Ex-Playboy Bunny Karissa Shannon claims she aborted Hugh Hefner’s ‘devil baby’ at 19

A former Playboy bunny has claimed she fell pregnant with then 83-year-old Hugh Hefner’s child when she was just 19.

A 2009 Playboy Playmate has claimed she had an abortion after falling pregnant with Hugh Hefner’s “devil child” when she was 19.

She also claimed she became pregnant after the late Playboy baron reportedly plied her with alcohol and forced her into unprotected group sex when he was in his 80s.

Karissa Shannon made the claims, telling the New York Post that she “pities” the fact that Hef is now dead because he “got away” with up-ending the lives of so many vulnerable women – including her own.

“It was like the devil was inside of me,” Shannon, 32, told the Mirror. “I didn’t want anyone to know I was carrying an 83-year-old man’s child.”

The model, who regularly appeared on Hefner’s E! reality series The Girls Next Door alongside her twin sister, Kristina, alleged that she discovered she was pregnant when she had a blood test before undergoing breast augmentation surgery in 2009.

“I was disgusted with my body and felt like there was an alien inside my stomach,” she said.

“I wasn’t having sex with anyone else, so it only could have been his baby,” Shannon said. “I just wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible. I didn’t want Hef to find out, and he never did.”

Hugh Hefner with twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon and Crystal Harris.

Her claims come amid a host of other abuse and sexual misconduct allegations made in the A&E documentary Secrets Of Playboy, which will air locally on Foxtel in April.

Throughout the series, former Playmates and employees have accused Hefner of allegedly exploiting unsuspecting women behind the walls of his Playboy Mansion.

Karissa claimed she terminated the pregnancy with the help of her sister Kristina, who reportedly orchestrated a scheme that allowed them to briefly escape Hefner’s watchful eye.

“I found a clinic in LA. I got Hef’s security to drop us at the mall, pretending we were going shopping, then called my friend to pick us up,” Kristina said. “We were able to keep it secret.”

The identical twins moved from a trailer park in Florida into the Los Angeles Mansion at the age of 18 after they were “discovered” by Playboy scouts.

They claimed Hefner, with the help of fellow Girl Next Door Kendra Wilkinson, now 36, coerced them into an unprotected, drug and alcohol-fuelled ménage à trois.

“On our 19th birthday, he took us to a club. He bought us alcohol even though the US [legal drinking] age is 21,” Kristina alleged to the Mirror. “When we got back [to the Playboy Mansion], Kendra was like, ‘Do you girls want to smoke some weed in Hef’s room?’ But when we got into his room, Kendra left. We got really nervous.”

Twin sisters Karissa and Kristina Shannon were Playmates.

The sisters claimed Hefner then offered them a “big pill” which they likened to medicine “a horse would take”.

Karissa and Kristina said the tablet was a Quaalude, which is a sedative and hypnotic drug and was known in Hefner’s circle as a “leg spreader”. He has been accused of using the drug in order to manipulate women into having sex.

“He told us the drugs would help with our anxiety,” Karissa said. “We smoked some pot. We felt frozen at first but after a while the pill made us loose and fuzzy.”

She said the then-octogenarian forced her and Kristina to call him “Papa” and cradled them as the drugs took effect. She also said Hefner called them “my babies” repeatedly while they lay on either side of him.

“It was almost 5am when we got back to our room that first night,” Karissa said. “We agreed, ‘He is the devil. He has a black soul. He is going to hell.’”

Hefner died of sepsis at age 91 in 2017.

Identical twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon with Hugh Hefner in 2009. Picture: AP Photo/Matt Sayles

“When Hef died, part of us did feel sad, but another part was like, ‘OK, good, no more girls are going to be groomed and ruined like we were,’” Kristina said. She and Karissa have claimed Hefner would force “six to seven” women into his bed each night.

“I thought Playboy was one big family,” Kristina said. “Now I can see it was a cult.”

However, Karissa and Kristina told The Post that they are not “glad” Hefner is dead.

Instead, they’re comforted in the knowledge that the world is finally learning that the Playboy emperor was “not the man everybody thought he was,” and that his once-celebrated corporation was truly a “dangerous cult”.

The sisters claimed they’ve suffered PTSD and depression as a result of the two years they lived with Hefner in his mansion. And they’re allegedly planning to sue Playboy for emotional distress and trauma.

“We were Playmates, employed, and everything happened at the mansion, so we want to go after them,” Kristina explained to the Mirror of a potential lawsuit. “We are speaking out because we want people to know who he truly was and what was going on behind closed doors.”

This story originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission