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- America's public enemy
number one
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in the united states
is drug abuse.
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- I've learned in a couple
of letters to the editor
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that playboy is responsible
for everything,
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from vietnam
to drug problems.
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- Drugs were rampant
at hefner's mansion.
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[tense music]
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- who's gonna bring
these drugs to hef?
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He didn't go anywhere,
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and he wasn't gonna
go get them himself.
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- Ms. Arnstein died
of a drug overdose,
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but police officials
still aren't sure
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if it was accidental.
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- The feds suspected that both
bobbie arnstein and my sister,
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adrienne--
she was a playboy bunny--
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were involved in
trafficking drugs for playboy.
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- The federal authorities
were trying
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to get bobbie
to claim that
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somehow hefner was involved
in that cocaine smuggling.
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- Many thought that
she committed suicide
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because she felt pressure
to turn against hefner.
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- Why is that so many
powerful, influential men
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have in their story
the tragic death of a woman
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or, in hefner's case, women,
and we don't talk about it?
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[dramatic music]
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- my name is hugh hefner.
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I'm editor-publisher
of "playboy" magazine.
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- When 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 on the whole world.
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- The fantasy of playboy
that he created
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did not allow
for the consent of the women.
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- When it came
to hefner's buddies,
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you had to keep
those secrets quiet.
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- What have you got for free?
- [chuckles nervously]
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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 suffered
the most at his hands.
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all right.
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Down, bella. Down.
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Hef and I, we were together
from August of '76 to '81.
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When I first met hef,
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I spent most of my time
with him
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and his best friend, johnny,
out in the game house.
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And their conversation
was about bobbie arnstein.
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Before I met him,
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bobbie arnstein was hef's
social secretary in chicago.
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A very big part of his life.
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She knew all his secrets.
I mean, they were very close.
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And I never met her,
but I heard the stories.
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The police,
they had got ahold of her,
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and she was being forced
to testify
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regarding drugs
at the mansion,
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and rather than do this,
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she killed herself.
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And I'm going, "wow.
Wow, that poor girl."
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but then there's joni,
hef's social secretary,
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who knew her.
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Joni was the one that
really got me questioning it
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because she was really close
to bobbie.
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She was as inside
as you could get.
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Joni would say,
"she didn't kill herself."
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and I'm thinking,
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"well, what do you mean,
she didn't kill herself?"
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I've wondered about
what really happened to bobbie
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for years.
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Why was hef never upset
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when he talked about bobbie
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even though they had been
very, very close?
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Did bobbie run drugs for hef?
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- the bobbie arnstein case
still haunts me.
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I was a detective in
the chicago police department.
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We were responsible
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for the northeast quadrant
of the city,
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and playboy was
in the northeast quadrant
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of the city.
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- Law enforcement
was looking at playboy
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because
they were the epitome
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of the deterioration
of our culture.
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That was how they looked at it.
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And it was basically the start
of the real war on drugs,
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they used to call it.
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People thought
this was the den of evil,
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and they just thought
playboy needed
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to be shut down
and squashed.
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- So in the early '70s,
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cocaine really exploded
in the city of chicago.
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It was everywhere.
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I heard the rumors that you
could get whatever you wanted
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in the mansion.
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If you wanted marijuana,
you could get it.
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If you wanted cocaine,
you could get it.
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So somebody had
to bring it in there.
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And was it bobbie?
I don't know.
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The dea thought it was her.
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She was a target because
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of her association
with playboy and hefner.
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they searched her, and they
found cocaine in her purse.
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They brought her
into federal court.
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Everybody thought,
ooh, wow.
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Dea's really
got a whopper here.
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I mean, they got the--
hugh hefner's right-hand gal.
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- The federal authorities
were trying
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to get bobbie
to claim that
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somehow hefner was involved
in that cocaine smuggling,
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but I can tell you,
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illegal drugs were not
the major scene there.
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Bobbie was hef's
closest executive assistant.
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I considered her
my closest friend in the world.
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I've spent the majority
of my adult life
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working to legalize
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the responsible use
of marijuana by adults.
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This was a "playboy" interview
they did of me in 1977.
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if we could get over
the symbolism,
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I think everybody agrees
it doesn't really make sense
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to send a marijuana smoker
to jail.
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I met bobbie arnstein
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the very first time
I went to chicago
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to meet
with the playboy foundation
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at the playboy mansion.
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When you were
at the mansion,
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it was like you were at some
sort of a hollywood party.
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And bobbie arnstein
made it happen.
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She made sure anybody who
needed whatever would have it.
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And we hit it off and became
very close friends for--
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well, for the rest of her life.
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Whenever I would go out
to see hefner,
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I would say with bobbie in
her apartment in the mansion,
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and she would say, "okay, let's
go down to the pinball room."
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and hef would join us,
and we'd spend several hours
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smoking weed
and playing pinball.
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And I thought she was the most
sophisticated and sexy woman
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I had ever met in my life.
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- I was a bunny girl,
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a playmate of the year, 1973.
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When I became
miss January 1972,
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that was the first time
I met bobbie,
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and we sort of clicked!
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She was not a standard beauty,
but stylish.
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When she was getting ready
to go for a date,
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she would say,
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"mm, can I borrow your legs
tonight, marilyn?"
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and we'd laugh.
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I think bobbie had
a very special gift
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in the sense that
she balanced everything.
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And I didn't realize
all the responsibility
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that she had to bear.
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she knew about
all his girlfriends.
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She was just
naturally discreet
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and knew
how to smooth things over.
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And when I was with her
in her apartment,
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and hef would
occasionally turn up.
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and she immediately
switched on,
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and he would invariably end up
laughing and feeling better,
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and he would just leave.
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- One of bobbie's jobs,
not the most important
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but one
that I always appreciated,
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was that hef insisted
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that she keep a box full
of nice, hand-rolled joints
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on his bedstand
in his private quarters.
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I saw occasionally
amphetamines,
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but I never saw cocaine
used in the mansion
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other than when bobbie and I
would occasionally
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snort a line of coke
from a half a gram she had.
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But I will say this:
We were very careful
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to keep it out of hef's view
or knowledge
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or anybody else
in the mansion.
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I was alerted that if hef
or any of his people
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ever see or hear cocaine,
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you'll never enter
this building again.
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And I think
that was a real rule.
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I don't think
it was just pr.
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But the federal authorities,
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they were fully convinced
that the playboy empire,
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with all its hipness
and its relevance
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and its modernity,
they must be snorting cocaine.
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- They wanted hefner,
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dea and fbi especially.
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They thought, hefner's running
drugs, and he's the supplier,
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that there's drugs
all over the place.
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- so they arrested
bobbie arnstein.
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- she was accused of conspiracy
to distribute cocaine.
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- when I was
a very young lawyer,
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I was asked to work with
a more senior lawyer in my firm
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representing bobbie arnstein.
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And, I mean,
the government was zealous
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in trying
to prosecute these cases.
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They had wiretaps on bobbie's
phone in the playboy mansion.
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They picked up
on these wiretaps
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some occasional discussion
of drugs,
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but not drug dealing
involving bobbie,
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just, "can you get me
some x, y or z?"
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- she had met a new man
that she was seeing,
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and he was a drug dealer.
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His whole life, essentially,
was dealing cocaine.
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Bobbie arnstein was arrested
outside the playboy mansion
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with a small amount of cocaine
in her purse.
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any state in the country
during those years,
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if you were busted
with a half pound of cocaine,
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you're gonna spend
10 to 20 years in prison,
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and she realized
she was in a heap of trouble.
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- they brought her
into federal court.
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They wanted her
to turn around and say,
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"I bring the dope
to hugh hefner."
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[tense music]
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- this is a commendation from
the state's attorney's office.
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"this letter
is sent to you
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to inform you
of the excellent work
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"that investigator dave reuben
has provided.
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"he's been assigned some very
difficult and sensitive cases,
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such as the playboy case."
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I haven't seen this
in...A long time.
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I was an investigator
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for the cook county
state's attorney's office
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in chicago in
the special prosecutions unit.
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hefner was on everybody's list
at that point
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in the federal agencies.
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The bobbie arnstein's case
was already being made,
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and you had a conversation
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with anybody
in law enforcement,
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they just thought
playboy needed
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to be shut down
and squashed.
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I was told
that adrienne pollack
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was a playboy bunny
in the playboy club
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that died of a drug overdose
in 1973,
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and basically, she was
running drugs on some level.
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Our office decided,
"let's reopen
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"the adrienne pollack case
and take a look at it
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"because there may be more
involving hugh hefner, drugs,
255
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other crimes potentially,
conspiracies."
256
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this was the backdoor way for
the state's attorney's office
257
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to get involved
in the playboy investigation.
258
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♪ ♪
259
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so I went out,
and I do remember the family.
260
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They welcomed us and gave us
kind of the backstory
261
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of adrienne pollack's
development
262
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that led to her
going to work for playboy.
263
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♪ ♪
264
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- adrienne claudette
is her official name,
265
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adrienne claudette-pollack.
266
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However, growing up,
we called her addie.
267
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My sister was a little bit
of a rebel and adventurous,
268
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and she was somebody
who walks into the room
269
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and just lights up.
270
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I want to show you
some things
271
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that I've collected
over the years.
272
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All of these boxes
are her items.
273
00:12:49,970 --> 00:12:51,930
So here are bunny ears
274
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that my sister actually wore
working for playboy.
275
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Different costumes,
different colors.
276
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This was part of her
initial outfit that she had.
277
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This was her initial shot
that was done in July of 1972.
278
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♪ ♪
279
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- addie was very daring,
funny, fearless.
280
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♪ ♪
281
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this is my wedding,
282
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and this is my sister, addie,
in the blonde here on the end.
283
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She was really pretty,
and, I mean,
284
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she had a nice figure
and everything.
285
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She was hired immediately.
286
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♪ ♪
287
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- she lived
in the playboy mansion
288
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pretty much
from the get-go.
289
00:13:40,650 --> 00:13:43,280
It was hard.
I think it was really tough.
290
00:13:43,390 --> 00:13:46,720
She didn't talk much
about being a bunny.
291
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She did have
some experiences.
292
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Men would try
to pull off the tail
293
00:13:51,660 --> 00:13:54,960
or be, you know,
aggressive.
294
00:13:55,060 --> 00:13:56,900
- Bunnies come,
and bunnies go,
295
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but there are always 100 girls
on the application list
296
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waiting for a chance
to enter the playboy world.
297
00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:04,800
♪ ♪
298
00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:15,480
- I think there was,
like, an excitement
299
00:14:15,580 --> 00:14:17,620
because there were
a lot of stars that came.
300
00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,150
One morning, she had breakfast
with warren beatty.
301
00:14:21,260 --> 00:14:23,720
But then she also,
after a while,
302
00:14:23,830 --> 00:14:27,130
got tired
of living in a dorm
303
00:14:27,230 --> 00:14:29,500
with other girls
who would take her things.
304
00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,470
She wanted to be
her own separate individual,
305
00:14:32,570 --> 00:14:33,870
♪ ♪
306
00:14:33,970 --> 00:14:37,970
and in August of 1973,
307
00:14:38,070 --> 00:14:40,370
she moved out
and got an apartment
308
00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,240
a block and a half away
with her boyfriend.
309
00:14:43,350 --> 00:14:45,680
♪ ♪
310
00:14:45,780 --> 00:14:48,650
August 16th, 1973,
311
00:14:48,750 --> 00:14:51,550
I was sitting on
the front porch of our house.
312
00:14:51,650 --> 00:14:55,720
My sister pulls up
with her boyfriend,
313
00:14:55,820 --> 00:14:57,820
and I was really surprised
to see them.
314
00:14:57,930 --> 00:14:59,430
♪ ♪
315
00:14:59,530 --> 00:15:01,360
my parents
didn't expect it either.
316
00:15:01,460 --> 00:15:03,000
They were in their pajamas.
317
00:15:03,100 --> 00:15:04,430
They came inside.
318
00:15:04,530 --> 00:15:07,500
We sat at the kitchen table,
and we took pictures.
319
00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,400
Then, she's like,
"well, I have to go."
320
00:15:10,510 --> 00:15:11,600
that was the last time
I saw her.
321
00:15:11,710 --> 00:15:14,140
It was her 23rd birthday.
322
00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:15,540
♪ ♪
323
00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:17,980
three weeks later,
I remember sitting outside
324
00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:19,480
with a friend of mine.
325
00:15:19,580 --> 00:15:21,710
We saw a police car,
326
00:15:21,820 --> 00:15:24,780
and then, all of a sudden,
he pulled up to our house.
327
00:15:24,890 --> 00:15:29,360
So I brought him inside,
and he said,
328
00:15:29,460 --> 00:15:34,990
"I'm sorry to tell you,
but your daughter is dead."
329
00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:37,230
♪ ♪
330
00:15:37,330 --> 00:15:39,630
but he didn't have
any specifics.
331
00:15:39,730 --> 00:15:41,670
It's like,
well, what happened?
332
00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:47,110
[tense music]
333
00:15:47,210 --> 00:15:49,410
♪ ♪
334
00:15:49,510 --> 00:15:52,150
- I was 18,
and I cried so much
335
00:15:52,250 --> 00:15:54,550
that my contacts
were just filmed up.
336
00:15:54,650 --> 00:15:56,680
I just couldn't--
337
00:15:56,790 --> 00:15:58,890
I could barely see.
338
00:15:58,990 --> 00:16:01,020
It's like,
how could this be?
339
00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:02,620
♪ ♪
340
00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:07,960
I have an article of clothing
that she passed away in.
341
00:16:08,060 --> 00:16:10,430
I just kept a piece of it.
342
00:16:10,530 --> 00:16:13,600
They said that she died
of a accidental overdose
343
00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:15,400
from quaaludes.
344
00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:18,440
I had no idea she was doing
things like uppers or downers
345
00:16:18,540 --> 00:16:21,210
or anything else.
346
00:16:21,310 --> 00:16:24,980
I was surprised,
in a way,
347
00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:30,580
but I also knew her behavior
had changed over the past year
348
00:16:30,690 --> 00:16:32,050
since she was in "playboy."
349
00:16:32,150 --> 00:16:35,250
there was more questions
than answers.
350
00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,360
- It was absolutely possible
there were major drugs
351
00:16:38,460 --> 00:16:39,790
in the mansion.
352
00:16:39,890 --> 00:16:41,360
♪ ♪
353
00:16:41,460 --> 00:16:44,000
there's a memo that's issued
April 1st, 1974,
354
00:16:44,100 --> 00:16:45,300
from mary o'connor.
355
00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:46,730
She was in charge
of the bunnies,
356
00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,200
pretty much
the house mother.
357
00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:50,640
And in that memo,
she says,
358
00:16:50,740 --> 00:16:53,210
"make sure there's no illegal
drugs on the premises."
359
00:16:53,310 --> 00:16:55,240
they had to anticipate
there was the possibility
360
00:16:55,340 --> 00:16:56,610
of a search warrant.
361
00:16:56,710 --> 00:16:58,710
So they were gonna make sure
if that occurred,
362
00:16:58,810 --> 00:17:00,810
there were no drugs found.
363
00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:04,020
It also implies that
that was a concern
364
00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:06,120
because there were
illegal drugs.
365
00:17:06,220 --> 00:17:09,020
♪ ♪
366
00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:12,430
this is an internal report
from dea,
367
00:17:12,530 --> 00:17:15,290
a report of investigation memo
368
00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:16,960
about an interview
with allen crawford,
369
00:17:17,070 --> 00:17:20,700
the former head of security
for playboy,
370
00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,340
and they have some information
371
00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,340
that there were phony
prescriptions, potentially,
372
00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,270
that were drawn up
so hefner could get drugs.
373
00:17:28,380 --> 00:17:31,010
But the bottom line was,
what can you prove?
374
00:17:31,110 --> 00:17:34,310
♪ ♪
375
00:17:34,420 --> 00:17:37,120
- hef pretended he wasn't
involved in any hard drug use
376
00:17:37,220 --> 00:17:40,220
at the mansion,
but that was just a lie.
377
00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,820
Quaaludes, down the line,
were used for sex.
378
00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:44,260
♪ ♪
379
00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:45,730
everything felt good to touch.
380
00:17:45,830 --> 00:17:49,100
Everything felt soft
and soft-focus, and--
381
00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,560
and it was lovely.
382
00:17:50,670 --> 00:17:53,130
Usually,
you just took a half.
383
00:17:53,230 --> 00:17:56,740
Now, if you took two,
you'd pass out.
384
00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,610
It was such a seduction,
and the men knew this,
385
00:17:59,710 --> 00:18:03,140
that they could get girls to do
just about anything they wanted
386
00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:04,610
if they gave them a quaalude.
387
00:18:04,710 --> 00:18:08,450
♪ ♪
388
00:18:08,550 --> 00:18:12,050
- I worked for hefner
at the playboy mansion in la
389
00:18:12,150 --> 00:18:18,360
from late 1977 to mid-1989.
390
00:18:18,460 --> 00:18:19,760
♪ ♪
391
00:18:19,860 --> 00:18:21,290
quaaludes were--
392
00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:22,860
we called them
the leg-spreaders, you know?
393
00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,830
I mean, and I don't know
that I want to get that crude,
394
00:18:25,930 --> 00:18:29,170
but that is what the whole
point of them was, you know?
395
00:18:29,270 --> 00:18:32,310
They were a necessary evil,
if you will, to the partying.
396
00:18:32,410 --> 00:18:35,780
We would have prescriptions
in some of our names.
397
00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,580
There were prescriptions
in sondra's name,
398
00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,720
and hef's name,
and my name.
399
00:18:42,820 --> 00:18:45,020
There was a prescription
in mary's name.
400
00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:47,820
We kept a desk calendar
that just would say, you know,
401
00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,320
"lisa's q," or "hef's q,"
or sondra's q."
402
00:18:51,430 --> 00:18:54,890
that enabled certainly four
403
00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,130
and sometimes
five different prescriptions
404
00:18:57,230 --> 00:19:02,540
for the same medication
to feed the machine.
405
00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:08,440
- To hef's bedroom,
to his personal drawer.
406
00:19:08,540 --> 00:19:11,010
He had a drawer that
none of us had access to.
407
00:19:11,110 --> 00:19:13,650
We gave them directly to hef.
Then, there were--
408
00:19:13,750 --> 00:19:15,850
there was the dexedrine,
the speed that he took
409
00:19:15,950 --> 00:19:17,620
that was not
in everyone else's names.
410
00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,350
It was probably only in mine
and mary's and hef's.
411
00:19:20,460 --> 00:19:22,160
Dexedrine was a speed.
412
00:19:22,260 --> 00:19:24,760
It was a pretty popular
diet pill back in the day,
413
00:19:24,860 --> 00:19:29,760
and amphetamine,
and I think that it was fuel.
414
00:19:29,860 --> 00:19:31,100
When hef would take dexedrine,
415
00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,600
he always took a little
every day.
416
00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:35,400
He couldn't swallow a pill,
so he chewed it.
417
00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:37,140
He would always, like,
break off a little piece and--
418
00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:38,470
then wrap it into tissue
419
00:19:38,570 --> 00:19:40,240
and stick it in the top pocket
of his pajamas.
420
00:19:40,340 --> 00:19:42,580
Cocaine was a big deal.
421
00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,750
I can remember at a couple
of the larger parties,
422
00:19:46,850 --> 00:19:50,620
there was a downstairs powder
room off of the great hall
423
00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:56,920
that, underneath
the ornate toilet paper holder,
424
00:19:57,030 --> 00:19:58,690
you would lift that up,
and there was a pile of cocaine
425
00:19:58,790 --> 00:20:01,630
underneath there.
[laughs]
426
00:20:01,730 --> 00:20:06,270
I remember asking once,
"where is he getting this?"
427
00:20:06,370 --> 00:20:09,170
you know, 'cause
he doesn't leave the property.
428
00:20:09,270 --> 00:20:10,800
Where is this coming from?
429
00:20:10,910 --> 00:20:13,710
[cheers and applause]
430
00:20:13,810 --> 00:20:15,980
- the first time
I did cocaine came
431
00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,540
when we did the schlong show
for his birthday,
432
00:20:18,650 --> 00:20:19,850
and I had to sing.
433
00:20:19,950 --> 00:20:25,180
♪ mama doesn't even
have an inkling ♪
434
00:20:25,290 --> 00:20:28,050
♪ that we're working here
at hefner's ♪
435
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,290
♪ in a pair of lacy pants ♪
[laughter]
436
00:20:32,390 --> 00:20:35,260
but I was nervous because
nobody had heard me sing.
437
00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:38,430
So someone said,
"what you need is a bump."
438
00:20:38,530 --> 00:20:39,700
and I said,
"what's a bump?"
439
00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,170
and somebody is going,
"she doesn't know."
440
00:20:42,270 --> 00:20:45,200
they go, "some cocaine!"
and I said, "cocaine?"
441
00:20:45,310 --> 00:20:47,440
[laughs]
cocaine?
442
00:20:47,540 --> 00:20:49,910
♪ ♪
443
00:20:50,010 --> 00:20:51,510
and in the beginning,
it was fun.
444
00:20:51,610 --> 00:20:54,110
♪ ♪
445
00:20:54,220 --> 00:20:56,050
there was drugs everywhere.
446
00:20:56,150 --> 00:20:58,280
John dante
was hef's best friend,
447
00:20:58,390 --> 00:21:00,890
and dante's little dog,
louis,
448
00:21:00,990 --> 00:21:04,160
who was a little tiny poodle,
got hooked on cocaine.
449
00:21:04,260 --> 00:21:07,030
And the dog would smell it
from across the room,
450
00:21:07,130 --> 00:21:10,860
and a very famous person walked
in the game house one night.
451
00:21:10,970 --> 00:21:14,770
And that little dog jumped
off the couch and was--
452
00:21:14,870 --> 00:21:18,000
he was like superdog,
flew to that person,
453
00:21:18,110 --> 00:21:20,870
up that person's arm
and was licking the nose.
454
00:21:20,980 --> 00:21:23,340
And she's like,
"oh, he just loves me!"
455
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,580
and we're all going,
"mm-hmm. Yeah, sure."
456
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,680
we knew
why that dog was on her,
457
00:21:29,780 --> 00:21:31,920
and he had to lock that dog up
when people were around
458
00:21:32,020 --> 00:21:35,020
because it was addicted
to the cocaine, and--
459
00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:37,790
people you wouldn't even think
were doing it were doing it.
460
00:21:37,890 --> 00:21:39,930
So who's gonna bring
these drugs to him?
461
00:21:40,030 --> 00:21:41,130
He didn't go anywhere,
462
00:21:41,230 --> 00:21:42,700
and he wasn't gonna go
get them himself.
463
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,230
♪ ♪
464
00:21:44,330 --> 00:21:47,270
- at the time in la,
when I was there,
465
00:21:47,370 --> 00:21:49,370
there were bowls
of quaaludes.
466
00:21:49,470 --> 00:21:53,070
There were huge vials
of cocaine.
467
00:21:53,170 --> 00:21:57,110
And then, when I transferred
to the chicago playboy club,
468
00:21:57,210 --> 00:21:59,050
there were a lot of bunnies
that were still there
469
00:21:59,150 --> 00:22:02,920
that knew adrienne pollack,
and they said,
470
00:22:03,020 --> 00:22:05,550
"adrienne and bobbie arnstein
471
00:22:05,650 --> 00:22:08,420
supplied drugs
for the chicago mansion
472
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,460
for parties
for hefner and his vips."
473
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,190
- the feds suspected
474
00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:17,300
that both bobbie arnstein
and my sister, adrienne,
475
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,500
were involved in
trafficking drugs for playboy.
476
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,400
State government
wanted to see
477
00:22:24,510 --> 00:22:27,140
what they could get
on hefner and playboy.
478
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,380
♪ ♪
479
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:31,880
- hefner was smart.
480
00:22:31,980 --> 00:22:34,410
Is somebody gonna
come forward? No.
481
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:37,650
Everybody wanted
to be hef's favorite.
482
00:22:37,750 --> 00:22:42,520
Everybody wanted to be
rising up in the organization.
483
00:22:42,620 --> 00:22:44,090
I think adrienne pollack,
484
00:22:44,190 --> 00:22:46,860
maybe she did a little bit
of involvement
485
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,900
with running the drugs
or being a mule on some level.
486
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,300
That's very possible.
487
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,130
I mean, we'd be naive
not to think that.
488
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,040
[dramatic music]
489
00:22:57,140 --> 00:22:59,770
♪ ♪
490
00:22:59,870 --> 00:23:02,980
- after my sister died,
491
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,240
when my mom and dad and I
were allowed
492
00:23:05,350 --> 00:23:08,210
to get her things
in her apartment,
493
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,420
she had this dark wig.
494
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,990
So we asked her boyfriend
what this was about,
495
00:23:14,090 --> 00:23:16,590
and he said, "this was
one of her disguises."
496
00:23:16,690 --> 00:23:20,790
she would wear this wig
when she was trafficking.
497
00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:25,460
- Addie called me one time,
and she was in florida.
498
00:23:25,570 --> 00:23:30,270
Addie told me there was a drug
cartel member there with her,
499
00:23:30,370 --> 00:23:33,170
and I believe that was
her date for the evening.
500
00:23:33,270 --> 00:23:36,940
I said,
"aren't you afraid?"
501
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,010
she said, "don't worry.
There's a bunch of us here."
502
00:23:41,550 --> 00:23:43,580
- they were
the playboy bunnies.
503
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,680
I think there were
somewhere around, like,
504
00:23:45,790 --> 00:23:48,250
seven, eight girls
that went.
505
00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:53,760
♪ ♪
506
00:23:53,860 --> 00:23:56,000
- I know that she was
on the bunny plane.
507
00:23:56,100 --> 00:24:01,200
I know that she went to
las vegas, hollywood, hawaii,
508
00:24:01,300 --> 00:24:05,540
to montego bay,
jamaica, florida,
509
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,910
but it may not have always
been on the bunny plane.
510
00:24:10,010 --> 00:24:12,910
A playboy bunny friend of hers
had given her,
511
00:24:13,010 --> 00:24:16,520
it was
a leo horoscope picture.
512
00:24:16,620 --> 00:24:19,080
Here it says,
"the leo personality
513
00:24:19,190 --> 00:24:22,190
are the ideal heads
of large enterprises."
514
00:24:22,290 --> 00:24:23,920
so this head character--
515
00:24:24,030 --> 00:24:26,330
this head egyptian character,
pharaoh--
516
00:24:26,430 --> 00:24:29,130
has an a on it
for adrienne.
517
00:24:29,230 --> 00:24:32,330
It shows her as the head,
and then, it shows meth,
518
00:24:32,430 --> 00:24:36,840
heroin, lsd, ludes,
valium, and cocaine.
519
00:24:36,940 --> 00:24:40,910
And I firmly believe that
she was involved quite a bit
520
00:24:41,010 --> 00:24:43,210
with the drug trafficking.
521
00:24:43,310 --> 00:24:45,080
♪ ♪
522
00:24:45,180 --> 00:24:46,580
so in 2004,
523
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:52,220
I decided to contact
adrienne's boyfriend, jerry.
524
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,490
This is his recollection
of what happened
525
00:24:54,590 --> 00:24:57,560
on the day
of September 5th, 1973,
526
00:24:57,660 --> 00:24:59,230
the day before her death.
527
00:24:59,330 --> 00:25:02,860
She had a meeting
at the playboy mansion.
528
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,970
The meeting involved bobbie
arnstein and two other guys
529
00:25:06,070 --> 00:25:08,030
that were later arrested
with bobbie arnstein
530
00:25:08,140 --> 00:25:10,040
for cocaine possession.
531
00:25:10,140 --> 00:25:12,970
Jerry said that
there was the connection
532
00:25:13,070 --> 00:25:15,440
between
addie's drug trafficking
533
00:25:15,540 --> 00:25:17,640
and playboy and bobbie,
534
00:25:17,750 --> 00:25:21,480
and she wanted
to get out of it.
535
00:25:21,580 --> 00:25:23,720
- If jerry pingatore had said
536
00:25:23,820 --> 00:25:26,950
that there was a connection
between the two,
537
00:25:27,050 --> 00:25:28,420
there could have been
some truth to that,
538
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,490
but we did not talk
to jerry pingatore
539
00:25:31,590 --> 00:25:32,990
because he was lawyered up.
540
00:25:33,090 --> 00:25:36,360
Adrienne was possibly
a low-level mule,
541
00:25:36,460 --> 00:25:40,030
but we were stonewalled
early on.
542
00:25:40,130 --> 00:25:41,700
Hefner was smart.
543
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,400
If there was drug activity,
544
00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:45,070
hefner could have
very easily said,
545
00:25:45,170 --> 00:25:47,140
"I don't want to know about
it. Do what you got to do."
546
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,910
we could not prove
that the mansions
547
00:25:50,010 --> 00:25:52,380
had massive amounts of drugs
or drug activity
548
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,280
that we could
make a case out of.
549
00:25:54,380 --> 00:26:00,420
And then, bobbie arnstein
was indicted,
550
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,790
tried for cocaine possession
and distribution charges.
551
00:26:04,890 --> 00:26:06,760
♪ ♪
552
00:26:06,860 --> 00:26:09,030
- in the course
of the trial,
553
00:26:09,130 --> 00:26:12,060
there was a lot of wiretap
evidence in the case.
554
00:26:12,170 --> 00:26:15,130
They recorded phone calls.
555
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,900
And they were played
for the jury.
556
00:26:18,010 --> 00:26:19,970
- Bobbie did not
take the stand
557
00:26:20,070 --> 00:26:21,740
because if she would have
taken the stand,
558
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,210
they could have asked her
a lot of questions
559
00:26:23,310 --> 00:26:24,940
about hef and playboy
560
00:26:25,050 --> 00:26:27,010
that she would not have
wanted to answer, probably.
561
00:26:27,110 --> 00:26:28,680
In the playboy world,
562
00:26:28,780 --> 00:26:32,590
they always prided themselves
on how private it was.
563
00:26:32,690 --> 00:26:34,850
♪ ♪
564
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,820
- hugh hefner's
social secretary,
565
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,820
32-year-old
bobbie arnstein,
566
00:26:38,930 --> 00:26:40,930
and two men
were found guilty today
567
00:26:41,030 --> 00:26:43,560
of conspiracy
to distribute cocaine.
568
00:26:43,660 --> 00:26:45,930
After the verdict was returned
by the federal court,
569
00:26:46,030 --> 00:26:48,030
sentencing was set
for November 20th,
570
00:26:48,140 --> 00:26:50,170
and arnstein left
the federal courts building
571
00:26:50,270 --> 00:26:53,110
accompanied by her attorney,
tom sullivan.
572
00:26:53,210 --> 00:26:57,280
Sullivan advised her to say
nothing to waiting reporters.
573
00:26:57,380 --> 00:26:58,610
- ...Any statements.
574
00:26:58,710 --> 00:27:00,510
I don't think you ought
to give any statement at all.
575
00:27:00,620 --> 00:27:04,050
- Well, I think it's absurd.
- Do not give any statement.
576
00:27:04,150 --> 00:27:06,820
- My lawyer suggests that
I not give any statements.
577
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,360
It's not my personal opinion.
578
00:27:09,460 --> 00:27:11,120
You're welcome. Sorry.
579
00:27:11,230 --> 00:27:12,390
- She was convicted
580
00:27:12,490 --> 00:27:15,230
of conspiracy
to distribute cocaine.
581
00:27:15,330 --> 00:27:19,570
She was sentenced provisionally
with a 15-year sentence.
582
00:27:19,670 --> 00:27:21,400
Then, within a few weeks,
583
00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:25,900
the government called
bobbie in to speak with them.
584
00:27:26,010 --> 00:27:29,610
I remember being in
a large room crowded with men,
585
00:27:29,710 --> 00:27:32,080
and bobbie and I were there.
586
00:27:32,180 --> 00:27:36,050
And the government told her
that they had information
587
00:27:36,150 --> 00:27:38,980
that there was a contract
out on her life
588
00:27:39,090 --> 00:27:43,520
and that she needed to be
very careful of friend and foe.
589
00:27:43,620 --> 00:27:45,020
♪ ♪
590
00:27:45,130 --> 00:27:46,860
so I don't think
for either of us,
591
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,260
there was any question
about how we were supposed
592
00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:53,370
to interpret
that odd message.
593
00:27:53,470 --> 00:27:55,630
♪ ♪
594
00:27:55,740 --> 00:27:58,870
- the only person that
it made any sense would be
595
00:27:58,970 --> 00:28:02,570
to assume that hugh hefner was
willing to kill bobbie arnstein
596
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,910
to keep the cocaine scandal out
of his life and playboy's life,
597
00:28:07,010 --> 00:28:09,310
and that simply
isn't believable for any of us
598
00:28:09,420 --> 00:28:10,820
who knew the two of them.
599
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,250
- What I'm describing to you
600
00:28:12,350 --> 00:28:15,820
is what was transparently
obvious to all of us,
601
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,090
bobbie included,
her attorneys and ourselves,
602
00:28:18,190 --> 00:28:23,460
as a transparent and incredible
pressure on bobbie...
603
00:28:26,430 --> 00:28:30,670
To establish
604
00:28:30,770 --> 00:28:32,440
and accomplish exactly what
we've been talking about here,
605
00:28:32,540 --> 00:28:35,370
to make her strike out at us.
606
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,480
♪ ♪
607
00:28:37,580 --> 00:28:40,050
- bobbie had made it fairly
clear to all her friends
608
00:28:40,150 --> 00:28:42,110
that she'd do
whatever she needed to do
609
00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:43,780
not to go to prison,
but she wasn't gonna
610
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,690
flip on hef or anybody
in the playboy empire.
611
00:28:46,790 --> 00:28:50,390
♪ ♪
612
00:28:50,490 --> 00:28:53,490
so she took an overdose
of pills,
613
00:28:53,590 --> 00:28:55,260
I think 1:00 or 2:00
in the morning,
614
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,100
and took a taxi
over to the maryland hotel
615
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,040
and got a room by herself,
616
00:29:03,140 --> 00:29:08,310
wrote her note out on
the hotel stationery by hand,
617
00:29:08,410 --> 00:29:10,580
took her pills,
and went to sleep.
618
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,280
♪ ♪
619
00:29:12,380 --> 00:29:14,480
- bobbie arnstein had lived
for several years
620
00:29:14,580 --> 00:29:17,050
in hugh hefner's
luxurious chicago mansion,
621
00:29:17,150 --> 00:29:19,180
but the 34-year-old
executive secretary
622
00:29:19,290 --> 00:29:21,890
checked into a nearby
night-club district hotel
623
00:29:21,990 --> 00:29:23,990
before apparently
taking her own life
624
00:29:24,090 --> 00:29:25,760
with an overdose of drugs.
625
00:29:25,860 --> 00:29:30,260
♪ ♪
626
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:31,530
- it was right
in the middle of everything,
627
00:29:31,630 --> 00:29:33,530
so everything blows up.
628
00:29:33,630 --> 00:29:38,040
♪ ♪
629
00:29:38,140 --> 00:29:40,910
bobbie arnstein
had been subpoenaed
630
00:29:41,010 --> 00:29:44,380
by the local grand jury
631
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,810
in conjunction
with the adrienne pollack case
632
00:29:46,910 --> 00:29:49,210
just prior to her suicide.
633
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:50,850
♪ ♪
634
00:29:50,950 --> 00:29:57,090
- so all that evidence
that she may have had
635
00:29:57,190 --> 00:29:59,090
went with her.
636
00:29:59,190 --> 00:30:00,990
She apparently died
of a suicide,
637
00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:03,830
but we don't believe
it was a suicide.
638
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,470
- It was my responsibility
to determine what happened
639
00:30:08,570 --> 00:30:09,940
to roberta arnstein.
640
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,000
So I treated it as a murder.
641
00:30:12,110 --> 00:30:17,010
I had the crime laboratory take
the door off the hotel room,
642
00:30:17,110 --> 00:30:19,310
and I had it sent
to the crime laboratory
643
00:30:19,410 --> 00:30:21,880
to have the tool mark section
check the locks
644
00:30:21,980 --> 00:30:24,350
to make sure
they hadn't been picked.
645
00:30:24,450 --> 00:30:25,820
I even went up on the roof,
646
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,150
directly above the window
of that room,
647
00:30:28,260 --> 00:30:31,520
to make sure there were
no grappling hook marks
648
00:30:31,630 --> 00:30:33,690
on the roof.
649
00:30:33,790 --> 00:30:38,360
I mean, I covered every single
possible contingency.
650
00:30:38,470 --> 00:30:41,170
We had handwriting analysis
done on the note.
651
00:30:41,270 --> 00:30:42,600
It was her handwriting.
652
00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:44,370
There was no violence,
653
00:30:44,470 --> 00:30:47,140
so there was no blood,
no signs of restraint.
654
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,910
You know, she hadn't been
bound or anything like that.
655
00:30:50,010 --> 00:30:51,310
No bruising.
656
00:30:51,410 --> 00:30:53,910
Nothing had been disturbed.
657
00:30:54,010 --> 00:30:55,780
It was a suicide.
658
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,620
[tense music]
659
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,490
roberta arnstein
was charged federally,
660
00:31:00,590 --> 00:31:02,790
tried in a federal courtroom
in chicago,
661
00:31:02,890 --> 00:31:05,060
and sentenced
to 15 years in prison.
662
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:06,830
Even if she hadn't
committed suicide,
663
00:31:06,930 --> 00:31:08,930
she'd have been ruined by this.
664
00:31:09,030 --> 00:31:12,100
I mean, they were
gonna put her in prison.
665
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,100
They fully intended
to send her away.
666
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:20,040
- Narcotics agents frequently
use our severe drug laws
667
00:31:20,140 --> 00:31:22,010
in an arbitrary
and capricious manner
668
00:31:22,110 --> 00:31:24,580
to elicit the desired testimony
for a trial.
669
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,350
♪ ♪
670
00:31:26,450 --> 00:31:28,380
faced finally
671
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,020
with a conditional sentence
of 15 years,
672
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,420
the pressure
of a lengthy appeal
673
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:35,720
and increasing harassment
674
00:31:35,820 --> 00:31:38,320
from government prosecutors
and their agents...
675
00:31:41,330 --> 00:31:44,330
An already
emotionally troubled woman
676
00:31:44,430 --> 00:31:48,830
was pushed beyond endurance,
and she killed herself.
677
00:31:48,940 --> 00:31:51,200
♪ ♪
678
00:31:51,310 --> 00:31:53,040
- the end was very scary.
679
00:31:53,140 --> 00:31:54,470
♪ ♪
680
00:31:54,580 --> 00:31:56,580
and you could see
how heartbroken hefner was
681
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,180
when he was a pallbearer.
682
00:32:04,790 --> 00:32:10,060
I think her struggle was like
it is for everybody: Survival.
683
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,230
And she just couldn't cope,
and she chose not to.
684
00:32:14,330 --> 00:32:17,230
- Bobbie was my soul mate.
685
00:32:17,330 --> 00:32:19,730
She was incredibly close.
686
00:32:19,830 --> 00:32:23,900
And I should have been able
to help her, but I wasn't,
687
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,510
so I felt incredibly guilty.
688
00:32:26,610 --> 00:32:28,540
It still makes me cry.
689
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:35,480
♪ ♪
690
00:32:38,220 --> 00:32:42,960
she never felt totally happy
or satisfied.
691
00:32:43,060 --> 00:32:45,860
There was always a sad side
to her.
692
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,490
She was wielding
the power she wanted,
693
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,700
but she didn't have
all the status she wanted
694
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,300
or all the pay.
695
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,200
- Bobbie and I
talked about
696
00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:59,440
the difficulties women had
in getting ahead.
697
00:32:59,540 --> 00:33:02,040
And she was surrounded
by male executives,
698
00:33:02,140 --> 00:33:04,480
and she was not an executive.
699
00:33:04,580 --> 00:33:06,410
She was an executive secretary.
700
00:33:06,510 --> 00:33:07,680
♪ ♪
701
00:33:07,780 --> 00:33:09,580
in everything
that I saw her do,
702
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,150
she was a support person.
703
00:33:11,250 --> 00:33:15,450
I definitely see her
as probably having difficulty
704
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:19,160
reaching for a position that
had power in its own right.
705
00:33:19,260 --> 00:33:21,090
♪ ♪
706
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,200
there was an article
in the "chicago reader"
707
00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:26,600
called "the life and death
of bobbie arnstein."
708
00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:30,270
"she wanted a title that would
define her 24-hour-a-day duties
709
00:33:30,370 --> 00:33:31,940
"more accurately
than the words,
710
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,210
"quote, 'executive secretary,'
end quote, did,
711
00:33:35,310 --> 00:33:36,610
"but after more
than a decade
712
00:33:36,710 --> 00:33:39,850
"of living without
breathing space of her boss,
713
00:33:39,950 --> 00:33:42,950
"bobbie arnstein wasn't able
to come right out and tell him.
714
00:33:43,050 --> 00:33:45,280
"she required a monetary pat
on the head,
715
00:33:45,390 --> 00:33:48,720
"a paper reassurance
that he needed her.
716
00:33:48,820 --> 00:33:50,320
She wasn't getting either."
717
00:33:50,420 --> 00:33:51,920
♪ ♪
718
00:33:52,030 --> 00:33:54,360
- bobbie was a feminist.
719
00:33:54,460 --> 00:33:56,460
She wanted to be respected
for her mind
720
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,530
and for her achievements
and for her judgment.
721
00:33:59,630 --> 00:34:02,600
On the other hand,
she put herself into a world
722
00:34:02,700 --> 00:34:05,900
where every woman
was a sex object.
723
00:34:06,010 --> 00:34:10,980
I think it was the conflict at
the center of bobbie's soul.
724
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,610
Bobbie clearly understood
725
00:34:13,710 --> 00:34:16,850
that this world
that she lived and thrived in,
726
00:34:16,950 --> 00:34:20,420
as glamorous as it was,
and it was very glamorous,
727
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,090
it was also based
on exploiting other women.
728
00:34:24,190 --> 00:34:26,190
Must have caused some guilt.
729
00:34:26,290 --> 00:34:31,700
♪ ♪
730
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,130
- when they found out that
roberta arnstein was dead,
731
00:34:34,230 --> 00:34:36,400
the u.S. Attorney knew that
their whole playboy case
732
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:37,840
had gone right out the window.
733
00:34:37,940 --> 00:34:40,070
It was done.
There was no more playboy case.
734
00:34:40,170 --> 00:34:42,070
♪ ♪
735
00:34:42,180 --> 00:34:44,310
- our investigation
was officially closed
736
00:34:44,410 --> 00:34:46,240
in spring of '75.
737
00:34:46,350 --> 00:34:49,280
Not that long after
the bobbie arnstein death,
738
00:34:49,380 --> 00:34:52,720
but we got in too late.
739
00:34:52,820 --> 00:34:54,450
Key people were lawyered up.
740
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,620
The leads were dried up.
741
00:34:56,720 --> 00:34:59,320
Hefner was idolized
by these people.
742
00:34:59,430 --> 00:35:01,430
They weren't gonna
snitch him off.
743
00:35:01,530 --> 00:35:03,030
And that was the end of it.
744
00:35:03,130 --> 00:35:05,300
♪ ♪
745
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,670
- these are letters
my mom wrote.
746
00:35:08,770 --> 00:35:11,900
She wrote
to all the news stations,
747
00:35:12,010 --> 00:35:15,810
to all the politicians
that she knew.
748
00:35:15,910 --> 00:35:17,440
♪ ♪
749
00:35:17,540 --> 00:35:20,510
and all she was doing
was searching for somebody
750
00:35:20,610 --> 00:35:24,050
to help find
what really happened.
751
00:35:24,150 --> 00:35:26,990
We still never really
got any answers.
752
00:35:27,090 --> 00:35:30,020
Somebody knows something.
Tell us the truth.
753
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,820
♪ ♪
754
00:35:32,930 --> 00:35:35,890
- when I was his girlfriend,
I was afraid to speak up.
755
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,670
I've never told anybody
any of this before.
756
00:35:40,770 --> 00:35:43,400
I was too ashamed,
757
00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:47,470
for a lot of reasons,
but I was a drug mule for hef.
758
00:35:52,750 --> 00:35:55,610
[soft dramatic music]
759
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,520
- hef used cocaine.
He used more than that.
760
00:35:58,620 --> 00:36:01,090
He had a drawer full of drugs.
761
00:36:01,190 --> 00:36:03,360
I discovered it when
he started giving me the key
762
00:36:03,460 --> 00:36:04,490
to that drawer.
763
00:36:04,590 --> 00:36:07,060
[eerie music]
764
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:12,360
the first time that hef sent me
"as a mule"
765
00:36:12,470 --> 00:36:15,370
to get the drugs,
766
00:36:15,470 --> 00:36:17,070
there were two brothers
that came up to the house.
767
00:36:17,170 --> 00:36:18,970
♪ ♪
768
00:36:19,070 --> 00:36:23,040
one of the brothers
sold cocaine,
769
00:36:23,140 --> 00:36:25,480
so hef sent me
to his house.
770
00:36:25,580 --> 00:36:28,210
He said, "here's the money.
Get the stuff."
771
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:29,810
♪ ♪
772
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,450
it was so easy for him.
773
00:36:32,550 --> 00:36:33,420
That became the norm.
774
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,650
I picked up the stuff,
775
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,290
and I brought it back to him,
handed it to him.
776
00:36:37,390 --> 00:36:40,990
He locked it up
under lock and key.
777
00:36:41,090 --> 00:36:43,060
Hef used cocaine.
778
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,630
Soon after, we were doing it
on a regular basis together.
779
00:36:46,730 --> 00:36:49,030
♪ ♪
780
00:36:49,140 --> 00:36:52,470
how many times
did I pick up drugs for hef?
781
00:36:52,570 --> 00:36:54,970
I don't know, countless.
Countless times.
782
00:36:56,740 --> 00:36:59,240
- Oh, yeah.
I'd say once a week.
783
00:36:59,350 --> 00:37:01,980
♪ ♪
784
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,420
everybody did their own job.
785
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:10,090
We all had to do
exactly what he wanted,
786
00:37:10,190 --> 00:37:12,320
and we all did it
like little puppets.
787
00:37:12,430 --> 00:37:14,260
If he gave you a job,
you were--
788
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,260
it was almost an honor.
789
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,960
And here I am running drugs
for him, and that's an honor.
790
00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:23,540
Yeah, okay, it's crazy,
but it made me feel like
791
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,300
I was important to him.
792
00:37:25,410 --> 00:37:26,500
When you think about it,
793
00:37:26,610 --> 00:37:30,780
here's a man
30 years older than me,
794
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:36,080
and he's sending a young girl
for illegal substances.
795
00:37:36,180 --> 00:37:37,550
♪ ♪
796
00:37:37,650 --> 00:37:39,480
it was nothing to him.
"go get it."
797
00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:41,420
it was like sending me out
for a quart of milk.
798
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,320
If I got caught,
my life would be over.
799
00:37:44,420 --> 00:37:47,130
♪ ♪
800
00:37:47,230 --> 00:37:50,460
and do you think he would
have said, "oh, it's my fault"?
801
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,900
No, it would have been me,
it would have been my problem.
802
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,400
And luckily, I had angels
watching over me,
803
00:37:57,500 --> 00:37:59,040
and I didn't get caught.
804
00:37:59,140 --> 00:38:01,610
♪ ♪
805
00:38:01,710 --> 00:38:05,940
the people that got caught,
they suffered for it.
806
00:38:06,050 --> 00:38:07,310
I do believe
that he knew
807
00:38:07,410 --> 00:38:09,210
bobbie was involved
with the drugs.
808
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,350
I believe that hugh hefner
was the reason
809
00:38:11,450 --> 00:38:13,250
she was involved
in the drugs.
810
00:38:13,350 --> 00:38:15,820
Would bobbie
have gotten involved
811
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:21,160
if not for that whisper
in the ear from him?
812
00:38:21,260 --> 00:38:22,660
♪ ♪
813
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,930
bobbie was going to be forced
to testify against him.
814
00:38:27,030 --> 00:38:30,240
I know that because
he told me that.
815
00:38:30,340 --> 00:38:32,970
He said,
"she died because
816
00:38:33,070 --> 00:38:37,180
she didn't want to have
to testify against me."
817
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,880
so with bobbie, knowing that
he was that close to her,
818
00:38:40,980 --> 00:38:42,350
it wouldn't have taken much
819
00:38:42,450 --> 00:38:46,050
for him to get her to do
the drug running for him.
820
00:38:46,150 --> 00:38:48,490
♪ ♪
821
00:38:48,590 --> 00:38:50,620
- if sondra theodore
had come forth
822
00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:57,030
with that type of testimony
in 1973 or 1974, 1975,
823
00:38:57,130 --> 00:38:59,800
it would have changed the whole
direction of the investigation.
824
00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:01,870
She would have been sworn in
825
00:39:01,970 --> 00:39:05,470
to either the grand jury
or given a sworn statement,
826
00:39:05,570 --> 00:39:07,570
and that would have left
open the possibility
827
00:39:07,670 --> 00:39:11,440
of potential indictment
of hefner, even.
828
00:39:11,550 --> 00:39:13,980
And people would have been
looking at it a lot harder
829
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,380
because then there would
have been a viable witness
830
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,490
to that activity, which we
didn't have at that time.
831
00:39:20,590 --> 00:39:23,860
- I have been very successful
in arranging a system
832
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,260
whereby I am able to do
what I want to do
833
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,330
when I want to do it
without outside interference.
834
00:39:30,430 --> 00:39:33,570
♪ ♪
835
00:39:33,670 --> 00:39:36,470
I am very, very selfish.
I am very self-oriented,
836
00:39:36,570 --> 00:39:38,270
and I think that
everybody should be.
837
00:39:38,370 --> 00:39:41,510
Intelligent self-interest
is for the good of everyone.
838
00:39:41,610 --> 00:39:43,410
The person who spends
all of their time
839
00:39:43,510 --> 00:39:46,210
thinking about others
accomplishes almost nothing.
840
00:39:46,310 --> 00:39:48,450
- It was wrong
841
00:39:48,550 --> 00:39:51,980
to take a young girl, so young,
842
00:39:52,090 --> 00:39:56,990
and have her do
that kind of thing for him.
843
00:39:57,090 --> 00:40:01,960
To put a young girl in that
position was so dangerous.
844
00:40:02,060 --> 00:40:06,700
I--I didn't allow myself
to know
845
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,070
that that was abusive
846
00:40:10,170 --> 00:40:11,700
because I was told
it was in love,
847
00:40:11,810 --> 00:40:13,770
in the name of love.
848
00:40:13,870 --> 00:40:18,480
♪ ♪
849
00:40:18,580 --> 00:40:23,150
and if hef was alive,
he would be in jail.
850
00:40:23,250 --> 00:40:25,420
And wherever he is,
851
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,450
and I don't think
it's a good place,
852
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:32,520
I know he knows
that I told the truth,
853
00:40:32,630 --> 00:40:34,430
and he's not happy about it.
854
00:40:34,530 --> 00:40:36,900
[sniffles]
855
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,430
he's finally been called out.
856
00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:42,870
Finally.
857
00:40:42,970 --> 00:40:47,840
♪ ♪
858
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:18,740
- let's celebrate
our sexuality.
859
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,340
- It is fun
when you first have sex, right?
860
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,410
But there's a line
that's crossed.
861
00:41:23,510 --> 00:41:25,310
I felt so violated.
862
00:41:25,410 --> 00:41:27,610
- She said, "you cannot believe
863
00:41:27,710 --> 00:41:29,850
what went on in that bedroom."
864
00:41:29,950 --> 00:41:31,480
- it was cult-like.
865
00:41:31,590 --> 00:41:33,080
The women had been groomed.
866
00:41:33,190 --> 00:41:34,390
- A kid who has a sweet tooth
867
00:41:34,490 --> 00:41:35,890
who is thrust
into a candy store
868
00:41:35,990 --> 00:41:38,590
starts, after a little while,
869
00:41:38,690 --> 00:41:41,160
thinking about other things
besides candy.
870
00:41:41,260 --> 00:41:43,430
- Nipple rings.
Sex trapezes.
871
00:41:43,530 --> 00:41:44,730
Double dildos.
872
00:41:44,830 --> 00:41:47,030
- Linda lovelace was drunk,
873
00:41:47,130 --> 00:41:49,400
and drugged,
and out of nowhere,
874
00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:50,570
german shepherd shows up.
875
00:41:50,670 --> 00:41:53,840
- This is the dark underbelly
of playboy.
876
00:41:53,940 --> 00:41:57,710
- I watched a slow descent
into... Madness.
877
00:41:57,810 --> 00:41:59,440
- You wanna talk
about depravity?
878
00:41:59,550 --> 00:42:00,910
This is despicable.
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