14 DAY TRIAL // As promised earlier this year, Holly Madison, former Playboy Bunny and the Number 1 girlfriend who came thisclose to becoming Mrs. Hugh Hefner a decade ago, is dishing all the dirt on her time at the Mansion in a new book.
Said book is called “Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny” and will come out on June 23. Excerpts released in the past few hours talk about the Mansion as a prison, Hugh Hefner as a controlling, abusive monster, and Kendra Wilkinson as a desperate young woman willing to step on dead bodies to make money.
Apparently, life at the Mansion isn’t all about exotic parties, luxury and having a good time surrounded by hotties. Who would have guessed?
Holly never signed an NDA, has no loyalty to Hef
Holly Madison met Hugh Hefner, aka The Hef, in 2001 and moved with him at the Mansion right away. Looking back, she realizes what a stupid move that was, since on their first meeting, Hefner offered her drugs, which he jokingly called “thigh openers.”
In excerpts released to Us Magazine and People Magazine, Holly paints a gruesome picture of life at the Mansion, which came very close to what we understand by the phrase “gilded cage.”
Hef would surround himself by generic young blondes, whom he would set up with accommodation and a life of luxury, compared to what they’d known beforehand, and whom he delighted in playing mind games with.
Holly describes him as “the manipulator” who pulled all the strings on his Bunny puppets, in the sense that he was the reason alliances in the Mansion shifted so much. She was his Number 1 girlfriend for many years, but that didn’t mean she didn’t suffer from emotional abuse at his doing.
He would berate her when she dared to change her looks and would impose his strict house rules on her as he did on the rest of the girls. She even contemplated suicide at one point, she admits.
“I realized I wasn’t treated well,” she writes. “I’m done being afraid of people. I don’t have any loyalty to Hef. I haven’t talked to him in four years, so there’s no reason to reach out now. Besides, it’s the truth.”
Kendra Wilkinson, the young girl with a vicious temper
In 2004, Kendra Wilkinson moved into the Mansion, becoming Hefner’s Number 2 girlfriend, a “position” she occupied with Bridget Marquardt.
At the time she was picked up by Hefner, Kendra worked as an exotic dancer, but knowing how much the media mogul hated “her type,” she’d told him she was a student.
She came in with an out-of-place sense of “entitlement,” Holly recalls, demanding that she get the biggest room and money ASAP to fix her teeth. She had high aspirations and she would later prove she would stop at nothing to get what she wanted.
After all 3 left the house, Kendra would only bring up Holly and Bridget’s names to say they were never friends, which prompted Holly to try and confront her in a text chat. Kendra’s response was so nasty that Holly finally understood that she was “the fakest person ever,” and she never tried to contact her again.
“Down the Rabbit Hole” comes out this month, and if these excerpts are any indication, it’s bound to bring even more explosive revelations. As of the time of writing, neither Hefner nor Kendra had anything to say in response to Holly’s story.