Playboy founder Hugh Hefner became a controversial figure when he was accused of subjecting girls to s*xual abuse and exploitation. Most recently, his life became a subject of scrutiny in the documentary, Secrets of Playboy. Hefner’s Playboy mansion was home to numerous women at a time, who were all considered Hefner’s girlfriends. Hefner also had several strict rules for these girlfriends.
Hugh Hefner with Holly Madison and other girls in The Girls Next Door
For years, these girls were tight-lipped about the experiences inside the mansion, mainly due to the signing of NDAs with the company. However, with Hefner’s passing in 2017, more women spoke out against the questionable lifestyle of the mogul.
Playboy Founder Hugh Hefner Had Three Weird Rules For His Girlfriends
Hugh Hefner with the Playboy girls in The Girls Next Door
By the time Hugh Hefner split from his second wife Kimberley Conrad...
Hugh Hefner with Holly Madison and other girls in The Girls Next Door
For years, these girls were tight-lipped about the experiences inside the mansion, mainly due to the signing of NDAs with the company. However, with Hefner’s passing in 2017, more women spoke out against the questionable lifestyle of the mogul.
Playboy Founder Hugh Hefner Had Three Weird Rules For His Girlfriends
Hugh Hefner with the Playboy girls in The Girls Next Door
By the time Hugh Hefner split from his second wife Kimberley Conrad...
- 3/14/2024
- by Hashim Asraff
- FandomWire
The Playboy empire is a subject of extreme controversy, especially in recent years, following the release of a scathing documentary titled Secrets of Playboy. Many critics have labeled founder and figurehead Hugh Hefner, who passed away in 2017, as an alleged perpetrator of sexual abuse and exploitation. Additionally, several of Hefner’s girlfriends have spoken out against the late mogul, with former The Girls Next Door star Holly Madison slamming her late boyfriend for putting a series of strict rules in place that his girlfriends had to follow.
Hugh Hefner founded ‘Playboy’ magazine Hugh Hefner | Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Playboy
Hefner was born in 1926 and raised in a middle-class family. However, Hefner had big ambitions, leaving his job as a copywriter to found Playboy magazine. The magazine originally featured short stories, essays, and photo spreads, but it quickly became known as a publication for men to salivate over pictures of nude and nearly-nude women.
Hugh Hefner founded ‘Playboy’ magazine Hugh Hefner | Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Playboy
Hefner was born in 1926 and raised in a middle-class family. However, Hefner had big ambitions, leaving his job as a copywriter to found Playboy magazine. The magazine originally featured short stories, essays, and photo spreads, but it quickly became known as a publication for men to salivate over pictures of nude and nearly-nude women.
- 8/18/2023
- by Suse Forrest
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Izabella St. James, who dated Hugh Hefner from 2002 to 2004, says the Playboy Mansion‘s grotto had long passed the height of its debauchery by the time she lived at the estate.
“It’s not all it’s cracked up to be,” she tells People. “They heydey of the grotto’s glory days was the ’70s. That’s when I think all the swinging or activities took place in the grotto.”
“When I was there, I think we got Hef to go into the grotto one time in two years. We were all drunk after a party and we were like,...
“It’s not all it’s cracked up to be,” she tells People. “They heydey of the grotto’s glory days was the ’70s. That’s when I think all the swinging or activities took place in the grotto.”
“When I was there, I think we got Hef to go into the grotto one time in two years. We were all drunk after a party and we were like,...
- 10/2/2017
- by Aili Nahas
- PEOPLE.com
We have added a new set of pictures from the event "Hooray for HollyWOOF Gala Benefit".Ashley Hobbs attending the "Hooray for HollyWOOF!" 35th Anniversary Gala Benefiting Dogs for the Deaf and Generation Rescue.Photo copyright by Travis Jourdain / PR Photos. Constance Marie attending the "Hooray for HollyWOOF!" 35th Anniversary Gala Benefiting Dogs for the Deaf and Generation Rescue.Photo copyright by Travis Jourdain / PR Photos. Lauren Volker attending the "Hooray for HollyWOOF!" 35th Anniversary Gala Benefiting Dogs for the Deaf and Generation Rescue.Photo copyright by Travis Jourdain / PR Photos. Izabella St. James attending the "Hooray for HollyWOOF!" 35th Anniversary Gala Benefiting Dogs for the Deaf and Generation Rescue.Photo copyright by Travis Jourdain / PR Photos. Caitlin O'Connor attending the...
- 8/9/2012
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Izabella St. James attends Mark Lash Fine Jewelry Showcase at the Gold Nightclub in Las Vegas.Photo copyright Prn / PR Photos. Izabella St. James attends Mark Lash Fine Jewelry Showcase at the Gold Nightclub in Las Vegas.Photo copyright Prn / PR Photos. Izabella St. James attends Mark Lash Fine Jewelry Showcase at the Gold Nightclub in Las Vegas.Photo copyright Prn / PR Photos. Izabella St. James attends Mark Lash Fine Jewelry Showcase at the Gold Nightclub in Las Vegas.Photo copyright Prn / PR Photos. Izabella St. James attends Mark Lash Fine Jewelry Showcase at the Gold Nightclub in Las Vegas.Photo copyright Prn / PR Photos. 11/05/2011 - Jayde Nicole - Mark Lash Fine Jewelry Showcase at the Gold Nightclub in...
- 11/8/2011
- by M&C
- Monsters and Critics
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, covering the story of an outbreak of legionnaire's disease at the Playboy Mansion, brought on an expert, former playmate Izabella St. James, to explore the question of safety--and sex--for guests at the mansion. St. James told Smith she's not sure the water gets changed in the mansion's infamous grotto, where St. James suggests "a lot of scandalous things have gone on."...
- 2/14/2011
- by Mark Joyella
- Mediaite - TV
Cooties are real, and allegedly Hugh Hefner's Holmby Hills estate is full of them. The La Times reported that the scene of many a grimy reality TV show and Grotto orgy, the infamous Playboy Mansion, has delivered a "mystery illness" to some visitors. From the Times: "L.A. County health officials are investigating a possible respiratory infection outbreak after dozens of illnesses are reported by people who attended a recent fundraiser." The Playboy Manse has come under fire from a memoir penned by Izabella St. James, who recounts the Playboy Mansion was far from the glamorous pleasure palace she had imagined. .Each bedroom had mismatched, random pieces of furniture,. she recalls in her autobiography Bunny Tales. .It was as...
- 2/13/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Hugh Hefner is calling an ex-girlfriend's book about her time in the Playboy mansion a "self-serving semi-fiction!" The newly engaged octogenarian has spoken up about Izabella St. James' 2006 memoir "Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion."
Izabella was 26 when she became one of Hef's girlfriends from 2002 until 2004. Upon leaving the infamous mansion, she began writing a memoir of her time as one of the girlfriends of the Playboy honcho.
"Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion" was published in 2006 but regained attention when U.K.'s Daily Mail published snippets of the book during the time Hef announced his engagement to girlfriend number one Crystal Harris.
As written by the law school graduate, the Playboy mansion isn't close to how people see it. According to the book, it is an old and stale building that houses girls who are treated no better than prostitutes.
Izabella was 26 when she became one of Hef's girlfriends from 2002 until 2004. Upon leaving the infamous mansion, she began writing a memoir of her time as one of the girlfriends of the Playboy honcho.
"Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion" was published in 2006 but regained attention when U.K.'s Daily Mail published snippets of the book during the time Hef announced his engagement to girlfriend number one Crystal Harris.
As written by the law school graduate, the Playboy mansion isn't close to how people see it. According to the book, it is an old and stale building that houses girls who are treated no better than prostitutes.
- 1/5/2011
- icelebz.com
Engaged to be married again, Hugh Hefner faced complaints from an ex-girlfriend. He talks to Lloyd Grove about his Viagra habits, his aversion to condoms-and his love for his bride-to-be.
"Self-serving semi-fiction!" Hugh Hefner tells me.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Vargas' Classic Pin-Up Girls
He's talking about a former girlfriend's tawdry memoir of life in the Playboy Mansion, splashed this past weekend in London's Daily Mail just as Hef, 84, was happily announcing plans to marry his current flame, a nubile 24-year-old named Crystal Harris.
Izabella St. James' Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion portrays the founder of Playboy, the once-dominant men's magazine in which naked ladies were strange bedfellows with serious journalism, as a jealous cheapskate who kept his blond harem on a tight leash even as he permitted his dogs to soil the carpets and drapes; who wolfed down Viagra and waited impatiently...
"Self-serving semi-fiction!" Hugh Hefner tells me.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Vargas' Classic Pin-Up Girls
He's talking about a former girlfriend's tawdry memoir of life in the Playboy Mansion, splashed this past weekend in London's Daily Mail just as Hef, 84, was happily announcing plans to marry his current flame, a nubile 24-year-old named Crystal Harris.
Izabella St. James' Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion portrays the founder of Playboy, the once-dominant men's magazine in which naked ladies were strange bedfellows with serious journalism, as a jealous cheapskate who kept his blond harem on a tight leash even as he permitted his dogs to soil the carpets and drapes; who wolfed down Viagra and waited impatiently...
- 1/4/2011
- by Lloyd Grove
- The Daily Beast
Izabella St. James has described former boss Hugh Hefner as a "dead fish" during sex. In an excerpt from her new memoir Bunny Tales published by the Daily Mail, the former Playboy Playmate recalled the numerous occasions during which she was intimate with the 84-year-old. "I wanted to see if this experienced king of sexdom knew anything the rest of us did not. But he just lay there like a dead fish," she revealed. "We often wondered why he did it at all. He must know deep down that it is just a show. But he is trying to live out this fantasy he has been selling to people since 1954." St. James went on to (more)...
- 12/30/2010
- by By Jennifer Still
- Digital Spy
Earlier this week, the doddering 84 year-old Viagra addict and certified creep Hugh Hefner got engaged to Crystal Harris, one of his employees who is some 60 years his junior. While many gold diggers wept openly in the streets after realizing that one of the world’s most eligible octogenerian bachelors is no longer on the market, we felt particularly sympathetic for one Holly Madison, Hef’s former #1 girlfriend. After all, not only was she the star of the Girls Next Door — easily his company’s most successful project of the last twenty years — but she also had to frequently let Hef invade her in the holiest of holies. For more gross details, read on. According to an excerpt of former Playmate Izabella St. James’s new book, Bunny Tales, that was published by the popular ladyblog Jezebel, Hef frequently engaged in orgies with young blondes, but would only stick his crinkly...
- 12/30/2010
- by Mark Graham
- VH1.com
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Plans to drop Snooki "like a friggin' hamster" in a glass ball at Times Square on New Year's Eve have been scuttled, but the Jersey Shore star will still be getting her rodent on as the stunt has been moved to ... wait for it ... the Jersey shore.
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In the latest round of celebrity death hoaxes, faux news organization Global Associated News reported that Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy died, both from snowboarding accidents. Fellas, where's the celebrity fake death creativity?
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In the wake of Hugh Hefner's engagement to 24-year-old Crystal Harris, life at the Playboy mansion is coming under renewed scrutiny, with former Playmate and Bunny Tales author Izabella St. James describing it as a squalid prison.
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Kelsey Grammer's soon to be ex-wife, Camille Donatacci, got $20M more in their divorce settlement — pushing the total take to $50M — simply by asking for it.
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Another "Real...
Plans to drop Snooki "like a friggin' hamster" in a glass ball at Times Square on New Year's Eve have been scuttled, but the Jersey Shore star will still be getting her rodent on as the stunt has been moved to ... wait for it ... the Jersey shore.
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In the latest round of celebrity death hoaxes, faux news organization Global Associated News reported that Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy died, both from snowboarding accidents. Fellas, where's the celebrity fake death creativity?
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In the wake of Hugh Hefner's engagement to 24-year-old Crystal Harris, life at the Playboy mansion is coming under renewed scrutiny, with former Playmate and Bunny Tales author Izabella St. James describing it as a squalid prison.
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Kelsey Grammer's soon to be ex-wife, Camille Donatacci, got $20M more in their divorce settlement — pushing the total take to $50M — simply by asking for it.
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Another "Real...
- 12/30/2010
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
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