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There is a saying once a playmate, always a playmate and that seems to be absolutely
true, but does being a playmate really bring the success,
fame and fortune that some believes that it will?
Hefner's promise was to keep us in the framework of Girl Next door.
You got more fame, you got more money. Who didn't want that? The whole philosophy.
It was all a lie.
It was a lifetime sentence.
Playboy had an obligation to protect us girls.
I didn't sign up to do porn. During my video, I was just uncomfortable.
I would tell them do not go to the mansion, I would do
cocaine and I'd never dreamed that I would do that.
I did not realize that I had been sent to go have sex.
The big lie was become a Playboy Playmate, and
you're going to have all of your dreams come true.
My name is Hugh Hefner, I'm editor publisher of Playboy magazine.
Hugh Hefner was just 27, he fashioned himself
and Playboy as the face of sexual liberation.
Playboy is one of the most famous brand names in the world.
I would like to be remembered as somebody who played some
positive part in changing the social sexual values of my time.
I believe that Hef pulled one over on the whole world.
The fantasy of Playboy that he created did not allow for the consent of the women.
When it came to Hefner's buddies, you had to keep those secrets quiet.
What have you got for free?
When you get someone that powerful, anything could happen. Anything!
The people who are really there, they're the ones who know the real truth,
I want to be a voice for the women who suffered the most at his hands.
For a long time, I myself believed the Playboy promise.
I was one of Hefner's best ambassadors.
I was his director of playmate promotions and it was
my department's job to keep that fantasy going.
But over time, I realized that what was supposed to be the
launching pad for these young women was really a pit.
The Playboy promise was that if you signed the
contract, became Playmate of the Year, more fame
would come to you, more money would come to you, more glory and job opportunities.
There was no limit to what a girl could actually do.
If you get it, you have so many doors open to you like what like acting, modeling.
What set Playboy apart from the competition was
the photography in Playboy was not hardcore?
It was art. Hugh Hefner celebrated the beauty of the female
body. And you had an opportunity to be part of that.
Not part of some disgusting other magazine.
I came up with a very good idea and a lot of guys copied it.
Fortunately, you know, not as well.
You know, if you look at the original
Marilyn Monroe picture for the centerfold began as topless,
then things started getting more and more risquรฉ in the world.
In the 70s Playboy wasn't at the vanguard anymore.
Once Playboy was virtually the only magazine of its kind on the newsstand.
Now there are dozens of imitations.
Penthouse jumped the Atlantic from England in
1969 with a promotion aimed directly at Playboy.
It has done well but remains a distant number two.
Penthouse did full nudity and pubic hair. Hef was a little bit old fashioned, right?
So, he had to tune it up a notch.
During the 70s Hefner became involved in what he
called, and he was the one to name it, the pubic wars.
Playboy magazine and Penthouse, they were trying to compete with each other.
Now there's this debate within Playboy about how far do we go?
Hef wasn't keen on actually going pubic, if you like, but he chose to do it.
They eventually settled on we'll show pubic hair. That's it.
I was Playboy's first full frontal in 1972.
It sold 7 million copies.
The genie was out of the bottle. Tastes were
changing, the whole girl next door thing wasn't
flying anymore and the competition really hurt him.
Circulation that reached 7 million in 1972 has dropped to less than 6 million.
Playboy hotels and resorts are also suffering.
Penthouse was breathing down his neck. And of
course then the Hustler comes on the scene
in 1974.
Hustler is probably the most uncompromising porno magazine yet,
enough to make even Hugh Hefner, father of Playboy, wince.
Over the years, Hefner walked some kind of a line to try to
keep the playmate as close as possible to the girl next door.
That's what set him apart and these women believed in Hefner.
In spite of the fact, Playboy is rather tame
by comparison to others, or perhaps because
of it Playboy says it now has more playmate applicants than ever before.
When I did my centerfold, in 1986, I was proud to be in Playboy,
where no offense, I wouldn't have been proud to be in hustler.
For me that was crossing a line. Playboy was
just seen at the respectable men's magazine.
The reality is, through the 70s and 80s, PlayBoy
was becoming more explicit, and the women
were not comfortable with it.
It felt like there was a push to show more and
to be a good girl and do what you're told.
Get the shot.
I felt that with my centerfold shot.
I'm a small town girl from a little desert town in California.
In the morning of my 18th birthday, when I woke up, I was like, I'm old enough now.
I can be in Playboy magazine.
I knew that that modeling was gonna get me the money
so that I could actually afford to go to college.
There was no way a 19 year old could be prepared what
was gonna happen to you once I did Playboy.
You know, I've been on my own since I was 17.
I had some pretty severe sexual trauma growing up.
You know, when you're on your own as a kid, you
have to take care of yourself, which means you
have to bring a paycheck, I have bills.
Shooting's my centerfold, and they want to show pubic hair.
So, I remember trying to get the right shot.
Because if I got accepted, I would make 15,000.
So, I had to get accepted.
I think I signed the contract right away.
And I sat down with my mother.
No, we were naive.
We just did it.
It's a big deal to take your clothes off for a camera,
and a man taking the pictures.
All of a sudden, one of the makeup crew comes up and hands you,
"Can you just sign this for us because we were taking your picture?
You know, we have to have your permission."
You don't know what you're signing, really.
Sometimes you'd think they got the girl stoned,
partied out, and then they hand her the contract.
They have their ways. Through this, you signed your life away forever.
My Playboy contract came to me when I was 17 years old.
So, I really didn't take the contract very seriously
because I felt like I still had you know control.
Several playmates, took their photos at 17
years of age with the consent of their parent.
They were signing contracts in front of either Hefner or someone of his choosing
and he's holding these photos until they are of age.
I was 18 when I came to Playboy, I felt so lucky. So, I didn't really think about like
the contractual side of it and what exactly that meant.
When I was a playmate, there were no videos.
I was so nervous having to be naked for this special
and they promised that none of it was shown
This is when said I'm really nervous about the cameras in here in the bathtub.
He said, don't worry about it, it's all for
family hour. It will all be on the cutting room floor.
But then later a friend saying, "Oh, I saw your video". I'm like,
what video? And that's when they turned around and used that
footage on the cutting room floor.
Just sit down in there and draw bubbles all around your neck.
Playboy pieced it together, released it in cable without telling me that it was going
to be happening, not paying me for it and that was soft porn. They had made me a porn
star against my will
Playboy channel was officially launched on November 15th
I think it is going to be increasingly
certainly adult but also tastefully done. I think the best basis for judging it is the
magazine itself from the 30 years we've been publishing.
In the 80s, cable had come up, and all of a sudden, now playmates have to do a video
and we're like, what do you mean you have to do a
video? In my video, you know, there I am waterskiing,
and kite surfing and then all of a sudden, I'm naked.
A lot of us girls really screamed and yelled about not doing it.
That was like really crossing the line.
This whole video was really hard for me and looking
back at it, I really felt like it bordered on
you know,
Kind of pornish and that's why we did playboy. That's why we didn't do Penthouse.
That's why we didn't do Hustler. I mean I was just uncomfortable.
I was very concerned about the women, that were doing these videos.
But the reality is, once you sign that release
you are no longer in control. Hefner was the one in control
of your image.
When I was director of Playmate promotions, I wanted to reach out and try to get these
gals into some key positions in modeling.
For example, there was one particular playmate
who was very special to me. I don't want to
pinpoint her name. I can see in her incredible
possibilities. I wanted her to be an
Herbal Essence girl with Claire Hall, I had big ideas.
I got her appointment with several different people and took
her to New York and tried to help her make a transition.
Unfortunately, it was impossible.
The companies did not want the playmate image with their products.
Because she was a playmate, it cut it right there. She was already dead in the water.
Playboy had become too explicit. The stigma was way too much.
As the director of Playmate promotions,
I had a front seat into the lives of many women.
And I could see the damage that happened.
There were many playmates that trusted me
and I would say to them, do not go to the mansion.
There's nothing good that's going to come from it.
Something about Playboy was like sandpaper.
I would go up to the mansion. It's like when
you have that feeling in your gut that something's
not right. But you can't put your finger on it.
I got the red flags, but I was too young to understand what they were.
When is your big month? When are we going to see it?
I'm not really sure yet, they haven't really picked them up.
There were all these playmates all under one roof
and shooting to become Playmate of the Year,
when you do that, these girls knew they had to wait.
The system is set up that we're gonna pay $15,000 for
the centerfold, we're gonna pay it in three intervals.
When you get finished shooting. When you get published, and one year from
your publishing date.
It was 5000 when you're when your pictorial came out.
I think another 2500, when you're done with your video.
They give it to you 5000 here, 2500 here, they drag it out because
you have to fulfill your duty before you get it all.
They paid you over two years. That's like below
poverty level, it's nothing when you think about it.
You couldn't do anything without their permission.
Like if you're trying to make money off yourself.
That was a no no.
While you're waiting for the paycheck, you wait at the mansion and you meet Hef and
you politic to be Playmate of the Year or you politic to stay current.
In the 80s, there was a lot of partying. It was Party Central.
I think every girl in the mansion say, you're
expected to be at the party. You had to be
part of their scene. It was like, well, Hef's gonna
want you to do that or Hef's gonna be disappointed,
You know? That sort of thing.
I mean, drugs and alcohol were accepted at the
Playboy Mansion, the Playboy parties, anybody that
is put in that situation, it can get out of hand.
Because I wanted to stay thin I would do, you know, the occasional
cocaine and I'd never ever ever dreamed that I would do that.
At the mansion, there was a sense of everyone
likes drugs, and everyone likes to share them.
I didn't start the heavy drugs until after Playboy.
I lost all my teeth. I mean you have to
take a lot of drugs to do this to yourself. So, that was a lot of cocaine.
I think the drugs definitely played a major role
in controlling and manipulating these women.
Whenever you step into the Playboy Mansion and you're a new female on the scene.
Basically, you're introduced to my father, he was Hefner's best friend and doctor to
all the playmates, who of course, would then you know,
make sure that you were weighed
in on a regular basis and make sure that they were that perfect weight.
By the time I was 20, I weighed 90 pounds and ended up in hospital.
It was really hard
and it took a lot of therapy to go back to regular eating.
There were a lot of girls, they were fresh off the farm, and
they felt like they had made it and yet those same girls,
months later, would go home a skeleton, just a mere shadow of themselves.
Happened to me, this picture. I was just skin and bones.
The pull of that mansion and his power was just way too much for most and once they're
hooked on drugs, they're no longer in control.
And when they ended up hitting rock bottom,
Hefner was not going to give them support.
Specifically the girl that I really thought was going
to bridge the gap and to the modeling industry.
She just kept spiraling and she
became addicted to cocaine.
She was so thin that she looked like she could die at any time.
Her teeth were gray. She needed help.
I didn't want her thrown away.
I wanted to save her
and damn it, she was worth saving.
I was told you're not to go and give her groceries. You're not to pay her rent.
She got herself in that mess, and Hefner doesn't want anything to do with it.
Can you imagine that?
After all the money he made off of that girl, he didn't want to feed her.
shame on that son of a bitch.
I did it. I did it anyway.
I begged her to go back home and she did it.
I almost got fired several times for doing what I did.
Years ago when I was at the house, at the mansion,
Hef told me to be careful because Miki was
crazy and dangerous.
He didn't want the girls talking to her because she was stirring up
trouble. She was pointing things out that he
didn't want pointed out and he was losing control.
I'd become mother confessor to many women and I felt a responsibility. But I realized
I was fighting a losing battle.
I could not handle it anymore. When I left Playboy in 1982,
I didn't think the situation could get any worse. But it did.
I had worked hard to change the way that playmate promotions
handled their women. How they made sure that they
had safety that anytime anything happened, they were able to report it.
It wasn't an easy job. Many of the executives, they were
only interested in protecting Playboy and Hugh Hefner.
Like Valerie Cragin with the Playboy Model Agency.
At first, Valerie Cragin kind of took care of
me. She taught me a lot because I came from a
small town and so, like, she would take me
shopping and she would take me to nice restaurants
and I learned proper etiquette.
She was kind to me, and she made sure that I got work.
But certain girls were getting a hell of a lot more work.
I was like, how in the hell are you getting that much work?
Valerie Cragin was a pimp for Hugh Hefner.
She and I went at it a lot. The Playboy Modeling Agency
was a place where women could be invited to the mansion for the parties.
I didn't want any part of it.
1982 after I left Playboy, Valerie Cragin took over the planning promotions
department and at that point in time, it became what I considered flesh peddling.
Valerie Cragin was head of Playmate Promotions,
when I began. Playmate Promotions, those were
the girls who went out and they signed autographs
and did all that there was good money there.
So, this was my income.
The first few years of promotions were rough.
They started doing some stuff with casinos. They would
fly us in with the high rollers and we do little
fashion shows and then they'd say, go on down and gamble with the high rollers.
The guys were kind of like which ones do this and which girls do that?
It was like, they were pimping us out a little bit.
Oh, yeah. I had a playmate I was rooming with,
I was back in my bed and two guys held the
door open and she just stood there and she changed her clothes halfway in the hall and
there's $100 bills literally flying all over the
place but she worked hard for those last night.
There was this one trip to Atlantic City for Playmate Promotions.
It was like 20 guys,
They wanted to take a picture with us in this hot tub.
He is like, get in here, I paid for you. Really!
As if we were prostitutes and it was gross, you know.
It was gross.
When I was working for Playmate Promotions,
I was sent out to do a job, which turned out
to be non-existent. I was actually just being sent there to go on a date.
So, I flew to Texas to do this
big truck calendar for this guy who owned oil companies.
I showed up and then I realized this is not real.
I remember barricading myself in the room and putting the chair
underneath the door. I called Playboy and I was like, you got to get me
out of here, this isn't real. This isn't happening.
It was Valerie Cragin on the other end of
the line saying,
First, Valerie Gragin says oh my gosh, let me look
into it and then she calls me back and says, what
we're understanding is that the client is very upset with you because you are the one
who has acted inappropriately.
Valerie Cragin, boy, she was an incredible manipulator.
She knew everybody's business where they were,
what they would do. I just- she made my skin crawl.
The second incident was they made promotion, sent me to Alaska
to model and it turned out that there was no modeling gig.
I ended up driving all around Alaska with this guy
and I get dropped off and I go home.
Then he came looking for me later, he found out where I live. I honestly
don't know everything that happened, he drugged me.
I don't know, what did he do to me?
He did a lot of really horrific things.
When that was over, when I finally got away from
him, I went right to Playboy's security
team and I told them about it.
I didn't have to testify. I didn't have to do
anything. They took care of it. That's all I know.
As Playmates we get put in situations
that are almost impossible to get out of without conceding.
Playboy was dangerous to women.
Playboy ruined women's lives and I was going to stop it any way I could.
This administration is putting the purveyors of illegal obscenity and child
pornography on notice. Your industries days are numbered.
The 80s were a backlash to the 70s because the
70s was all free love and the sexual revolution.
After the pubic wars, people were afraid of what was happening culturally.
The pornography problem in this country is a front burner issue with moral majority,
and moral majority will continue to deal with that issue.
The religious right was constantly raining down on Playboy talking about how we were
influencing in American culture towards hell.
In 1985, Edwin Meese was the attorney general
under the Reagan administration who came up with the Commission Against Pornography
because of the influence of the Religious Right.
One of the first things Edwin Meese did when becoming Attorney General
was to launch a new study of pornography, a study to determine
if there was a demonstrable cause and effect
between dirty books, movies, etc, and dirty crimes.
The Commission did a series of hearings around
the country discussing pornography and its
bad influences on culture.
We demand that the Commission acknowledged that
the $8 billion a year pornography industry
is built on the sexual enslavement and exploitation of women,
Playboy always differentiated itself from
straight up porn, but with the Meese commission,
suddenly we were being lumped together with Penthouse
and Hustler by the religious right by the feminist.
We went from a very repressive, conservative
time in the 50s and we are back once again,
to some extent, in a conservative posture again.
So, obviously, Playboy and I personally
have an easy target.
Hef thought the Meese commission was persecution and
thought it was bullshit, and Playboy was clearly targeted.
In 1985, a religious group contacted me and asked me if I would participate and tell my
story and testify at the Meese commission.
She was Miss January of 1973, and served as
Director of Playmates Promotions from 1976 to 1982.
Now saying she fears that going public will put her life and the lives of her family
in danger, Miki Garcia has come forward with what she
claims as the inside story of Playboy's Playmates,
I knew that he was terrified of my testimony because he sent so many people
to me to come shut me up.
I wasn't about to accept the silence that he was threatening me with.
And I didn't care that I was scared.
Appearing before the US Attorney General's
Commission on Pornography, Garcia said Playmates
often came to see her complaining of being pressured
into doing things they didn't want to do,
sometimes by Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner himself.
Miki testified against Playboy.
She stood up against a lot of threats. She had to have
a bodyguard and some other girls were gonna testify with her and they bailed on her.
Talking to Miki Garcia, Miki, you spoke before the Attorney General's commission on
Pornography. What really goes on in Playboy?
Well, what happens once the girl is introduced
into the system in, I do call it a system.
She is then subjected to a lot of things beyond her control.
I said what was happening to the women, that
they were being coerced into terrible things.
I testified about drugs,
rape, abuse, coercion. Many things that young woman should not be subjected to.
At Playboy Mansion West, Hefner and his staff
encouraged playmates to use illegal drugs.
How much is Hefner involved in the drug use?
It's his home isn't it?
But he claims that if there isn't anything, he's unaware of it?
Well, the man has to be deaf, dumb and blind and I think Hefner is not.
I wanted to be able to stop this kind of abuse of women.
Many of the playmates would come to me and say, I'm doing the photo session, I'm
embarrassed. I didn't realize that the photos were going to be so explicit.
I talked about contracts that were totally unfair. He trapped us.
He made sure he had all of the rights.
There was an archive on each of us not just what
is published through the year or there might be volumes more.
She has no editorial control over those photos.
She always has this lurking in her background, that at any
time the magazine could pull out one of those pictures.
Garcia said the centerfold layouts create the
impression that the models are promiscuous.
I talked about Playmate Promotions, selling sex.
When she travels on Playmate Promotions, she is out there.
She's in open for sexual harassment. She knows that if she reports
this to Playboy, that it will fall on deaf ears, or that maybe they'll take the action
where she can no longer work again.
I had power when I testified at the Meese commission,
I had power and I knew it.
In a written response, Playboy called Garcia's allegations, false statements.
I am sure that he was constipated for 10 years after I testified
and I loved every minute of it.
The Press covered my testimony.
I had a voice.
I want the public to start asking Hugh Hefner some very serious questions.
I did not have the support of any women, not the
women I protected, and not the women I worked with at Playboy,
the female executives.
It was a huge decision for me to come forward.
No one wanted the truth out, nobody.
I went in there and said, wake up America.
Do not buy that piece of crap. Don't be fooled by
this man and he needs to be brought to justice.
He took it for granted that he would be able
to control us and that he could get away with it.
The Attorney General's commission on pornography
will issue its final report today.
The Meese commission today called for picketing and
boycotting stores that sell hard and soft-core pornography.
Meese commission was very effective in hurting Playboy.
You can get adult magazines on street corners, but
not in 8000 convenience stores around the country
In September 1986, my small town could not get my issue of
Playboy on the newsstand because of the Meese Commission.
They said you can't have that smut magazine in the front of a
store for anybody to just walk up and see.
My Testimony did have an impact. Playboy was
no longer welcomed in convenience stores and
and that was big revenue.
I did financially impact him and I was happy, very happy
- 1000s of 7 - Elevens and other stores removed the magazines from their shelves.
Sales figures are not in yet, but a drop is anticipated.
If half of your circulation is from magazine rack sales,
and all of a sudden you can't
be on a magazine rack anymore, it's a serious effect.
There is politics behind all of this. I think
that the appeal to right wing fundamentalist
is what lies behind much of this kind of nonsense going on.
Of course Hefner started suing and eventually Edwin Meese had to backpedal.
Absolutely, it's hurt us, I mean there's no way that it couldn't have hurt us.
Playboy is suing Attorney General Meese and the Commission.
When it was over and the review was done. They went back up on the shelves, but they
were wrapped at that point.
So, the magazine became more subscribable. But at the end of the day, they won.
Playboy always won.
A group of right wing zealots, even in the Justice
Department cannot override the Constitution
and this is still a free society.
Tonight, our Playmate of the Year is a 21 year old lady
from North Carolina with her parents here, Church going Baptists, as she is,
After the Meese Commission, the powers that be were definitely much more conservative.
Playboy understood that so Playmate of the Year was from the Bible belt.
Supposedly she was a virgin, you know, it was political.
Our playmate of the year, Donna Edmondson
In late 80s, after the Meese Commission, of course,
the party line was, it didn't affect us at all.
This was part of Hefner's brilliance, it was spinning it
but it was really fraught time of change for Playboy.
There was also Aids coming in the 80s. AIDS being this mysterious disease that
people didn't understand. People were like sex, it's all that sex.
When AIDS came in, it freaked people out, but it
didn't really hit people until Rebecca got sick.
Rebecca Armstrong, she was the first playmate that had AIDS.
When I tested positive in 1989, I was only 22 years old.
I lied actually to Playboy when
I was getting sick. But I didn't just stop
working and then I went full blown AIDS within
like what? Three and a half years
and that's when I went to Playboy and told them.
Hugh Hefner's reaction
was really amazing.
He stepped right up to the plate. He said, you know, sex isn't the enemy
AIDS is the enemy.
Playboy gave me a platform, shooting videos about HIV awareness.
I'm Rebecca Armstrong, and I am one of more
than a million Americans living with HIV today.
and it opened up doors that would not have been
open, had I not posed for Playboy magazine.
I also had to educate people at Playboy. I was one of their own.
Has AIDS, knocked the Playboy philosophy on the head?
Not if you properly understand what the Playboy
philosophy is all about because Playboy established
from the very outset.
The fact that we really had to take a fresh look at the ethics and
morality of sexuality, something that we've never
really bothered to do in western civilization
and obviously, AIDS becomes one of the important elements in all of that.
Hef did the interviews and you saw more articles about HIV being written in Playboy?
He did not shy away from making sure that people knew about this disease.
No, life at the mansion didn't change. No way.
After my diagnosis, I remember asking the doctor how long do I have and he
said, well, I honestly can't tell you but maybe a year or two.
So, the dreams that I had of going to school and
becoming a lawyer or a psychologist that was gone
and it's a really really frightening time.
I started self-medicating and drinking every single day and then I got
really sick and ended up in the hospital
and I still don't know exactly how I contracted it.
I don't know.
I honestly don't know everything that happened, he drugged me.
No.
And I can't even believe I'm saying it right now but yeah.
But I can't hang on to the what if, it will make me not be able to sleep at night.
There may have been a Rebecca in the past that would
have been filled with anger but I try not to allow that to poison me anymore.
Do I think
some parties that worked there are scumbags? Yeah!
You get the idea of what we're supposed to be doing.
I want you to have a lot of life in front of the camera and
communicate with the camera. Let's go ahead and try your now, honey.
Valerie Cragin, the world is not a lesser place because of her death.
I mean I remember long after I did Playboy,
I went to a restaurant and I saw her and I just know I turned white.
I know I just turned white and I turned around really quickly and got out of there.
The big lie that Playboy was telling was "Become a Playboy
Playmate and you're going to have all your dreams come true".
I was angry, I was pissed.
How do we allow this to happen?
And why do we withhold the truth so that more
women every month send their photos into Playboy
magazine seeking to be a centerfold for all the wrong reasons?
Playboy is not what they read about.
It was a far more sinister world and that's what I wanted everyone to know
and I did it.
And after I testified, I really thought that maybe it would stop.
Maybe women would stop signing the damn contracts.
Maybe they would stop going to the mansion.
Maybe Hefner would have to get a real job
and stop making this money off of the backs of women.
Hefner's biggest push right now is the adult video market.
The company is replacing its
money losing Playboy channel with a pay per view network.
His promise was to always protect us and keep
us within the framework of girl next door,
He lied. The Playmate contract gave Hefner and
Playboy the right to use the photos and the filming
in any media that he saw fit.
The stock is selling at an all-time high and
much of what began with magazine has expanded
now because the internet and it's just a tremendous exciting time
Hefner sold us.
He took our photos and put them on hardcore porn sites.
My name is attached to every porn site you can imagine. That's bullshit.
Playboy had an obligation to protect us girls,
especially with our photos and videos.
They just open floodgates and let them go, it was all about the money.
The Playboy fantasy would still go on, because Hefner
simply knew what sold and what sold was Playboy.
There are people that want to keep Hef's secrets.
I was breaking the code.
Just don't tell.
You don't tell but I did and I don't regret it.
I remember Paige as being a happy person and then
she shot herself in the head. What happened?
I think the Paige Young's story reveals the dark side of the Playboy Mansion scene.
A number of the allegations against Bill Cosby have
involved stories that took place at the Playboy Mansion.
There were a lot of powerful people in Hollywood
that the women in Playboy shouldn't have gone with.
Paige believed that these men were predatory,
especially Hugh Hefner. You're not going to win
a game against rich important men.
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