The Playboy Mansion has always been a source of curiosity for many people. Countless films and television shows have tried to recreate what life inside the mansion was like.
However, the reality of the mansion — especially during the years when Hugh Hefner was still alive — is known only to those who lived there. Now, one of them is sharing her experience.
Keep reading to learn more.
45-year-old Holly Madison was Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend for a time. The former Playboy model appeared on a podcast with Owen Thiele and opened up about her private life.
She spoke about her sex life with the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, saying, “Well, it’s a very different story between when we were just by ourselves than with everybody else in the room,” she said.
“Everybody else in the room, no,” she continued, referring to group sex, which she said she did not enjoy. She explained how she expressed her discomfort, adding, “That was disgusting. I hated it. I made it very known I hated it.”
She also addressed their 53-year age gap, saying it did not necessarily affect their private life. “If it was just me and him, it was a lot more normal than you would think,” she said. Hefner passed away in 2017 at the age of 91.
Podcast host Thiele expressed disbelief that anything could feel “normal” given the large age gap. Madison replied, “Nobody does.”
“There was a time when I couldn’t post anything [on social media] without some dumba– in the comments [being] like, ‘Oh, old balls,’” she said. “Maybe some people’s balls do get old and nasty, but I’ve never seen such a thing,” she added.
She also mentioned that during intimacy, she and Hefner always kept the lights off.
“I mean, there’s a saying: ‘All cats are gray in the dark,’” she joked.
Madison and Hefner were together from 2001 to 2008. She has previously spoken about feeling pressured to participate in group sex with Hefner.
She has also described unusual things she sometimes saw during her time at the mansion. She shared, “They would have these trays everywhere, like in every bathroom, out on the tennis courts, by the pool, and it would be a tray with Kleenex, Pepto Bismol, Vaseline, baby oil, sunscreen — any kind of makeshift lube.” The Playboy model added, “It was weird.”
“My experiences that played with the negative parts of it are more related to the relationship and the relationship dynamics, both with Hef and some of the other girls,” Madison said.
She clarified that the job itself was not something she disliked, saying, “I 100 percent enjoyed posing for the magazine. I was always a fan of the pictorials. I always wanted to be in Playboy. And I even worked at the studio producing the Playmate pictorials for a couple of years, and that was a super fun experience. So, it’s very multifaceted for me.”
All in all, Holly Madison appears to be opening up about her experiences in the Playboy Mansion — both good and bad. What do you think about her recent revelations?
