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* Intelligencer * The Cut * Vulture * The Strategist * * Curbed * Grub Street * Magazine Subscribe to the Magazine Give a Gift Subscription Buy Back Issues Current Issue Contents * Subscribe * Sign In * Account Profile Sign Out Subscribe Give A Gift * Style * Self * Culture * Power Menu Menu Close Close Search * Style * Fashion * Black Beauty Matters * Shopping * Parties & Red Carpet * Fashion Shows * Cathy Horyn * Self * Health & Wellness * Motherhood * Advice * Sex & Relationships * Horoscopes * Culture * Books * Television * Movies * Music * Celebrity * Power * Politics * Work * Money * Rebecca Traister * Latest Stories * Video * About Us * The Cut Shop Search Like Us Follow Us Follow Us * NYMag.com * New York Magazine * Intelligencer * Vulture * The Cut * The Strategist * Grub Street * Curbed secrets of playboy The Most Disturbing Allegations in the New Playboy Docuseries * Share * Tweet * Pin It 7Comments Leave a Comment Menu Menu Close Close Search * Style * Fashion * Black Beauty Matters * Shopping * Parties & Red Carpet * Fashion Shows * Cathy Horyn * Self * Health & Wellness * Motherhood * Advice * Sex & Relationships * Horoscopes * Culture * Books * Television * Movies * Music * Celebrity * Power * Politics * Work * Money * Rebecca Traister * Latest Stories * Video * About Us * The Cut Shop Search Like Us Follow Us Follow Us * NYMag.com * New York Magazine * Intelligencer * Vulture * The Cut * The Strategist * Grub Street * Curbed Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission secrets of playboy Updated Feb. 8, 2022 THE MOST DISTURBING ALLEGATIONS IN THE NEW PLAYBOY DOCUSERIES By Bindu Bansinath@bindubansinath Hugh Hefner with various Playmates of the month in the 1960s. Photo: Archive Photos/Getty Images Hugh Hefner, the endlessly controversial founder of Playboy, died in 2017 at the age of 91. He left behind a muddled legacy, one that wavered between sexual icon and alleged abuser. He died just before the explosion of the Me Too movement, and many critics felt that, as a result, he skirted his inevitable reckoning. But it may have finally arrived: Secrets of Playboy, a new ten-part docuseries on A&E, exposes the dark underbelly of Playboy and Hefner himself. Hefner started Playboy magazine in 1953, when he was 27 years old. The men’s magazine — known for publishing highbrow fiction, long-form articles, interviews, and nude pictorials — quickly garnered success and notoriety. Hefner eventually moved operations to Los Angeles, which became home of the iconic Playboy mansion, which he billed as a sanctum of sex positivity. During the sexual revolution of the ’60s, Playboy was hailed as a trailblazing force, breaking with puritanical American norms at a time when single women were denied contraceptives. Hefner championed abortion and LGBTQ rights, and gave a platform to notable Black writers and activists, including Malcolm X and James Baldwin. But as the empire continued to spin out, the magazine eventually lost its shine. (In 2015, the company briefly stopped publishing nude pictorials, and after talks of the magazine closing down altogether, it’s now making a rebranded comeback replete with gender- and sexual-fluidity initiatives, a millennial-minded feminist gaze, and Cardi B as creative director.) Of course, Secrets of Playboy isn’t the first time we’ve heard that Hefner’s universe was a toxic environment for women. But the series — which brings together Hefner’s former girlfriends, Playmates, Bunny Mothers, associates, and more — provides disturbing new insight into just how deep that toxicity ran. While, as the docuseries notes, the allegations against Hefner and his associates have not been subject to criminal investigation, many accounts from women who associated with Hefner are unnervingly similar and disturbing. Here are the most damning allegations: HEFNER’S FORMER GIRLFRIENDS SAY LIFE AT THE MANSION WAS CULTLIKE. In the docuseries, Hefner’s former girlfriend and Girls Next Door star Holly Madison describes mansion life as “cultlike.” Madison recalls being drawn in by the promise of sorority and family, and also claims that everyone who came to the mansion was photographed and videotaped without their consent, particularly in the bedroom. According to Sondra Theodore, Hefner’s girlfriend from 1976 to 1981, Hefner “had tapes” on everyone, material that apparently functioned as collateral. In the 2000s, Madison and other Playmates say they were pressed to get plastic surgery to look like each other, suggesting that the bleached-blonde conformity added to Hefner’s grand illusions of control. Madison also claimed that Hefner was fascinated by Charles Manson and owned archival footage of the Manson family. HEFNER ALLEGEDLY DIDN’T USE PROTECTION DURING GROUP SEX. In an interview, Madison recalls how Hefner offered her quaaludes, which she says he called “thigh openers,” on their first night out together. She also recalls the first traumatic sexual encounter she had with him. Madison claims Hefner lay on the center of the bed while pornography played on a television screen and a group of backlit women surrounded him. Madison says that Hefner didn’t wear protection during the group sex. Madison also described these alleged sexual encounters in her 2015 memoir, Down the Rabbit Hole, writing, “It was so brief that I can’t even recall what it felt like beyond having a heavy body on top of me.” CLEANUP CREWS ALLEGEDLY HID THE DARKER SIDES OF PLAYBOY LIFE. According to the docuseries, scandals in the mansion at Playboy clubs were routinely covered up by Playboy security and Bunny Mothers. (Bunny Mothers were women — often former Bunnies themselves — who managed the Bunnies at the clubs.) According to an interview with former Bunny Mother P.J. Masten, cleanups were concerted efforts to avoid reports of misconduct from hitting the media or the police department. James Ellis, a former Playboy bodyguard, says cleanup crews were allegedly threatened into silence for their work, which he claims ranged from covering up rapes to overdoses. Masten, who worked as a Bunny Mother from 1975 until 1982, claims she saw 40 or 50 incidents of sexual abuse “cleaned up.” Masten also claims that if a rape occurred, you had to consult with Playboy security instead of taking the victim to the hospital in the name of avoiding LAPD scrutiny. HEFNER ALLEGEDLY ABUSED BUNNIES AT THE MANSION AND GAVE HIS CELEBRITY FRIENDS CARTE BLANCHE TO DO THE SAME. At the Playboy clubs, where many former Bunnies were proud to work, Hefner allegedly imposed strict rules between Bunnies and members or key holders: Key holders couldn’t touch the Bunnies or date them. But the rules were different for VIP celebrities, says Masten. According to her, Bunnies were encouraged to mingle and go home with VIP members. Many VIP celebrities allegedly raped Bunnies and returned to the clubs without their memberships getting revoked. Journalist Russell Miller, who interviewed several ex-Bunnies for his 1985 book, Bunny: The Real Story of Playboy, alleged that Hefner abused Bunnies and often pressured them into having anal sex. Masten claimed that many of the VIPs who had sex with Bunnies sodomized them to prevent pregnancy. HEFNER ALLEGEDLY KNEW ABOUT — AND INITIATED — AN AFFAIR WITH A MINOR ON THE PLAYBOY MANSION PROPERTY. Jennifer Saginor, author of Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion, grew up visiting the mansion and lived there part time with her father — Hefner’s doctor and personal friend — from age 11. According to Saginor, her father, Mark Saginor, was known among mansion insiders as “Dr. Feelgood” because of his permissiveness with drug prescriptions. When Saginor was 6, she says she witnessed an orgy at the mansion. At 16, she says she had an affair with one of Hefner’s girlfriends, which she claims he knew about. Though Saginor was a minor at the time, she says Hefner tried initiating a threesome with her and the girlfriend. Saginor says she reminded Hefner that her father was across the hall. While Hefner ultimately didn’t go through with the threesome, he apparently told Jennifer in response, “We’re all family here.” HEFNER ALLEGEDLY USED WOMEN AS DRUG MULES, WHICH SOMETIMES HAD FATAL CONSEQUENCES. During the ’70s, the Playboy mansion faced scrutiny and suspicion from law enforcement over suspected drug use. At the time, Hefner claimed he didn’t do drugs and didn’t condone their use at the mansion. But in 1975, a scandal ensued when his executive assistant, Bobbie Arnstein, committed suicide after being convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Arnstein faced a provisional sentencing of 15 years in prison for the crime and was apparently being coerced into testifying against Hefner. Former Chicago detectives Ted O’Connor and David Reuben suggest that Arnstein was a “fall girl” for Hefner and that she committed suicide as a way of protecting Hefner and the Playboy brand. (Arnstein’s lawyer claims her late client was threatened — by whom, she doesn’t say — into silence.) In 1973, former Playboy Bunny Adrienne Pollack died of a quaalude overdose. Pollack’s sisters speculate that she was one of Hefner’s drug traffickers, albeit a low-level one. At the time of Pollack’s death, Hefner told the Chicago Sun-Times, “I don’t use narcotics personally, and I don’t sanction their use in my Chicago or Los Angeles mansions.” But many Playboy veterans insist this wasn’t the case. Masten claims Bunnies told her that Pollack and Arnstein provided drugs for Hefner, his parties, and his VIPs. Sondra Theodore claims that she and Hefner did cocaine regularly and that she was a mule for him, collecting drugs as regularly as once a week. According to Theodore, drug use at the mansion was so rampant that one of Hefner’s friend’s dogs got addicted to it. Lisa Loving Barrett, one of Hefner’s former assistants, says that quaaludes were constantly flowing at the mansion and that the pills were secured through illicit means. “We would have prescriptions in some of our names,” Barrett says. “That enabled certainly four or sometimes five prescriptions for the same medications.” Barrett says quaaludes (referred to as “leg openers” at the mansion) were given directly to Hefner, who stored them in his bedroom and his drawers. Hefner used this system to get Dexedrine, she says, taking a little of it every day. IN RESPONSE TO THE SERIES, THE PLAYBOY BRAND HAS DISTANCED ITSELF FROM HEFNER. In an open letter posted on Medium, Playboy acknowledged the “allegations of abhorrent actions” by Hefner and those associated with him. The brand reinforced its distance from the Hefner family and demonstrated its support for the women who came forward in the documentary. “We trust and validate women and their stories, and we strongly support the individuals who have come forward to share their experiences,” the statement read. “As a brand with sex positivity at its core, we believe safety, security and accountability are paramount, and anything less is inexcusable.” Meanwhile, the documentary drew early criticism from Hefner’s youngest son, Cooper Hefner. “Some may not approve of the life my Dad chose, but my father was not a liar,” Hefner wrote on Twitter after the initial episodes were released. “However unconventional, he was sincere in his approach and lived honestly. He was generous in nature and cared deeply for people. These salacious stories are a case study of regret becoming revenge.” STAY IN TOUCH. 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