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There is a saying once a
playmate, always a playmate and
that seems to be absolutely
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true, but does being a playmate
really bring the success,
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fame and fortune that some
believes that it will?
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Hefner's promise was to
keep using the framework
of girl next door.
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You got more fame, you got more
money. Who didn't want that? The
whole philosophy.
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It was all a lie.
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It was a lifetime sentence.
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Playboy had an obligation
to protect us girls.
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I didn't sign up to do porn.
During my video, I was just
uncomfortable.
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I would tell them do not
go to the mansion, I would do
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cocaine and I'd never
dreamed that I would do that.
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I did not realize that I had
been sent to go have sex.
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The big lie was become
a playboy playmate, and
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you're going to have all
of your dreams come true.
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My name is hugh hefner, I'm
editor publisher of playboy
magazine.
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Hugh hefner was just
27, he fashioned himself
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and playboy as the face
of sexual liberation.
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Playboy is one of the most
famous brand names in the world.
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I would like to be remembered
as somebody who played some
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positive part in changing the
social sexual values of my time.
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I believe that hef pulled
one over on the whole world.
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The fantasy of playboy that he
created did not allow for the
consent of the women.
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When it came to hefner's
buddies, you had to keep those
secrets quiet.
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What have you got for free?
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When you get someone that
powerful, anything could happen.
Anything!
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The people who are really there,
they're the ones who know the
real truth,
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I want to be a voice for the
women who suffered the most at
his hands.
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[dramatic music]
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for a long time, I myself
believed the playboy promise.
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I was one of hefner's
best ambassadors.
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I was his director of
playmate promotions and it was
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my department's job to
keep that fantasy going.
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But over time, I realized that
what was supposed to be the
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launching pad for these
young women was really a pit.
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The playboy promise was
that if you signed the
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contract, became playmate
of the year, more fame
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would come to you, more money
would come to you, more glory
and job opportunities.
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There was no limit to what
a girl could actually do.
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If you get it, you have so many
doors open to you like what like
acting, modeling.
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What set playboy apart
from the competition was
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the photography in
playboy was not hardcore?
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It was art. Hugh hefner
celebrated the beauty of the
female
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body. And you had an
opportunity to be part of that.
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Not part of some
disgusting other magazine.
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I came up with a very good idea
and a lot of guys copied it.
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Fortunately, you
know, not as well.
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You know, if you look
at the original
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marilyn monroe picture for the
centerfold began as topless,
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then things started getting more
and more risqué in the world.
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In the 70s playboy wasn't
at the vanguard anymore.
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Once playboy was virtually the
only magazine of its kind on the
newsstand.
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Now there are dozens
of imitations.
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Penthouse jumped the
atlantic from England in
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1969 with a promotion
aimed directly at playboy.
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It has done well but remains
a distant number two.
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Penthouse did full nudity and
pubic hair. Hef was a little bit
old fashioned, right?
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So, he had to
tune it up a notch.
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During the 70s hefner
became involved in what he
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called, and he was the one to
name it, the pubic wars.
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Playboy magazine and penthouse,
they were trying to compete with
each other.
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Now there's this debate within
playboy about how far do we go?
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Hef wasn't keen on actually
going pubic, if you like, but he
chose to do it.
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They eventually settled on we'll
show pubic hair. That's it.
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I was playboy's first
full frontal in 1972.
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It sold 7 million copies.
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The genie was out of the bottle.
Tastes were
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changing, the whole girl
next door thing wasn't
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flying anymore and the
competition really hurt him.
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Circulation that reached 7
million in 1972 has dropped to
less than 6 million.
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Playboy hotels and resorts
are also suffering.
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Penthouse was breathing
down his neck. And of
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course then the hustler
comes on the scene
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in 1974.
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Hustler is probably the most
uncompromising porno magazine
yet,
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enough to make even hugh hefner,
father of playboy, wince.
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Over the years, hefner walked
some kind of a line to try to
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keep the playmate as close as
possible to the girl next door.
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That's what set him apart and
these women believed in hefner.
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In spite of the fact,
playboy is rather tame
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by comparison to others,
or perhaps because
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of it playboy says it now has
more playmate applicants than
ever before.
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When I did my centerfold, in
1986, I was proud to be in
playboy,
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where no offense, I wouldn't
have been proud to be in
hustler.
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For me that was crossing a line.
Playboy was
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just seen at the
respectable men's magazine.
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The reality is,
through the 70s and 80s, playboy
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was becoming more
explicit, and the women
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were not comfortable with it.
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It felt like there was
a push to show more and
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to be a good girl and
do what you're told.
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Get the shot.
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I felt that with
my centerfold shot.
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I'm a small town girl from a
little desert town in
california.
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In the morning of my 18th
birthday, when I woke up, I was
like, I'm old enough now.
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I can be in playboy magazine.
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I knew that that modeling
was gonna get me the money
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so that I could actually
afford to go to college.
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There was no way a 19 year
old could be prepared what
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was gonna happen to you
once I did playboy.
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You know, I've been on
my own since I was 17.
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I had some pretty severe
sexual trauma growing up.
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You know, when you're on
your own as a kid, you
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have to take care of
yourself, which means you
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have to bring a
paycheck, I have bills.
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Shooting's my centerfold, and
they want to show pubic hair.
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So, I remember trying
to get the right shot.
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Because if I got accepted,
I would make 15,000.
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So, I had to get accepted.
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I think I signed the
contract right away.
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And I sat down with my mother.
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No, we were naive.
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We just did it.
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[laughs]
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it's a big deal to take your
clothes off for a camera,
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and a man taking the pictures.
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All of a sudden, one of the
makeup crew comes up and hands
you,
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"can you just sign this for us
because we were taking your
picture?
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You know, we have to
have your permission."
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you don't know what you're
signing, really.
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Sometimes you'd think they
got the girl stoned,
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partied out, and then they
hand her the contract.
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They have their ways. Through
this, you signed your life away
forever.
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My playboy contract came to
me when I was 17 years old.
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So, I really didn't take
the contract very seriously
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because I felt like I
still had you know control.
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Several playmates,
took their photos at 17
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years of age with the
consent of their parent.
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They were signing contracts in
front of either hefner or
someone of his choosing
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and he's holding these
photos until they are of age.
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I was 18 when I came to playboy,
I felt so lucky. So, I didn't
really think about like
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the contractual side of it and
what exactly that meant.
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When I was a playmate,
there were no videos.
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I was so nervous having to
be naked for this special
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and they promised that
none of it was shown
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this is when said I'm really
nervous about the cameras in
here in the bathtub.
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He said, don't worry about
it, it's all for
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family hour. It will all be on
the cutting room floor.
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But then later a friend saying,
"oh, I saw your video". I'm
like,
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what video? And that's when
they turned around and used that
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footage on the
cutting room floor.
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Just sit down in there and draw
bubbles all around your neck.
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Playboy pieced it together,
released it in cable without
telling me that it was going
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to be happening, not paying me
for it and that was soft porn.
They had made me a porn
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star against my will
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playboy channel was officially
launched on November 15th
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I think it is going
to be increasingly
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certainly adult but also
tastefully done. I think the
best basis for judging it is the
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magazine itself from the 30
years we've been publishing.
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In the 80s, cable had come up,
and all of a sudden, now
playmates have to do a video
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and we're like, what do you
mean you have to do a
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video? In my video, you
know, there I am waterskiing,
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and kite surfing and then
all of a sudden, I'm naked.
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A lot of us girls really
screamed and yelled about not
doing it.
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That was like really
crossing the line.
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This whole video was really
hard for me and looking
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back at it, I really
felt like it bordered on
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you know,
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kind of pornish and that's why
we did playboy. That's why we
didn't do penthouse.
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That's why we didn't do hustler.
I mean I was just uncomfortable.
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I was very concerned about the
women, that were doing these
videos.
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But the reality is,
once you sign that release
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you are no longer in control.
Hefner was the one in control
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of your image.
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When I was director of playmate
promotions, I wanted to reach
out and try to get these
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gals into some key
positions in modeling.
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For example, there was
one particular playmate
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who was very special to me.
I don't want to
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pinpoint her name.
I can see in her incredible
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possibilities. I
wanted her to be an
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herbal essence girl with
claire hall, I had big ideas.
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I got her appointment with
several different people and
took
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her to new york and tried to
help her make a transition.
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Unfortunately,
it was impossible.
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The companies did not want the
playmate image with their
products.
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Because she was a playmate, it
cut it right there. She was
already dead in the water.
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Playboy had become too explicit.
The stigma was way too much.
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As the director of
playmate promotions,
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I had a front seat into the
lives of many women.
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And I could see the
damage that happened.
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There were many
playmates that trusted me
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and I would say to them,
do not go to the mansion.
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There's nothing good that's
going to come from it.
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Something about playboy
was like sandpaper.
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I would go up to the mansion.
It's like when
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you have that feeling in
your gut that something's
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not right. But you can't
put your finger on it.
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I got the red flags, but I was
too young to understand what
they were.
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When is your big month?
When are we going to see it?
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I'm not really sure yet, they
haven't really picked them up.
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There were all these
playmates all under one roof
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and shooting to become
playmate of the year,
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when you do that, these girls
knew they had to wait.
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The system is set up that
we're gonna pay $15,000 for
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the centerfold, we're gonna pay
it in three intervals.
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When you get finished shooting.
When you get published, and one
year from
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your publishing date.
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It was 5000 when you're when
your pictorial came out.
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I think another 2500, when
you're done with your video.
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They give it to you 5000 here,
2500 here, they drag it out
because
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you have to fulfill your
duty before you get it all.
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They paid you over two years.
That's like below
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poverty level, it's nothing
when you think about it.
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You couldn't do anything
without their permission.
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Like if you're trying to
make money off yourself.
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That was a no no.
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While you're waiting for the
paycheck, you wait at the
mansion and you meet hef and
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you politic to be playmate of
the year or you politic to stay
current.
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In the 80s, there was a lot of
partying. It was party central.
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I think every girl in
the mansion say, you're
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expected to be at the party.
You had to be
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part of their scene.
It was like, well, hef's gonna
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want you to do that or
hef's gonna be disappointed,
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you know? That sort of thing.
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I mean, drugs and alcohol
were accepted at the
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playboy mansion, the playboy
parties, anybody that
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is put in that situation,
it can get out of hand.
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Because I wanted to stay thin I
would do, you know, the
occasional
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cocaine and I'd never ever ever
dreamed that I would do that.
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At the mansion,
there was a sense of everyone
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likes drugs, and everyone
likes to share them.
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I didn't start the heavy
drugs until after playboy.
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I lost all my teeth.
I mean you have to
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take a lot of drugs to do this
to yourself. So, that was a lot
of cocaine.
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I think the drugs definitely
played a major role
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in controlling and
manipulating these women.
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Whenever you step into the
playboy mansion and you're a new
female on the scene.
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Basically, you're introduced to
my father, he was hefner's best
friend and doctor to
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all the playmates, who of
course, would then you know,
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make sure that you were weighed
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in on a regular basis and make
sure that they were that perfect
weight.
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By the time I was 20, I weighed
90 pounds and ended up in
hospital.
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It was really hard
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and it took a lot of therapy
to go back to regular eating.
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There were a lot of girls, they
were fresh off the farm, and
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they felt like they had made
it and yet those same girls,
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months later, would go home a
skeleton, just a mere shadow of
themselves.
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Happened to me, this picture.
I was just skin and bones.
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The pull of that mansion and his
power was just way too much for
most and once they're
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hooked on drugs,
they're no longer in control.
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And when they ended up
hitting rock bottom,
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hefner was not going
to give them support.
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Specifically the girl that
I really thought was going
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to bridge the gap and to
the modeling industry.
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She just kept spiraling and she
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became addicted to cocaine.
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She was so thin that she looked
like she could die at any time.
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Her teeth were gray.
She needed help.
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I didn't want her thrown away.
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I wanted to save her
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and damn it, she
was worth saving.
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I was told you're not to go and
give her groceries. You're not
to pay her rent.
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She got herself in that mess,
and hefner doesn't want anything
to do with it.
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Can you imagine that?
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After all the money he made off
of that girl, he didn't want to
feed her.
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[bleep] shame on
that son of a bitch.
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I did it. I did it anyway.
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I begged her to go back
home and she did it.
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I almost got fired several
times for doing what I did.
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Years ago when I was at the
house, at the mansion,
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hef told me to be careful
because miki was
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crazy and dangerous.
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He didn't want the girls talking
to her because she was stirring
up
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trouble. She was pointing
things out that he
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didn't want pointed out
and he was losing control.
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I'd become mother confessor to
many women and I felt a
responsibility. But I realized
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I was fighting a losing battle.
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I could not handle it anymore.
When I left playboy in 1982,
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I didn't think the situation
could get any worse. But it did.
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I had worked hard to change the
way that playmate promotions
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handled their women.
How they made sure that they
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had safety that anytime anything
happened, they were able to
report it.
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It wasn't an easy job. Many
of the executives, they were
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only interested in protecting
playboy and hugh hefner.
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Like valerie cragin with
the playboy model agency.
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At first, valerie cragin
kind of took care of
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me. She taught me a lot
because I came from a
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small town and so,
like, she would take me
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shopping and she would
take me to nice restaurants
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and I learned proper etiquette.
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She was kind to me, and she
made sure that I got work.
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But certain girls were getting
a hell of a lot more work.
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I was like, how in the hell
are you getting that much work?
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Valerie cragin was a
pimp for hugh hefner.
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She and I went at it a lot.
The playboy modeling agency
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was a place where women could be
invited to the mansion for the
parties.
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I didn't want any part of it.
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1982 after I left playboy,
valerie cragin took over the
planning promotions
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department and at that point in
time, it became what I
considered flesh peddling.
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Valerie cragin was head
of playmate promotions,
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when I began.
Playmate promotions, those were
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the girls who went out
and they signed autographs
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and did all that there
was good money there.
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So, this was my income.
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The first few years of
promotions were rough.
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They started doing some stuff
with casinos. They would
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fly us in with the high
rollers and we do little
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fashion shows and then they'd
say, go on down and gamble with
the high rollers.
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The guys were kind of like which
ones do this and which girls do
that?
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It was like, they were pimping
us out a little bit.
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Oh, yeah. I had a playmate
I was rooming with,
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I was back in my bed
and two guys held the
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door open and she just stood
there and she changed her
clothes halfway in the hall and
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there's $100 bills literally
flying all over the
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place but she worked hard
for those last night.
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There was this one trip to
atlantic city for playmate
promotions.
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It was like 20 guys,
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they wanted to take a picture
with us in this hot tub.
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He is like, get in here,
I paid for you. Really!
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As if we were prostitutes and
it was gross, you know.
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It was gross.
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When I was working for
playmate promotions,
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I was sent out to do a job,
which turned out
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to be non-existent. I was
actually just being sent there
to go on a date.
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So, I flew to texas to do this
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big truck calendar for this guy
who owned oil companies.
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I showed up and then I
realized this is not real.
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I remember barricading myself in
the room and putting the chair
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underneath the door. I called
playboy and I was like, you got
to get me
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out of here, this isn't real.
This isn't happening.
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It was valerie cragin
on the other end of
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the line saying,
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first, valerie gragin says
oh my gosh, let me look
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into it and then she calls
me back and says, what
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we're understanding is that the
client is very upset with you
because you are the one
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who has acted inappropriately.
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Valerie cragin, boy, she was
an incredible manipulator.
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She knew everybody's
business where they were,
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what they would do.
I just- she made my skin crawl.
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The second incident was they
made promotion, sent me to
alaska
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to model and it turned out
that there was no modeling gig.
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I ended up driving all around
alaska with this guy
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and I get dropped off
and I go home.
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Then he came looking for me
later, he found out where I
live. I honestly
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don't know everything that
happened, he drugged me.
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I don't know,
what did he do to me?
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He did a lot of really
horrific things.
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When that was over,
when I finally got away from
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him, I went right to
playboy's security
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team and I told them about it.
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I didn't have to testify.
I didn't have to do
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anything. They took care of it.
That's all I know.
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As playmates we get
put in situations
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that are almost impossible to
get out of without conceding.
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Playboy was dangerous to women.
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Playboy ruined women's lives and
I was going to stop it any way I
could.
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This administration is putting
the purveyors of illegal
obscenity and child
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pornography on notice. Your
industries days are numbered.
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[clapping]
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the 80s were a backlash
to the 70s because the
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70s was all free love and
the sexual revolution.
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After the pubic wars, people
were afraid of what was
happening culturally.
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The pornography problem in this
country is a front burner issue
with moral majority,
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and moral majority will continue
to deal with that issue.
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The religious right was
constantly raining down on
playboy talking about how we
were
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influencing in american
culture towards hell.
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In 1985, edwin meese
was the attorney general
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under the reagan administration
who came up with the commission
against pornography
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because of the influence
of the religious right.
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One of the first things edwin
meese did when becoming attorney
general
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was to launch a new study of
pornography, a study to
determine
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if there was a demonstrable
cause and effect
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between dirty books, movies,
etc, and dirty crimes.
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The commission did a
series of hearings around
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the country discussing
pornography and its
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bad influences on culture.
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We demand that the
commission acknowledged that
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the $8 billion a year
pornography industry
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is built on the sexual
enslavement and exploitation of
women,
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playboy always
differentiated itself from
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straight up porn, but with
the meese commission,
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suddenly we were being lumped
together with penthouse
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and hustler by the religious
right by the feminist.
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We went from a very
repressive, conservative
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time in the 50s and we
are back once again,
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to some extent, in a
conservative posture again.
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So, obviously,
playboy and I personally
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have an easy target.
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Hef thought the meese
commission was persecution and
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thought it was [bleep], and
playboy was clearly targeted.
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In 1985, a religious group
contacted me and asked me if I
would participate and tell my
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story and testify at
the meese commission.
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She was miss January of
1973, and served as
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director of playmates
promotions from 1976 to 1982.
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Now saying she fears that going
public will put her life and the
lives of her family
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in danger, miki garcia has
come forward with what she
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claims as the inside story
of playboy's playmates,
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I knew that he was terrified of
my testimony because he sent so
many people
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to me to come shut me up.
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I wasn't about to accept the
silence that he was threatening
me with.
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And I didn't care
that I was scared.
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Appearing before the
us attorney general's
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commission on pornography,
garcia said playmates
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often came to see her
complaining of being pressured
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into doing things they
didn't want to do,
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sometimes by playboy
publisher hugh hefner himself.
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Miki testified against playboy.
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She stood up against a lot
of threats. She had to have
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a bodyguard and some other girls
were gonna testify with her and
they bailed on her.
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Talking to miki garcia, miki,
you spoke before the attorney
general's commission on
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pornography.
What really goes on in playboy?
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Well, what happens once
the girl is introduced
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into the system in,
I do call it a system.
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She is then subjected to a lot
of things beyond her control.
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I said what was happening
to the women, that
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they were being coerced
into terrible things.
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I testified about drugs,
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rape, abuse, coercion. Many
things that young woman should
not be subjected to.
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At playboy mansion west,
hefner and his staff
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encouraged playmates
to use illegal drugs.
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How much is hefner
involved in the drug use?
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It's his home isn't it?
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But he claims that if there
isn't anything, he's unaware of
it?
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Well, the man has to be deaf,
dumb and blind and I think
hefner is not.
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I wanted to be able to stop
this kind of abuse of women.
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Many of the playmates would come
to me and say, I'm doing the
photo session, I'm
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embarrassed. I didn't realize
that the photos were going to be
so explicit.
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I talked about contracts that
were totally unfair. He trapped
us.
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He made sure he had
all of the rights.
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There was an archive on
each of us not just what
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is published through the year
or there might be volumes more.
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She has no editorial
control over those photos.
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She always has this lurking
in her background, that at any
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time the magazine could pull
out one of those pictures.
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Garcia said the centerfold
layouts create the
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impression that the
models are promiscuous.
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I talked about playmate
promotions, selling sex.
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When she travels on playmate
promotions, she is out there.
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She's in open for sexual
harassment. She knows that if
she reports
429
00:29:25,431 --> 00:29:30,300
this to playboy, that it will
fall on deaf ears, or that maybe
they'll take the action
430
00:29:30,402 --> 00:29:31,268
where she can no
longer work again.
431
00:29:32,571 --> 00:29:35,339
I had power when I testified
at the meese commission,
432
00:29:35,441 --> 00:29:38,408
I had power and I knew it.
433
00:29:38,511 --> 00:29:41,979
In a written response, playboy
called garcia's allegations,
false statements.
434
00:29:42,081 --> 00:29:46,150
I am sure that he was
constipated for 10 years after I
testified
435
00:29:47,787 --> 00:29:48,452
and I loved every minute of it.
436
00:29:52,591 --> 00:29:54,358
The press covered my testimony.
437
00:29:55,861 --> 00:29:56,860
I had a voice.
438
00:29:58,597 --> 00:30:03,534
I want the public to start
asking hugh hefner some very
serious questions.
439
00:30:03,636 --> 00:30:06,336
I did not have the support
of any women, not the
440
00:30:06,438 --> 00:30:10,641
women I protected, and not the
women I worked with at playboy,
441
00:30:10,743 --> 00:30:11,275
the female executives.
442
00:30:12,845 --> 00:30:13,811
It was a huge decision
for me to come forward.
443
00:30:15,948 --> 00:30:17,815
No one wanted the truth
out, nobody.
444
00:30:20,119 --> 00:30:23,620
I went in there and
said, wake up america.
445
00:30:23,722 --> 00:30:27,024
Do not buy that piece of crap.
Don't be fooled by
446
00:30:27,126 --> 00:30:28,659
this man and he needs to
be brought to justice.
447
00:30:30,196 --> 00:30:31,228
He took it for granted
that he would be able
448
00:30:31,330 --> 00:30:34,231
to control us and that he
could get away with it.
449
00:30:37,736 --> 00:30:38,936
The attorney general's
commission on pornography
450
00:30:39,038 --> 00:30:40,571
will issue its final
report today.
451
00:30:40,673 --> 00:30:43,106
The meese commission today
called for picketing and
452
00:30:43,209 --> 00:30:46,443
boycotting stores that sell
hard and soft-core pornography.
453
00:30:46,545 --> 00:30:48,412
Meese commission was very
effective in hurting playboy.
454
00:30:49,849 --> 00:30:52,416
You can get adult magazines
on street corners, but
455
00:30:52,518 --> 00:30:55,185
not in 8000 convenience
stores around the country
456
00:30:55,287 --> 00:30:59,223
in September 1986, my small town
could not get my issue of
457
00:30:59,325 --> 00:31:02,226
playboy on the newsstand
because of the meese commission.
458
00:31:04,230 --> 00:31:06,797
They said you can't have that
smut magazine in the front of a
459
00:31:06,899 --> 00:31:08,832
store for anybody to
just walk up and see.
460
00:31:10,669 --> 00:31:13,971
My testimony did have an impact.
Playboy was
461
00:31:14,073 --> 00:31:16,840
no longer welcomed in
convenience stores and
462
00:31:16,942 --> 00:31:18,108
and that was big revenue.
463
00:31:19,745 --> 00:31:27,117
I did financially impact him
and I was happy, very happy
464
00:31:27,219 --> 00:31:29,586
1000s of 7elevens and other
stores removed the magazines
from their shelves.
465
00:31:31,390 --> 00:31:33,257
Sales figures are not in yet,
but a drop is anticipated.
466
00:31:35,294 --> 00:31:37,928
If half of your circulation is
from magazine rack sales,
467
00:31:38,030 --> 00:31:39,463
and all of a sudden you can't
468
00:31:39,565 --> 00:31:41,832
be on a magazine rack anymore,
it's a serious effect.
469
00:31:43,202 --> 00:31:46,570
There is politics behind
all of this. I think
470
00:31:46,672 --> 00:31:49,406
that the appeal to right
wing fundamentalist
471
00:31:49,508 --> 00:31:55,612
is what lies behind much of
this kind of nonsense going on.
472
00:31:55,714 --> 00:32:01,919
Of course hefner started suing
and eventually edwin meese had
to backpedal.
473
00:32:02,021 --> 00:32:05,055
Absolutely, it's hurt us, I mean
there's no way that it couldn't
have hurt us.
474
00:32:05,157 --> 00:32:06,790
Playboy is suing attorney
general meese and the
commission.
475
00:32:08,460 --> 00:32:12,930
When it was over and the review
was done. They went back up on
the shelves, but they
476
00:32:13,032 --> 00:32:13,597
were wrapped at that point.
477
00:32:15,901 --> 00:32:20,637
So, the magazine became more
subscribable. But at the end of
the day, they won.
478
00:32:21,774 --> 00:32:22,339
Playboy always won.
479
00:32:24,176 --> 00:32:26,810
A group of right wing
zealots, even in the justice
480
00:32:26,912 --> 00:32:27,945
department cannot
override the constitution
481
00:32:28,047 --> 00:32:30,647
and this is still
a free society.
482
00:32:32,451 --> 00:32:35,752
[clapping]
483
00:32:35,854 --> 00:32:40,290
tonight, our playmate of the
year is a 21 year old lady
484
00:32:43,295 --> 00:32:48,165
from north carolina with her
parents here, church going
baptists, as she is,
485
00:32:49,935 --> 00:32:55,272
after the meese commission, the
powers that be were definitely
much more conservative.
486
00:32:57,409 --> 00:33:01,845
Playboy understood that so
playmate of the year was from
the bible belt.
487
00:33:01,947 --> 00:33:03,947
Supposedly she was a virgin,
you know, it was political.
488
00:33:05,084 --> 00:33:06,850
Our playmate of the
year, donna edmondson
489
00:33:06,952 --> 00:33:09,653
[clapping]
490
00:33:09,755 --> 00:33:13,190
in late 80s, after the meese
commission, of course,
491
00:33:13,292 --> 00:33:16,727
the party line was,
it didn't affect us at all.
492
00:33:16,829 --> 00:33:19,930
This was part of hefner's
brilliance, it was spinning it
493
00:33:20,032 --> 00:33:22,666
but it was really fraught
time of change for playboy.
494
00:33:25,070 --> 00:33:32,609
There was also aids coming in
the 80s. Aids being this
mysterious disease that
495
00:33:32,711 --> 00:33:35,779
people didn't understand. People
were like sex, it's all that
sex.
496
00:33:41,487 --> 00:33:44,755
When aids came in,
it freaked people out, but it
497
00:33:44,857 --> 00:33:47,257
didn't really hit people
until rebecca got sick.
498
00:33:49,828 --> 00:33:52,362
Rebecca armstrong, she was the
first playmate that had aids.
499
00:33:54,967 --> 00:33:59,536
When I tested positive in
1989, I was only 22 years old.
500
00:34:01,874 --> 00:34:03,874
I lied actually to playboy when
501
00:34:03,976 --> 00:34:07,110
I was getting sick.
But I didn't just stop
502
00:34:07,212 --> 00:34:10,347
working and then I went
full blown aids within
503
00:34:10,449 --> 00:34:12,115
like what? Three
and a half years
504
00:34:12,217 --> 00:34:15,585
and that's when I went to
playboy and told them.
505
00:34:16,588 --> 00:34:18,922
Hugh hefner's reaction
506
00:34:19,525 --> 00:34:20,090
was really amazing.
507
00:34:23,095 --> 00:34:27,297
He stepped right up to the
plate. He said, you know, sex
isn't the enemy
508
00:34:29,701 --> 00:34:29,733
aids is the enemy.
509
00:34:32,971 --> 00:34:37,207
Playboy gave me a platform,
shooting videos about hiv
awareness.
510
00:34:37,309 --> 00:34:39,976
I'm rebecca armstrong,
and I am one of more
511
00:34:40,079 --> 00:34:42,012
than a million americans
living with hiv today.
512
00:34:43,315 --> 00:34:46,616
And it opened up doors
that would not have been
513
00:34:46,718 --> 00:34:47,317
open, had I not posed
for playboy magazine.
514
00:34:49,388 --> 00:34:54,491
I also had to educate people at
playboy. I was one of their own.
515
00:34:56,595 --> 00:34:57,861
Has aids, knocked the playboy
philosophy on the head?
516
00:35:00,632 --> 00:35:01,731
Not if you properly understand
what the playboy
517
00:35:01,834 --> 00:35:04,434
philosophy is all about
because playboy established
518
00:35:04,536 --> 00:35:05,936
from the very outset.
519
00:35:06,038 --> 00:35:09,372
The fact that we really had to
take a fresh look at the ethics
and
520
00:35:10,442 --> 00:35:13,043
morality of sexuality,
something that we've never
521
00:35:13,145 --> 00:35:13,543
really bothered to do
in western civilization
522
00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:17,514
and obviously, aids becomes one
of the important elements in all
of that.
523
00:35:20,786 --> 00:35:24,955
Hef did the interviews and you
saw more articles about hiv
being written in playboy?
524
00:35:26,425 --> 00:35:29,126
He did not shy away from making
sure that people knew about this
disease.
525
00:35:33,866 --> 00:35:37,634
No, life at the mansion
didn't change. No way.
526
00:35:41,607 --> 00:35:48,979
After my diagnosis, I remember
asking the doctor how long do I
have and he
527
00:35:49,081 --> 00:35:52,415
said, well, I honestly can't
tell you but maybe a year or
two.
528
00:35:55,220 --> 00:35:59,022
So, the dreams that I had
of going to school and
529
00:35:59,124 --> 00:36:01,892
becoming a lawyer or a
psychologist that was gone
530
00:36:03,328 --> 00:36:05,762
and it's a really
really frightening time.
531
00:36:07,866 --> 00:36:11,635
I started self-medicating and
drinking every single day and
then I got
532
00:36:12,538 --> 00:36:14,004
really sick and ended
up in the hospital
533
00:36:16,875 --> 00:36:18,708
and I still don't know
exactly how I contracted it.
534
00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:29,286
I don't know.
535
00:36:32,591 --> 00:36:34,925
I honestly don't know everything
that happened, he drugged me.
536
00:36:40,999 --> 00:36:41,665
No.
537
00:36:52,244 --> 00:36:53,810
And I can't even believe I'm
saying it right now but yeah.
538
00:37:00,485 --> 00:37:04,487
But I can't hang on to the what
if, it will make me not be able
to sleep at night.
539
00:37:12,664 --> 00:37:15,465
There may have been a rebecca
in the past that would
540
00:37:15,567 --> 00:37:19,869
have been filled with anger but
I try not to allow that to
poison me anymore.
541
00:37:20,572 --> 00:37:21,037
Do I think
542
00:37:25,110 --> 00:37:27,744
some parties that worked
there are scumbags? Yeah!
543
00:37:33,518 --> 00:37:34,384
You get the idea of what
we're supposed to be doing.
544
00:37:35,954 --> 00:37:38,955
I want you to have a lot of
life in front of the camera and
545
00:37:39,057 --> 00:37:39,656
communicate with the camera.
Let's go ahead and try your now,
honey.
546
00:37:51,003 --> 00:37:56,172
Valerie cragin, the world is not
a lesser place because of her
death.
547
00:37:58,110 --> 00:38:00,877
I mean I remember long
after I did playboy,
548
00:38:03,048 --> 00:38:08,051
I went to a restaurant and I saw
her and I just know I turned
white.
549
00:38:08,153 --> 00:38:11,454
I know I just turned white and I
turned around really quickly and
got out of there.
550
00:38:15,027 --> 00:38:20,096
The big lie that playboy was
telling was "become a playboy
551
00:38:20,198 --> 00:38:23,199
playmate and you're going to
have all your dreams come true".
552
00:38:25,671 --> 00:38:27,170
I was angry, I was pissed.
553
00:38:29,841 --> 00:38:32,208
How do we allow this to happen?
554
00:38:32,311 --> 00:38:35,645
And why do we withhold
the truth so that more
555
00:38:35,747 --> 00:38:38,982
women every month send
their photos into playboy
556
00:38:39,084 --> 00:38:42,585
magazine seeking to be a
centerfold for all the wrong
reasons?
557
00:38:44,122 --> 00:38:45,622
Playboy is not what
they read about.
558
00:38:47,292 --> 00:38:49,826
It was a far more sinister world
and that's what I wanted
everyone to know
559
00:38:49,928 --> 00:38:52,062
and I did it.
560
00:38:53,532 --> 00:38:58,335
And after I testified, I really
thought that maybe it would
stop.
561
00:38:59,471 --> 00:39:03,807
Maybe women would stop
signing the damn contracts.
562
00:39:03,909 --> 00:39:06,409
Maybe they would stop
going to the mansion.
563
00:39:07,312 --> 00:39:09,879
Maybe hefner would
have to get a real job
564
00:39:13,552 --> 00:39:14,718
and stop making this money
off of the backs of women.
565
00:39:17,823 --> 00:39:20,957
Hefner's biggest push right now
is the adult video market.
566
00:39:21,059 --> 00:39:22,225
The company is replacing its
567
00:39:22,327 --> 00:39:25,962
money losing playboy channel
with a pay per view network.
568
00:39:26,064 --> 00:39:28,998
His promise was to always
protect us and keep
569
00:39:29,101 --> 00:39:31,267
us within the framework
of girl next door,
570
00:39:32,337 --> 00:39:36,940
he lied. The playmate
contract gave hefner and
571
00:39:37,042 --> 00:39:41,177
playboy the right to use
the photos and the filming
572
00:39:41,279 --> 00:39:44,080
in any media that he saw fit.
573
00:39:45,150 --> 00:39:47,984
The stock is selling
at an all-time high and
574
00:39:48,086 --> 00:39:51,221
much of what began with
magazine has expanded
575
00:39:51,323 --> 00:39:53,556
now because the internet and
it's just a tremendous exciting
time
576
00:39:54,092 --> 00:39:55,091
hefner sold us.
577
00:39:56,661 --> 00:40:01,231
He took our photos and put
them on hardcore porn sites.
578
00:40:02,801 --> 00:40:06,269
My name is attached to every
porn site you can imagine.
That's (bleep).
579
00:40:08,173 --> 00:40:09,973
Playboy had an obligation
to protect us girls,
580
00:40:10,075 --> 00:40:12,409
especially with our
photos and videos.
581
00:40:13,979 --> 00:40:16,012
They just open floodgates and
let them go, it was all about
the money.
582
00:40:18,216 --> 00:40:23,620
The playboy fantasy would
still go on, because hefner
583
00:40:23,722 --> 00:40:27,590
simply knew what sold and
what sold was playboy.
584
00:40:29,728 --> 00:40:33,329
There are people that want
to keep hef's secrets.
585
00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:36,099
I was breaking the code.
586
00:40:37,803 --> 00:40:38,334
Just don't tell.
587
00:40:40,739 --> 00:40:44,841
You don't tell but I did
and I don't regret it.
588
00:41:19,945 --> 00:41:22,946
I remember paige as being
a happy person and then
589
00:41:23,048 --> 00:41:25,949
she shot herself in the head.
What happened?
590
00:41:28,253 --> 00:41:32,655
I think the paige young's story
reveals the dark side of the
playboy mansion scene.
591
00:41:32,757 --> 00:41:36,860
A number of the allegations
against bill cosby have
592
00:41:36,962 --> 00:41:38,528
involved stories that took
place at the playboy mansion.
593
00:41:40,565 --> 00:41:43,533
There were a lot of
powerful people in hollywood
594
00:41:43,635 --> 00:41:46,536
that the women in playboy
shouldn't have gone with.
595
00:41:46,638 --> 00:41:49,172
Paige believed that
these men were predatory,
596
00:41:49,274 --> 00:41:53,209
especially hugh hefner.
You're not going to win
597
00:41:53,311 --> 00:41:54,911
a game against
rich important men.
54847