Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentHugh Hefner was revolutionary. Praised for his part in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, the Playboy founder was ahead of his time as an early proponent of gay rights, abortion and birth control.
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Hugh Hefner’s son is defending his late father.
Over the weekend, Cooper Hefner tweeted out a statement defending his dad ahead of the premiere of A&E’s “Secrets of Playboy” docuseries.
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In the lead-up to the premiere Monday night, the network has shared a number of teasers, featuring former Playboy models levelling troubling allegations against Hefner and Playboy.
“Some may not approve of the life my Dad chose, but my father was not a liar,” Cooper wrote in his tweet.
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In one of the previews clips, former Playmate and Hugh’s ex-girlfriend Holly Madison says, “The reason I think the mansion was very cult-like looking back on it is because we were all kind of gaslit and expected to think of Hef as like this really good guy. And you started to feel like, ‘Oh, he’s not what they say in the media, he’s just a nice man.'”
She added, “It was so easy to get isolated from the outside world there. You had a 9 o’clock curfew. You were encouraged to not have friends over. You weren’t really allowed to leave unless it was, like, a family holiday.”
Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentHugh Hefner was revolutionary. Praised for his part in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, the Playboy founder was ahead of his time as an early proponent of gay rights, abortion and birth control.
Playboy Bunny Danielle Lupo is speaking out in defense of late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. The magazine publisher has been the subject of A&E’s explosive 10-part docuseries, "Secrets of Playboy." It features new interviews with numerous members of Hefner’s staff and inner circle, as well as past girlfriends. "I want to emphasize how I’ve never felt more loved and respected as a woman working for Playboy than in any other job I’ve had in my life," Lupo told Fox News.
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Hugh Hefner has made headlines posthumously as A&E recently released its docuseries about the Playboy founder, "Secrets of Playboy." Although Hefner died in 2017, many former Playboy Playmates have come forward to detail their alleged experiences with Hefner and the Playboy mansion in the new docuseries, including Holly Madison and Sondra Theodore. In addition to Madison and Theodore, here's a look at Hefner's wives and girlfriends through the years. Mildred Williams Williams was the first wife of Hugh Hefner.The two met in college and got married in 1949.
Crystal Hefner has confirmed she destroyed "thousands" of naked pictures of women following Hugh Hefner's death, after Holly Madison claimed he kept a "mountain of revenge porn". The 35-year-old star - who was married to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner for five years until his death in September 2017 - has reassured Holly, who was one of Hugh's girlfriends from 2001 to 2008, that the pictures have "gone" after the 'Girls Next Door' star claimed she was "afraid to leave" the Playboy Mansion over fears photos of her might be circulated. Crystal wrote on Twitter: "I found thousands of those disposable camera photos you are talking about @hollymadison.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, says she found and subsequently destroyed “thousands” of photos of “countless” women. She made the revelation on Monday (24 January) in a tweet directed to Holly Madison, a former resident of the Playboy mansion who was Hugh Hefner’s “main girlfriend” in the 2000s. Crystal Hefner sent the message the same day a documentary aired in which Madison said she used to be afraid of leaving the mansion because she feared a “mountain of revenge porn” would come out if she did.
Playboy founder taking nonconsensual nude pictures of women in his orbit, his widow Crystal Hefner says she has destroyed all of the pictures she could find.“[Hugh Hefner] was constantly taking photos of these women on his disposable camera,” Madison said in , per . “And these women were almost always intoxicated.
Crystal Hefner is speaking out to confirm a claim that Holly Madison made about the late Hugh Hefner.
Hugh Hefner's widow, Crystal, is sending a message to Holly Madison.Holly, the former star, opened up about her time at the Playboy mansion and dating Hugh from 2001 to 2008 in the A&E docuseries . In the second episode, titled «The Girl Next Door,» Holly claimed that Hugh would blackmail them and alleged that he had «mountains of revenge porn» of the girls.«When I lived at the mansion, I was afraid to leave. Something that was always lingering in the back of my mind, I think since the very beginning, was that if I left, there was just this mountain of revenge porn just waiting to come out,» she alleged.
One of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends said she never had casual sex before she met the Playboy founder. The claim was made by Holly Madison in A&E’s docuseries "Secrets of Playboy," which premiered Monday night.The 10-episode show debuted with a two-hour premiere that featured an exclusive new interview with the former Playboy Bunny. The 42-year-old dated the magazine publisher from 2001 to 2008 and was viewed as his No.1 girlfriend at one point.
10-part A&E docuseries “Secrets of Playboy,” which shines a spotlight on Hefner’s alleged predatory practices. In the damning documentary, Playboy Mansion fixture Holly Madison, a longtime “girlfriend” of Hefner’s, claimed she was “afraid to leave” her then-flame as she feared there was “a mountain of revenge porn just waiting to come out.”“He’s taking all kinds of naked pictures of these women when we were wasted out of our minds,” the 42-year-old “Girls Next Door” star laments in the show.
The dark side of Playboy. Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and more of Hugh Hefner‘s ex-girlfriends opened up about their time with the media mogul in the new A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy.
Hugh Hefner had many partners before his death in 2017 at the age of 91…and many of them will tell their story in Secrets of Playboy. The ten-episode A&E docuseries will break down barriers and expose the truth” while offering an “unflinching look at the personal effects of Hugh Hefner’s empire, while also exploring his legacy’s larger influence on our society and modern-day views of sexuality,” per Deadline.
Holly Madison rose to fame as a model for the famous Playboy magazine. The now-42-year-old blonde beauty became a reality star in 2003, when she was one of the three featured ladies on the series The Girls Next Door, which followed Holly, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson in their lives at the Playboy Mansion along with the magazine’s founder Hugh Hefner. Holly was known as Hugh’s number one girlfriend during her time in the mansion, and the two dated from 2001 until 2008. Since the split, Holly has come forward with many accusations against Hugh, and she’s revealed that her relationship with the late founder, who died in 2017, wasn’t as sweet as it may have seemed on TV. Find out more about Holly and Hugh’s relationship, and the accusations she’s made against him since splitting up, here.
alleged in a teaser clip for the docuseries. Holly Madison, who became his main girlfriend years later, claimed in other preview footage for the project that Hugh «flipped out» on her after she cut her hair short. «Hef would be pretty abrasive in the way he said things to Holly,» fellow former girlfriend Bridget Marquardt said. Some may not approve of the life my Dad chose, but my father was not a liar. However unconventional, he was sincere in his approach and lived honestly.
Hugh Hefner’s son is speaking up in his dad’s defense.