Monday’s episode of Secrets and techniques of Playboy featured many disturbing claims about Hugh Hefner and the depravity that went on on the Playboy Mansion. Hefner’s ex-girlfriend, Sondra Theodore, emotionally opened up about her five-year relationship with the Playboy founder, declaring him “a monster.”
“The issues he received turned on by — nothing was sufficient. Nothing,” the previous Playmate revealed.
Theodore, who dated Hefner from 1976 to 1981, stated their relationship was “like a fairytale” at first. “We had been so in love,” she admitted. However her story is much like these of Hefner’s different girlfriends who declare they had been groomed and remoted.
“He minimize me off from the world,” Theodore recalled.
The mannequin’s relationship with Hefner coincided with when he determined thus far a number of girls on the similar time and dwell the life that Playboy journal represented. Theodore needed to recruit younger girls for group intercourse with Hefner.
“I used to be instructed it was a celebration, it was getting collectively to have some enjoyable,” she tearfully stated. “That was my method of pretending I actually wasn’t doing it.”
Theodore, who beforehand claimed she was Hefner’s “drug mule,” admitted to doing cocaine so as to go together with what her boyfriend needed her to do.
Maybe one of the startling moments of the night time got here when Theodore alleged she walked right into a room solely to seek out Hefner fondling their canine.
“He stated, ‘Canine have wants,'” she recalled. “I by no means left him alone with a canine once more… I couldn’t consider what I used to be seeing.”
Former “bunny mom” P.J. Masten shared a horrific story allegedly involving porn star Linda Lovelace. Masten stated the Deep Throat star “was drunk and drugged” one night time on the Playboy Mansion and carried out a sexual act with a German Shepard canine. Theodore corroborated the disturbing story claiming Hefner admitted it occurred, telling her, “All of us watched.”
Theodore alleged that later of their relationship, Hefner introduced males into the bed room and directed her to have intercourse with them in opposition to her will.
“I felt so violated having a person that I didn’t wish to be with compelled up on me,” she recalled. Her breaking level finally got here when Hefner allegedly introduced up snuff movies, which is a video that purportedly exhibits precise murder.
“What sort of thoughts is to this point gone that it takes killing any individual to get them excited for that large launch? He was opening my eyes to this monster. Actually, he was a monster,” Theodore declared. Though she received the braveness to depart, she stated she’s affected day by day by what transpired throughout her time on the Playboy Mansion.
“I lived a luxurious life, yeah, however I paid dearly for it,” she acknowledged. “I’ll by no means know learn how to be a traditional individual.”
Secrets and techniques of Playboy director Alexandra Dean instructed Yahoo Leisure that Theodore was the toughest individual to get to take part within the documentary, calling her the “fundamental voice” of the collection.
“The factor that shocked me essentially the most is the depth of her scarring round what occurred to her with Hef,” Dean stated. “It was so profound and that’s what satisfied me greater than the rest that this was a a lot darker story than I had initially began to make. Simply taking a look at Sondra, listening to Sondra, you possibly can hear all these traces of trauma.”
Dean, who spoke to former Playmates, Hefner’s ex-girlfriends and mansion workers members, believes the peak of his darkness was when he dated Theodore.
“I believe it was the peak of his drug use as nicely,” she defined. “I believe it unleashed issues or not less than it eradicated sure boundaries he might need had in any other case. The true Hef got here roaring out… it is darkish.”
Dean added, “After we take into consideration the mansion, it is sort of like Vegas. We expect it is enjoyable and cute, that something that occurs within the mansion stays on the mansion. However if you have a look at what you are actually speaking about, it is this voracious intercourse addict who needed to preserve experimenting and pushing the boundaries of experimentation. There’s nothing enjoyable and cute about that. It is brutal. It is terrifying. And there is greater than a bit of bit misogyny embedded in there.”
Playboy issued a press release forward of the A&E collection premiere final month.
“The Hefner household is not related to Playboy, and at present’s Playboy shouldn’t be Hugh Hefner’s Playboy. We belief and validate these girls and their tales and we strongly assist these people who’ve come ahead to share their experiences,” a spokesperson instructed Yahoo. “As a model with sex-positivity at its core, we consider security, safety and accountability are paramount. An important factor we will do proper now could be actively pay attention and study from their experiences. As a company with a greater than 80 p.c feminine workforce, we’re dedicated to confronting any components of our legacy that don’t mirror our values at present, and persevering with the progress we now have made to evolve as an organization so we will drive optimistic change for our workers and our communities.”
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