Dark side of Playboy Mansion's 'shadow properties' where models were 'lured with drugs'
dailystar.co.ukPlayboy founder Hugh Hefner created “shadow mansions” to lure in new playmates, a former resident has claimed.At the height of Playboy’s success, women fortunate enough to find favour with the brand’s creator would be invited to reside with Hef in the luxurious Playboy mansion in LA.Since Hefner’s death in 2017, a number of former playmates have spoken out about the dark side of life in the Mansion, with one ex-girlfriend suggesting that it was like “living in a cult”.Now, former resident Jennifer Saginor has claimed that alongside the Mansion, Hefner and his employees would bring girls to smaller mansions where they would be scouted for the possibility of featuring in Playboy.“By shadow mansion, I mean that these men in Hef’s inner circle would try to emulate what he created in his own empire at the Playboy Mansion,” she told A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy.“And they would have smaller versions of the Playboy mansions… They would house these young girls who would come to Los Angeles looking for opportunities to become actresses or models.“My father and the inner circle from Playboy created clones of the Playboy mansion on a smaller scale to sort of lure these young girls in.
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