Playboy Playmate says Hugh Hefner was quiet and enjoyed board games, disputes claims mansion was ‘cult-like’

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Karin Taylor was stunned when she first learned of the accusations made against her late pal Hugh Hefner. It was 2022 when former Playboy bunny Holly Madison and several other playmates spoke out in a 10-part docuseries on A&E, "Secrets of Playboy." Madison alleged the Playboy Mansion "was very cult-like" and the women were "gaslit and expected to think of Hef as like this really good guy." "It was so easy to get isolated from the outside world there," the 43-year-old said at the time. "You had a 9 o’clock curfew.

You were encouraged to not have friends over. You weren’t really allowed to leave unless it was like a family holiday." Madison dated Hefner from 2001 until 2008.The magazine mogul died in 2017 at age 91. "I interviewed [fellow Playmate] Ulrika Ericsson in my podcast ‘You Should Know’ about this," Taylor told Fox News Digital. "We were both not there, so we can’t say that never happened when we weren’t in the room.

But we can say that was not our experience. So I did take a little offense to that comment, that it was like a cult."  "I do not feel that any part of my Playboy experience was like that at all. … Hef always said, ‘Once a playmate, always a playmate.’ But really, once your issue comes out, it’s done, and they move on to the next girl." The former international fashion model, who was a Playmate in June 1996, is now a single mother of five who runs Mandalay Farms in Florida.

She hosts two podcasts, "You Should Know" and "Free Advice with Karin Taylor," sharing her life experiences with listeners. While the 51-year-old is no longer involved with Playboy, she was saddened to hear of the accusations targeted at the brand, which skyrocketed her to fame. "Being a mother, I don’t pose provocatively, but I’m.