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- I think everybody had
a little bit of a wish
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or a desire to be a Playboy Bunny.
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- The first Playboy Club
was founded in 1960.
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- The club is really
an extension of the concept
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that was developed in the magazine.
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Relaxed, urban living.
Good food and drink.
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Pretty girls.
Good entertainment.
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- We were a glorified waitress
with the fuzzy tail.
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There was a style that
the Playboy Bunnies d.
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- So you could be pretty, sexual, coy,
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sweet, sexy, but not naked.
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- The Bunnies were
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the greatest sex symbol in the country.
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- The Playboy Club became
a worldwide sensation.
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- The Bunny became probably more famous
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than the Playmates in the magazine.
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- You felt very powerful being a Bunny
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because you thought
you were protected by Playboy,
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but that costume was a liability,
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because when men were viewing it,
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they assumed that you were
sexually open to them.
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And when you took that costume
off, they still saw a female,
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and they still saw in their eyes,
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you know, that costume.
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- There were a group of Bunnies
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who were abducted, drugged,
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and used in a sex movie.
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But it was almost like,
"Don't talk about this."
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- Celebrities in Hollywood--
They had carte blanche.
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They could do whatever they wanted.
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- Can you confirm the existence
of a cleanup crew?
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- Oh, yeah.
That's absolutely true.
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- And that was an open invitation
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for sexual power.
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- My name is Hugh Hefner.
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I'm editor-publisher of "Playboy" magazine.
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- Hugh Hefner was just 27.
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He fashioned himself and Playboy
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as the face of sexual liberation.
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- Playboy is one of the most famous brand names
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in the world.
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- I would like to be remembered
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as somebody who played some positive part
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in changing the social
sexual values of my time.
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- I believe that Hef pulled one over
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on the whole world.
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- The fantasy of Playboy
that he created did not allow
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for the consent of the women.
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- When it came to Hefner's buddies,
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u 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,
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anything could happen.
Anything.
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- The people who were really there--
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They're the ones who know the real truth.
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- I want to be a voice
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for the women that suffed the most at his hands.
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- I have a lot of boxes packed
because I'm moving.
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Let me go and see if I can dig out some stuff,
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because I have a lot of Playboy memorabilia.
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Let's see what we have here.
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I was a Bunny in '72, and I was 22 yea old.
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What's this one here?
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Oh, my goodness.
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I have all these t-shirts from Playboy.
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Reunion.
This is the uniform we wore
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when we did charit.
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And we had black shorts with that.
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And of course, Bunny Lib.
We fought for that.
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Before I worked at Playboy Club,
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I was in a very abusive marriage,
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and I fl.
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And I had come up to see my folks in Jersey.
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And I was in my dad's--in
the office typing something,
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and the guys in the office--
They said,
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"PJ, why don't you go get
an interview as a Bunny?"
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And I said, "I'm a medal and surgical assistant.
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"I wear white uniforms.
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"How could I put a costume on like that?
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There's no way."
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"We'll bet you $100 you won't
go up there for an interview."
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I figured, "100 bucks?"
I needed the money.
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So my mother encouraged me,
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because she knew that I was very depressed,
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and she knew I had no self-confidence.
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So my mom and dadrove me
to Great Gorge, New Jersey,
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and I went for the interview,
and I had braces on my teeth.
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I put the bathing suit on.
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The Bunny Mother said to me,
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"Lose 10 pounds, take the braces off your teeth,
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and you start a week from Monday."
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So that's how it started.
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When you put on that costume,
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you thought you could kill the world.
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Looking back at my headshot,
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you can see how confident I felt.
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U were just magnificent and powerful.
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And you were, yes, a sex symbol.
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- So the first Playboy Club opened in 1960.
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Hugh Hefner was very much
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a part of the pop culture zeitgeist.
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- Why did you put the girls in those costumes?
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- Well, the girls wore Bunny costumes
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because the Bunny was our corporate logo.
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At the very beginning,
I selected a rabbit symbol
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to represent the magazin
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The rabbit had a certain sort of sexy reputation.
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And I made some modifications,
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added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar,
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and the Bunny was born.
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- Playboy Clubs were all.
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It was the place to be.
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And you literally needed
a real key to get in the door.
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$25 got you a key membership.
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- It was prestigious to have a Playboy key card.
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Hugh Hefner--he made a big deal about it.
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- Starting as of the first of the year,
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there will be keys vers
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in the hands of members throughout the country.
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- In true rabbit fashion,
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that one club multiplied to 22 befor1970.
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By 1972, there were one million keyholders.
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- Well, I remeer the rule that when you went
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to the Playboy Club, yous
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or you couldn't touch the Bunnies or anything.
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Who made up that rule?
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- Well, it was mine, I'm afraid.
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- If we're all supposed to, you know, be released
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from our taboos and hang-ups,
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why can't we go in and touch the Bunnies?
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- Because ife had allowed,
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in those days, anything else,
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we wouldn't have had any Playboy Clubs,
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'cause we had liquor licenses on the line,
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and all we were saying, very simply, was,
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"Separate business from pleasure."
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- Nobody's allowed to touch the Bunnies.
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It's in the manuals.
It's in the books.
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Everybody knew that.
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If a keyholder touched you
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and you went and told your room director,
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his key was tan away,
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and he was thrown out of the club.
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And so it was wonderful, because you felt
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like you were a celebrity,
you were a show girl.
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It was an opportunity for self-esteem
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for a lot of these girls.
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- I went to the Playboy Club
on 59th Street in New York.
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And that was like, "Whoa."
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You know, it was a big deal.
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300, 400 girls would go
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tory out for maybe five spots.
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I really didn't feel
that I was a pretty girl.
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I just didn't believe I had what it took.
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I had a very difficult childhood.
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I was in a shelter at 16 years old and ran away.
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I had severe acne.
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My teeth re rotted out of my mouth.
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There was a lot of bullying,
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a lot of, "You're ugly.
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Who would ever wanna be with you?"
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It was really very difficult.
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I still didn't feel pretty, you know,
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because the ugly on the inside doesn't go away.
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So I take my bikini bathing suit
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and my super high heels,
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and I go for the interview.
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And she says to me, "You saw
your competition out there.
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Why should we hireou?"
And I looked at her.
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I said, "I don't have any competition."
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Well, I got the job.
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Look at this picture.
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It really was a transformation.
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I actually started liking myself more and more
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by being a Bunny.
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I liked the way I looked.
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I liked the way others looked at me.
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I was treated differently.
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- Roseanne, why do you want to be a Bunny?
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- I'm missing out on a lot of things.
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And there's much more in life
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than just being a itress in a restaurant.
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And I could meet a lot of interesting people
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and really do a lot more things.
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- I have cuffs, and I have lighters.
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And I have the original matches.
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I was hirefor the opening of the 1973 Club
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in Los Angeles in Century City.
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I'm not sure it'll be straight,
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but I can do it without a mirror.
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In America back then, for women,
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you were either going to become a schoolteacher,
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or you were goa become a nurse.
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And that was pretty much it.
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I personally wanted to be a veterinarian,
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but my high school counselor
looked at me, and she said,
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"Ladies don't become veterinarians."
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She said, "You're just gonna
get married and have children,
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and you will take ca of your husband's home."
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And I was so stunned, 'cause it took away
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what I wanted passionately mo than anything
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in the whole wide world.
It's all I ever wanted.
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I still think about it every day.
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These are pictures fro.
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I looked maybe like a pretty girl next door.
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If I had hadn't had the job at Playboy,
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I really don't know what would've happened.
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Playboy gave me a lot of confidence,
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and I think some of the other
girls felt the same way.
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- This is a picture of me
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on my first night as a Playboy Bunny.
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My first job.
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Was cigar, cigarette, and camera girl.
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I was actually the third Black Bunny
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to be hired at the LA Cl.
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Hef was very much for integration.
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It was liberating,
because I did come
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from a very puritanical Southern Baptist life.
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I had to go to church, and I had the PO box hat.
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And I sat like this.
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You had to sit with the legs crossed like so.
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So when I was a Bunny,
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I was able to have my sexuality and bekay with it.
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- Before I decided to become a Playboy Bunny,
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I was on my own, a single mother, a student.
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So I had tuition, a baby to raise.
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The salary offer was so much more
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than what I was making with St. John's Hospital
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that it just couldn't touch it,
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so of course I jumped on it.
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I didn't realize that until years later,
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it wasn't really all about beauty,
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because they could make us betiful, and they did.
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It was innocence.
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We knew nothing about anything in the world.
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And I can't explain it to you
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or to anybody else.
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When you worked for Playboy,
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you never really felt anything was gonna go wrong.
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And you just took it for
granted that you're protected.
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There were things that happened.
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Everything wasn't lights, camera, action, happy.
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- It's a juxtaposition when I think
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how ayboy changed my life for the better,
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and how Playboy destroyed
someone else's life forever.
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- Let's picture a gal that
looks like Elizabeth Taylor,
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age 21.
Gorgeous.
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Stunning.
She's at a cocktail party,
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and you're gonna be taken over
to be introduced to her.
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Stunning. She's at a cocktail party, And you
expect someone that has everything going for her,
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who's that beautiful, to be rather aloof and say,
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"Oh, yes, awfully nice to meet you,"
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and back to r conversation.
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And let's say, as you're being brought over
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to be introduced to her, suddenly she turns to you,
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has this big grin, looks right in the eye,
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ansays, "Hi, my name is Betty."
258
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That's the kind of dise
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that we want to happen evy time
260
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a Bunny comes up to a table.
261
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- Playboy allowed men to indulge in the fantasy
262
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of what their life might look
like if they were wealthy.
263
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It's these beautiful,
extremely young, buxom women,
264
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that, in the role of Bunny,
265
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somehow seem like they're primed for service.
266
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- The perception of what a Bunny is
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glamor.
268
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- It wasn't for everybody.
269
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You went through basic training,
270
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and it was grueling.
271
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- My arms would be black and blue all the time
272
00:13:17,704 --> 00:13:22,217
just trying to negotiate the tray in your hand
273
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to not knock it over left or right.
274
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- matter where you were,
275
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had to know every drink
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and the call letters of every
drink, and what went in.
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- If you didn't call your drinks in properly,
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you know what happened to you?
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Boom.
They knocked your tray down,
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and you had to start all over
and go in the back of the line.
281
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Scotch. Canadian.
Bourn. Blended.
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- Rye. Irish. Gin. Vodka.
283
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- Rum. Tequila.
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- Mix, blended, cream, beer, wine, exotic drinks,
285
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and Irish coffee.
286
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- Now, when she places this one, you notice
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that she is doing what we call a Bunny Dip.
288
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There you notice that she's bending at the waist.
289
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That's incorrect.
290
00:14:01,915 --> 00:14:05,009
- The Bunny Dip was a very difficult thing to do
291
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You stood all the time with your tray.
292
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And then when you served a cocktail,
293
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your tray was in the left hand,
294
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and you would come back and serve.
295
00:14:17,189 --> 00:14:22,527
- The Bunny image was the Playboy girl next door.
296
00:14:22,603 --> 00:14:26,865
And in that Bunny image, she didn't drink.
297
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She didn't smoke.
She didn't swear.
298
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She didn't date.
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She wasn't really a real person, so to speak.
300
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It was an image.
301
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- Bunny image was everything.
302
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That's what Hefner built the clubs on.
303
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I don't think Hefner meant it to be sexist,
304
00:14:43,874 --> 00:14:47,043
but he had an ime that he was trying to sustain.
305
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- The ladies were very youthful,
306
00:14:50,631 --> 00:14:53,474
because that was our job to stay that way.
307
00:14:53,550 --> 00:14:56,311
You know, I'm still a Bunny.
308
00:14:56,395 --> 00:14:58,396
I will be a Bunny till I die,
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00:14:58,472 --> 00:15:00,806
which I don't plan to die until I'm 102.
310
00:15:02,735 --> 00:15:05,904
- You had a complete check
before you went into svice.
311
00:15:05,979 --> 00:15:08,230
Before you went on the floor,
312
00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,399
you were checked
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for your costume, the way it looked,
314
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the way it fit, and your weight.
315
00:15:15,155 --> 00:15:16,572
- If you gained weight,
316
00:15:16,582 --> 00:15:19,000
you were gonna have a really bad problem,
317
00:15:19,084 --> 00:15:21,577
'cause they weren't gonna
let that costume out for you.
318
00:15:21,662 --> 00:15:23,838
- Tell me how you felt the first time
319
00:15:23,914 --> 00:15:27,258
you put that costume on, how it felt.
320
00:15:27,334 --> 00:15:29,085
- Well, the first time you ever wear a girdle
321
00:15:29,094 --> 00:15:30,753
that's maybe a size smaller than you are,
322
00:15:30,837 --> 00:15:32,338
it's not exactly comfortable,
323
00:15:32,348 --> 00:15:35,266
but you get used to it
just like anything else.
324
00:15:35,342 --> 00:15:37,685
- The stume has metal stays in it.
325
00:15:37,761 --> 00:15:40,262
So it took two people to put it on.
326
00:15:40,272 --> 00:15:42,098
She would have to hold it in the front
327
00:15:42,107 --> 00:15:44,025
and someone would zip it up the back.
328
00:15:44,109 --> 00:15:47,528
And if you gained five pounds,
329
00:15:47,613 --> 00:15:49,021
those 18 metal stays--
330
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You couldn't breathe, lirally.
331
00:15:52,117 --> 00:15:54,535
- A lot of girls had kiey infections,
332
00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:56,704
'cause you were cinched in.
333
00:15:56,780 --> 00:15:59,290
We used to go into the ladies' room
334
00:15:59,366 --> 00:16:01,459
and take our shoes off,
335
00:16:01,535 --> 00:16:03,544
which were encrusted with blood,
336
00:16:03,629 --> 00:16:05,454
and stick them in the toilet bo
337
00:16:05,464 --> 00:16:07,206
and keep flushing it.
338
00:16:07,216 --> 00:16:10,376
It was like a whirlpool to get the swelling down,
339
00:16:10,460 --> 00:16:12,962
and hope that your shoes
could fit back in.
340
00:16:13,046 --> 00:16:14,630
Once a month, we got weighed in.
341
00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:16,307
And there was a char in the Bunny Room
342
00:16:16,383 --> 00:16:17,976
next to the scale,
343
00:16:18,051 --> 00:16:19,310
and it was humiliating.
344
00:16:21,146 --> 00:16:23,940
I think that was part of it
to humiliate these girls,
345
00:16:26,893 --> 00:16:28,310
Everybody could see it.
346
00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,740
And if you were five pounds
over, you had a warning.
347
00:16:32,816 --> 00:16:34,734
If you didn't get it down for next month,
348
00:16:34,743 --> 00:16:37,737
you re suspeed until you got your weight down.
349
00:16:37,821 --> 00:16:40,081
- Good evening, sir.
I'm your Bunny attending.
350
00:16:40,157 --> 00:16:41,499
I'll be serving you tonight.
351
00:16:43,076 --> 00:16:44,585
- Bunnies aren't born.
352
00:16:44,670 --> 00:16:47,338
They're trained, carefully, by a Bunny Mother,
353
00:16:47,414 --> 00:16:49,248
usually a former Bunny.
354
00:16:49,258 --> 00:16:51,083
- This is Training Bunny Leslie.
355
00:16:51,168 --> 00:16:52,334
- Hey.
356
00:16:56,181 --> 00:17:02,603
- I became a Bunny Mother
in 1975, I guess it was.
357
00:17:02,679 --> 00:17:05,523
I was working as a Bunny in Great Gorge.
358
00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:07,775
And I went down a whole flight
of concrete stairs,
359
00:17:07,851 --> 00:17:08,768
and I broke my back.
360
00:17:10,270 --> 00:17:12,947
And when I was ready to go back to work,
361
00:17:13,023 --> 00:17:14,866
I couldn't do a Bunny Dip,
362
00:17:14,941 --> 00:17:16,192
so I transferred
363
00:17:16,201 --> 00:17:17,285
to the New York Club
364
00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:18,953
as the assistant Bunny Mother.
365
00:17:19,029 --> 00:17:22,281
And that's how I came into management.
366
00:17:22,291 --> 00:17:26,210
We had to evaluate them on their appearance.
367
00:17:26,286 --> 00:17:29,464
And we had guideline that all
Bunny Mothers were given.
368
00:17:29,539 --> 00:17:33,051
Crepey skin. Sagging breasts.
369
00:17:33,126 --> 00:17:35,720
Bags under their eyes.
370
00:17:35,796 --> 00:17:37,638
Crooked teeth.
371
00:17:37,714 --> 00:17:40,466
Some really nasty descriptio,
372
00:17:40,476 --> 00:17:43,803
and it was heartbreaking to me,
and I just--I couldn't do it.
373
00:17:43,812 --> 00:17:46,898
I couldn't do it.
I rebelled against it.
374
00:17:46,973 --> 00:17:49,391
I didn't check off if they had crepey skin
375
00:17:49,401 --> 00:17:51,152
or if they had saggy breasts.
376
00:17:51,228 --> 00:17:52,737
You couldn't tell anyhow.
377
00:17:52,813 --> 00:17:54,563
I didn't wanna fire somebody for image.
378
00:17:54,573 --> 00:17:56,315
That stays with you for the rest of your life.
379
00:17:56,325 --> 00:17:57,483
That's a terrible thing.
380
00:17:59,078 --> 00:18:02,238
- Sitting here in 2021,
381
00:18:02,247 --> 00:18:05,750
I can see where many people would've thought
382
00:18:05,826 --> 00:18:10,338
that this was not how to treat wen by saying,
383
00:18:10,422 --> 00:18:12,840
"Well, if your image changes, you're outta here."
384
00:18:12,916 --> 00:18:14,342
And I understand it.
385
00:18:14,417 --> 00:18:17,336
But at the time, the way we were raised
386
00:18:17,420 --> 00:18:19,922
and the times that we were raised in,
387
00:18:19,932 --> 00:18:22,100
we didn't think anything about it
388
00:18:22,175 --> 00:18:23,759
because we didn't know any different.
389
00:18:27,013 --> 00:18:28,430
And that's kind of sad.
390
00:18:31,518 --> 00:18:34,946
- Hefner created illusion,
391
00:18:35,021 --> 00:18:36,781
and it was very important to him.
392
00:18:38,108 --> 00:18:40,526
And that costume was very powerful.
393
00:18:40,536 --> 00:18:41,619
Very powerful.
394
00:18:44,039 --> 00:18:45,623
- Sex. Nymph.
395
00:18:47,284 --> 00:18:50,378
"Sexual nymph" sells.
396
00:18:50,462 --> 00:18:52,296
Think about it.
397
00:18:52,372 --> 00:18:54,966
Everybody knew what that costummet.
398
00:18:55,041 --> 00:18:56,625
- We were probably
399
00:18:56,635 --> 00:18:59,720
some othe most protected women on the planet,
400
00:18:59,796 --> 00:19:04,809
but outside of Playboy
is completely different.
401
00:19:04,885 --> 00:19:06,894
So I was lucky.
402
00:19:06,970 --> 00:19:09,388
But with Jaki, I was shocked
403
00:19:09,398 --> 00:19:11,315
that something bad happened to her.
404
00:19:18,073 --> 00:19:19,481
- It's been over 4years
405
00:19:19,491 --> 00:19:21,993
since I le Playboy,
406
00:19:22,068 --> 00:19:26,488
and in my yoga, I'm still dealing with the way
407
00:19:26,498 --> 00:19:30,668
my body had to form to carry out the function.
408
00:19:32,829 --> 00:19:35,506
The Bunny serve was quite beautiful.
409
00:19:35,582 --> 00:19:36,841
It w like a show.
410
00:19:38,335 --> 00:19:42,013
There's only one time that I felt
411
00:19:42,097 --> 00:19:43,931
like I was gonna put my tray down
412
00:19:44,007 --> 00:19:45,174
and co to fisticuffs.
413
00:19:46,843 --> 00:19:51,680
I had a very traumatic experience with a man.
414
00:19:53,183 --> 00:19:55,684
It wasn't on a Playboy property at all.
415
00:19:57,696 --> 00:19:59,697
I went to this party with a Bunny.
416
00:20:01,858 --> 00:20:03,442
I was drugged and raped.
417
00:20:05,370 --> 00:20:08,197
I would pass out and wake up,
and there was somebody else.
418
00:20:09,791 --> 00:20:11,784
But the only person I do remember--
419
00:20:11,793 --> 00:20:14,545
He was a regular member at the club.
420
00:20:18,124 --> 00:20:21,543
I think, because of my early life,
421
00:20:21,553 --> 00:20:25,723
I have this ability to compartmentalize...
422
00:20:27,050 --> 00:20:29,551
Because, in the segregated world,
423
00:20:29,561 --> 00:20:31,303
you had to keep doing.
424
00:20:31,313 --> 00:20:33,314
Things happen.
425
00:20:33,390 --> 00:20:34,899
You'd fight for yourself.
426
00:20:37,819 --> 00:20:41,906
When I went back to work, I told everybody,
427
00:20:41,990 --> 00:20:44,992
management down, wh had happened,
428
00:20:45,068 --> 00:20:47,662
and that I know it was him.
429
00:20:47,737 --> 00:20:49,914
One day and he came into the club,
430
00:20:49,990 --> 00:20:53,409
and I was in the back, setting up my tray.
431
00:20:55,328 --> 00:20:59,423
And I picked up one of the stem glasses,
432
00:20:59,499 --> 00:21:00,749
and I broke it.
433
00:21:00,759 --> 00:21:03,261
And I came charging into the room,
434
00:21:03,336 --> 00:21:06,839
and the room director caught me
swinging at this guy
435
00:21:06,848 --> 00:21:08,266
and kicking and screaming.
436
00:21:08,341 --> 00:21:09,684
And ey dragged me out,
437
00:21:09,759 --> 00:21:11,769
and they threw him out of the club.
438
00:21:13,438 --> 00:21:15,356
I mean, I would've been in jl,
439
00:21:15,432 --> 00:21:17,683
because I uld've killed him
440
00:21:17,693 --> 00:21:20,111
and had no problems with it.
441
00:21:20,186 --> 00:21:21,687
No problems.
442
00:21:21,697 --> 00:21:23,864
Because probably I'm not the only one
443
00:21:23,940 --> 00:21:25,449
that he would do that to.
444
00:21:28,111 --> 00:21:31,864
People ask me, why didn't I go to the police,
445
00:21:31,873 --> 00:21:33,374
which--
I didn't to the police.
446
00:21:33,450 --> 00:21:36,377
But during that time, as in now,
447
00:21:36,453 --> 00:21:38,370
the female is made the victim.
448
00:21:39,881 --> 00:21:42,541
And so I didn't wanna go through that.
449
00:21:44,627 --> 00:21:47,046
Because it wasn't on Playboy property,
450
00:21:47,055 --> 00:21:50,474
the only thinghey could do
is take his membship away,
451
00:21:50,559 --> 00:21:52,468
and he could not come into the club again.
452
00:21:54,896 --> 00:21:59,900
Playboy, for me, did protect me, did support me,
453
00:21:59,985 --> 00:22:02,987
and in that type of situation,
454
00:22:03,063 --> 00:22:07,408
what the female need is to be believ and supported.
455
00:22:07,484 --> 00:22:08,984
And that's what happened with me.
456
00:22:12,414 --> 00:22:14,832
- I've read your code of behavior for the Bunnies.
457
00:22:14,908 --> 00:22:16,408
And as I understand it,
458
00:22:16,418 --> 00:22:17,826
they're not permitted to go home with patrons
459
00:22:17,836 --> 00:22:19,670
even after they are off duty.
Is that correct?
460
00:22:19,746 --> 00:22:23,174
- All of this requires--and
really the motivation behind it
461
00:22:23,258 --> 00:22:25,751
is really a protection for the girls themselves.
462
00:22:25,761 --> 00:22:29,597
- You can't live under a false security blanket.
463
00:22:29,672 --> 00:22:32,350
As women, we do.
We protect ourselves.
464
00:22:33,685 --> 00:22:35,269
Outside of Playboy,
465
00:22:35,345 --> 00:22:37,679
you have to be more vigilant
466
00:22:37,689 --> 00:22:39,357
about what's going on around you.
467
00:22:40,934 --> 00:22:44,695
- My name is Jim Ellis, and I was a member
468
00:22:44,771 --> 00:22:47,865
of Hugh Hefner's executive protection team
469
00:22:47,941 --> 00:22:51,535
during 1980 and 1981.
470
00:22:51,611 --> 00:22:56,031
The Playboy Club--you know, they had the Bunnies.
471
00:22:56,041 --> 00:22:58,376
These girls--
I mean, they're vulnerable.
472
00:22:58,460 --> 00:23:00,035
They don't have personal security
473
00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:03,381
that's escorting them 24/7.
474
00:23:03,456 --> 00:23:06,717
- Maybe within the club,
you couldn't touch a girl,
475
00:23:06,793 --> 00:23:10,471
but after hours, Bunnies--
They were not protected.
476
00:23:10,547 --> 00:23:13,048
From what I know and what I've been told,
477
00:23:13,058 --> 00:23:14,809
there were many young women
478
00:23:14,884 --> 00:23:18,220
that were assaulted after hours.
479
00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:20,472
Girls were parked outside on the streets
480
00:23:20,557 --> 00:23:22,057
or in a parking lot.
481
00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:24,318
And I was fearful that they would be attacked,
482
00:23:24,394 --> 00:23:25,727
because there were keyholders
483
00:23:25,737 --> 00:23:27,729
that would follow them out to the cars,
484
00:23:27,739 --> 00:23:30,065
and they were carrying cash.
485
00:23:30,075 --> 00:23:33,235
So I asked the general manager
if he could have the busboys
486
00:23:33,245 --> 00:23:36,831
or the bartenders walk
the ladies out to their cars
487
00:23:36,906 --> 00:23:38,666
after a late-hour shift,
488
00:23:38,741 --> 00:23:40,993
and he absolutely refused.
489
00:23:41,077 --> 00:23:42,253
"They're big girls.
490
00:23:42,337 --> 00:23:43,421
They can take care of themselves."
491
00:23:43,423 --> 00:23:44,755
That's what he told me.
492
00:23:46,249 --> 00:23:47,425
But once they left the club,
493
00:23:47,500 --> 00:23:48,926
they were not protected,
494
00:23:49,002 --> 00:23:51,846
especially from the VIPs
495
00:23:51,921 --> 00:23:53,431
that were chosen by Hefner
496
00:23:53,506 --> 00:23:54,932
that had carte blanche.
497
00:24:06,102 --> 00:24:09,521
- Let's see what else we.
498
00:24:09,606 --> 00:24:11,190
Okay.
499
00:24:11,199 --> 00:24:13,358
This was one of the first tal cards from Playboy.
500
00:24:13,443 --> 00:24:14,693
This was a VIP card.
501
00:24:14,703 --> 00:24:15,870
If a member came in
502
00:24:15,945 --> 00:24:17,705
and showed the Bunny this card,
503
00:24:17,780 --> 00:24:20,541
they knew that they were super-duper VIP,
504
00:24:20,625 --> 00:24:22,793
and that they needed to be taken care of very well.
505
00:24:26,456 --> 00:24:29,300
There were mixed messages being a Bunny.
506
00:24:29,375 --> 00:24:32,803
The rules were different
with VIPs and keyholders.
507
00:24:34,473 --> 00:24:35,556
As a Bunny, you weren't allowed
508
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,558
to give your last name out.
509
00:24:37,642 --> 00:24:40,719
You weren't allowed to go out
with a keyholder.
510
00:24:40,803 --> 00:24:43,898
However, there was a double standard.
511
00:24:43,982 --> 00:24:47,309
A VIP celebrity, you were encouraged to mingle with,
512
00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:50,312
you were encouraged to have fun with.
513
00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:53,407
If I knew there was a big VIP party,
514
00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:55,067
I would roll my eyes,
515
00:24:55,076 --> 00:24:57,161
and I would have a conversation with the Bunnies.
516
00:24:57,237 --> 00:24:59,246
"Don't go home with them.
Don't take any phone numbers.
517
00:24:59,331 --> 00:25:01,081
On't listen to their lines.
518
00:25:01,157 --> 00:25:03,751
"They'll all coerce you into going to a party.
519
00:25:03,826 --> 00:25:05,169
Don't do it.
520
00:25:05,253 --> 00:25:07,412
Trust me when I tell you, don't do it."
521
00:25:07,422 --> 00:25:09,915
The number one keyholders
522
00:25:09,999 --> 00:25:12,426
were advertising executives for Playboy.
523
00:25:12,502 --> 00:25:14,586
But it was mostly celebrities,
524
00:25:14,596 --> 00:25:18,682
musicians, directors, producers in Hollywood.
525
00:25:18,758 --> 00:25:20,759
They had carte blanche.
526
00:25:20,843 --> 00:25:23,929
- The men we associated with were all VIPs.
527
00:25:23,939 --> 00:25:25,689
They were all celebrities.
528
00:25:25,765 --> 00:25:29,017
Don Cornelius of "Soul Train"
came in a few times.
529
00:25:29,027 --> 00:25:31,937
And this was when the dio era hit big.
530
00:25:32,021 --> 00:25:34,773
He became extremely popular 0
531
00:25:34,783 --> 00:25:36,617
Everybody loved Don.
532
00:25:36,693 --> 00:25:39,286
He was a presence, a big presence.
533
00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:42,698
Regis Philbin was a regular
in the cabaret room.
534
00:25:42,707 --> 00:25:44,458
Martin Sheen was another one.
535
00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:46,502
Anybody who was who.
536
00:25:51,049 --> 00:25:52,383
- Oh, yeah.
All the time.
537
00:25:56,212 --> 00:25:58,130
- We were very lax when it came to that.
538
00:25:59,299 --> 00:26:00,716
- They could date them.
539
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,551
They could party with them.
540
00:26:02,635 --> 00:26:04,144
They could have dinner with them.
541
00:26:04,220 --> 00:26:05,554
They could go out with them.
542
00:26:05,638 --> 00:26:07,481
They could do whatever they wanted.
543
00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:09,900
We had to entertn them.
We had to take care of them.
544
00:26:09,976 --> 00:26:12,311
We never took money from them.
They never had a bill.
545
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,905
They never were presented a check.
546
00:26:14,990 --> 00:26:17,316
Whatever they wanted, they could get.
547
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,151
There was a terrible thing that happened
548
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,911
at the Great Gorge Resort
549
00:26:20,987 --> 00:26:23,989
with some guys that were pretending to be VIPs.
550
00:26:25,325 --> 00:26:27,084
- The Great Gorge Resort--
551
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,669
It was really
552
00:26:28,745 --> 00:26:31,589
an entertainment mecca for Playboy.
553
00:26:31,664 --> 00:26:34,416
And it was one of a kind.
It really was.
554
00:26:34,426 --> 00:26:36,501
- Hefner promoted Great Gorge
555
00:26:36,511 --> 00:26:39,763
as the ultimate Playboy lifestyle experience.
556
00:26:42,342 --> 00:26:47,596
- At Gre Gorge, there was
an undercurrent of something
557
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,940
that you couldn't put your finr on,
558
00:26:50,016 --> 00:26:52,434
but you knew something happened
559
00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:55,270
that nobody was supposed to talk about.
560
00:26:55,355 --> 00:26:57,531
They were very protective.
561
00:26:57,616 --> 00:27:02,202
There was a gate all the way
around the Bunny dorms.
562
00:27:02,278 --> 00:27:06,123
You couldn't get in there
if you didn't belong there.
563
00:27:06,199 --> 00:27:07,958
Bunnies did not go to the bathroom
564
00:27:08,034 --> 00:27:09,534
in the public bathrooms.
565
00:27:09,619 --> 00:27:12,287
You had to go downstairs, back to the hutch.
566
00:27:12,297 --> 00:27:14,131
You would be fired immediately
567
00:27:14,207 --> 00:27:16,458
if you went into the hotel side of the resort.
568
00:27:16,468 --> 00:27:19,711
I was complaining one day in the hutch
569
00:27:19,721 --> 00:27:23,724
about being so overwhelmingly controlled,
570
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,967
and my mentor at the Playboy Club--
571
00:27:25,977 --> 00:27:27,803
Her name was Lynn--
572
00:27:27,812 --> 00:27:30,147
And she said"Well, there's a reason for that."
573
00:27:32,141 --> 00:27:35,653
Well, I had no idea how good of a reason it was.
574
00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:41,575
About a year or so before I got there,
575
00:27:41,577 --> 00:27:45,496
there were a group of girls who were approached
576
00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:49,500
by some men who came into the resort
577
00:27:49,575 --> 00:27:52,327
and told them they were
big Hollywood producers.
578
00:27:52,337 --> 00:27:55,580
And they wanted them to be in a movie.
579
00:27:55,590 --> 00:27:59,176
And the girls agreed to meet with these men
580
00:27:59,252 --> 00:28:04,348
outside of the Playboy
compound to do this movie.
581
00:28:06,175 --> 00:28:07,843
- "Here's an address,
582
00:28:07,852 --> 00:28:09,344
"bring a bunch of girls with you,
583
00:28:09,354 --> 00:28:10,854
"and come up to this A-frame
584
00:28:10,930 --> 00:28:12,356
up in the mountains in McAfee."
585
00:28:14,684 --> 00:28:17,444
- Some of the girls told other gls.
586
00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:20,355
They all went, thinking
that they were going to be
587
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,533
in a Hollywood production.
588
00:28:22,608 --> 00:28:24,526
- The girls went up there,
and they were drugged.
589
00:28:26,204 --> 00:28:27,788
And they were raped,
590
00:28:27,864 --> 00:28:30,541
and they videotaped them.
591
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,046
- And they were kept there for a couple of days.
592
00:28:43,045 --> 00:28:46,140
- They were told, if they told anybody,
593
00:28:46,224 --> 00:28:49,476
that the videos would go out
and broadcast the videos,
594
00:28:49,552 --> 00:28:52,220
and that their careers would be over,
595
00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:54,398
and their lives would be over.
596
00:28:54,474 --> 00:28:57,476
- They were afraid to tell
Playboy what had happened.
597
00:28:57,485 --> 00:29:01,405
However, it got out, because
the girls talk to each other.
598
00:29:01,489 --> 00:29:05,066
It was so unbelievable
that somethi like that
599
00:29:05,076 --> 00:29:07,903
would happen in a tiny little town
600
00:29:07,905 --> 00:29:09,830
called Great Gorge, NeJersey.
601
00:29:09,906 --> 00:29:12,741
It rocked Playboy's world.
602
00:29:14,660 --> 00:29:20,332
It was not a time that
they would want such a scandal,
603
00:29:20,341 --> 00:29:24,845
because this washe 25th
anniversary of Playboy.
604
00:29:24,921 --> 00:29:26,430
- So all these girls were fired.
605
00:29:26,506 --> 00:29:28,340
They were told to get off the property
606
00:29:28,349 --> 00:29:30,008
and never come back.
607
00:29:30,018 --> 00:29:31,593
They were newbies,
608
00:29:31,603 --> 00:29:33,437
so they didn't have Bunny friends.
609
00:29:33,521 --> 00:29:35,355
They didn't have the senior Bunnies.
610
00:29:35,431 --> 00:29:37,265
They were never offered therapy.
611
00:29:37,275 --> 00:29:40,527
They never went to a doctor.
They never had any help.
612
00:29:40,603 --> 00:29:43,113
These are your employees.
You're not going to help them?
613
00:29:44,690 --> 00:29:46,366
- My understanding is,
614
00:29:46,442 --> 00:29:49,110
they investigated what.
615
00:29:49,195 --> 00:29:52,197
The go were caught and arrested.
616
00:29:52,207 --> 00:29:56,627
And Playboy corporate descended on Great Gorge
617
00:29:56,702 --> 00:30:00,956
and did whatever Playboy had to do at that time
618
00:30:00,965 --> 00:30:07,212
to minimize the result of such a horrible situation
619
00:30:07,222 --> 00:30:09,714
happening at one of their clubs.
620
00:30:09,724 --> 00:30:11,809
I think Playboy, athat time,
621
00:30:11,884 --> 00:30:13,885
was extremely powerful.
622
00:30:13,895 --> 00:30:18,649
And many of the girls never
knew that that had transpired.
623
00:30:18,733 --> 00:30:21,059
It was almost like, "Don't talk about this.
624
00:30:21,069 --> 00:30:22,894
We're not allowed talk aut this."
625
00:30:22,979 --> 00:30:25,814
You could get fired for talking about it.
626
00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:27,491
- We were not allowed to talk about it,
627
00:30:27,575 --> 00:30:28,617
and when you have your Bunny meeting
628
00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:29,734
with all the girls,
629
00:30:29,744 --> 00:30:30,744
you are to tell them
630
00:30:30,820 --> 00:30:33,163
to silence themselves.
631
00:30:33,239 --> 00:30:35,991
Not to bring it up. Not.
632
00:30:38,494 --> 00:30:40,579
- I think about those girls.
633
00:30:40,588 --> 00:30:45,509
They went into it with naivete
and with fun and excitement.
634
00:30:45,593 --> 00:30:49,930
And then to be muffled, discarded,
635
00:30:50,014 --> 00:30:51,423
like it didn't matter?
636
00:30:53,342 --> 00:30:56,094
And you would think that Playboy mht want
637
00:30:56,104 --> 00:31:01,266
to help young ladies
638
00:31:01,350 --> 00:31:04,528
by pparing them for something like that,
639
00:31:04,604 --> 00:31:06,688
but that didn't happen,
640
00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:11,359
because the image of the Playboy Bunny
641
00:31:11,444 --> 00:31:15,205
had to remn sterling silver.
642
00:31:21,045 --> 00:31:24,214
- There were girls that were
silenced after being raped
643
00:31:24,299 --> 00:31:26,884
in parng lots outside the clubs.
644
00:31:26,968 --> 00:31:29,052
And they would go to their Bunny Mothers
645
00:31:29,137 --> 00:31:30,888
and tell the Bunny Mothers, and some wouldn't.
646
00:31:30,963 --> 00:31:33,048
It was a lucrative job.
647
00:31:33,057 --> 00:31:37,802
They were afraid to come forward with a VIP assault.
648
00:31:37,812 --> 00:31:39,387
They would lose their job,
649
00:31:39,397 --> 00:31:41,306
because that's how it worked with Playboy.
650
00:31:41,316 --> 00:31:43,725
You open your mouth, you're outta here.
651
00:31:43,735 --> 00:31:45,485
And there was a constant turnover
652
00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:47,562
of Bunnies, constant.
653
00:31:47,572 --> 00:31:49,814
In the 10 years that I wked for Playboy,
654
00:31:49,824 --> 00:31:52,817
I would venture to say
that there were probably
655
00:31:52,827 --> 00:31:56,738
40 to 50 young women
that were silenced by Playboy
656
00:31:56,748 --> 00:32:00,083
because of abuse, sexual abuse.
657
00:32:00,159 --> 00:32:03,495
I was dating Joe Piastro,
who was the head of security.
658
00:32:03,504 --> 00:32:05,080
And we were part of the cleanup crew.
659
00:32:05,089 --> 00:32:07,666
In other words, if anything scandalo happened,
660
00:32:07,675 --> 00:32:09,927
we had to clean it up so it wouldn't hit the press
661
00:32:10,002 --> 00:32:12,504
and it certainly wouldn't go
to the police department.
662
00:32:12,588 --> 00:32:14,598
And there were scandals in every club.
663
00:32:14,674 --> 00:32:17,184
You weren't allowed
to take them to a hospital.
664
00:32:17,259 --> 00:32:20,428
You had to call Playboy security,
665
00:32:20,438 --> 00:32:23,348
and Playboy security
had to handle everything.
666
00:32:23,358 --> 00:32:25,850
That was the cleanup crew.
667
00:32:25,860 --> 00:32:28,862
- It was a big thing, for Hefner,
668
00:32:28,938 --> 00:32:31,439
to not have that kind ofeat.
669
00:32:31,449 --> 00:32:34,451
He did not want the LAPD coming down on him.
670
00:32:34,527 --> 00:32:37,371
He had a lot of protection within that force.
671
00:32:37,446 --> 00:32:41,291
And the security there were ex-LAPD officers.
672
00:32:41,367 --> 00:32:43,284
- Neil Spots came on board
673
00:32:43,369 --> 00:32:46,380
as the West Coast manager of security.
674
00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:51,885
And Neil was a retired LAPD
intelligence detective.
675
00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:55,472
Neil was a key player within
the intelligence division.
676
00:32:55,556 --> 00:32:58,392
So there's no question at Neil Spot
677
00:32:58,467 --> 00:33:02,062
had his fingers in a lot of pies.
678
00:33:02,064 --> 00:33:04,398
And so if there was anybody
that had the power
679
00:33:04,473 --> 00:33:06,891
to make something go away,
680
00:33:06,901 --> 00:33:08,727
that would be Neil.
681
00:33:10,229 --> 00:33:11,980
- I worked for Playboy,
682
00:33:12,064 --> 00:33:14,241
and I protected the brand.
683
00:33:14,316 --> 00:33:17,152
If a girl had committed an indiscretion
684
00:33:17,236 --> 00:33:19,070
or if she got in trouble,
685
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,239
I would nimize it.
686
00:33:21,249 --> 00:33:22,499
I did damage control.
687
00:33:22,575 --> 00:33:24,325
- Miki Garcia says that she was
688
00:33:24,335 --> 00:33:26,837
part of a cleanup crew
689
00:33:26,912 --> 00:33:28,496
at Playboy.
- Mm-hmm.
690
00:33:28,506 --> 00:33:30,582
- Can you confirm the existence of a cleanup crew?
691
00:33:30,591 --> 00:33:32,333
- Oh, yeah.
692
00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:34,511
That's absolutely true.
693
00:33:34,587 --> 00:33:37,723
She was totally involved in that.
694
00:33:39,008 --> 00:33:43,437
It was a fairly well-kept secret.
695
00:33:43,512 --> 00:33:46,189
When I was first hired,
696
00:33:46,265 --> 00:33:49,693
Joe Piastro sat me down, and he says,
697
00:33:49,769 --> 00:33:54,272
"If you ever go to the 'National Enquirer, '
698
00:33:54,282 --> 00:33:56,691
"if you ever talk to t media
699
00:33:56,701 --> 00:33:59,453
"about anything that you see here,
700
00:33:59,528 --> 00:34:01,371
you're going to wish you hadn't."
701
00:34:03,115 --> 00:34:04,875
And that was part of the deal at Playboy, you know.
702
00:34:06,544 --> 00:34:10,630
You're expected to protect Playboy.
703
00:34:10,706 --> 00:34:14,551
You know, someone would catch wind of it.
704
00:34:14,627 --> 00:34:18,555
But hey, if she's saying stuff to--'re concerned
705
00:34:18,631 --> 00:34:22,133
that she might go to the media,
706
00:34:22,143 --> 00:34:23,635
and that's where the cleanup crew came in.
707
00:34:26,138 --> 00:34:27,731
- If you were at the Mansion,
708
00:34:27,807 --> 00:34:31,726
you were encouraged to talk
and enga with VIPs.
709
00:34:31,736 --> 00:34:33,570
That was the whole point of being up there.
710
00:34:33,646 --> 00:34:36,490
We were all told, "Yeah, go talk to this one.
711
00:34:36,565 --> 00:34:38,742
Go hang out with this one."
712
00:34:38,818 --> 00:34:41,244
There were situations where Bunnies would go up
713
00:34:41,329 --> 00:34:43,663
to the Mansion whether they were drun
714
00:34:43,739 --> 00:34:46,500
cursing, drugged up,
715
00:34:46,575 --> 00:34:50,829
having sex in the bushes with VIPs.
716
00:34:50,913 --> 00:34:54,165
We had to cleathem up, straighten them out,
717
00:34:54,175 --> 00:34:56,501
and the Playboy limo would take them home.
718
00:34:58,096 --> 00:35:00,263
- My name is Russell Miller, and I wrote
719
00:35:00,348 --> 00:35:04,434
"Bunny: The Real Story of Playboy" in 1984.
720
00:35:04,510 --> 00:35:06,937
At the time I was doing the book,
721
00:35:07,012 --> 00:35:12,609
I probably interviewed
between 15 and 20 ex-Bunnies.
722
00:35:12,685 --> 00:35:15,362
The Bunnies that I talked to all told
723
00:35:15,446 --> 00:35:17,021
more or less the same story.
724
00:35:18,783 --> 00:35:22,119
It was an experience
they wouldn't want to repeat.
725
00:35:22,194 --> 00:35:24,946
You know, Hefner often wanted
726
00:35:24,956 --> 00:35:26,790
to have anal intercourse with them.
727
00:35:26,866 --> 00:35:28,959
A lot of them hadn't had that experience before,
728
00:35:29,034 --> 00:35:30,710
and didn't like it,
729
00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:33,964
and felt somehow that they
weren't sort of good enough
730
00:35:34,039 --> 00:35:35,298
for even a cuddle,
731
00:35:35,374 --> 00:35:39,469
but it was just this mechanical act,
732
00:35:39,554 --> 00:35:42,297
which was unpleasant and painful.
733
00:35:42,306 --> 00:35:44,465
- A lot of the women were sodomized,
734
00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:47,310
because they didn't want to get them pregnant.
735
00:35:47,395 --> 00:35:50,305
When the men finished off, they just left them.
736
00:35:50,314 --> 00:35:51,982
Dropped them off.
Left them.
737
00:35:54,226 --> 00:35:55,986
No woman deserves to be treated
738
00:35:56,061 --> 00:35:58,071
like a piece of meat.
739
00:35:58,147 --> 00:36:00,657
You're supposed to protect these girls.
740
00:36:00,741 --> 00:36:03,660
I was angry.
I couldn't believe it.
741
00:36:06,155 --> 00:36:08,907
The culture of Playboy was fun and games,
742
00:36:08,916 --> 00:36:11,001
and they could do whatever they wanted to do.
743
00:36:11,076 --> 00:36:13,003
Bunnies were easy prey.
744
00:36:18,417 --> 00:36:20,668
- Yeah, there was--there was a really bad thing
745
00:36:20,678 --> 00:36:24,431
that happened with two of these young Bunnies
746
00:36:24,506 --> 00:36:28,676
and a major VIP keyholder.
747
00:36:28,686 --> 00:36:32,680
And this story was a story
of a massive cleanup
748
00:36:32,765 --> 00:36:34,691
that never hit the press.
749
00:36:34,767 --> 00:36:37,435
It was probably the most horrific story
750
00:36:37,445 --> 00:36:38,987
I've ever heard in Playboy.
751
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,278
- Two of my baby Bunnies--
And I call them baby Bunnies
752
00:36:47,288 --> 00:36:49,039
'cause they were 20 and 21 years old
753
00:36:49,114 --> 00:36:51,115
or 21 and 22 years old.
754
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,367
They were sisters,
755
00:36:52,376 --> 00:36:53,710
and I hired them on the spot
756
00:36:53,786 --> 00:36:55,795
'cause they were absolutely adorable.
757
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,622
They just got done training,
758
00:36:57,632 --> 00:36:59,540
and they were excited to be
759
00:36:59,550 --> 00:37:01,718
in California and to Hollywood.
760
00:37:01,802 --> 00:37:03,378
And theyent to Carlos 'N Charlie's,
761
00:37:03,387 --> 00:37:05,880
which was the place
that everybody went to
762
00:37:05,965 --> 00:37:07,799
to dance and to have fun.
763
00:37:07,808 --> 00:37:10,385
Don Cornelius, who was well known for being
764
00:37:10,469 --> 00:37:12,145
the host of "Soul Train,"
765
00:37:12,221 --> 00:37:14,305
was there in the VIP area.
766
00:37:15,557 --> 00:37:16,891
- And welcome aboard.
767
00:37:16,901 --> 00:37:19,569
I can guarantee you'll enjoy the ride.
768
00:37:19,645 --> 00:37:23,573
- Don Cornelius was a Playboy VIP gold member.
769
00:37:23,658 --> 00:37:25,984
And he iited the baby Bunnies
770
00:37:25,993 --> 00:37:27,568
to sit in his booth
771
00:37:27,653 --> 00:37:29,162
and had drinks with them.
772
00:37:29,238 --> 00:37:31,739
And then he invited them
to go back to his house,
773
00:37:31,749 --> 00:37:33,416
'cause he was going to have a party.
774
00:37:33,501 --> 00:37:37,245
And they decided to go to the party,
775
00:37:37,329 --> 00:37:39,664
thinking it was just a party.
776
00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:43,176
And it was encouraged
to take care of the big VIPs.
777
00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:44,919
And Don Cornelius--
778
00:37:45,004 --> 00:37:46,838
He had been in the club many times,
779
00:37:46,847 --> 00:37:48,348
many people saw him,
780
00:37:48,424 --> 00:37:51,685
so they di't have any fear at the time.
781
00:37:51,769 --> 00:37:54,854
And these two young girls
got in his Rolls Royce
782
00:37:54,930 --> 00:37:56,606
and went up to his house.
783
00:37:56,682 --> 00:37:59,851
And we didn't hear from em for three days
784
00:37:59,935 --> 00:38:02,112
and couldn't figure out where they were.
785
00:38:02,187 --> 00:38:05,106
These two young Bunnies
re at Don Cornelius' house,
786
00:38:05,116 --> 00:38:06,691
and they were separate
787
00:38:06,701 --> 00:38:08,276
One was locked in one room,
788
00:38:08,286 --> 00:38:11,529
and the other was in another room,
789
00:38:11,539 --> 00:38:13,448
tied up and bound.
790
00:38:13,457 --> 00:38:15,950
Anthe sister could hear her screaming.
791
00:38:16,035 --> 00:38:21,131
And there were wooden objects
that she was sodomized with.
792
00:38:21,206 --> 00:38:24,625
And she could hear her
other sister being brutalized.
793
00:38:24,710 --> 00:38:28,221
It was horrible.
Horrible.
794
00:38:28,297 --> 00:38:29,797
One of the girls managed to get out
795
00:38:29,882 --> 00:38:31,057
and make a phone call
796
00:38:31,133 --> 00:38:32,809
to the Bun Mother at the time.
797
00:38:32,811 --> 00:38:37,147
And as Playboy rules were,
you uldn't call the police.
798
00:38:37,222 --> 00:38:39,807
You call the Mansion and Joe Piastro.
799
00:38:39,817 --> 00:38:42,235
And they went and got the Bunnies
800
00:38:42,311 --> 00:38:45,646
bloody, battered, drugged.
801
00:38:45,656 --> 00:38:49,492
And that's when Playboy security takes over.
802
00:38:51,829 --> 00:38:53,321
The Bunny Mother at the time
803
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:56,499
was my assistant before I moved to Chicago,
804
00:38:56,584 --> 00:38:59,336
and she was part of the cleanup crew,
805
00:38:59,411 --> 00:39:01,171
and she had to clean up these girls.
806
00:39:01,255 --> 00:39:03,664
She wasn't allowed to take them to a hospital.
807
00:39:03,674 --> 00:39:05,675
She had to take care of these young women
808
00:39:05,751 --> 00:39:08,419
and to keep it out of the press.
809
00:39:08,504 --> 00:39:10,513
And I think Hefner knew all about this.
810
00:39:12,433 --> 00:39:15,185
Because Joe Piastro told me he had to do a report
811
00:39:15,260 --> 00:39:17,854
every single day if anything happened.
812
00:39:17,938 --> 00:39:20,848
And Hefner read the security reports.
813
00:39:20,858 --> 00:39:24,778
- Security there was not about making sure
814
00:39:24,853 --> 00:39:25,937
these girls were safe.
815
00:39:25,946 --> 00:39:27,355
It was about making sure
816
00:39:27,365 --> 00:39:28,940
that the guests didn't do anything
817
00:39:28,949 --> 00:39:30,691
that Hefner would not have wanted them to do,
818
00:39:30,776 --> 00:39:32,860
the same way if you go to a nightclub,
819
00:39:32,870 --> 00:39:35,696
the security guards there are not there
820
00:39:35,706 --> 00:39:38,950
to make sure that you get home intact.
821
00:39:38,959 --> 00:39:41,961
They're there to make sure
at the club remains intact,
822
00:39:42,037 --> 00:39:43,880
at this property is intact.
823
00:39:43,956 --> 00:39:46,624
Why would we believe that the safety
824
00:39:46,634 --> 00:39:49,052
and the security
of these women we a priority
825
00:39:49,128 --> 00:39:51,471
when we have so much evidence
to the contrary?
826
00:39:51,547 --> 00:39:53,306
- I blame myself a lot.
827
00:39:53,382 --> 00:39:56,476
I have such guilt about not coming forward,
828
00:39:56,552 --> 00:39:59,887
but I knew that the establishment
829
00:39:59,972 --> 00:40:01,898
wouldn't allow me toome forward.
830
00:40:01,974 --> 00:40:06,152
And who's going to believe me?
Nobody's going to believe me.
831
00:40:06,228 --> 00:40:07,821
These girls didn't want to come forward.
832
00:40:07,905 --> 00:40:09,480
I asked them.
833
00:40:09,565 --> 00:40:12,316
For these young girls,
what they went through,
834
00:40:12,326 --> 00:40:14,735
you--nobody has any idea.
835
00:40:14,745 --> 00:40:17,405
My job was to pick up the pieces.
836
00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:19,666
I had to pick up the pieces of these kids.
837
00:40:19,750 --> 00:40:21,909
They were kids.
838
00:40:21,994 --> 00:40:23,661
Hefner definitely knew.
839
00:40:23,671 --> 00:40:25,496
Knew all the time.
He knew.
840
00:40:25,506 --> 00:40:27,924
- Hugh Hefner, are you a moral person?
841
00:40:28,008 --> 00:40:30,668
- Well, that is a part of my life
842
00:40:30,678 --> 00:40:34,088
which is particularly important to me.
843
00:40:34,098 --> 00:40:36,340
So many of my dreams ha come true,
844
00:40:36,350 --> 00:40:38,176
and with it, obviously,
has come wealth and celebrity
845
00:40:38,185 --> 00:40:39,844
and a great deal of power.
846
00:40:39,854 --> 00:40:41,688
And it is in a situation like that
847
00:40:41,763 --> 00:40:45,358
when you really begin to find
out who you are as a person
848
00:40:45,434 --> 00:40:47,026
and you begin to really find out
849
00:40:47,102 --> 00:40:49,353
what your morality is r.
850
00:40:49,438 --> 00:40:53,199
And one of thehings that is most important to me
851
00:40:53,275 --> 00:40:54,617
is the way that I handle that.
852
00:40:58,363 --> 00:41:02,366
- I feel very bad that I had
to keep my mouth closed
853
00:41:02,376 --> 00:41:06,037
when I wanteto cuddle
these girls and take them home
854
00:41:06,046 --> 00:41:07,714
and get them some therap
855
00:41:07,789 --> 00:41:09,707
and get them some medical care,
856
00:41:09,717 --> 00:41:13,461
not just ship them off like they were trash.
857
00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:16,055
The thing that was so outrageous to me,
858
00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:21,227
that made meo angry,
is that no charges were filed,
859
00:41:21,312 --> 00:41:25,223
and Don Cornelius' privileges
as a number one VIP
860
00:41:25,232 --> 00:41:26,649
was never suspended.
861
00:41:26,725 --> 00:41:29,402
He was back in the club the following week.
862
00:41:29,478 --> 00:41:32,897
Back in the club the following week.
863
00:41:32,907 --> 00:41:36,743
- I think a moral person is one
who approaches his life
864
00:41:36,827 --> 00:41:44,827
or her life in a way that itas a positive influence,
865
00:41:45,661 --> 00:41:47,504
before you were there.
866
00:41:47,579 --> 00:41:50,507
I'm the most moral millionaire
that I've ever known.
867
00:41:52,417 --> 00:41:54,085
- As a Bunny, you felt powerful,
868
00:41:54,169 --> 00:41:57,180
you felt glamorous, you felt attractive,
869
00:42:00,684 --> 00:42:03,269
could be a liability
870
00:42:03,345 --> 00:42:05,263
when you took it off.
871
00:42:05,347 --> 00:42:08,274
You lost your power without the costume.
872
00:42:08,350 --> 00:42:10,109
Didn't have protection.
873
00:42:40,891 --> 00:42:42,216
- I heard the rumors that you could get
874
00:42:42,301 --> 00:42:43,718
whatever you wanted in the Mansion.
875
00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:45,562
If you wanted marijuana, you could get it.
876
00:42:45,637 --> 00:42:47,722
If you wanted cocaine, you could get it.
877
00:42:47,731 --> 00:42:52,310
- Playboy was a natural target
for law enforcement.
878
00:42:52,319 --> 00:42:55,738
- Bobbie Arnstein was arrested
outside the Playboy Mansion.
879
00:42:55,814 --> 00:42:57,657
- And she was accused of conspiracy
880
00:42:57,733 --> 00:42:59,483
to distribute cocaine.
881
00:42:59,568 --> 00:43:03,246
- All they wanted her for was to flip on Hef.
882
00:43:03,322 --> 00:43:06,583
- Narcotics agents frequently
use our severe drug laws
883
00:43:06,658 --> 00:43:08,576
in an arbitrary and capricious manner
884
00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:11,245
to elicit the desired testimony for a trial.
885
00:43:11,255 --> 00:43:14,007
- The feds suspected that both Bobbie Arnstein
886
00:43:14,082 --> 00:43:16,000
and my sister, Adrienne,
887
00:43:16,084 --> 00:43:19,178
were involved in trafficking drugs for Playboy.
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