Hefner's carefully-created image falls apart. Read the whole article.
Posted on 06/21/2015 5:30:51 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
... In 2000, Hugh Hefner and the Playboy empire already seemed like a toothless relic. Yet as Madison writes in her new book, “Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny” (Dey Street), life behind the mansion walls was darker than she could have imagined....
Then Hef approached her, bent over and opening one hand to reveal a bunch of pills nestled in an old tissue.
“Would you like a Quaalude?” he asked.
Madison was mortified. “No thanks,” she said. “I don’t do drugs.”
“Okay, that’s good,” Hef said. “Usually I don’t approve of drugs, but you know, in the ’70s they used to call these pills ‘thigh openers.’ ”
Looking back, she writes, that was the moment she should have left, never to return: “It doesn’t get much creepier than that.”....
Very quickly, Madison learned that everything about Hef’s life — and the lives of his girlfriends — was an illusion. The mansion itself was in grave disrepair, the carpeting stained with urine from his nine dogs. Most of the bedrooms had cheap, outdated and beat-up beds and dressers, and some of the girls taped over vents so they could smoke crystal meth without getting caught....
The girls played power games with each other but ultimately were pawns in Hefner’s larger game: He thrived on keeping them all at war, because it allowed him ultimate control....
She saw a shrink behind Hef’s back, and she came to realize that Hef picked women who were already vulnerable — herself included.
“We were all young,” Madison says. “He wasn’t interested in women over 28. None of us were from a big city or affluent backgrounds....
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Hefner's carefully-created image falls apart. Read the whole article.
The Left won't suddenly pile on Hugh Hefner the way they did Bill Cosby.
Any yet she was ready, nay, desperate, to marry the man. Hell hath no fury....
Hef seems kind of like Dorian Gray after he had seen his picture.
It’s BS in my opinion.
I met girls over the years who knew Hef very well and ALL said he is a real gentleman.
Yea, he’s open with his sexuality and likes to date multiple young women. 99.9% of men with the opportunity and balls would do the same
Shocking.
Playboy, penthouse etc never handled the internet revolution well enough to compete.
Do they stll print this stuff?
“print is dead” Egon Spengler
“The girls played power games with each other but ultimately were pawns in Hefner’s larger game: He thrived on keeping them all at war, because it allowed him ultimate control....”
Sounds like Obama’s wet dream for America.
I guess you didn’t read the entire article. Too bad.
So here’s one more excerpt for ya -
“Over time, Madison became Hef’s main girlfriend, and she got in just under the wire: As more potential Playmates came around, Hef announced he was cutting back on expenses, and when a girlfriend named Tina stood up for a recruit — a girl named Whitney, who’d already joined the sex parties but wasn’t getting an allowance — Hef declined.
“Actually, Tina, I’m hoping with the next set of girls, expectations won’t be so high,” he told her. “Do you know I spent $2 million just on girlfriends and trips in the past few years?”
“She’s putting in all this time,” Tina said, “and all she’s getting is a drink and a f–k!”
The table was shocked to silence, until Hefner replied solemnly: “I like to think of this as all of their dreams coming true.”
Yeah, a real gentleman.
Never accept unquestioningly what an ex has to say about a guy.
So did Hefner lock all the playmates in the mansion? If not and things were that bad, why didn’t she leave?
I suspect these allegations are just to sell a book. No basis in fact.
Did she think she was walking into a convent when she first walked into the Playboy mansion?
She acts like she a victim. Sounds like she is in denial of her own immoral life choices.
Playboy is a relic, and Hugh Hefner is a walking parody, a pathetic Peter Pan whose fairy dust is powdered Viagra.
” was an illusion. The mansion itself was in grave disrepair, the carpeting stained with urine from his nine dogs. Most of the bedrooms had cheap, outdated and beat-up beds and dressers,”
An apt comparison with porn in general. One thing on the outside, but urine stained and shabby on the inside.
Wasn’t Holly the one that said over and over that she had wanted to marry him and have his kids while they were together ? Probably upset he is now with a younger woman. I think she even reportedly paid for her own fertility treatments to try to get pregnant.
“... sounds like she is in denial of her own immoral life choices..”
I read the article and she does seem to paint herself as a victim. Not defending Hef but this all sounds like a “business” arrangement. Live in the mansion, get $1000 a month, free plastic surgery/beauty treatments and you are one of his whores in his stable. Your contract expires when you turn 28. She described the “contract” all too well and fully accepted it with each passing day. IMHO.. she is hoping to make $ on this “revealing” book and is setting forth the “story” to tell her daughter, “Rainbow”, that Mommy was a good girl and kept locked in the evil mansion by the mean, cruel monster.
As i understand it, the articles are good. Hef is doing something right.
The article is worth reading at the NY Post site, for those who haven’t.
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