There was a special on the A&E channel a while back called “Secrets of Playboy”.
When I saw it advertised I figured it was just gonna be a bunch of T&A but it wasn’t.
Many revealing interviews about Hefner and guests at the mansion and how they drugged and abused not only bunnys but Hefner would send hid toadies out to recruit women right off the street.
Things that went on were way worse than I ever imagined.
I watched a couple shows like that on YT.
Several of the women said that there was a whole system of “secondary Hefners,” lounge-lizard type guys who set up their own Playboy-clone operations from the supply of second-level girls who were either rejected by Playboy as not quite up to their standards, or else they were used for one or two pictures but had no hope of being Playmate of the Month or anything like that.
He had a sort of caste system operating, and the girls were farmed out to Hollywood big shots and other wealthy men in Los Angeles and beyond. It was total sleeze, gussied and tarted up to look like a fun, sophisticated lifestyle. Really comes as no surprise at all to anyone who knows how the world works.