14 DAY TRIAL // Holly Madison, one of Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriends slash former Playboy Bunny, is coming out with an explosive tell-all tomorrow, June 23. Called “Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny,” it pulls the lid on everything from the recruitment process for the girls at the Mansion, to the lovemaking sessions with Hefner and the strict schedule the same girls were not supposed to violate.
It doesn’t paint Hefner in a positive light. On the contrary, it depicts him as a senile man who surrounds himself with plastic lookalike young women, whom he stacks around the house as if he would trophies. It speaks of emotional and verbal abuse, and of living life in a gilded prison, where even psychiatric counsel was denied when it was needed.
It’s all a lie, Hefner says.
Hugh Hefner disowns Holly, says her story is fake
Holly met Hefner in 2001, when her life was already a mess and she thought she had no other way out than by selling herself to this old man who lured her with the promise of great luxury. She moved in the Mansion right away, despite her gut instinct urging her otherwise, and she moved up to become Hefner’s Number 1 girlfriend in a few years’ time.
She never enjoyed this honor or anything that came with it, she makes it clear in the book, as excerpts released to the media confirm. The lovemaking was a horrible experience, she lived the life of a prisoner and was so miserable that she even contemplated suicide.
At her lowest of lows, when she was depressed, Hefner refused to let her see someone who could help because he was afraid that, if she got help, she would no longer be under his control.
In a statement released to Us Weekly, the media mogul says that Molly is just one of the few women who have chosen to rewrite their time at the Mansion in a bid to get a bit more media attention. Since they can’t get it on their own, they continue to ride his coattails and drag his name through the mud.
“Over the course of my life I’ve had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women,” he explains. “Many moved on to live happy, healthy and productive lives, and I’m pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight. I guess, as the old saying goes: You can’t win ‘em all!”
He certainly can’t win this war of words with Holly.
No holds barred
An excerpt published in the New York Post yesterday, Holly writes about what sleeping with Hef was like, and how she’d never had a “more disconnected experience” than that in her life.
It was never pleasant and it never lasted long enough to be even remotely memorable. She always felt icky that Hefner, a mature man, preferred women no older than 28 and as young as legally possible, all looking the same and acting as if they were kids.
It wasn’t until later that she understood he picked them to be young, vulnerable and from broken families, because this would guarantee he had complete control over them. When that failed, he threw money at them to get them to do things his way.