Playboy bunny Holly Madison spills ‘gross’ sex secrets of Playboy Mansion

An ex-Playmate has detailed the “cycle of gross things” she and others were made to do in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion.

An ex-Playmate has talked about the mental anguish she experienced while in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion.

“I felt like I was in the cycle of gross things and I didn’t know what to do,” Holly Madison, former Playboy pin-up and ex-girlfriend of the late Hefner, says in an explosive new clip for the forthcoming docuseries Secrets of Playboy.

Hefner died of sepsis in 2017, aged 91.

In a preview for the 10-hour documentary into the once-heralded Playboy empire – set to air on January 24 – Madison, 41, discusses the mental and emotional anguish she endured as a Playmate from 2001 to 2008, Page Six reports.

“I got to a point where I kind of broke under that pressure and being made to feel like I needed to look exactly like everybody else,” says Madison, who starred as one of Hef’s three voluptuous lover girls on E!’s reality series The Girls Next Door.

Hugh Hefner in 2007 with playmates Holly Madison (L) and Bridget Marquardt (R). Picture: AFP

Madison says that after six months of living alongside the other women in the mansion, she chopped off her long blonde hair as a confidence boost.

But she claims Hef’s reaction was severe.

“I came back with short hair and he flipped out on me,” Madison says. “He was screaming at me and said it made me look old, hard and cheap.”

Madison’s claims are confirmed on the show by his friend Jonathan Baker.

“I remember when she cut her hair,” Baker says. “He was very unhappy about it. Yup, his world.”

Former Playmate and Madison’s Girls Next Door co-star Bridget Marquardt, 48, says: “Hef would be pretty abrasive in the way he said things to Holly.

“She came down with red lipstick one time and he flipped out, said he hated red lipstick on girls and [told her] that she needed to take it off right away.”

Marquardt says Hefner never erupted when other Playmates wore red lipstick.

“It was very frustrating to live with every day,” she says. “All of the drama that was going on and the tension. I could definitely see that [Madison] was getting depressed and sad and her demeanour was starting to change.”

Kendra Wilkinson, Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt on the cover of Playboy.

Former Playboy bunny Holly Madison has spoken of the ‘gross’ sex secrets at the Playboy Mansion

Madison – who later said her affiliation with Playboy was a “dangerous choice” – wasn’t the only Playmate to have a bad time in the mansion.

“Hef pretended that he wasn’t involved in any hard drug use at the mansion, but that was just a lie,” says Hefner’s ex Sondra Theodore, a Playmate from 1976 to 1981. “Quaaludes down the line were used for sex,” she says, noting the “lovely” sensation the hypnotic sedative induces.

“Usually you just took a half [of a Quaalude]. But if you took two, you’d pass out,” Theodore, 64, reveals. “There was such a seduction, and men knew that they could get girls to do just about anything they wanted if they gave them a Quaalude.”

Hefner’s former secretary and executive assistant corroborated Theodore’s claims of the tycoon’s penchant for using drugs with women.

Madison claims drugs were traded for sex in the mansion.

“Quaaludes were what we called leg-spreaders. That was the whole point of them,” Lisa Loving Barrett says in the show. “They were a necessary evil, if you will, to the partying.”

Barrett, who worked at the Playboy Mansion from 1977 until 1989, admits to joining Hefner and his executive staffers in securing prescriptions for medications in order to maintain a steady flow of drugs.

“We would have prescriptions in some of our names,” says Barrett. “There were prescriptions in Sondra’s name, in Hef’s name and in my name and Mary’s name … We kept a desk calendar that would say ‘Lisa’s Q’ or ‘Hef’s Q’ or ‘Sandra’s Q.’”

Barrett said the mansion’s wealth of illicit substances “enabled four or sometimes five prescriptions for the same medication to feed the machine”.

Secrets of Playboy will also strip the glossy facade off Hefner’s empire and reveal the secrets beneath.

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission

Originally published as Playboy bunny Holly Madison spills ‘gross’ sex secrets of Playboy Mansion