Monday’s Secrets and techniques of Playboy episode is all about purported predatory habits on the Playboy Mansion involving Hugh Hefner’s well-known buddies: Invoice Cosby, Roman Polanski and NFL legend Jim Brown.
Hefner and Cosby’s decades-long friendship was nicely documented earlier than the disgraced actor’s status was tarnished in 2014 by dozens of sexual assault allegations. The Cosby Present star frequented the Playboy Mansion the place a number of ladies declare they had been drugged and raped.
“When the entire Cosby story broke … none of that was a shock,” says Hefner’s former bodyguard, Jim Ellis. “I used to be there, I noticed — I do know what he did.”
Ellis was a member of Hefner’s govt safety staff in 1980 and 1981.
“Everyone that labored on the mansion knew that he was principally a predator,” provides Ellis, claiming Cosby was on the mansion three to 4 instances per week. “He wasn’t there to eat lunch.”
“Bunny mom” P.J. Masten says she “heard many tales about Invoice Cosby from the ’60s all the way in which as much as 2008.” Masten oversaw feminine workers at Playboy golf equipment in Chicago and Los Angeles from 1972 to 1982. She emotionally remembers her personal alleged brutal assault within the episode, claiming Cosby drugged, raped and sodomized her in Chicago in 1979. After the alleged rape, Masten says Cosby despatched her “a 4-foot ficus tree.” She exhibits the notice he despatched together with it that learn, “Keep wholesome mentally, keep accountable for your self.”
Masten claims she advised her boss concerning the assault, who replied, “That is Hefner’s finest good friend. I recommend you shut your mouth in the event you wanna hold your job.”
Monday’s episode focuses on the demise of former Playboy mannequin Paige Younger, who took her life in 1974. A suicide notice purportedly listed males she felt abused by, together with Hefner. Associates suspect she was raped by Cosby; nevertheless, there isn’t any direct connection made between Cosby and Younger’s suicide.
Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Sondra Theodore believes the publishing mogul was conscious of what Cosby was doing on the mansion.
“Did Hef know? I feel he did. How might something be flipped underneath anybody’s nostril in that home. Cameras had been in every single place. He needed to have recognized,” Theodore muses. “However Cosby was his go to movie star … due to that, he was permitting the ladies for use.”
(When contacted by Yahoo for touch upon the episode, Cosby’s rep pointed to an announcement given earlier on Monday praising the Supreme Courtroom’s choice to not evaluate the comic’s sexual assault case, which was overturned in 2021.)
Hefner’s relationship with Cosby is not the one one scrutinized. The docuseries additionally examines Hefner’s shut ties with director Roman Polanski, who raped a 13-year-old woman in 1977. Former Playboy mannequin Charlotte Lewis claims within the episode she was raped by Polansky at age 16.
Theodore alleges she overheard Hefner and his mates disregarding Polansky’s habits, merely remarking about how “that schmo bought caught.”
“They had been simply relieved they hadn’t gotten caught,” Theodore says.
Horrific assault claims are levied towards athlete and actor Jim Brown, who has a decades-long historical past of violence towards ladies.
“Jim Brown might come up and have intercourse on the mansion and he all the time abused completely different Playmates. I noticed it, many individuals witnessed it,” claims Stefan Tetenbaum, who labored as Hefner’s valet from 1978 to 1981. Brown allegedly “cracked ribs,” dislocated ladies’s jaws and “brutalized ladies.”
“Hef did inform me that Jim Brown brutalized ladies,” claims Theodore. “However why would [Hef] hold letting him come up? What’s with that? As a result of he was a star.”
Secrets and techniques of Playboy airs Monday’s on A&E.
