All language subtitles for American Playboy s01e08 Sex Drugs And DEA.eng

[
Steppenwolf: "Faster
Than the Speed of Light"]

[Hugh Hefner] The year was 1971.

Hot pants and bell bottoms
were the latest trends.

Simon and Garfunkel's
Bridge Over Troubled Water

was album of the year.

And a controversial new sitcom
called in All in the Family

premiered in prime-time.

Playboy had grown bigger
than ever before...

... thanks to increasing magazine sales

and over 15 Playboy
clubs around the world.

On top of the clubs,

we'd also started opening
luxury vacation resorts.

[man] Mr. Hefner has spent
no less than $10 million

in building a resort
that makes the Taj Mahal

look like a Quonset hut.

Okay, let's shoot.

[man] Action!

[Hugh Hefner] We also expanded into

even more side ventures,

including a TV and
film production company.

[actors grunting]

We produced an adaptation of "Macbeth,"

directed by Roman Polanski...

... and the first movie

from the British comedy
troupe, Monty Python.

The Playboy brand was recognized

all over the world...

and what had started as just a magazine

was now a multinational
entertainment corporation

worth $200 million.

Nike is a brand, but
Reebok is a shoe company.

Virgin is a brand, United is an airline.

Playboy was a brand,

and that means that you can move

from one category to another,

because you represent
not a single product

but an attitude toward life.

[rock music]

[Hugh Hefner] Our success
made us very attractive

to Wall Street investors...

... so that year I decided
to take the company public.

[man] Playboy goes public.

Now you bring in a
tremendous amount of capital,

which you can then reinvest,

and it's a signal of
the kind of normalization

of the pornography business.

I mean, what's more establishment

than Wall Street?

[Hugh Hefner] The influx
of cash was a huge boost,

and it felt good to have
the world acknowledge Playboy

as a legitimate business.

But the magazine was still
facing one major challenge.

Ongoing competition from Penthouse.

[
Small Faces: "E to D"]

Since 1969,

Penthouse had been pushing the envelope

with pictures that
made Playboy look tame.

Over the past two years,
they kept getting raunchier,

and their subscription
had grown by 600%,

to 1.3 million per month.

Playboy still had nearly
five times as many readers,

but I knew that if we
were going to continue

to stay ahead of the competition,

Playboy would have to show

a lot more than we ever had before.

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So what do you think we should do?

Honestly? Nothing.

Do you honestly want to
publish pictures like that?

No, I want to publish better pictures.

And I know we can.

Respectfully, we already do.

Agreed.

This has to do with Playboy's brand.

What do you want that to be?

The best!

We have the best
photographers in the world

begging to work with us.

We didn't get where we
are by being complacent.

There is so much more we
can explore, more we can do,

without losing sight of
what Playboy is about.

[Hugh Hefner] Playboy had
shown a glimpse of pubic hair

earlier in the year,

but until now, I'd been
hesitant to do it again.

[Patty Farmer] Hef always stayed away

from showing full frontal nudity,

but Playboy was actually losing
subscribers over to Penthouse.

So Hef was pushed in the direction

of upping the game.

[Hugh Hefner] I knew we needed to
publish a full-frontal centerfold,

but I wanted to do it the Playboy way,

with polish and sophistication.

To pull it off, we'd need
to find the perfect model.

Luckily, Victor Lownes knew
just the girl for the job.

[
Flying Burrito Brothers: "Cody Cody"]

She was a bunny working at
the London Playboy Club...

named Marilyn Cole.

Marilyn had a fantastic figure.

I sent snapshots of her to Chicago

and said they ought to test
this girl for Playmate material.

[Marilyn Cole] I was quite surprised

when Victor suggested
I should be a Playmate.

Not having been a model,

he was the one who
sort of discovered me,

and then I was sent to Chicago.

[Hugh Hefner] Lownes was right.

Marilyn was the perfect centerfold.

But her photo represented

a whole new direction forPlayboy.

[door opens]

It's Miss January.

I'm getting a lot of
push-back from spec.

And art.

Would you print it?

Are you kidding me, Hef?

We both know you've
already made up your mind.

Yeah, maybe.

[
Spooky Tooth: "It's All a Roundabout"]

[Hugh Hefner] In January of 1972,

Marilyn Cole became our first
ever full frontal centerfold.

The issue was our
biggest seller to date.

I became the first full-frontal nude.

What a legacy, but anyway...

I've often been asked, how did it feel?

And I always think, "Well,
the point that you disrobe,

you become someone else."

That's the only way you do it.

It did cause a sensation,
certainly here in Britain,

because, "A," I was English,

and, "B," it was tabloid
press at that time.

[Victor Lownes] When she showed
them to her mother, her mother said,

"Your hair looks very nice, dear."

That was her mother's only comment.

[Hugh Hefner] From that point
on, there was no turning back.

By the end of 1972,

our circulation exceeded seven million,

the highest it had ever been,
so we had a lot to celebrate.

[piano music and party chatter]

Hey, Kretch? This is my boyfriend, Ron.

Hi.

[Hugh Hefner] In those days,

no one seemed happier
than my longtime friend

and personal assistant, Bobbie Arnstein.

She had recently started
dating a man named Ron Scharf.

I've seen your issue. My favorite.

Hey, this is Hef.

Hugh Hefner, hi.

Ron.

Nice to meet you, finally.

You, too, I've heard a lot about you.

Okay, we're gonna take a tour.

Enjoy dinner!

Come on.

So this is the great room...

[Hugh Hefner] I wasn't crazy
about her new boyfriend,

but I did like to see Bobbie happy.

[
James Gang: "Midnight Man"]

For over a decade, Bobbie
had been my assistant,

but she'd also become
one of my closest friends.

She lived full-time at the mansion,

so she was always
around when I needed her.

Bobbie became absolutely
indispensable to me.

Not only because of the
role that she played,

but also because of her
own particular abilities.

She had a remarkable
sensitivity and sense of humor.

And was uncommonly bright.

Bobbie was also part of my social life.

Okay, don't forget, on Thursday

you've got a meeting
at the mayor's office.

And then Friday, board
meeting at 2:00 p.m.,

so you gotta look sharp for that.

I left your gray suit
out. It's been pressed.

Any questions, talk to Dick.

I don't know how I'm going to
survive without you, Bobbie.

You'll be fine.

All right.

Have a safe trip.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do.

Not touching that one.

[Hugh chuckles]

[
Jimmy Cliff "Time Will Tell"]

Did you pack the suntan lotion?

Hmm?

I put it out with everything else.

Well, then I packed it, okay?

It's not here.

[sighs]

Maybe you put it in your bag?

Hey, hey...

Just... buy another one, okay?

Here, there's a place on the corner.

I'm sure they'll have some.

Hey, man, how's it going?

Yeah, good, come on in.

Who's she?

Bobbie?

Don't worry, she's cool.

[man] So how much you want?

Let's do a half.

Three, four...

[camera shutter clicks]

Hey, are you a friend of Ron's?

Uh, yeah.

I'm Bobbie.

[camera shutter clicking]

Uh, you are?

Nice meeting you.

[Hugh Hefner] Bobbie thought
she was on an innocent vacation

with her boyfriend.

But what she didn't realize
was that she was about to become

entangled in a government investigation.

[
James Gang: "Woman"]

By the 1970s, the
hippie drugs of the '60s,

like marijuana and LSD,

had given way to harder substances,

like cocaine and heroin.

President Nixon declared drugs
a crisis in American life.

[Richard Nixon] We must wage total
war against public enemy number one:

the problem of dangerous drugs.

[Hugh Hefner] To crack
down on their use,

Nixon created a new Drug
Enforcement Administration.

The DEA was tasked with
bringing down anyone

suspected of breaking federal drug laws.

What's this?

That's Miami drug
trafficker George Matthews.

We've been monitoring him
for a couple of years now.

Finally nailed him, thanks
to this guy, Ronald Scharf.

Small-time drug dealer
based here in Chicago.

He bought half a pound off Matthews

and tried selling it
to one of my informants.

Who's the girl?

You know Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner?

Well, that is his personal
assistant, Bobbie Arnstein.

[Hugh Hefner] When a photo
of Bobbie landed on the desk

of Chicago prosecutor James Thompson...

he immediately saw an opportunity

to turn this small drug case

into something that could
make his entire career.

[Richard Rozenzweig] Jim Thompson
had political aspirations,

and this was going to
be his singular success

in nailing Hef for some
kind of drug conspiracy,

which was totally false.

[Hugh Hefner] While Thompson
opened his investigation...

... I was spending more and more time

with my girlfriend, Barbi Benton.

We had been dating for over four years

and spending a lot of
time in Los Angeles.

So much time, Barbie convinced
me it was time to buy a house,

and she'd found the perfect spot.

[Barbi Benton] I was
looking for a house,

and our driver mentioned
a gate on Sunset Boulevard

that had a lock on it.

So I hopped the fence,

walked up the long driveway,

and saw this beautiful house.

So I called the people
to find out if they would

consider selling their house.

And, as luck would have it,

they said that they would consider.

I got Hef to come out.

He loved the grounds,

he loved the house,

and... he got it.

[
Billy Preston:
"Nothing From Nothing"]

[Hugh Hefner] The new
house sat on 5.3 acres

on the edge of Beverly Hills.

And, in typical Playboy fashion...

... I quickly made it my own.

I built a winding, outdoor pool

with waterfalls leading into a grotto...

... with artifacts and fossilized insects

in the ceiling.

I had the largest grove of
redwoods in southern California.

A game house...

... a tennis court...

... and a gym.

Even a zoo.

And an aviary.

I went so far as to get a
year-round fireworks license

from the city.

We're still the only private
residence ever granted one.

I named the house The
Playboy Mansion West.

And I split my time between L.A.

and the original
mansion back in Chicago.

[Bobbie] How's... how's
Monday at 3:00 p.m.?

[Hugh] We'll make whatever time work.

- Okay.
- Done.

- Between 3:00 and 4:00.
- Yep.

[knock on door]

I'll get it.

DEA.

We're looking for Bobbie Arnstein.

We have a warrant for your arrest.

For what?

Conspiracy to distribute.

Distribute what?

You have the right to remain silent.

- What?
- Anything you say can and...

Are you kidding me right
now? This is happening?

... in a court of law.

[Hugh Hefner] On March 23rd of 1974,

almost three years after
Ron took her to Miami,

Bobbie was arrested on charges
of cocaine distribution.

Over the years, Playboy had been charged

with obscenity and indecency...

... but now, Thompson made the case

that the Playboy
mansions in Chicago and LA

and clubs around the world

were fronts for a major
drug trafficking operation.

Bobbie had never been his real target.

She was just his way of coming after me.

Miss Arnstein, I don't want to see you

spend the rest of your life

rotting away in some prison cell.

What I do want is to see

the right person put behind bars.

And you and I both
know who that person is.

This drug ring you think
Playboy's involved in,

it doesn't exist.

I can offer you federal protection.

What do you think?

I think you can both go fuck yourselves.

[Arthur Kretchmer] The
case against Bobbie Arnstein

was trumped up as soon as they realized

they had Hefner's secretary.

There's no question in my mind

that Bobbie did not carry the cocaine,

she did not transport it.

The boyfriend did.

It was his deal.

They put it on her.

And... that was a terrible thing.

[Hugh Hefner] For a long
time it was just, you know,

an investigation that was focused

on this fellow that she'd been dating.

And, when the focused changed,
when it became clear that

the real target was some
crazy attempt to involve me,

it took on Kafka-like implications.

So, I was able to get a hold
of the original indictment.

Bobbie's name's not on it.

Which means?

Which means they probably added it

only after they realized who she was.

In other words, when they
realized she worked for Playboy.

Make a copy of this for Kretchmer.

Tell him we're running
it in next month's issue

along with an editorial
I'll write myself.

- We'll get it done.
- That's out of the question.

- Is it against the law?
- No.

- Will it jeopardize our case?
- No.

- Then we're running it!
- It's Bobbie's case.

It's Bobbie who's on trial
here, not you and not Playboy.

So you're just going to
let her hang out to dry?

No, of course not.

But what we're dealing with here
has very serious implications,

not just for you and for
Bobbie, but for the company.

The company will be fine.

We already have two board members

resign because of this.

I have advertisers backing out.

Our stock price is down, big time.

All we gotta focus on is doing
some serious damage control.

You need to separate
yourself from Bobbie.

Not just for your sake, but for hers.

[
Don McLean: "Babylon"]

[Hugh Hefner] Bobbie was my best friend.

But on the advice of my lawyers,

I was told not to speak
publicly about her case.

And even worse,

I had to ask her to move
out of the Chicago mansion.

It killed me to know there was
nothing I could do to help her.

It became very unreal.

I knew that the DEA had become
a very corrupt organization

and the case was politically inspired.

[Van Gordon Sauter] For most people,

this is the image of Bobbie Arnstein,

assistant to Playboy
publisher Hugh Hefner.

A girl who lived in what seemed
a sleek and fashionable world,

a girl who somehow became involved

in the cruel and shoddy drug world.

[overlapping chatter]

[Hugh Hefner] On October 22, 1974,

Bobbie's case went to trial.

Your Honor,

specifically cocaine,

and that these defendants
entered into an agreement

with each other, and with other persons,

to distribute cocaine
in the United States.

[man] I don't think any of us felt

that they would stoop this low,

to threaten this young
woman with incarceration

if she did not come forward
and lie about her boss.

They would go just so
far and then back off.

But they didn't do that.

[Hugh Hefner] The prosecution was
asking for the maximum sentence:

15 years in prison.

I'm here to represent my
client, Bobbie Arnstein.

She traveled from Chicago down
to Florida with Mr. Scharf,

but we believe the evidence
will show that Miss Arnstein

had no knowledge or participation

in any sale of drugs while
she was down in Florida

and that she should be found not guilty.

[Hugh Hefner] The
prosecution had gone so far

as to tap Ron Scharf's phone

and presented transcripts
of his conversations

with Bobbie in court,

but none of the evidence
made it clear that Bobbie

was knowingly involved.

[Hugh] How's it going?

How's Bobbie?

You know, it's a...

it's a trial. It's tough for her.

But she's, um,

she's holding up pretty well.

Just let her know I'm
thinking about her.

Of course.

All right, bye.

[sighs]

On behalf of the government,

I would like to call as a witness

George E. Matthews to the stand.

I laid out some coke
on the coffee table.

Scharf and I tested
it, and he asked to buy

a half pound of the
coke, which I sold to him

in a bag which I placed
on the coffee table.

Was anyone else present at this meeting?

Yes. Bobbie Arnstein.

Did they leave with the
half a pound of cocaine

you had left on the bed?

Yes.

Was Mr. Scharf carrying
the half a pound of cocaine?

Bobbie Arnstein placed
the half pound of cocaine

in her handbag and carried it out.

Thank you, Mr. Matthews.

No further questions.

All right, Mr. Matthews.

Now, you have before you

the statement you made previously.

Now, in this statement you made,

is there anything said by you

stating Miss Arnstein's presence

when Scharf asked to buy
a half a pound of cocaine?

Not in what I have here, no.

Is there any statement made
by you that Miss Arnstein

put the cocaine in her bag?

[stammering] No.

- Or carried the bag out?
- No.

Subsequent to giving these statements,

did you have any conversations

with any government
agent about this case?

I had a couple telephone
conversations, yes.

What was the result
of these conversations?

I... agreed to cooperate
with the government fully.

Do you have an understanding
as to anything that you were

to receive in return
for this cooperation?

Yes.

Would you tell the
court and jury, please,

what your understanding was?

Uh, a recommendation

that I be sentenced to
no more than five years.

I have no further questions.

[Hugh Hefner] Bobbie's
lawyers had done all they could

to prove her innocence.

Now, her fate was up to the jury.

Richard Rosenzweig: From
a justice point of view,

we felt there was no question

that she would be found innocent.

But with the threats
that she was getting

from the U.S. attorney and the DEA,

one wasn't completely sure
what the outcome might be.

[judge] Will the defendants please rise?

On the charge of conspiracy
to distribute a narcotic drug,

the court finds the defendants...

guilty.

The defendant, Bobbie Arnstein,

is committed to the custody
of the attorney general

or his authorized representative.

[Hugh Hefner] The judge
issued a preliminary sentence

of the full 15 years.

Bobbie's boyfriend, Ron Scharf,

only got a six-year sentence.

Court is adjourned.

[Hugh Hefner] When they
convicted her, it was unreal.

I knew she was innocent.

They knew she was innocent.

They let major drug dealers walk away,

use them to convict her,

all in an attempt to somehow

put enough pressure on this girl

so that she would invent
some story about me.

I don't think you ought to
give any statement at all.

Well, I think it's absurd.

I don't think you ought
to give any statement.

My lawyers suggest that
I not give any statements.

It's not my personal feeling.

Okay, thank you.

You're welcome, sorry.

[phone ringing]

[ringing continues]

[
"Scarborough Fair"]

[phone ringing]

Hello?

Ms. Arnstein, executive assistant

to Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner,

died of an overdose Monday.

No bottles containing prescriptions

were found in the hotel
room where she took her life.

Van Gordon Sauter has
a profile on the woman

who died in a second-rate hotel.

She was not doing what they
were saying she was doing.

She was not carrying drugs,

she was not dealing.

She was just too tired to keep fighting.

[reporter] ... enmeshed by
a boyfriend in a drug raid

and an aggressive
government investigation,

the fragile entity that
was Bobbie Arnstein broke.

Perhaps there is just no
more room in this world

for such fragile people.

[Christie Hefner] Bobbie's
suicide was devastating

for everybody who knew her,

perhaps as much as anything because

it was completely unnecessary

and was really caused by the government

pressuring her to give them
Hugh Hefner as a drug dealer.

Rather than do anything
to hurt my father,

she didn't see any way out
but to take her own life

when faced with the threat
of significant prison time.

I think just the tragedy of
that, was just heartbreaking.

[reporter] The funeral service,
from which cameras were barred,

took nine minutes,

the relatives and old family friends

pulling up to the funeral home
on Devon in five limousines,

with a grim-looking Hugh
Hefner in the center.

Bobbie Arnstein had been swallowed up

by all this in her life.

It was happening once
again in her death.

[Hugh Hefner] When
Bobbie was laid to rest,

her mother gave me the honor
of serving as a pallbearer.

[reporter] The seven
pallbearers, including Hefner,

carried the steel coffin
from the funeral home

and put it into a hearse.

They all said goodbye
to Bobbie Arnstein today,

all the worlds in which she had lived.

[Hugh Hefner] Throughout
the entire investigation,

I followed my counsel's
advice and never said a word.

Now I regretted that silence.

Every time I've allowed somebody

to make me not talk to the press,

I've paid heavily for it.

In this case, we all
paid heavily for it,

and Bobbie paid for it with her life.

After she died, I said, "I
can't keep quiet anymore.

I'm gonna make a press statement."

If I look a little harried,
I'm... I'm quite upset.

Okay.

In the infamous witchcraft
trials of the middle ages,

the inquisitors tortured the victims

until they not only
confessed to being witches,

but accused their own families
and friends of sorcery as well.

In similar fashion, narcotics agents

frequently use our severe drug laws

in an arbitrary and capricious manner

to elicit the desired
testimony for a trial.

The pressure of a lengthy
appeal and increasing harassment

from government prosecutors
and their agents...

... an already emotionally
troubled woman...

was pushed beyond endurance,

and she killed herself.

I was at the press conference
in the Chicago mansion.

It was all true emotion.

Hefner had been harmed beyond
belief, from his point of view.

Nothing the government could have done

could have hurt him more.

She was one of the best, brightest...

most worthwhile women...

[choking back tears] I have ever known.

She will be missed.

[Hugh Hefner] Bobbie had been
with me for nearly 14 years.

She'd kept things running,

whether it was my personal life,

my business life,

or even the mansion itself.

She was one of the few people

strong enough to keep me in check.

[Barbi Benton] It was
such a great loss for Hef.

He was devastated.

It was the saddest I'd ever seen him.

[Hugh Hefner] What I think
about over and over again

is all the years and the good times

and things that she missed,

and... the good times

that would have been better for us

if she'd been here.

[Hugh Hefner] With Bobbie gone,
things would never be the same.

And everywhere I looked,
I only saw memories of her.

So I decided the time
had come to say goodbye,

not only to Bobbie,

but to my entire life in Chicago.

[gentle piano music]

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