Holly Madison Says The Playboy Mansion Was Like Living In A Cult

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.

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.

Nearly 17 years ago, Jennifer Saginor published a book exposing the dark side of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy mansion: the drugs, the sex, the parties, and the bikini-clad women running rampant. The "Playground: A Child Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion" author was more than just a visitor at Hefner’s sprawling playground.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

Cooper Hefner is defending his late father, Hugh Hefner, before the premiere of the new docuseries Secrets of Playboy.

“Some may not approve of the life my Dad chose, but my father was not a liar,” Cooper Hefner, the 30-year-old son of the late Hugh Hefner, tweeted on Sunday (Jan. 23), a day before the premiere of the A&E docuseries, Secrets of Playboy. The ten-part series aims to uncover the secrets and truths behind Playboy and the world built around the publication. While Cooper didn’t name the network or series, he did take a swipe at those who would tell “stories” about his father. “However unconventional, [Hugh] 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.”

Holly Madison doesn’t mince words about her experience at the Playboy Mansion during the Secrets of Playboy docuseries, which premieres January 24 on A&E. While she was Hugh Hefner’s main girlfriend, Holly reveals that things got so intense in the house with the other women that she thought about drowning herself.

Holly Madison, born Hollin Sue Cullen on December 23, 1979 in Astoria, Oregon, is a model, showgirl, reality TV actress and the ex-girlfriend of Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner. Holly gained famed as one of Hugh’s girlfriends on the E! reality show, Girls Next Door. The blonde beauty, who became Hugh’s “number one girl” during her stay at the mansion, eventually moved out in 2008 after their breakup and subsequently spoke about some of her harrowing experiences as a Bunny and in a relationship with Hugh.