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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Behind the curtain. Holly Madison has always been outspoken about her time in the Playboy Mansion, and she’s sharing even more details in the new A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy.
In Us Weekly‘s exclusive sneak peek of the Monday, January 24, premiere, the Vegas Diaries author, 42, describes life in the mansion as “cult-like.” The Oregon native lived there from 2001 to 2008 while she was dating Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.
“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,” the Holly’s World alum says in the video. “You started to feel like, ‘Oh, he’s not what they say in the media — he’s just a nice man.'”
The model also recalls the way the late media mogul, who died in 2017 at age 91, kept his girlfriends hidden away in the mansion.
“Another thing that reminds me of a cult is how it was so easy to get isolated from the outside world there,” Madison explains. “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.”
When she moved into the mansion, the former reality star initially kept her job as a waitress, working one day a week, but she claims Hefner quickly put a stop to it.
Hugh Hefner”He said it made him jealous, and he would appreciate it if I quit my job,” Maidson says. “So, instead, we were given $1,000 a week as an allowance.”
The Girls Next Door alum first detailed her life with Hefner in her 2015 memoir, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny. “I thought I was an adult and thought I was making my free choice. And I was,” she wrote about her choice to move
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.
Holly Madison has been reflecting on the years she spent with Hugh Hefner. The former Playboy Bunny spoke out on A&E’s 10-part docuseries titled "Secrets of Playboy." It features new interviews with numerous members of the Playboy founder’s staff and inner circle, as well as past girlfriends. The 42-year-old dated the magazine publisher from 2001 to 2008 and was viewed as his No.1 girlfriend at one point.
There are plenty of people still loyal to Hugh Hefner.
Hundreds of former Playboy staffers and Playmates are speaking out in defense of Hugh Hefner following what they say have been "unfounded allegations" made in A&E's series about the late magazine founder's empire. An "open letter" obtained by People magazine was signed by Playboy employees and former Playboy bunnies and ex-girlfriends of Hefner's this week, calling the allegations made in the "Secrets of Playboy" 10-part documentary unsubstantiated. Hefner died in 2017 at the age of 91.
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.
Well, this is a bit of a surprise!
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.
Mixed reactions. Since the premiere of Secrets of Playboy, Hugh Hefner‘s family and friends have weighed in with their thoughts about the A&E docuseries.
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.
“When you would go out with [Hugh Hefner],” Holly Madison said of her late boyfriend during the second episode of Secrets of Playboy that aired on Monday (Jan. 24), “he’s taking all types of naked pictures of these women when they’re wasted out of their minds. And he would print out like, eight copies for him and all the women. It’s just gross.” Shockingly, Holly’s claims about the Playboy founder were confirmed by his wife, Crystal Hefner. “I found thousands of those disposable camera photos you are talking about, [Holly],” Crystal, 35, tweeted to Holly, 42, as the episode aired. “I immediately ripped them up and destroyed every single one of them for you and the countless other women in them. They’re gone.”
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.
Holly Madison alleged she experienced Stockholm syndrome during her relationship with Hugh Hefner. The claim was made on Monday night during the premiere of A&E’s docuseries "Secrets of Playboy." The 10-episode show debuted with a two-hour premiere that features an exclusive new interview with the former Playboy Bunny. The 42-year-old, who dated the Playboy founder from 2001 to 2008, claimed she was afraid to leave the Playboy Mansion out of fear of repercussions, specifically a "mountain of revenge porn" that the late publisher allegedly had in his possession.
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.