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Holly Madison said she stayed at the Playboy mansion because she was afraid of Hugh Hefner's 'revenge porn'

Sep 2, 2022, 20:50 IST
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Kendra Wilkinson, Bridget Marquardt, Hugh Hefner, and Holly Madison were Hugh Hefner's girlfriends in 2007.M. Tran/FilmMagic
  • Holly Madison said she feared leaving the Playboy mansion because of "revenge porn" on her podcast.
  • She said Hugh Hefner kept nude Polaroids of the women partying in his limo to donate to a library.
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Holly Madison said Hugh Hefner kept photos of the women he had sex with during episode three of the "Girls Next Level" podcast.

"I felt like there was this mountain of revenge porn that everyone's gonna see at some point so I might as well, like, hide here," Madison said at the 47-minute mark.

Madison told her co-host, Bridget Marquardt, that the existence of the Polaroid photos — snapped from nights out in Hefner's limo — made her "feel weird and afraid to leave."

She said Hefner intended to donate a scrapbook filled with the disposable pictures, including naked images of women flashing parts of their bodies, to a library. She did not specify which institution the magazine founder planned on donating the racy memorabilia to and did not clarify if the library was aware of his intentions.

"It was just gross," she added.

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Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner and Bridget Marquardt lived together at the Playboy mansion.Denise Truscello/WireImage

Madison said she wished she could have regained access to Hefner's bedroom as she was moving out so that she could have destroyed the scrapbook. "If I could have gotten to that drawer and burned that book, I would have," she continued.

Marquardt said the book also held a record of the $1,000 weekly clothing allowances Hefner gave his girlfriends and a log of "who slept with him and when."

"The black book kept track of a few different things," she explained.

'"I'm just so disgusted of how he keeps a record of who he has sex with what night and takes all these nudes of all the girls," Madison said.

Hugh Hefner and Holly Madison in dated 2006.Laurence Cottrell/FilmMagic

Additional accusations about the culture at the Playboy mansion were made in the 2022 A&E docuseries "Secrets of Playboy." Hefner's son, Cooper Hefner replied to the accusations on Twitter on January 23, 2022.

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"Some may not approve of the life my Dad chose, but my father was not a liar. However unconventional, he was sincere in his approach and lived honestly," Cooper wrote.

"He was generous in nature and cared deeply for people. These salacious stories are a case study of regret becoming revenge," he added.

Cooper is not the one showing support for his father. A group of former Playboy bunnies released an open letter praising Hefner, condemning the docuseries and calling Hefner an individual of "upstanding character exceptional kindness, and dedication to free thought," in February 2022.

In response to recent allegations made against Hefner, a Playboy spokesperson said: "Today's Playboy is not Hugh Hefner's Playboy, and the Hefner family is no longer associated with the company."

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