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Holly Madison reveals hell with Hef in Playboy Mansion
NYPost.com ^ | Sunday, June 21, 2015 | Maureen Callahan

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 Most of the bedrooms had cheap, outdated and beat-up beds and dressers, and some of the girls taped over vents so they could smoke crystal meth without getting caught....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....

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

“44 Then, turning to the woman, he told Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You didn’t give me any water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. 45 You didn’t give me a kiss,[h] but this woman, from the moment I came in, has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but this woman has anointed my feet with perfume. 47 So I’m telling you that her sins, as many as they are, have been forgiven, and that’s why she has shown such great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little.”

48 Then Jesus[i] told her, “Your sins are forgiven!”

49 Those who were at the table with them began to say among themselves, “Who is this man who even forgives sins?”

50 But Jesus[j] told the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.” Luke 7:44-50


61 posted on 06/21/2015 8:17:59 AM PDT by happyhomemaker (Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Rom 12:12)
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To: varyouga

I fit into your .01%. Something about being old enough to be their father kills it for me and can’t imagine how being old enough to be their grandfather would be.

Fits in there with disgusting, manipulating, etc.


62 posted on 06/21/2015 8:19:01 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: canuck_conservative
"The girls [HOs] played power games with each other but ultimately were pawns in Hefner’s larger game"
63 posted on 06/21/2015 8:19:09 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: a fool in paradise
I never expected anything better from Heffner but I did from Cosby.
64 posted on 06/21/2015 8:21:26 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: canuck_conservative

On the one hand, Hefner is a creep who exploits women but these tell-all stories are not new and Ms. Madison was more than willing to be exploited for fame, freebies and a sense of identity.

Sounds a bit like the porn starlet who was happy to rake in the money until she got too old and suddenly became a “victim”.

Boo. Hoo.

The true heroes in the story are the women who told Hef “hell, no” from the very start.


65 posted on 06/21/2015 8:37:46 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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To: canuck_conservative

both were experiencing the end result of a subjectivistic moral code of hedonism, where pleasure is the standard of value.From the sound of it, it doesn’t end well.


66 posted on 06/21/2015 8:44:20 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: fatnotlazy

So did Hefner lock all the playmates in the mansion? If not and things were that bad, why didn’t she leave?
..................

Because in exchange for her honor and dignity she received $1,000 per week for wardrobe money, unlimited salon beauty treatments and plastic surgery.


67 posted on 06/21/2015 8:54:42 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: MinuteGal

My pastor says that unrepentant man wants to be one of two people - Adolf Hitler or Hugh Hefner. One was absorbed in ultimate political power and unconcerned with how it affected anyone else but himself. The other is absorbed in personal self-gratification and unconcerned with how it affected anyone else but himself.

Our sin nature gravitates towards one or the other and only the realization that both paths ultimately lead to death and ruin causes us to seek a third direction - that of desiring to benefit others and serve God.

But, if there was no God, there’s no justification for not wanting live a life like Hitler or Hefner. If you live and you die and there’s no consequences in an afterlife, being Hitler or Hefner is the ultimate expression of self-will.

Accepting Christ is learning how to put Self to death and accepting His plans and His purpose for your life.


68 posted on 06/21/2015 8:59:58 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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To: ansel12

The same place (nowhere) that they have been with the Hollywood “moguls” molesting young men (and women) under 18 for the reward of a movie contract and possible fame.

Corey Feldman named names to Santa Barbara Police and nothing came of it. There are clues in his interviews as to who molested him and Corey Haim (deceased now). One (alleged) pedophile movie/record mogul is worth hundreds of millions if not more. Democrat, gay, and gives to the “right” political groups. Hollywood is a bunch of hypocrites.


69 posted on 06/21/2015 9:00:17 AM PDT by machogirl
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To: ViLaLuz

I have no doubt that Hefner was a sex crazed egomaniac and there were drugs and who knows what other debauchery. What I’m saying is that Madison makes these claims and professes outrage, but she stayed with the old pervert for years. By doing so, most likely because of the financial rewards and prestige, her claims become suspect.


70 posted on 06/21/2015 9:12:07 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: PapaBear3625

There is a whole “dating” site for this sole purpose. Sugardaddy.com or something similar.


71 posted on 06/21/2015 9:14:43 AM PDT by Solson (Grand Old Party 1854 - 2010 RIP)
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To: fatnotlazy

Yup, she’s continuing to milk that cow.


72 posted on 06/21/2015 9:14:55 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: canuck_conservative

She’s shocked it wasn’t a Sunday school picnic?

Does she include a pound of salt with each book purchase?


73 posted on 06/21/2015 9:18:51 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: canuck_conservative

Hefner may be an immoral reprobate but he’s not stupid. I don’t think he’s ever been successfully prosecuted or sued for “date rape”.

Girls go into this with eyes wide open and they evidently sign all the legal agreements.

In Holly’s case here, she even admits that she did this to get a rent free place to live and an opportunity for a “glamorous” lifestyle.

In the end, she was just a well paid hooker.


74 posted on 06/21/2015 9:23:14 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: varyouga

Sure some men would act that way, but I know far more men who would not. I can assure you I wouldn’t want any part of his life and at no time in my past would I have wanted that life. Then again, I’m a Christian and family man and most of my friends are too.


75 posted on 06/21/2015 9:32:28 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: Ditter

Yes! Cosby was a great disappointment.


76 posted on 06/21/2015 9:34:44 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Where hell did he get quaaludes

They don’t need to make a woman’s sexual urge enhancer

That one worked like a charm in my day

Should be required for any middle aged woman who wants to jumpstart her engine especially during menopause

And no I am not joking

It’s much better than red wine or margaritas

No sloppiness


77 posted on 06/21/2015 9:40:27 AM PDT by wardaddy (#jon snow mattered)
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To: fatnotlazy; Pelham

Probably some basis but a lot of embellishment

It’s been a common theme that he lines them up and gives them party favors and he takes Viagra and they all play with each other and then bang him cowgirl style given he’s too frail now to truly put one on a lady missionary or woof woof

You know sweaty and eyes rolling 20 something sex

Hair matted and sheets everywhere ....bed walking the room on a wood floor

I don’t see Hef doing that now and frankly after view that sex tape of his that leaked out I doubt he ever really ravished a woman

He just wanted them all over HIM and to watch THEM

Anyhow....the rest of it about the house in poor shape and him a tightwad

Believable

He was fun when I was a boy in the 60s but there has always been a darkness associated

The untimely death rate for playmates is very high

I’ve knew three playmates peripherally.....one pretty well....and only one ever admitted doing Hef but he did bang many of them....no question

Of those three who were late 79-81 era two are dead.....


78 posted on 06/21/2015 9:53:46 AM PDT by wardaddy (#jon snow mattered)
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To: IronJack

Pretty well said

I only buy it the rare time they interview someone I like

It’s now edited by women and fags

Same direction all men’s mags from GQ to Esquire to Playboy end up

Penthouse never did

Guccione was a real man compared to Hef

Hef was like a horny hipster


79 posted on 06/21/2015 9:56:28 AM PDT by wardaddy (#jon snow mattered)
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To: a fool in paradise

She indicated he offered her ludes

Ludes are big and chalky

Hard to slip anyone

But where hell would be get them 30 years after the last ones were made

Nobody even makes the base anymore


80 posted on 06/21/2015 10:01:09 AM PDT by wardaddy (#jon snow mattered)
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