Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was a 'monster' who would cease at nothing to fulfill himself sexually, his ex-girlfriend Sondra Theodore claimed within the fourth episode of the A&E 10-part documentary Secrets and techniques of Playboy that aired on Monday night time.
Theodore, who dated Hefner from 1976 to 1981, opened up within the episode concerning the abuse she says she endured whereas they dated and the trauma she skilled on the Playboy Mansion.
Among the many 65-year-old's claims had been that Hefner would power her to sleep with different women and men whereas he recorded it, that she as soon as walked in on him fondling their canine and that he expressed an curiosity in watching individuals get murdered in snuff movies for pleasure.
'He was like a vampire, he was sucking the life out of me. Actually, he was a monster. The issues he was turned on by - nothing was sufficient. Nothing,' Theodore mentioned.
Theodore is considered one of many Playboy Mansion insiders who declare in Secrets and techniques of Playboy that Hefner drugged dozens of younger girls and compelled them to participate in degrading orgies, whereas masquerading as a champion of sexual freedom, based on a stunning new documentary.
The docuseries that premiered on A&E on January 24 has served to elevate the lid on the 'darkish underbelly' of Playboy and the way its venues turned a seedy playground for drug use, sexual abuse, and even bestiality.
'He would inform the general public, even good women take pleasure in intercourse, wholesome intercourse. And there was nothing wholesome concerning the intercourse with Hefner as a result of he took it too far,' she mentioned in Monday's episode.
Theodore, now 65, reveals how later of their relationship he would power her to have group intercourse on the mansion 5 nights per week whereas he recorded it. 'I felt so violated having a person that I didn't wish to be with pressured upon me,' she mentioned.
Theodore, who claimed in final week's episode that Hefner made her his 'drug mule,' admitted to utilizing cocaine to go together with what he needed.
The documentary additionally reveals how Hefner's sexual pursuits typically verged into much more lurid territory, together with considered one of his canine.
'I walked in as soon as and he was [makes sexual hand gesture] to our canine and I used to be like, what are you doing? And he mentioned, 'properly, canine have wants.' And I went, cease that! Simply cease that,' Theodore mentioned.
'And I by no means left him alone with the canine once more. I could not imagine what I used to be seeing. I couldn't imagine what I used to be seeing,' she added.
Theodore mentioned that her breaking level was when Hefner started speaking about getting sexual pleasure from watching snuff movies, that are first-person movies of individuals committing precise murder.
'What sort of thoughts is to date gone that it takes killing anyone to get them excited for that huge launch? He was opening my eyes to this monster. I imply, actually, he was a monster,' she mentioned.
In keeping with Theodore, Hefner's angle in the direction of girls may have come from a disturbing supply, Charles Manson, whose feminine followers lived on his ranch with him and had been tried alongside him for homicide.
Theodore tells the movie: 'After we began courting within the Nineteen Seventies he (Hefner) was fascinated and obsessive about Charles Manson.
'Could not speak sufficient about him. How does this man, these girls who've been in jail for what number of years and after they have an opportunity to get out they nonetheless adore him and can till the day they die. Hef favored that.'
In keeping with Sharmagne Leland-St. John Sylbert, a former Playboy photographer, Hefner even had copies of the Manson household house movies.
She mentioned they had been 'made earlier than the murders, the ladies with knives and weapons on the ranch.'
Theodore mentioned there have been 'so many similarities' in the way in which Hefner used coercive management.
She mentioned: 'The way in which the ladies adopted the whole lot he mentioned, we had been all an enormous pleased household
'He'd say if you could get along with everybody we could be together forever.'
Alexandra Dean, the director of Secrets of Playboy, told Yahoo Entertainment that Theodore was the hardest source to convince to join the documentary, noting that she was also the 'main voice' of the series.
'The thing that shocked me the most is the depth of her scarring around what happened to her with Hef. It was so profound and that is what convinced me more than anything else that this was a much darker story than I had initially started to make. Just looking at Sondra, listening to Sondra, you could hear all those traces of trauma,' she said.
She said that the five years during which Hefner dated Theodore where the 'height' of his depravity and 'I think it was the height of his drug use as well. I think it unleashed things or at least it eradicated certain boundaries he might have had otherwise. The real Hef came roaring out... it's dark,' she said.
Dean likened Playboy Mansion to Las Vegas, saying there is a misconception it's 'fun' and 'cute' to think 'anything that happens in the mansion stays at the mansion.'
'But when you look at what you're really talking about, it's this voracious sex addict who had to keep experimenting and pushing the boundaries of experimentation. There's nothing fun and cute about that. It's brutal. It's terrifying. And there's more than a little bit misogyny embedded in there,' she told the news outlet.
Previous claims brought up in the show were that VIP members of the Playboy nightclubs could do as they pleased, including revered Soul Train host Don Cornelius who allegedly held two Playboy bunnies hostage and raped one of them.
'Bunny Mother' PJ Masten claims that the incident with Cornelius was the worst she ever heard of, and that Hefner 'knew all about it'.
Cornelius was at one of the clubs when two sisters aged around 20 and 21 who had just started working there caught his eye and he invited them over.
Masten said: 'Don had been in the club many times, many people saw him so they didn't have any fear at the time.
'These two young girls got in his Rolls Royce and went to his house. We didn't hear from them for three days, we couldn't figure out where they were.
'They were separated, one locked in one room, the other in another. They were tied up and bound.
'The sister could hear her (other sister) screaming. There were wooden objects she was sodomized with and she could hear her other sister being brutalized. It was horrible.'
One of many women managed to get out and make a name to her Bunny mom however the incident was by no means reported to the police.
Masten mentioned that Cornelius's privileges had been by no means even suspended - and he was again on the membership the next week.
The collection additionally consists of interviews with Linda Lovelace, the Nineteen Seventies porn star who discovered fame with the movie Deep Throat, who says she was handled like a 'piece of meat' and compelled to carry out oral intercourse on a German Shepherd whereas Hefner and his associates watched.
Former Playboy Bunny Mom PJ Masten mentioned: 'All the fellows had been laughing when she received out of the limousine. She was drunk and drugged.
'Impulsively out of nowhere a German Shepherd exhibits up. They received her so tousled they made her give the German shepherd oral intercourse. You wish to discuss depravity? That is despicable!'
Lisa Loving Barrett, Hefner's govt assistant throughout the late Nineteen Seventies and 80s, mentioned that Hefner had a stockpile of Quaaludes, the highly effective sedative which Invoice Cosby's accusers claimed he drugged them with.
Barrett mentioned that on the Playboy mansion the drug was often called the 'leg spreaders' and that they had been thought to be a 'crucial evil' as a result of they made girls do something.
Hefner would have his personal prescription, as would Barrett and others who labored on the mansion and Hefner would acquire all of them and preserve all of them in a drawer in his bed room, prepared to present to girls who he introduced there.
Barrett claimed that Hefner would take small quantities of the amphetamine Dexedrine day by day to maintain himself alert.
Cocaine was a 'huge deal' in the home and there was a powder room off the nice corridor the place beneath an ornate rest room paper holder there was a 'pile of cocaine'.
The drug was so extensively accessible that considered one of Hefner's poodles turned hooked on it and used to lick it off the ground, Theodore claims.
Forward of the present's premiere, Playboy despatched Yahoo Leisure an announcement to distance itself from Hefner and his actions.
'The Hefner household is now not related to Playboy, and in the present day's Playboy is just not Hugh Hefner's Playboy. We belief and validate these girls and their tales and we strongly assist these people who've come ahead to share their experiences,' a spokesperson advised the information outlet.
'As a model with sex-positivity at its core, we imagine security, safety and accountability are paramount. An important factor we are able to do proper now's actively hear and be taught from their experiences.'
'As a company with a greater than 80 p.c feminine workforce, we're dedicated to confronting any components of our legacy that don't replicate our values in the present day, and persevering with the progress we have now made to evolve as an organization so we are able to drive constructive change for our staff and our communities,' the assertion concluded.