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Two different experiences. Holly Madison reflected on the “unfortunate” rift between her and Kendra Wilkinson after their time at the Playboy mansion.

Is there anything more romantic than declaring your love during the holidays?

Happy bunnies? Holly Madison dives into the darkness that has haunted Playboy — and its Playmates — for years in ID’s haunting new series The Playboy Murders.

Freddie Roman, a Borscht Belt staple whose comedy was long a part of the Friars Club roasts and was a fixture in big nightclubs, has died at 85. He had a heart attack this morning in Boynton Beach, Florida, his daughter said.

Maane Khatchatourian News Editor, Variety.com Former reality star Holly Madison won’t be called to testify during Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles rape trial, a judge ruled on Tuesday. The defense wanted Madison to take the stand in order to undermine testimony from actress Ashley Matthau, one of the uncharged supporting witnesses. Matthau, who’s accusing Weinstein of sexual battery, claims the former mogul masturbated on her at his hotel in 2003 in Puerto Rico, where they were shooting Miramax’s “Dirty Dancing” sequel, “Havana Nights.”  Madison, who dated and lived with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner from 2001 to 2008, is close friends with Matthau. The defense intended on questioning her about the two partying together at the Playboy Mansion to prove that Matthau wasn’t a “young, sexually inexperienced naif” who was unfamiliar with “the ways of Hollywood.”

(Updated with Gloria Allred statement) Bill Cosby will not get to re-litigate a sexual assault civil case involving a minor from the 1970s, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge says.

Hef’s Playboy playmates and their adult playthings were almost deemed too hot for TV. Exposing more explosive truths about their seemingly plushy lives as Hugh Hefner’s ladies in the early 2000s, former “Girls Next Door” starlets Holly Madison, 42, and Bridget Marquardt, 48, revealed that E! initially canned their reality show’s pilot episode due to the “risqué” nature of a “sex toy” fete. “This party was actually a sex toy party,” Madison recalled during a recent episode of her podcast with Marquardt, “Girls Next Level.”“This was more like a quaint tupperware party, but it was still deemed too risqué for E!,” said Madison. “After the pilot was finished, they said, ‘We can never air this because we can’t show all these sex toys on the network.’ “She went on to insist that the party’s X-rated novelties, such as lubes and faux phalluses, were only for display and not for demonstration. “We weren’t doing anything with them like I said, it was like a tupperware party or there would be like funny games with sex toys.”The honey-haired hottie recalled hosting the saucy celebration at the Playboy Mansion — where she resided as one of Hef’s three main girlfriends alongside Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson, 37, — with Hefner’s permission. However, when the late smut mag magnate, who died of sepsis in 2017 at 89, got a load of the sex goodies and gadgets being hawked in his house, he allegedly “dogged” Madison for orchestrating the tawdry scene. “[Hefner] was like dogging me,” she remembered.

claimed on Monday’s episode that the velvet robe-wearing mogul liked just that. “Hef would use baby oil as lube,” Madison revealed. “I do not recommend this.

Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt are setting the record straight on what they remember happening when Kendra Wilkinson moved in.

Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt are far from finished with their tea party! And apparently Hugh Hefner wasn’t the only one that made life in the Playboy Mansion so horrible…

Kate Moss "really liked" meeting Hugh Hefner. The 48-year-old supermodel posed for the cover Playboy back in 2014 and insisted there was "nothing seedy" about the late magazine publisher, who lived at the infamous Playboy Mansion with a host of young women known as the "bunnies" until his death in 2017 at the age of 91. She said: "Well I met Hugh Hefner, I went to his house.

sprawling 29-room house had “family vibes” and wasn’t “seedy or gross” — despite recent allegations.The British supermodel made the claims in an interview with British Vogue, amid allegations from former Playboy bunnies of abuse and misconduct in the infamous mansion. Moss, 48, however praised the late publisher, recalling visiting the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 2013 just before her 40th birthday, shooting for the cover and an 18-page spread in Playboy.“Well I met Hugh Hefner, I went to his house.

the third episode of “Girls Next Level” podcast that Hefner had a “black book” that he reportedly used to keep tabs on many of his live-in, bleach-haired roommates. “The black book kept track of a few different things,” Marquardt stated.

sound the sirens on their seemingly once-beloved Hef, ex-bunnies Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt now claim that the late men’s magazine magnate would manipulatively turn on the waterworks. “If we were emotional about something or asking for something, he would start fake crying,” said Madison, 42, while reminiscing with Marquardt, 48, about her unpleasant experiences at the Playboy Mansion on their podcast “Girls Next Level.”“It was such bad acting and so obvious,” added Madison. The platinum blonde co-starred as one of Hef’s three main girlfriends, alongside co-host Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson, 37, on E!’s “Girls Next Door” in the early 2000s. Her fake-crying claim against Hefner, who died of sepsis at age 91 in 2017, comes just days after she and Marquardt used their platform to expose him for making Playmates feel like pieces of “meat” during forced orgies in his “hoarder-like” bed filled with sex toys. During their most recent episode, Madison went on to blast Hef for “gaslighting” her and the other girls by weaponizing his tears even though he already had “all the power in the relationship.”“For the longest time I never talked to anybody about it because I thought maybe I was the only one noticing this,” said Madison of Hefner’s phony blubbering. “But I remember, not long after Kendra moved in she goes, ‘Does Hef fake cry? Because I was talking to him and he started fake crying,’” she continued, noting that Wilkerson’s query came as a comfort. “I was like, ‘Finally, I know I’m not insane,’” Madison recounted.

Jenny McCarthy was noticeably absent when A&E unveiled its shocking documentary, "Secrets of Playboy," earlier this year — and she’s now explaining why. Alexandra Dean’s 10-part docuseries aimed to look at the brand’s complicated legacy and its founder, Hugh Hefner, who died in 2017 at the age of 91. It features new interviews with numerous members of the magazine publisher's staff and inner circle, as well as past girlfriends.  In the months leading up to the premiere, A&E released various trailers teasing what was to come.

#NoFilter with Zack Peter podcast that she was not only asked to be interviewed in “Secrets of Playboy,” but asked to host it. McCarthy claimed she finally declined the invitation on their sixth request.

Well, this is a different take.

Long before Jenny McCarthy launched into her current roles as SiriusXM talk show host and “celebrity detective” on “The Masked Singer”, she was best known as one of Playboy‘s most popular Playmates, appearing on six Playboy covers over the years.

Sitting it out. Jenny McCarthy is one of the most famous Playmates of all time, but she was absent from Secrets of Playboy — and there’s one big reason she decided not to participate.

Holly Madison continues letting the world know what it was really like in the Playboy Mansion!

Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Holly Madison admits that sex with the media mogul was "gross" and made her feel “used”.

a new podcast, “Girls Next Level,” that premiered Monday. The two blond bombshells lived with Hefner in the Playboy Mansion during the early 2000s and were often in the spotlight as two of his main girlfriends. In the first episode of the podcast, Madison speaks candidly about sleeping with the alleged notorious predator, who died at 91 in 2017. “None of the females were into it — like, sorry to burst the bubble,” Madison, who dated Hefner from 2001 until 2008, claimed.

Holly Madison chose not to show her and Hugh Hefner's IVF journey on . ET's Lauren Zima spoke with Madison and Bridget Marquardt, who both appeared on the reality series, ahead of the release of their new podcast, , and Madison revealed why she kept her efforts for a baby off of the show.«I didn’t really think about including it just because, even when I did go on to have kids, I’m always the one who doesn’t want to tell anyone I’m pregnant until after the three-month mark,» Madison tells ET.

Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt revealed that Hugh Hefner had a woman called “the recruiter” who would bring him new girls when he wanted.

Holly Madison is opening up about life with Hugh Hefner.

unveiling the seedy secrets of late smut mag magnate Hugh Hefner and his “hoarder-style” bedroom. There, he allegedly made his harem of buxom babes feel like “pieces of meat” during drug-fueled orgies. “I was shocked at how messy it was,” Marquardt, 48, said of Hef’s lair in the Playboy Mansion on her and Madison’s new podcast “Girls Next Level.” The episode, titled “In The Bedroom…” aired Monday. “We walked in and it was just a disaster in there.

10-part A&E documentary, “Secrets of Playboy,” that aired early this year.But during an appearance on the “Juicy Scoop” podcast Tuesday, the two former Playmates further elaborated on just how pressured they felt to have unprotected romps with Hefner.One memory that stood out most to Marquardt was witnessing her first orgy in the mansion, which she had planned to watch — without participating in it.“I was still just gonna watch and then [one of the other Playmates] was like, ‘Aren’t you gonna go?’ It was like, ‘You need to go.’ And I was like, ‘I would rather not.’ And she’s like, ‘Well, then you probably won’t be invited back,'” recalled Marquardt, who was 28 when she moved into the mansion.“So then I was like, ‘OK.’ And I’d seen what everybody else was doing, so I knew that this was, like, a 10-second thing. I mean, definitely no more than a minute.”The former Playboy bunny said that while she actively tried to “block” the experience from her memory, she does remember “trying to get it done as quickly as possible.”“You were hoping everyone’s in the same situation, and there is a doctor on staff.

Hugh Hefner.While on Heather McDonald's Juicy Scoop podcast this week, the former "Girls Next Door" star spoke about attending parties at the famed Playboy Mansion before she caught Hef's wandering eye. Eventually, he asked her out, but Bridget turned him down. "I was like, oh no, I've heard stories about what went on.

Fans of The Girls Next Door know there’s long been a schism between the exes of the late Hugh Hefner — and exes of each other, we suppose? So is the long national nightmare over? In a word… no.

The women behind Girls Next Door are recounting the challenges — and straight-up disturbing s**t — they faced while making the memorable reality TV show.

Ready to relive the past? Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt are rewatching Girls Next Door — and it isn’t easy for the former girlfriends of Hugh Hefner to relive their Playboy pasts.

Hugh Hefner was the founder of Playboy, known for wearing his iconic silk red robe and sailor cap, and he had quite a long list of marriages and girlfriends throughout his bachelor lifestyle.The Playboy mansion was the longtime residence of Hefner, where he hosted parties and entertained guests, usually in the presence of supermodels. Hefner died in 2017 at the age of 91 and is currently interred at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, right next to Marilyn Monroe.  Playboy was one of the first sophisticated magazines in the United States to show nude pictures of women.The publication made Hefner a fortune and gained him a reputation as the face of American hedonism.Throughout his career, Hefner was a political activist who defended free speech and expression, which were key to the survival of his business.

Bill Cosby has been found civilly liable of sexually assaulting Judy Huth while she was underage at the Playboy Mansion 1975, Us Weekly can confirm.

Nearly 40 years ago, Hugh Hefner’s former personal butler wrote a memoir about his time working at the Playboy Mansion.The book has remained unpublished – until now. "The Dark Secrets of Playboy," from Around the Way Publishing, will tell the story of Stefan Tetenbaum’s experiences as Hefner’s butler in the late ’70s and early ’80s.The memoir is now available digitally on Amazon and Kindle.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentNearly 40 years ago, Hugh Hefner’s former personal butler wrote a memoir about his time working at the Playboy Mansion. The book has remained unpublished — until now.“The Dark Secrets of Playboy,” from Around the Way Publishing, will tell the story of Stefan Tetenbaum’s experiences as Hefner’s butler in the late ’70s and early ’80s.

Victoria Fuller is hopping down a different kind of bunny trail. The artist, who was Playboy’s Miss January 1996, is going from the mansion to the Metaverse by launching the "Rogue Playmates" NFT series. Every buyer will receive a members-only "golden key," which grants them access to a digital space where they can interact with models in real-time.