14 DAY TRIAL // Holly Madison, one of Hugh Hefner’s most famous exes, is spilling the beans on her life at the Playboy Mansion, her relationship with the media mogul and his other girlfriends / Bunnies, and her decision to leave it all behind, in a new book coming out this month.
Called “Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny,” it promises to be an enlightening read, based on excerpts released to the media in the past couple of days. According to the latest fragments, Holly will also be talking about her “love life” with The Hef.
It wasn’t anything to boast to your girlfriends about over cocktails, a la Carrie Bradshaw & Co.
The “bedroom routine” and lovemaking that lasted under 1 minute
The Playboy Mansion, with its bevy of buxom blondes and the never-ending, star-studded parties where inhibitions just melted away, was always the place men and women alike fantasized about. To the outside world, the Mansion was the upscale version of a hippie love-fest, a world regular mortals could only dream of ever getting access to.
To someone living at the Mansion and sharing as much of Hefner’s life as he allowed her to, it wasn’t even half as glamorous. Holly Madison says Hef was never the kind of man he wanted the world to perceive him as, just like the Mansion wasn’t. The place was nothing short of a gilded cage he kept his generic blondes in.
Each night, the girls, led by Hefner’s Number 1 girlfriend at the time, Tina Jordan, submitted themselves to the “bedroom routine,” which consisted of getting dressed in pink flannel pajamas and waiting for Hefner with their feet in the water of a black marble tub, TooFab reports.
He would pick out a few to “make love to,” Holly writes, making clear that the phrase is an overstatement: the girls faked everything, in the hope of getting it over as soon as possible. That last part wasn’t a problem for Hefner, apparently.
“When I think about it now, it’s almost comical,” she writes. “Every red-blooded American male has no doubt fantasized about what went on in Hefner's bedroom with his harem of blond bombshells. The answer? Not a whole lot. My turn was over just as quickly as it had started.”
There was no kissing and no sense of intimacy, with Hefner just about as determined as the girls to go through the “routine” quickly.
No loyalty to Hefner
Holly’s account of these lovemaking sessions at the Mansion is very similar to Kendra Wilkinson’s. The latter even admitted to getting drunk or high to tolerate Hefner’s touch, on those nights when he did choose her for a partner.
In other words, even if there’s some degree of exaggeration, which is common to most tell-alls, there is also a lot of truth in the story.
Holly doesn’t care if Hefner takes issue with her book, which arrives in stores on June 23. She writes that she no longer feels any loyalty to him and that she wants to have her story out. She also claims she was emotionally and even verbally abused / mistreated during her years at the Mansion, and that Hefner is a manipulative monster who needs to be exposed to the public.
She’s clearly tasking herself with that.