FORMER Playboy models have lifted the lid on what it was really like inside the iconic Playboy Mansion.
Whilst Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt initially thought life in Hugh Hefner’s £77 million pad would be glitz and glam, they soon realised being a Playboy Bunny wasn’t quite as attractive as it was portrayed to be.
For years, both Playboy models were Hugh’s original girlfriends on The Girls Next Door – but although for many fans it all seemed full of wonder, the reality was far darker.
Airing from 2005 to 2010, The Girls Next Door gave viewers an inside peek of the Playboy Mansion, starring Hefner’s then three main girlfriends Holly, Bridget and Kendra Wilkinson.
Bridget, 51, and Holly, 41, have since spilled the beans on what was really taking place behind the closed doors of Hefner’s mansion, where the late magazine publisher lived until his death in 2017.
The bubbly pair – who have both since become TV personalities – met at the multi-million property where they lived together for seven years.
During their time at the California pad, which had 29 rooms, the pals met some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz and George Clooney.
But in Hugh’s bedroom, where his girlfriends would endure ‘robotic sex’, it was hoarder-style.
According to the former Playmates, who shared all on their Girls Next Level podcast, the millionaire – who was known as the “Godfather of the sexual revolution” – had mould, dust and junk all over his room.
Bridget explained: “We walked in and it was just a disaster in there.
“The lights were out, but there were two giant TV screens in there that were playing porn…
“There’s just so much junk.”
To this, Holly agreed: “It was just hoarder-style.
“Imagine thinking you’re this big player and you’re bringing all these girls home, and your room looks like s**t.
It was just a disaster in there
Bridget Marquardt
“It’s like the weird eccentric millionaire version of the guy with the mattress on the floor and a Pulp Fiction poster.”
Not only this, but in her memoir, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself, Hugh’s ex-wife Crystal Hefner, 38, shared similar thoughts.
Facts you didn't know about the Playboy Mansion
Girlfriends vs Playmates
Rumour has it that Hugh Hefner would have two to a dozen “girlfriends” living with him at a time. These girlfriends are not to be confused with Playmates. Each girlfriend had their own room, but one “special lady” was named as girlfriend number one and stayed with Hef in his room. Each girlfriend received a $1,000 (£760) weekly bonus “allowance.”
Hef’s Wild side
The Playboy mansion was home to a private zoo. It was one of very few private residences that actually has a zoo license. Hefner was a fan of birds. Among his collection – many of which roamed the grounds – were peacocks, macaws, flamingos, toucans and ducks.
The Elvis Legend
Within the mansion was a secret room, called “The Elvis Room.” Legend has it that the King himself, Elvis Presley, had a little slumber party in the room with up to eight eager bunnies.
Hefner’s last wife, who met the louche lothario when she was just 21 and he was 60 years her senior, at a Halloween party in 2008, confessed: “Everything was mouldy and dusty.
“It was just hoarder central in the mansion.”
I had to put on rubber gloves and pick up the dildos from the floor and put them in a special bucket
Stefon Tetelbaum
Similar to this, in an interview for A&E’s Secrets of Playboy, Hefner’s former valet Stefon Tetelbaum recounted the process of retrieving used sex toys after one of the bedroom sessions and getting them ready for the next one.
She confessed: “I had to put on rubber gloves and pick up the dildos from the floor and put them in a special bucket.
“The maids would take them downstairs, spray them with a steam cleaner to sterilise them and then put them in plastic bags.
“I would carry them back upstairs and put them back in the headboard.”
