A former ‘Bunny’ has revealed the horrifying reality of living in the Playboy mansion.

While celebrities from the likes of Mike Tyson and Jack Nicholson to Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio would head over to Hugh Hefner’s house for the infamous parties, the bloke of course had a set of women living there.

The Girls Next Door reality series gave fans an insight into life there, with the Bunnies shacked up under one roof alongside the millionaire’s wife and girlfriends.

Let’s be honest, when most of us think of what it must be like to live in the Playboy mansion, there’s a few key things that come to mind: glamour, money and well, sex. But as many of the old Bunnies open up about their time there, it turns out it was pretty ‘grubby’.

Izabella St. James said the house wasn’t so clean – by any meaning of the word. (Rich Polk/WireImage)

Izabella St. James previously wrote a tell-all memoir about her time at the Los Angeles mansion, called Bunny Tales, as she revealed: “We all did our best to decorate our rooms and make them homely, but the mattresses on our beds were ­disgusting – old, worn and stained.”

She explained that Hef ‘eventually’ gave them permission to have their rooms painted and re-carpeted.

“He liked the girlfriends’ rooms to look very girly, all white carpet and pink walls,” the magazine publisher’s former girlfriend added.

“Hef was used to dirty carpets. The one in his bedroom had not been changed for years, and things became significantly worse when Holly Madison moved into his room with him as Girlfriend No. 1 soon after I moved in, bringing her two dogs.”

St. James claimed the dogs weren’t house trained and would just ‘do their business’ on the carpet.

Hefner, Madison and St. James. (Denise Truscello/WireImage)

“Late at night, if any of us visited Hef’s bedroom, we’d almost always end up standing in dog mess,” she said.

Yeah, not quite the Playboy glamour you’d probably imagine.

And she really went in as the former model continued: “Everything in the Mansion felt old and stale, and Archie the house dog would regularly relieve himself on the hallway curtains, adding a powerful whiff of urine to the general scent of decay.”

Former model Jenna Bentley, who lived there for a year, previously revealed some of the strict rules for the Playboy Mansion (seems the dogs had it a little more relaxed).

She explained that the women had a 9pm curfew and if you missed it, you were apparently sleeping in the garden.

Well, maybe that was cleaner than the carpets.

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Living in the Playboy mansion was like being in a ‘cult’, Hugh Hefner‘s ex-girlfriend Holly Madison has claimed.

Hefner was known for leading a life of excess, hosting countless celebrity parties and wild orgies every chance he could get.

But while many simply took the porn magnate as a bit of a character – an eccentric millionaire who was often seen wearing a red robe and smoking a pipe – the truth was reportedly far darker.

Holly Madison lived in the mansion between 2001 and 2008, before she ended her relationship with Hef.

Speaking in a new documentary about the sinister side of the Playboy mansion, the 42-year-old opened up about her ‘isolating’ experience.

She said: “The reason I think the mansion was very cult-like, looking back on it, is because we were all kind of gaslit and expected to think of Hef as, like, this really good guy.

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“You started to feel like, ‘Oh, he’s not what they say in the media — he’s just a nice man’.”

She added: “Another thing that reminds me of a cult is how it was so easy to get isolated from the outside world there.

“You had a 9.00pm curfew, you were encouraged to not have friends over. You weren’t really allowed to leave unless it was, like, a family holiday.”

Madison also said that Hefner forced her to quit her job as a waitress.

“He said it made him jealous, and he would appreciate it if I quit my job,” she explained. “So, instead, we were given $1,000 a week as an allowance.”

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The revelations are made in upcoming documentary series Secrets of Playboy, which promises to lift the lid on Hefner and the Playboy mansion.

The series investigates reports of drug use, sexual abuse and even bestiality that allegedly took place at the world-famous property and other Playboy venues.

It will also contain exclusive interviews from key insiders, including Hefner’s ex-girlfriends Madison and Sondra Theodore.

Theodore, now 65, recalled orgies at the mansion five nights a week, which became ‘protocol’.

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She also witnessed first-hand how his sexual demands would turn nasty, and admitted he ‘scared me at the end… you couldn’t satisfy him. He wanted more and more and more’.

“The group sex was at least five nights a week,” she added.

“They had a protocol. He liked to direct and you didn’t segue away from it because you could tell it irritated him.”

Theodore also said Hefner was a prolific drug user who would ‘send her out to buy cocaine numerous times’, and the sex ‘broke me like you’d break a horse’.

Secrets of Playboy will premiere on A&E on 24 January

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Topics: Hugh Hefner, Playboy, US News

Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt have revealed the disturbing details of their sexual encounters with the late mogul Hugh Hefner.

While appearing on the​​ Juicy Scoop With Heather McDonald podcast, the former Playboy bunnies opened up about some of the unprotected orgies that would go on at the infamous Playboy mansion.

Bridget recalled on her first night, she only wanted to watch Hef and other Playmates have sex, but eventually was pressured into it.

She said: “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’.”

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She continued: “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.”

While Hugh’s former girlfriend Holly admitted that she had ‘blocked’ out many experiences as she was routinely forced into having sex with the Playboy editor-in-chief.

She said she would try to ‘get it done as quick as possible’.

These encounters were often done without condoms and Bridget said she would try and get in first because of the risk of sexually transmitted infections.

“You were hoping everyone’s in the same situation, and there is a doctor on staff,” she said.

“You’re hoping everybody is being checked out, and everybody is being…I say this in quotes…‘monogamous’ to that relationship, but you don’t know.

“If there’s new girls coming up, which there often were, like, I just wanted to be first and be done. And I felt like that was the cleanest way.”

Holly even said that Hugh would often take nude photos of the girls while intoxicated and became fearful of the ‘mountain of revenge porn’ he possessed.

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In 2001, Holly moved into the mansion at 21 and began dating Hugh shortly after. A year later, Bridget moved in at 28, becoming one of the ‘main’ girlfriends as well.

Holly also has openly discussed the gruesome details of her time at the mansion in her 2015 memoir Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny.

In the book, she discloses that sex was a requirement when living with Hef, and he often pressured women into taking drugs.

Holly recalled her first time going out with Hefner; he presented her with a Quaalude and called them ‘thigh openers’.

And while Holly turned down the illegal substance, many Playmate hopefuls accepted.

In A&E’s documentary Secrets of Playboy, she said: “They weren’t commonly available then — I don’t even know exactly how he was getting them.

“I know most girls my age were not doing them, and didn’t know what they made you feel like. And I’m sure a lot of those girls didn’t know what they were at all.”

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Far from its reputation as a place of freedom, fun and endless parties, one woman who lived in the Playboy mansion from the age of 11 described it as a ‘weird, f*cked up place’.

More than two years after the final print edition of Playboy was released, stories about what life was like living with Hugh Hefner in the infamous mansion continue to emerge, with the latest coming from the Channel 4 documentary, Secrets of Playboy.

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The doc features comments from 51-year-old Jennifer Saginor, who was just 11 years old when she moved into the mansion where her dad, Mark Saginor, aka ‘Dr Feelgood’, worked as Hefner’s former doctor.

Saginor first saw the mansion when she was just six years old, and remembers at the time thinking it was a ‘magical kingdom’.

Looking back, though, Saginor admitted: “It’s taken me a long time to unravel what I experienced growing up and how I feel.”

The 51-year-old recalled having a ‘sense of loyalty to this inner circle’ after being ‘initiated’ at a young age, saying: “I didn’t want to break that loyalty because I knew there would be serious consequences.”

However, she noted: “It was such a weird f*cked up place. “

Saginor said she viewed Hef as a father figure and said she had ‘so many happy memories’ with him, though claims things took a turn when she moved into her teenager years.

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She recalled: “Hef would kiss with his mouth open in sort of a French kiss sort of way. I always thought it was strange that someone who was like my uncle would kiss like that – but my father told me that’s what people do when they love each other.”

During her time in the mansion, Saginor realised the women were seen ‘as commodities’ and recalled being told by her father that she might ‘gain weight in [her] hips’.

“At a young age he’d go over our bodies with us – my sister and I,” she said. “That was nerve-wracking because I don’t think either of us thought we measured up to what we thought was acceptable. I got my own surgery at 15. It’s just awful.”

Saginor remembered seeing women with ‘naked with men all around them’ and remembered thinking she ‘never’ wanted to be like them.

As she grew up, she found herself falling in love with one of Hefner’s girlfriends and says she slept with her while underage. She claimed ‘cameras everywhere’ made clear that Hef knew what she had done, but that he ‘didn’t care’.

When she turned 17, she claims to have been called to Hefner’s room where she found him and the girlfriend in bed.

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“I feel like in that moment, Hefner crossed a boundary because he had always treated me like a daughter,” she said.

Saginor has opened up further about her experiences in a book titled Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion.

In response to the Channel 4 documentary, a Playboy spokesperson said: “We trust and validate women and their stories and strongly support the individuals who have come forward to share their experiences in this documentary.

“After almost 70 years in business, there are many elements of Playboy’s long history which we are immensely proud and there are elements we find unworthy of our principles…

“We are proud of the work we have done in recent years to stand for freedom and equality while advancing our mission of pleasure for all.”

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Topics: Playboy, Hugh Hefner, TV and Film

The Playboy Mansion was home to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner for more than four decades, right up until his death in 2017.

In the years since, there have been scores of revelations about the hedonistic parties that took place on a regular basis in the infamous abode.

As you might expect, sex and drugs were rife – but it wasn’t just Playboy bunnies partaking in narcotics, dogs were too.

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Sondra Theodore, one of Hefner’s ex-girlfriends, said drugs were so widespread that a pet poodle ended up becoming a coke addict in the mansion.

Speaking on new docuseries Secrets of Playboy, she said: “There was drugs everywhere.

“John Dante was Hef’s best friend and Dante had a dog, Louis, who was a tiny poodle [who] got hooked on cocaine.

“The dog could smell it from across the room.”

She continued: “A very famous person walked into the house one night and that little dog jumped off the couch like super dog, flew to that person and was licking her up the nose.

“And she goes ‘[This dog] just loves me’… and we are all going ‘yeah sure’.

“[We] knew why that dog was on her. He had to lock that dog up when people were around because he was addicted to cocaine.”

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Sondra – who was Hefner’s girlfriend from 1976 to 1981 – also said she was made to pick up drugs for him ‘countless times’.

She said: “It made me feel like I was important to him. I was told it was in the name of love.

“I was afraid to speak up… Hef used cocaine. He used more than that – he had a drawer full of drugs.”

Among these other drugs reportedly were Quaaludes, a prescription drug that acts as a sedative and is used to treat insomnia and anxiety.

Speaking about the experience of taking them, Sondra recalled: “Everything felt good to touch and soft focus and it was lovely.

“Usually you just took a half. If you took two you passed out.

“The men knew that they could get girls to do just about anything they wanted if they gave them a Quaalude.”

For this reason, Hef’s former secretary Lisa Loving Barrett said the drugs were referred to as ‘leg-spreaders’.

She said: “Quaaludes were what we called leg-spreaders. That was the whole point of them.

“They were a necessary evil, if you will, to the partying.”

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