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Karin Taylor was stunned when she first learned of the accusations made against her late pal Hugh Hefner. It was 2022 when former Playboy bunny Holly Madison and several other playmates spoke out in a 10-part docuseries on A&E, "Secrets of Playboy." Madison alleged the Playboy Mansion "was very cult-like" and the women were "gaslit and expected to think of Hef as like this really good guy." "It was so easy to get isolated from the outside world there," the 43-year-old said at the time. "You had a 9 o’clock curfew.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Netflix’s new series “Agent Elvis” arrives March 17 and sees the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll pulling double duty as a singer by day and a secret government battling dark forces by night. And this time, it’s Matthew McConaughey voicing the King. Accompanying the animated series is a musical soundtrack composed by Tyler Bates and Timothy Williams, who recently scored “Pearl.” Intertwining iconic Elvis Presley syncs such as “Viva Las Vegas” and “If I Can Dream” is a score with a rock-tinged surfer vibe and plenty of guitar to underscore the action. Says Bates, “‘Agent Elvis’ is such an amazingly hilarious show that Tim and I had to tamp down our laughter in order to work on the score, which is a musical odyssey unlike any I have previously encountered.”

Holly Madison is opening up about Hugh Hefner‘s lack of concern amid heavy drug use at the Playboy Mansion.

the Mirror. Raquel won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her 1974 role in The Three Musketeers. NBA star Rex Chapman led tributes on social media this evening, Tweeting: "Raquel Welch has passed away at the age of 82.

Tributes have been paid to Hollywood actress Raquel Welch following her death at aged 82 today.

Welch told The Post in 2012.“Everyone on set was going, ‘Uh-oh, here they come,’ standing there watching. And Faye gets out her fan and starts fanning herself, saying, ‘Darling, I adore your work.’ And I say, ‘Everything you do is genius!’ Everyone was so disappointed.”Welch was named one of the “100 Sexiest Stars in Film History” by Empire magazine in 1995.

Pamela Anderson is making the rounds, giving a series of rare, in-depth interviews to promote her new memoir and Netflix Documentary, Pamela, a Love Story.

Holly Madison has spoken at length about the traumatic effects of living at the Playboy mansion, but it isn’t always easy.

Holly Madison had "nothing to say" to Hugh Hefner before he died. The 43-year-old reality star worked in the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles and famously dated late owner Hugh from 2006 until 2008 - who passed away in 2017 at the age of 91 - but explained that she realised he was a "stranger" shortly before his death. She said: "It was odd because after I left the relationship, I was so shell shocked because I realised that this vision I'd had of him the whole time as this amazing person was just kind of something I had wished for and kind of made up in my own head.

A former Playboy Bunny has opened up about the 'terror' she felt after having her child with Hugh Hefner aborted at just 19-years-old. Karissa Shannon fell pregnant with the Playboy founder's baby when he was 83-years-old and she said it felt like she was 'carrying the devil's child'.

Two different experiences. Holly Madison reflected on the “unfortunate” rift between her and Kendra Wilkinson after their time at the Playboy mansion.

Is there anything more romantic than declaring your love during the holidays?

Freddie Roman, a Borscht Belt staple whose comedy was long a part of the Friars Club roasts and was a fixture in big nightclubs, has died at 85. He had a heart attack this morning in Boynton Beach, Florida, his daughter said.

Maane Khatchatourian News Editor, Variety.com Former reality star Holly Madison won’t be called to testify during Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles rape trial, a judge ruled on Tuesday. The defense wanted Madison to take the stand in order to undermine testimony from actress Ashley Matthau, one of the uncharged supporting witnesses. Matthau, who’s accusing Weinstein of sexual battery, claims the former mogul masturbated on her at his hotel in 2003 in Puerto Rico, where they were shooting Miramax’s “Dirty Dancing” sequel, “Havana Nights.”  Madison, who dated and lived with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner from 2001 to 2008, is close friends with Matthau. The defense intended on questioning her about the two partying together at the Playboy Mansion to prove that Matthau wasn’t a “young, sexually inexperienced naif” who was unfamiliar with “the ways of Hollywood.”

(Updated with Gloria Allred statement) Bill Cosby will not get to re-litigate a sexual assault civil case involving a minor from the 1970s, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge says.

Hef’s Playboy playmates and their adult playthings were almost deemed too hot for TV. Exposing more explosive truths about their seemingly plushy lives as Hugh Hefner’s ladies in the early 2000s, former “Girls Next Door” starlets Holly Madison, 42, and Bridget Marquardt, 48, revealed that E! initially canned their reality show’s pilot episode due to the “risqué” nature of a “sex toy” fete. “This party was actually a sex toy party,” Madison recalled during a recent episode of her podcast with Marquardt, “Girls Next Level.”“This was more like a quaint tupperware party, but it was still deemed too risqué for E!,” said Madison. “After the pilot was finished, they said, ‘We can never air this because we can’t show all these sex toys on the network.’ “She went on to insist that the party’s X-rated novelties, such as lubes and faux phalluses, were only for display and not for demonstration. “We weren’t doing anything with them like I said, it was like a tupperware party or there would be like funny games with sex toys.”The honey-haired hottie recalled hosting the saucy celebration at the Playboy Mansion — where she resided as one of Hef’s three main girlfriends alongside Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson, 37, — with Hefner’s permission. However, when the late smut mag magnate, who died of sepsis in 2017 at 89, got a load of the sex goodies and gadgets being hawked in his house, he allegedly “dogged” Madison for orchestrating the tawdry scene. “[Hefner] was like dogging me,” she remembered.

claimed on Monday’s episode that the velvet robe-wearing mogul liked just that. “Hef would use baby oil as lube,” Madison revealed. “I do not recommend this.

Kate Moss "really liked" meeting Hugh Hefner. The 48-year-old supermodel posed for the cover Playboy back in 2014 and insisted there was "nothing seedy" about the late magazine publisher, who lived at the infamous Playboy Mansion with a host of young women known as the "bunnies" until his death in 2017 at the age of 91. She said: "Well I met Hugh Hefner, I went to his house.

sprawling 29-room house had “family vibes” and wasn’t “seedy or gross” — despite recent allegations.The British supermodel made the claims in an interview with British Vogue, amid allegations from former Playboy bunnies of abuse and misconduct in the infamous mansion. Moss, 48, however praised the late publisher, recalling visiting the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 2013 just before her 40th birthday, shooting for the cover and an 18-page spread in Playboy.“Well I met Hugh Hefner, I went to his house.

the third episode of “Girls Next Level” podcast that Hefner had a “black book” that he reportedly used to keep tabs on many of his live-in, bleach-haired roommates. “The black book kept track of a few different things,” Marquardt stated.

sound the sirens on their seemingly once-beloved Hef, ex-bunnies Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt now claim that the late men’s magazine magnate would manipulatively turn on the waterworks. “If we were emotional about something or asking for something, he would start fake crying,” said Madison, 42, while reminiscing with Marquardt, 48, about her unpleasant experiences at the Playboy Mansion on their podcast “Girls Next Level.”“It was such bad acting and so obvious,” added Madison. The platinum blonde co-starred as one of Hef’s three main girlfriends, alongside co-host Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson, 37, on E!’s “Girls Next Door” in the early 2000s. Her fake-crying claim against Hefner, who died of sepsis at age 91 in 2017, comes just days after she and Marquardt used their platform to expose him for making Playmates feel like pieces of “meat” during forced orgies in his “hoarder-like” bed filled with sex toys. During their most recent episode, Madison went on to blast Hef for “gaslighting” her and the other girls by weaponizing his tears even though he already had “all the power in the relationship.”“For the longest time I never talked to anybody about it because I thought maybe I was the only one noticing this,” said Madison of Hefner’s phony blubbering. “But I remember, not long after Kendra moved in she goes, ‘Does Hef fake cry? Because I was talking to him and he started fake crying,’” she continued, noting that Wilkerson’s query came as a comfort. “I was like, ‘Finally, I know I’m not insane,’” Madison recounted.

Jenny McCarthy was noticeably absent when A&E unveiled its shocking documentary, "Secrets of Playboy," earlier this year — and she’s now explaining why. Alexandra Dean’s 10-part docuseries aimed to look at the brand’s complicated legacy and its founder, Hugh Hefner, who died in 2017 at the age of 91. It features new interviews with numerous members of the magazine publisher's staff and inner circle, as well as past girlfriends.  In the months leading up to the premiere, A&E released various trailers teasing what was to come.

#NoFilter with Zack Peter podcast that she was not only asked to be interviewed in “Secrets of Playboy,” but asked to host it. McCarthy claimed she finally declined the invitation on their sixth request.

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Long before Jenny McCarthy launched into her current roles as SiriusXM talk show host and “celebrity detective” on “The Masked Singer”, she was best known as one of Playboy‘s most popular Playmates, appearing on six Playboy covers over the years.