HUGH Hefner's ex Holly Madison opened up about her experience living in the Playboy mansion claiming it was like a "cult" because the women were "isolated from the outside world." The model dated the Playboy founder from between 2001 and 2008 while residing in the famed LA mansion.
Holly revealed what it was really like behind closed doors in the upcoming A&E docuseries Secrets of a Playboy, describing the living situation as "cult-like." The former Playboy Playmate explained her take on the atmosphere in a clip saying: “The reason I think the Mansion was very cult-like, looking back on it, is because we were all kind of gaslit and expected to think of Hef as, like, this really good guy. “You started to feel like, ‘Oh, he’s not what they say in the media — he’s just a nice man,'" she added.
The Girls Next Door star also claimed that Hugh would often keep the women holed up in the home away from other people. “Another thing that reminds me of a cult is how it was so easy to get isolated from the outside world there,” she said. “You had a 9 o’clock curfew, you were encouraged to not have friends over.
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