Hugh Hefner’s Son Hits Back After Holly Madison Accused Him Of Gaslighting In New Playboy Documentary
24.01.2022 - 22:55
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Hugh Hefner’s son is speaking up in his dad’s defense.
There’s been renewed chatter about life in the Playboy Mansion amidst the upcoming A&E documentary series, Secrets of Playboy. Several members of the magazine mogul’s inner circle participated in the doc, including some ex-girlfriends like Holly Madison. In a recent viral clip, Holly called the mansion “cult like” and claimed that the women there “were all kind of gaslit and expected to think of Hef as like this really good guy.”
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It seems that Hef’s son Cooper Hefner had a problem with that gaslighting accusation in particular because he took to Twitter in defense of his late father afterward. The 30-year-old stated:
“Regret becoming revenge” sounds like a really disturbing victim-blaming mantra waiting to happen, doesn’t it?
Unfortunately for Cooper, being a “liar” is far from the only thing the notorious womanizer has been accused of. Excerpts from the new doc feature a number of allegations ranging from “abrasive” mistreatment to drugging women for sex. Even the current iteration of Playboy doesn’t stand by their founder’s actions, releasing a statement saying they “trust and validate these women and their stories.”
But Cooper isn’t the only one willing to stick up for the controversial cultural icon. In an interview with Ashleigh Banfield for NewsNation (below), former Playmate Brande Roderick opined:
The 47-year-old claimed that in her time with him Hefner was “very much against drugs,” and said of the young women coming to the mansion:
Maybe no one literally held a gun to their head, but Holly recalled how the older man pressured her into giving up her job, meaning she relied