Hugh Hefner: Last News

Mixed reactions. Since the premiere of Secrets of Playboy, Hugh Hefner‘s family and friends have weighed in with their thoughts about the A&E docuseries.

One of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends said she never had casual sex before she met the Playboy founder. The claim was made by Holly Madison in A&E’s docuseries "Secrets of Playboy," which premiered Monday night.The 10-episode show debuted with a two-hour premiere that featured an exclusive new interview with the former Playboy Bunny. The 42-year-old dated the magazine publisher from 2001 to 2008 and was viewed as his No.1 girlfriend at one point.

“When you would go out with [Hugh Hefner],” Holly Madison said of her late boyfriend during the second episode of Secrets of Playboy that aired on Monday (Jan. 24), “he’s taking all types of naked pictures of these women when they’re wasted out of their minds. And he would print out like, eight copies for him and all the women. It’s just gross.” Shockingly, Holly’s claims about the Playboy founder were confirmed by his wife, Crystal Hefner. “I found thousands of those disposable camera photos you are talking about, [Holly],” Crystal, 35, tweeted to Holly, 42, as the episode aired. “I immediately ripped them up and destroyed every single one of them for you and the countless other women in them. They’re gone.”

10-part A&E docuseries “Secrets of Playboy,” which shines a spotlight on Hefner’s alleged predatory practices. In the damning documentary, Playboy Mansion fixture Holly Madison, a longtime “girlfriend” of Hefner’s, claimed she was “afraid to leave” her then-flame as she feared there was “a mountain of revenge porn just waiting to come out.”“He’s taking all kinds of naked pictures of these women when we were wasted out of our minds,” the 42-year-old “Girls Next Door” star laments in the show.

Holly Madison alleged she experienced Stockholm syndrome during her relationship with Hugh Hefner. The claim was made on Monday night during the premiere of A&E’s docuseries "Secrets of Playboy." The 10-episode show debuted with a two-hour premiere that features an exclusive new interview with the former Playboy Bunny. The 42-year-old, who dated the Playboy founder from 2001 to 2008, claimed she was afraid to leave the Playboy Mansion out of fear of repercussions, specifically a "mountain of revenge porn" that the late publisher allegedly had in his possession.

The dark side of Playboy. Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and more of Hugh Hefner‘s ex-girlfriends opened up about their time with the media mogul in the new A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy.

Hugh Hefner had many partners before his death in 2017 at the age of 91…and many of them will tell their story in Secrets of Playboy. The ten-episode A&E docuseries will break down barriers and expose the truth” while offering an “unflinching look at the personal effects of Hugh Hefner’s empire, while also exploring his legacy’s larger influence on our society and modern-day views of sexuality,” per Deadline.

Holly Madison rose to fame as a model for the famous Playboy magazine. The now-42-year-old blonde beauty became a reality star in 2003, when she was one of the three featured ladies on the series The Girls Next Door, which followed Holly, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson in their lives at the Playboy Mansion along with the magazine’s founder Hugh Hefner. Holly was known as Hugh’s number one girlfriend during her time in the mansion, and the two dated from 2001 until 2008. Since the split, Holly has come forward with many accusations against Hugh, and she’s revealed that her relationship with the late founder, who died in 2017, wasn’t as sweet as it may have seemed on TV. Find out more about Holly and Hugh’s relationship, and the accusations she’s made against him since splitting up, here.

alleged in a teaser clip for the docuseries.  Holly Madison, who became his main girlfriend years later, claimed in other preview footage for the project that Hugh «flipped out» on her after she cut her hair short. «Hef would be pretty abrasive in the way he said things to Holly,» fellow former girlfriend Bridget Marquardt said. Some may not approve of the life my Dad chose, but my father was not a liar. However unconventional, he was sincere in his approach and lived honestly.

The Sun shared a screengrab on Jan. 24.Further fueling the breakup rumors, Ronnie and Saffire are both fiercely active on social media, yet he last appeared on her Instagram in October 2021, whereas she was most recently on his page in early December 2021.Saffire and "The Jersey Shore" star got engaged last June during a romantic beach picnic in Los Angeles.A post shared by Saffire Matos (@saffirematos)The couple's romance hasn't exactly been a fairytale.

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Hugh Hefner’s son is speaking up in his dad’s defense.

Hugh Hefner’s son Cooper Hefner is defending the late Playboy founder ahead of a new docuseries that reveals several shocking allegations. The A&E 10-part documentary titled "Secrets of Playboy" is airing Monday night and features new interviews with numerous members of Hefner’s staff and inner circle, as well as past girlfriends. Hefner died in 2017 at age 91.

The new A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy is peeling back the layers on Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire. The series features interviews with many of Hefner’s former loves, including Sondra Theodore.

10-part A&E documentary, “Secrets of Playboy.”The series, premiering Monday at 9 p.m., will pull back the curtain on the organization and its founder with accusations of predatory practices.Ahead of the debut, the brand released an open letter that condemned “abhorrent” actions of the late magazine publisher and promised to make “positive changes.” “First and foremost, we want to say: we trust and validate women and their stories, and we strongly support the individuals who have come forward to share their experiences,” the letter began. “As a brand with sex positivity at its core, we believe safety, security and accountability are paramount, and anything less is inexcusable.”The documentary will unfurl shocking allegations about cultlike hedonism that surrounded Hefner and reportedly involved drugs, orgies, sexual assault — and even bestiality.

Hugh Hefner and the inner workings of the Playboy Mansion.Previews already show several of Hugh's former girlfriends, Playmates and members of the Mansion staff alleging that drugs, coercion and secret sexual recordings were a part of life in the famed home.Just 24 hours before the first episode, Cooper, who Hugh shares with ex-wife Kimberley Conrad, tweeted, "Some may not approve of the life my Dad chose, but my father was not a liar. However unconventional, he was sincere in his approach and lived honestly.

Speaking his mind. Cooper Hefner defended his late father, Hugh Hefner, before the premiere of A&E’s docuseries Secrets of Playboy.

Cooper Hefner is defending his late father, Hugh Hefner, before the premiere of the new docuseries Secrets of Playboy.

“Some may not approve of the life my Dad chose, but my father was not a liar,” Cooper Hefner, the 30-year-old son of the late Hugh Hefner, tweeted on Sunday (Jan. 23), a day before the premiere of the A&E docuseries, Secrets of Playboy. The ten-part series aims to uncover the secrets and truths behind Playboy and the world built around the publication. While Cooper didn’t name the network or series, he did take a swipe at those who would tell “stories” about his father. “However unconventional, [Hugh] was sincere in his approach and lived honestly. He was generous in nature and cared deeply for people. These salacious stories are a case study of regret becoming revenge.”

moved on to dogs. Hef’s purported penchant for bestiality is just one of the explosive claims made in the forthcoming A&E documentary “Secrets of Playboy,” out Monday. The damning 10-part series unmasks the once-heralded late mogul — who, until now, has been revered as a god-like stud, slinking around his estate in silk pajamas and a smoking jacket — to reveal the ugly truth about the man who built his sex empire on the backs of vulnerable women.  “He was a predator,” Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Sondra Theodore, 65, told The Post. “I watched him, I watched his game. And I watched a lot of girls go through [the Playboy Mansion] gates looking farm-fresh, and leaving looking tired and haggard.”The former Sunday school teacher turned 1977 Playboy magazine centerfold model began dating Hefner after meeting him at a one of his many lascivious mansion parties.

Weighing in. Amid Holly Madison’s allegations about her Playboy Mansion experience in the Secrets of Playboy docuseries, former Playmate Brande Roderick is sharing her memories.