ONCE famed for its fluffy white carpets and servile Playmates, the Playboy mansion has gone to seed after the louche lothario died four years ago today.
But the memories of almost non-stop wild sex parties thrown there are seared in the memories of those who were forced to fulfil the Hef’s every hedonistic whim.
Now builders are working to restore the Playboy Mansion after it was left to rot.
Today, the pool where Hef held his glamourous parties has been drained, the grounds have been torn up, and the mansion is clad with scaffolding.
But back in the day the mansion appeared to the outside work as a gaudy adult fun palace.
Hef lived out the dream of sleazy self-indulgence that made men across the world look on in envy.
The multi-millionaire magazine magnate in Holmby Hills, California, who founded and owned Playboy magazine, sought to publicly embody his publication.
Lavish parties would be attended by A-list celebrities and often they would descend into drunken and drug fuelled orgies which would be laid bare on the fluffy white carpets.
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But multiple Playmates have spoken out about their experiences — making it pretty clear it wasn’t all fun and sex games.
Bitchy “cat fights” would frequently break out between rival models, as well as strict lockdown rules and bizarre and degrading sex rituals.
Bunny Holly Madison offered a bleak picture of her time in her book Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny.
“Everyone thinks that the infamous metal gate was meant to keep people out. But I grew to feel it was meant to lock me in,” she wrote.
Holly soon became his number one girlfriend but she revealed sex with the Playboy king were certainly not something to write home about, reports the Mirror.
She recalled his heavy body and the act being very brief.
Holly said: “There was zero intimacy involved. No kissing, nothing.”
Playmate Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett also said she dreaded romps with Hef.
Writing in her book Being Kendra: Cribs, Cocktails, and Getting My Sexy Back, she said: “I had to be very drunk or smoke lots of weed to survive those nights — there was no way around it.
“At about the minute mark, I pulled away and it was done. It was like a job. Clock in, clock out. It’s not like I enjoyed having sex with him.”
She also claimed Hefner — who died aged 91 in 2017 — would watch porn, smoke weed, and masturbate while his girlfriends would cavort in front of him after being ordered to dress in identical nightwear.
Playboy model Carla Howe previously told how the girls had a strict 9pm curfew, saying that none of them were even allowed to invite friends to the mansion to see them.
She told the Sun on Sunday the house was “more like an old people’s home” than a haven for wild sex.
The Brit beauty said: “He almost never leaves home and refuses to change anything in the mansion, so the whole place feels like it’s stuck in the 1980s.
“There is no velvet or gold and all the carpets are brown and curling.”
And Carla’s twin, Melissa, added that there were strict rules all the women have to follow while they’re living in the 22-bedroom mansion.
STRICT RULES
She said: “If you do something wrong, you’ll get an email. There’s a strict code of conduct. There are even rules about Instagram and Twitter.”
“You’ve got to show everything in a good light and if you’re drunk in a picture you’ll be in trouble.”
While the Playboy Bunnies could enjoy nights on the town at Hefner’s expense, the live-in girlfriends didn’t have much freedom, Kendra claimed.
She said she had to be at home every night by 9pm, which made her feel trapped.
Over time the mansion was left to rot and stripped by looters at the time of his death in 2017, insiders claim.
Hefner had sold the mansion before he died, but was allowed to continue living there up until his death aged 91.
New pictures show the famous party palace undergoing major renovations as its new owner tries to get it back into a livable state.
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