with red lipstick one time and he flipped out, said he hated red lipstick on girls and [told her] that she needed to take it off right away,” she continued. Apparently, other women were permitted to wear red lipstick even when Madison wasn’t. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was very frustrating to live with every day,” Marquardt said. “All of the drama that was going on and the tension. I could definitely see that she was getting depressed and sad and her demeanor was starting to change.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The trailer also hinted at more shocking stories to come, including how Madison was encouraged to experiment with actions she wasn’t totally comfortable with. “I felt like I was in the cycle of gross things and I didn’t know what to do,” the former reality shared during the clip.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Besides just dealing with Hefner’s temper, there were also instances of heavy drug use on the mansion grounds, which likely contributed to the overall vibe. </span></p>


Hugh Hefner Kicks Off His 81st Birthday Celebration Weekend Hosted By The Girls Next Door at The Playboy Club and Moon Nightclub

Former Playmate Holly Madison Recalls Hugh Hefner’s Furious Reaction to Her Haircut: ‘He Was Screaming At Me’

<p>In the age when Confederate statues are being torn down by social justice warriors, the progressive city of Los Angeles is now considering whether or not to make a house dedicated to the exploitation of women a cultural monument.</p>
<p>According to the<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-playboy-manson-20171107-story.html"> <em>Los Angeles Times</em></a>, the late Hugh Hefner&#8217;s infamous <em>Playboy</em> mansion in Holmby Hills may one day be among the City of Angels&#8217; historic monuments.</p>
<p>&#8220;The property was owned by Playboy Enterprises from 1971 until last year, although the magazine empire&#8217;s founder and owner, Hefner, lived there until his death Sept. 27,&#8221; reports the <em>Times</em>. &#8220;The property has taken on legendary status as the scene of luxurious parties and tales of debauchery, and as a popular celebrity hangout.&#8221;</p>
<p>The motion was introduced before the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday. Should the mansion be labeled a cultural monument, limits would then be made on potential alterations to the property. The mansion could also be demolished only after review.</p>
<p>Hefner sold the mansion last year for $100 million to billionaire Daren Metropoulos, who also lives next door, with the stipulation that he be allowed to remain a resident there until his death.</p>
<p>Metropoulos, 33, said he plans to connect both his estate and the Playboy estate together to return &#8220;the combined 7.3-acre compound to the original vision executed by architect Arthur R. Kelly and its first owner, Arthur Letts Jr., the department store heir whose father conceived and developed Holmby Hills when it was the Wolfskill Ranch.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Commemorating a man who sexually exploited women for profit and treated his house like a brothel indicates that the city of Los Angeles clearly has not taken anything away from the Hollywood sex scandal eating Hollywood alive.</p>


L.A. Considers Making Playboy Mansion A Historic Monument

Los Angeles

<p>When even <em>Playboy </em>bails on you, it might be time to consider your situation.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, six women came forward, including Hollywood starlets Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge, to accuse director Bret Ratner of sexual harassment. Munn says Ratner hit on her and exposed himself when she went to deliver food to his trailer on a movie set; Henstridge says the director sexually harassed her and pressured her into a sexual encounter.</p>
<p>Ratner denied the allegations, through his attorney Marty Singer.</p>
<p>But the atmosphere in Hollywood is, right now, one of deep suspicion, as long-buried allegations of everything from sexual harassment to violent rape have surfaced against some of the entertainment industry&#8217;s biggest names. And even organizations ostensibly built on the objectification of women, like <em>Playboy</em>, want nothing to do with the scandals.</p>
<p>Ratner is a longtime fan of Hugh Hefner, and even penned a glowing obituary for the former &#8220;lifestyle&#8221; magazine mogul, when Hefner died last month. According to Ratner, Hefner was responsible for singlehandedly changing the world for the better, making sex more open and accessible, and embedding a liberal view of sexuality within American culture.</p>
<p>Ratner announced he&#8217;d be taking the helm of a biopic of the late <em>Playboy</em> founder not long after Hefner&#8217;s death. But Thursday morning, Playboy Enterprises, who had signed on to produce the movie, announced they were scrapping the project indefinitely.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are deeply troubled to learn about the accusations against Brett Ratner. We find this kind of behavior completely unacceptable. We are putting all further development of our projects with RatPac Entertainment on hold until we are able to review the situation further,&#8221;<a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/890949/jared-leto-will-not-be-playing-hugh-hefner-in-brett-ratner-directed-biopic-amid-scandal"> the company said in a statement to <em>E! News</em></a>.</p>
<p>Jared Leto, who Ratner had approached for the starring role, categorically denied that the project was on his calendar.</p>
<p>&#8220;Jared Leto is not and was not attached to a Brett Ratner-directed Hugh Hefner film, nor will he be working with him in the future,&#8221; Leto’s rep told Hollywood newsmagazine, <em>Deadline</em>. &#8220;Earlier reports were incorrect and not confirmed by his representatives.&#8221;</p>
<p>If Ratner emulated his hero, Hefner, it&#8217;s easy to see where Ratner&#8217;s — or anyone&#8217;s — love for all things <em>Playboy </em>could go horribly wrong. In fact, as <em>Daily Wire</em> commentators like Matt Walsh and Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro have pointed out, the line from Hefner&#8217;s social liberalism to today&#8217;s Hollywood sexual harassment scandal is a straight one.</p>


Playboy Pulls The Plug On Director Bret Ratner’s Hugh Hefner Biopic After Sexual Harassment Allegations

Sexual Misconduct

<p><em>Playboy</em>&#8217;s November centerfold will be a &#8220;transgender playmate,&#8221; according to <em><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/playboys-novemberdecember-2017-collectors-edition-300538640.html">PR Newswire</a></em>, describing French model Ines Rau as a &#8220;Parisian bombshell&#8221;:</p>
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<p>November Playmate: Parisian bombshell and high-fashion model Ines Rau returns to the pages of the magazine (previously featured in Playboy&#8217;s May 2014 A-Z issue) and makes history as Playboy&#8217;s first transgender Playmate with a pictorial and centerfold, photographed by Derek Kettela.</p>
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<p>&#8220;You should just be who you are&#8221;, <strong><a href="https://www.dailydot.com/irl/playboy-ines-rau/">she said</a></strong> in an interview in the magazine&#8217;s new issue.</p>
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<p>I lived a long time without saying I was transgender. Then I was like, you know, you should just be who you are. It&#8217;s a salvation to speak the truth about yourself, whether it&#8217;s your gender, sexuality, whatever.</p>
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<p>Rau <a href="https://www.facebook.com/playboy/posts/10155271115764086">describes herself</a> as an &#8220;advocate&#8221; for honest self-identification:</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m an advocate for anyone who is scared to be who they really are because they fear being judged or rejected.</p>
<p>They should be empowered by their differences and not be who society tells them to be.</p>
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Given that standard poses for playmates include the &#8220;full frontal,&#8221; it is unclear how Rau will be depicted in her forthcoming photo shoot. Early promotional photos show her in heels and in lingerie.</p>
<p>Rau&#8217;s Instagram profile features the following image:</p>
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<p>Rau appeared in Playboy in 2014, but not as a centerfold.</p>
<p><em>Follow Robert Kraychik on <a href="https://twitter.com/kr3ch3k">Twitter</a>.</em></p>


Playboy Introduces First Trangender Playmate, Ines Rau

Leftism

Transgender

<p>It&#8217;s been a bad month for perverts.</p>
<p>We started with the death of Hugh Hefner, an elderly pimp with an affinity for bathrobes who spent six decades sexually exploiting young, desperate women. A couple of weeks later we saw the professional death of Harvey Weinstein, a slightly younger pimp with an affinity for bathrobes who spent three decades sexually exploiting young, desperate women. But, as I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve noticed, the reaction to these two men has been drastically different.</p>
<p>For just one illustration, take a look at how <em>The Daily Beast</em> has reported on the physical and professional demise of Hefner and Weinstein, respectively. They&#8217;ve published many blaring headlines rightfully calling Weinstein a &#8220;predator&#8221; whose &#8220;reign of terror&#8221; left countless victims in its wake. As for Hefner, they lauded his &#8220;civil rights legacy&#8221; and credited him with &#8220;bringing sex out of the shadows.&#8221; The fact that he &#8220;brought sex out of the shadows&#8221; by objectifying thousands of women, while keeping a harem of teenage girls who performed sexual acts on his elderly, decrepit body because they thought it was the best way to advance their softcore porn careers, is apparently irrelevant.</p>
<p>We seem to have a very confused notion of sexual morality. Mostly because we have no notion of it. We&#8217;re making it up as we go along. One minute we&#8217;re calling a creepy 90-year-old man a hero because he coerced a bunch of girls to get naked for him, the next we&#8217;re crucifying a creepy 65-year-old man because he did something quite similar.</p>
<p>These kinds of glaring inconsistencies are par for the course in our culture. We celebrate the porn industry even as we decry the sex trafficking that fuels it. We mock Mike Pence for respecting boundaries even as we panic over the sexual harassment that Pence&#8217;s policy is meant to avoid. We encourage guys and girls in college to get together for booze-fueled coed parties even as we wring our hands over the supposed &#8220;rape epidemic&#8221; these parties cause. None of this makes any sense at all.</p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;ll be told that one important word separates and distinguishes the acceptable from the unacceptable in the examples listed above: consent. But how so? Even consent is defined haphazardly. Are we supposed to believe that Hefner&#8217;s concubines had orgies with him because they found his decaying husk irresistible? Are we supposed to believe that the playmates in the magazine had true feelings of joy and personal fulfillment in becoming masturbatory material for millions of lonely men? If so, then I suppose we have to believe that the young Hollywood starlets gave Weinstein naked massages because they were really into it. And if the 19-year-old blonde &#8220;consented&#8221; to prostituting herself for Hefner, then we must in that case believe that the actresses who slept with Weinstein for film roles did the same.</p>
<p>Of course, Weinstein is accused of assault and rape as well as coercion. We can all agree that it&#8217;s even worse to rape someone than to tell them they must sleep with you in order to advance in their field. Yet in the case of Weinstein, those two things are painted as evils not that far removed from one another. And I think that&#8217;s the right way of looking at it. But then why does Hefner get a pass for, at the very least, coercing women into becoming faceless vessels for the sexual satisfaction of men? Why do all pornographers get a pass on that front? And why do we say that we must respect a woman&#8217;s right to consent to becoming vomitously drunk around a bunch of frat boys, but we shouldn&#8217;t respect her right to consent to having sex with them afterward &#8212; a result that, by the way, is the main point of college parties? And why do we say that a man automatically rapes a drunk woman when he has sex with her, but a woman doesn&#8217;t automatically rape a drunk man when she has sex with him?</p>
<p>If &#8220;consent&#8221; is the one single sexual ethic left in our society, we may want to come up with a more consistent definition of it.</p>
<p>Or, alternatively, we could finally admit that consent is only one moral law that ought to govern our sex lives. It is not the only one.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s clear that Weinstein and Hefner and other pornographers and oversexed college students all represent basically the same point of view: sex is inherently selfish and transactional, and the other person&#8217;s body is an object to be exploited for your own pleasure. It&#8217;s not that any of these people are categorically opposed to consent &#8212; it&#8217;s just that they see consent as a sort of irrelevant technicality. If the whole point of sex is simply for me to get mine, then why does it matter if the other person says yes or no? If I can get her to say yes by dangling some promise or threat over her head, even better.</p>
<p>She&#8217;s just a body to me anyway. A mechanism for my sexual gratification. I&#8217;m having sex with her for pleasure, she with me for career advancement &#8212; there&#8217;s consent enough in that arrangement, isn&#8217;t there? Well, who cares if there isn&#8217;t? I&#8217;ve already started from the premise of not recognizing the human dignity of the other person and rejecting the sacredness of the sexual act. Whatever kind of sex I have from that starting point &#8212; consenting or not or somewhere in between &#8212; is going to be exploitative and objectifying by definition.</p>
<p>If &#8220;consent&#8221; is all that matters, then it&#8217;s hard to explain why it matters at all, or at least why it matters all that much. If sex is something intimate and holy, if it should always be loving and committed, if the human body has inherent dignity, then I know why it is repulsive and evil to have sex without consent, or with pseudo-consent or coerced consent or purchased consent. But if sex is just a game, just about having a bit of selfish fun and nothing more, and the human body just an empty shell to be enjoyed by the masses &#8212; if sex is &#8220;just sex,&#8221; as people like to say nowadays &#8212; then sex for professional favors is perfectly fine and outright raping someone isn&#8217;t much worse than punching them in the face. If Hefner is a hero, then Weinstein may not be a hero but he certainly can&#8217;t be as bad as he&#8217;s presented.</p>
<p>But Weinstein is that bad. He&#8217;s worse, really. He&#8217;s a wicked, despicable man. He treats his fellow human beings like objects to be used and thrown away. He treats them just as Hefner did, just as a lot of people do. Indeed, the scariest thing about Harvey Weinstein isn&#8217;t that he&#8217;s a unique monstrosity &#8212; it&#8217;s that, in our culture, he isn&#8217;t very unique at all.</p>


WALSH: Please Don’t Act Shocked And Appalled By Harvey Weinstein If You Celebrated Hugh Hefner

Harvey Weinstein

<p>According to filmmaker Bret Ratner, whose works include the <em>Rush Hour</em> films and the dreadful <em>X-Men III</em>, the true bringer of the heavenly MAGA is not President Trump, but rather <em>Playboy</em> founder Hugh Hefner, who passed away just last week.</p>
<p>Writing for <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brett-ratner-hugh-hefner-he-was-trying-make-country-a-better-place-1045329"><em>The Hollywood Reporter</em></a>, Ratner gladly called Hefner his &#8220;friend&#8221; who wanted to make the country a better place, one &#8220;less intolerant and repressive&#8221; by turning women into his play objects.</p>
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<p>Hef was my friend. He was the coolest. And the hippest. And at the same time, the squarest. While he transformed from an Illinois prude to the ultimate urban sophisticate, he never lost the Midwest values on which he was raised. His word was bankable. His heart was a well of emotion, open for all to see. He was the least prejudiced man I ever knew. He had deep pockets <em>and</em> long arms.</p>
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<p>Ratner admits that his admiration of Hugh Hefner goes all the way back to when he was kid, the &#8220;embodiment of everything I wanted but seemed hopelessly out of reach: beautiful women, a kingly mansion, a bunny-emblazoned DC-9.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of those who would say <em>Playboy</em> embodied sin, Ratner appreciates how the magazine gave voices to Norman Mailer, John Cheever, and Allen Ginsberg.</p>
<p>Of course, once Ratner hit it big as a movie director, he admits to &#8220;spending time at the mansion,&#8221; and it&#8217;s not hard to deduce what that implies.</p>
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<p>He was trying to make this country a better and fairer place.</p>
<p>The America into which Hugh Hefner was born was in many ways intolerant and repressive. He, among only a handful of men in our history, made it less so. It saddened him to see the pendulum swinging the other way. But Hef was &#8239;the consummate optimist. I&#8217;m sure he passed on believing that the pendulum will swing back, that the progress he was &#8239;committed to and facilitated will ultimately become a permanent part of our national character.</p>
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<div>Ratner will be directing a biopic on the life of Hugh Hefner starring Jared Leto.</div>


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