As Hugh Hefner dies aged 91, we take a look back at a book by former playmate Holly Madison which dished the dirt on the catfights, the orgies, the Playmates and Hugh Hefner himself. Holly describes Hefner's bedroom: "Two huge television screens projecting graphic porn lit up the otherwise dark bedroom. In the middle, a very pale man was tending to his own business The girlfriends, in various stages of undress, were sitting in a semi-circle at the edge of the bed. The girls pretended to get frisky with each other but, concealed in the darkness, they were actually gossiping discreetly.
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By Maureen Callahan. June 21, am Updated September 28, pm. This, she thought, was clearly the way out. In , Hugh Hefner and the Playboy empire already seemed like a toothless relic. She asked Hef if she could tag along the next time he took his Playmates clubbing in LA — something he did twice a week.
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Doing a bit of research I found Izabella St. It was dark and fascinating. I ended up reading the entire book in one sitting.
You might have thought the Playboy Mansion revelations were over. James has just made some of the most shocking claims yet, about Holly's "obsession" with Hugh and Hef's love of, er, dildos. Despite claims by Holly that the girls particularly Kendra Wilkinson isolated her, Izabella insists that it was Holly who was "absolutely, completely obsessed with Hugh" and who turned all the other playmates against her, spreading rumours about them and trying to get them thrown out. If it was the house of horrors, she was the most willing and happy participant of it all. It all comes down to Holly having "a dark" fixation with Hef, Izabella claims, calling her behaviour "Single White Female". She would go through his stuff. She tried to look like the ex-girlfriends he liked the most. She kept emulating their looks, his favourite girlfriends from the past. One of the most shocking claims in Holly's book, were the strange sexual routines that took place at the Playboy Mansion.
