1 00:00:08,008 --> 00:00:10,662 America's public enemy number one 2 00:00:10,706 --> 00:00:14,536 in the United States is drug abuse. 3 00:00:14,579 --> 00:00:16,886 I've learned in a couple of letters to the editor 4 00:00:16,929 --> 00:00:19,802 that Playboy is responsible for everything, 5 00:00:19,845 --> 00:00:22,979 from Vietnam to drug problems. 6 00:00:23,023 --> 00:00:25,721 Drugs were rampant at Hefner's Mansion. 7 00:00:25,764 --> 00:00:27,157 [tense music] 8 00:00:27,201 --> 00:00:29,072 Who's gonna bring these drugs to Hef? 9 00:00:29,116 --> 00:00:30,378 He didn't go anywhere, 10 00:00:30,421 --> 00:00:31,857 and he wasn't gonna go get them himself. 11 00:00:31,901 --> 00:00:34,295 Ms. Arnstein died of a drug overdose, 12 00:00:34,338 --> 00:00:36,079 but police officials still aren't sure 13 00:00:36,123 --> 00:00:38,081 if it was accidental. 14 00:00:38,125 --> 00:00:41,606 The Feds suspected that both Bobbie Arnstein and my sister, 15 00:00:41,650 --> 00:00:44,261 Adrienne-- she was a Playboy Bunny-- 16 00:00:44,305 --> 00:00:48,526 were involved in trafficking drugs for Playboy. 17 00:00:48,570 --> 00:00:50,876 The federal authorities were trying 18 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,096 to get Bobbie to claim that 19 00:00:53,140 --> 00:00:56,056 somehow Hefner was involved in that cocaine smuggling. 20 00:00:56,099 --> 00:00:58,493 Many thought that she committed suicide 21 00:00:58,536 --> 00:01:02,540 because she felt pressure to turn against Hefner. 22 00:01:02,584 --> 00:01:07,632 Why is that so many powerful, influential men 23 00:01:07,676 --> 00:01:12,159 have in their story the tragic death of a woman 24 00:01:12,202 --> 00:01:16,728 or, in Hefner's case, women, and we don't talk about it? 25 00:01:16,772 --> 00:01:19,427 [dramatic music] 26 00:01:19,470 --> 00:01:20,950 My name is Hugh Hefner. 27 00:01:20,993 --> 00:01:22,647 I'm editor-publisher of "Playboy" magazine. 28 00:01:22,691 --> 00:01:24,736 When Hugh Hefner was just 27, 29 00:01:24,780 --> 00:01:27,087 he fashioned himself and Playboy 30 00:01:27,130 --> 00:01:29,132 as the face of sexual liberation. 31 00:01:29,176 --> 00:01:31,787 Playboy is one of the most famous brand names 32 00:01:31,830 --> 00:01:33,005 in the world. 33 00:01:33,049 --> 00:01:34,485 I would like to be remembered 34 00:01:34,529 --> 00:01:36,444 as somebody who played some positive part 35 00:01:36,487 --> 00:01:40,274 in changing the social sexual values of my time. 36 00:01:40,317 --> 00:01:44,974 I believe that Hef pulled one over on the whole world. 37 00:01:45,017 --> 00:01:47,281 The fantasy of Playboy that he created 38 00:01:47,324 --> 00:01:51,241 did not allow for the consent of the women. 39 00:01:51,285 --> 00:01:53,287 When it came to Hefner's buddies, 40 00:01:53,330 --> 00:01:55,637 you had to keep those secrets quiet. 41 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,204 - What have you got for free? - [chuckles nervously] 42 00:01:57,247 --> 00:01:59,249 When you get someone that powerful, 43 00:01:59,293 --> 00:02:01,773 anything could happen. Anything. 44 00:02:01,817 --> 00:02:03,384 The people who were really there, 45 00:02:03,427 --> 00:02:04,994 they're the ones who know the real truth. 46 00:02:05,037 --> 00:02:06,778 I want to be a voice 47 00:02:06,822 --> 00:02:09,781 for the women that suffered the most at his hands. 48 00:02:09,825 --> 00:02:16,658 ♪ 49 00:02:27,059 --> 00:02:28,017 All right. 50 00:02:30,062 --> 00:02:32,804 Down, Bella. Down. 51 00:02:32,848 --> 00:02:36,591 Hef and I, we were together from August of '76 to '81. 52 00:02:36,634 --> 00:02:39,594 When I first met Hef, 53 00:02:39,637 --> 00:02:41,509 I spent most of my time with him 54 00:02:41,552 --> 00:02:46,035 and his best friend, Johnny, out in the game house. 55 00:02:46,078 --> 00:02:49,386 And their conversation was about Bobbie Arnstein. 56 00:02:49,430 --> 00:02:51,040 Before I met him, 57 00:02:51,083 --> 00:02:55,087 Bobbie Arnstein was Hef's social secretary in Chicago. 58 00:02:55,131 --> 00:02:56,741 A very big part of his life. 59 00:02:56,785 --> 00:03:01,006 She knew all his secrets. I mean, they were very close. 60 00:03:01,050 --> 00:03:04,619 And I never met her, but I heard the stories. 61 00:03:04,662 --> 00:03:08,492 The police, they had got ahold of her, 62 00:03:08,536 --> 00:03:11,408 and she was being forced to testify 63 00:03:11,452 --> 00:03:13,410 regarding drugs at the Mansion, 64 00:03:13,454 --> 00:03:15,934 and rather than do this, 65 00:03:15,978 --> 00:03:18,807 she killed herself. 66 00:03:18,850 --> 00:03:21,592 And I'm going, "Wow. Wow, that poor girl." 67 00:03:21,636 --> 00:03:25,553 But then there's Joni, Hef's social secretary, 68 00:03:25,596 --> 00:03:27,729 who knew her. 69 00:03:27,772 --> 00:03:30,862 Joni was the one that really got me questioning it 70 00:03:30,906 --> 00:03:33,300 because she was really close to Bobbie. 71 00:03:33,343 --> 00:03:35,824 She was as inside as you could get. 72 00:03:35,867 --> 00:03:39,915 Joni would say, "She didn't kill herself." 73 00:03:39,958 --> 00:03:42,874 And I'm thinking, 74 00:03:42,918 --> 00:03:45,921 "Well, what do you mean, she didn't kill herself?" 75 00:03:45,964 --> 00:03:47,836 I've wondered about what really happened to Bobbie 76 00:03:47,879 --> 00:03:48,924 for years. 77 00:03:48,967 --> 00:03:50,665 Why was Hef never upset 78 00:03:50,708 --> 00:03:52,275 when he talked about Bobbie 79 00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:55,322 even though they had been very, very close? 80 00:03:55,365 --> 00:03:57,498 Did Bobbie run drugs for Hef? 81 00:03:57,541 --> 00:04:04,418 ♪ 82 00:04:05,810 --> 00:04:09,553 The Bobbie Arnstein case still haunts me. 83 00:04:09,597 --> 00:04:12,164 I was a detective in the Chicago Police Department. 84 00:04:12,208 --> 00:04:13,557 We were responsible 85 00:04:13,601 --> 00:04:15,559 for the northeast quadrant of the city, 86 00:04:15,603 --> 00:04:17,822 and Playboy was in the northeast quadrant 87 00:04:17,866 --> 00:04:20,390 of the city. 88 00:04:20,434 --> 00:04:23,306 Law enforcement was looking at Playboy 89 00:04:23,350 --> 00:04:26,266 because they were the epitome 90 00:04:26,309 --> 00:04:28,442 of the deterioration of our culture. 91 00:04:28,485 --> 00:04:30,618 That was how they looked at it. 92 00:04:30,661 --> 00:04:34,230 And it was basically the start of the real war on drugs, 93 00:04:34,274 --> 00:04:35,623 they used to call it. 94 00:04:35,666 --> 00:04:37,929 People thought this was the den of evil, 95 00:04:37,973 --> 00:04:39,844 and they just thought Playboy needed 96 00:04:39,888 --> 00:04:42,978 to be shut down and squashed. 97 00:04:43,021 --> 00:04:44,545 So in the early '70s, 98 00:04:44,588 --> 00:04:47,548 cocaine really exploded in the city of Chicago. 99 00:04:47,591 --> 00:04:49,898 It was everywhere. 100 00:04:49,941 --> 00:04:51,813 I heard the rumors that you could get whatever you wanted 101 00:04:51,856 --> 00:04:53,031 in the Mansion. 102 00:04:53,075 --> 00:04:54,468 If you wanted marijuana, you could get it. 103 00:04:54,511 --> 00:04:57,471 If you wanted cocaine, you could get it. 104 00:04:57,514 --> 00:04:59,690 So somebody had to bring it in there. 105 00:04:59,734 --> 00:05:02,040 And was it Bobbie? I don't know. 106 00:05:02,084 --> 00:05:03,694 The DEA thought it was her. 107 00:05:03,738 --> 00:05:05,261 She was a target because 108 00:05:05,305 --> 00:05:08,177 of her association with Playboy and Hefner. 109 00:05:08,220 --> 00:05:10,353 ♪ 110 00:05:10,397 --> 00:05:13,051 They searched her, and they found cocaine in her purse. 111 00:05:13,095 --> 00:05:15,706 They brought her into federal court. 112 00:05:15,750 --> 00:05:17,752 Everybody thought, ooh, wow. 113 00:05:17,795 --> 00:05:20,842 DEA's really got a whopper here. 114 00:05:20,885 --> 00:05:25,107 I mean, they got the-- Hugh Hefner's right-hand gal. 115 00:05:25,150 --> 00:05:27,457 The federal authorities were trying 116 00:05:27,501 --> 00:05:29,677 to get Bobbie to claim that 117 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,549 somehow Hefner was involved in that cocaine smuggling, 118 00:05:32,593 --> 00:05:35,030 but I can tell you, 119 00:05:35,073 --> 00:05:39,339 illegal drugs were not the major scene there. 120 00:05:39,382 --> 00:05:43,038 Bobbie was Hef's closest executive assistant. 121 00:05:43,081 --> 00:05:45,693 I considered her my closest friend in the world. 122 00:05:45,736 --> 00:05:47,303 ♪ 123 00:05:47,347 --> 00:05:50,350 I've spent the majority of my adult life 124 00:05:50,393 --> 00:05:52,047 working to legalize 125 00:05:52,090 --> 00:05:55,485 the responsible use of marijuana by adults. 126 00:05:55,529 --> 00:06:00,447 This was a "Playboy" interview they did of me in 1977. 127 00:06:00,490 --> 00:06:01,796 ♪ 128 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:03,667 If we could get over the symbolism, 129 00:06:03,711 --> 00:06:05,756 I think everybody agrees it doesn't really make sense 130 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,019 to send a marijuana smoker to jail. 131 00:06:08,063 --> 00:06:09,673 I met Bobbie Arnstein 132 00:06:09,717 --> 00:06:12,328 the very first time I went to Chicago 133 00:06:12,372 --> 00:06:13,982 to meet with the Playboy Foundation 134 00:06:14,025 --> 00:06:15,810 at the Playboy Mansion. 135 00:06:15,853 --> 00:06:17,594 When you were at the Mansion, 136 00:06:17,638 --> 00:06:21,119 it was like you were at some sort of a Hollywood party. 137 00:06:21,163 --> 00:06:23,731 And Bobbie Arnstein made it happen. 138 00:06:23,774 --> 00:06:28,213 She made sure anybody who needed whatever would have it. 139 00:06:28,257 --> 00:06:33,262 And we hit it off and became very close friends for-- 140 00:06:33,305 --> 00:06:35,438 well, for the rest of her life. 141 00:06:35,482 --> 00:06:38,093 Whenever I would go out to see Hefner, 142 00:06:38,136 --> 00:06:41,575 I would say with Bobbie in her apartment in the Mansion, 143 00:06:41,618 --> 00:06:46,101 and she would say, "Okay, let's go down to the pinball room." 144 00:06:46,144 --> 00:06:48,756 And Hef would join us, and we'd spend several hours 145 00:06:48,799 --> 00:06:50,627 smoking weed and playing pinball. 146 00:06:50,671 --> 00:06:54,805 And I thought she was the most sophisticated and sexy woman 147 00:06:54,849 --> 00:06:56,459 I had ever met in my life. 148 00:06:56,503 --> 00:06:58,287 ♪ 149 00:06:58,330 --> 00:07:00,811 I was a Bunny girl, 150 00:07:00,855 --> 00:07:04,206 a Playmate of the Year, 1973. 151 00:07:04,249 --> 00:07:08,123 When I became Miss January 1972, 152 00:07:08,166 --> 00:07:09,516 that was the first time I met Bobbie, 153 00:07:09,559 --> 00:07:12,301 and we sort of clicked! 154 00:07:12,344 --> 00:07:16,914 She was not a standard beauty, but stylish. 155 00:07:16,958 --> 00:07:19,743 When she was getting ready to go for a date, 156 00:07:19,787 --> 00:07:21,266 she would say, 157 00:07:21,310 --> 00:07:26,446 "Mm, can I borrow your legs tonight, Marilyn?" 158 00:07:26,489 --> 00:07:28,448 And we'd laugh. 159 00:07:28,491 --> 00:07:31,538 I think Bobbie had a very special gift 160 00:07:31,581 --> 00:07:36,151 in the sense that she balanced everything. 161 00:07:36,194 --> 00:07:38,066 And I didn't realize all the responsibility 162 00:07:38,109 --> 00:07:39,328 that she had to bear. 163 00:07:39,371 --> 00:07:41,373 ♪ 164 00:07:41,417 --> 00:07:43,419 She knew about all his girlfriends. 165 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:46,509 She was just naturally discreet 166 00:07:46,553 --> 00:07:51,645 and knew how to smooth things over. 167 00:07:51,688 --> 00:07:54,343 And when I was with her in her apartment, 168 00:07:54,386 --> 00:07:57,433 and Hef would occasionally turn up. 169 00:07:57,477 --> 00:07:58,695 ♪ 170 00:07:58,739 --> 00:08:03,091 And she immediately switched on, 171 00:08:03,134 --> 00:08:06,964 and he would invariably end up laughing and feeling better, 172 00:08:07,008 --> 00:08:08,923 and he would just leave. 173 00:08:08,966 --> 00:08:12,317 One of Bobbie's jobs, not the most important 174 00:08:12,361 --> 00:08:14,537 but one that I always appreciated, 175 00:08:14,581 --> 00:08:17,409 was that Hef insisted 176 00:08:17,453 --> 00:08:21,762 that she keep a box full of nice, hand-rolled joints 177 00:08:21,805 --> 00:08:25,287 on his bedstand in his private quarters. 178 00:08:25,330 --> 00:08:27,855 I saw occasionally amphetamines, 179 00:08:27,898 --> 00:08:31,075 but I never saw cocaine used in the Mansion 180 00:08:31,119 --> 00:08:33,730 other than when Bobbie and I would occasionally 181 00:08:33,774 --> 00:08:36,951 snort a line of coke from a half a gram she had. 182 00:08:36,994 --> 00:08:39,301 But I will say this: we were very careful 183 00:08:39,344 --> 00:08:41,912 to keep it out of Hef's view or knowledge 184 00:08:41,956 --> 00:08:45,002 or anybody else in the Mansion. 185 00:08:45,046 --> 00:08:48,876 I was alerted that if Hef or any of his people 186 00:08:48,919 --> 00:08:50,704 ever see or hear cocaine, 187 00:08:50,747 --> 00:08:53,141 you'll never enter this building again. 188 00:08:53,184 --> 00:08:54,925 And I think that was a real rule. 189 00:08:54,969 --> 00:08:57,319 I don't think it was just PR. 190 00:08:57,362 --> 00:08:59,364 But the federal authorities, 191 00:08:59,408 --> 00:09:02,629 they were fully convinced that the Playboy Empire, 192 00:09:02,672 --> 00:09:05,066 with all its hipness and its relevance 193 00:09:05,109 --> 00:09:09,374 and its modernity, they must be snorting cocaine. 194 00:09:09,418 --> 00:09:12,073 They wanted Hefner, 195 00:09:12,116 --> 00:09:14,336 DEA and FBI especially. 196 00:09:14,379 --> 00:09:17,078 They thought, Hefner's running drugs, and he's the supplier, 197 00:09:17,121 --> 00:09:18,645 that there's drugs all over the place. 198 00:09:18,688 --> 00:09:22,300 ♪ 199 00:09:22,344 --> 00:09:25,260 So they arrested Bobbie Arnstein. 200 00:09:25,303 --> 00:09:31,309 ♪ 201 00:09:31,527 --> 00:09:34,486 She was accused of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. 202 00:09:34,704 --> 00:09:41,581 ♪ 203 00:09:42,669 --> 00:09:44,584 When I was a very young lawyer, 204 00:09:44,801 --> 00:09:49,153 I was asked to work with a more senior lawyer in my firm 205 00:09:49,197 --> 00:09:51,765 representing Bobbie Arnstein. 206 00:09:51,808 --> 00:09:56,508 And, I mean, the government was zealous 207 00:09:56,552 --> 00:09:58,859 in trying to prosecute these cases. 208 00:09:58,902 --> 00:10:04,255 They had wiretaps on Bobbie's phone in the Playboy Mansion. 209 00:10:04,299 --> 00:10:06,867 They picked up on these wiretaps 210 00:10:06,910 --> 00:10:11,219 some occasional discussion of drugs, 211 00:10:11,262 --> 00:10:15,049 but not drug dealing involving Bobbie, 212 00:10:15,092 --> 00:10:20,794 just, "Can you get me some X, Y or Z?" 213 00:10:20,837 --> 00:10:23,492 She had met a new man that she was seeing, 214 00:10:23,535 --> 00:10:25,450 and he was a drug dealer. 215 00:10:25,494 --> 00:10:29,541 His whole life, essentially, was dealing cocaine. 216 00:10:29,585 --> 00:10:33,110 Bobbie Arnstein was arrested outside the Playboy Mansion 217 00:10:33,154 --> 00:10:36,331 with a small amount of cocaine in her purse. 218 00:10:36,374 --> 00:10:39,073 ♪ 219 00:10:39,116 --> 00:10:42,598 Any state in the country during those years, 220 00:10:42,642 --> 00:10:45,775 if you were busted with a half pound of cocaine, 221 00:10:45,819 --> 00:10:48,386 you're gonna spend 10 to 20 years in prison, 222 00:10:48,430 --> 00:10:51,999 and she realized she was in a heap of trouble. 223 00:10:52,042 --> 00:10:54,523 ♪ 224 00:10:54,566 --> 00:10:56,743 They brought her into federal court. 225 00:10:56,786 --> 00:10:59,223 They wanted her to turn around and say, 226 00:10:59,267 --> 00:11:01,443 "I bring the dope to Hugh Hefner." 227 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,756 [tense music] 228 00:11:09,799 --> 00:11:16,806 ♪ 229 00:11:18,068 --> 00:11:21,506 This is a commendation from the state's attorney's office. 230 00:11:21,550 --> 00:11:22,682 "This letter is sent to you 231 00:11:22,725 --> 00:11:24,161 to inform you of the excellent work 232 00:11:24,205 --> 00:11:26,729 "that Investigator Dave Reuben has provided. 233 00:11:26,773 --> 00:11:29,601 "He's been assigned some very difficult and sensitive cases, 234 00:11:29,645 --> 00:11:32,866 such as the Playboy case." 235 00:11:32,909 --> 00:11:35,782 I haven't seen this in...a long time. 236 00:11:35,825 --> 00:11:37,958 ♪ 237 00:11:38,001 --> 00:11:39,350 I was an investigator 238 00:11:39,394 --> 00:11:41,222 for the Cook County State's Attorney's office 239 00:11:41,265 --> 00:11:44,225 in Chicago in the Special Prosecutions Unit. 240 00:11:44,268 --> 00:11:45,966 ♪ 241 00:11:46,009 --> 00:11:49,447 Hefner was on everybody's list at that point 242 00:11:49,491 --> 00:11:51,362 in the federal agencies. 243 00:11:51,406 --> 00:11:53,974 The Bobbie Arnstein's case was already being made, 244 00:11:54,017 --> 00:11:56,541 and you had a conversation 245 00:11:56,585 --> 00:11:57,847 with anybody in law enforcement, 246 00:11:57,891 --> 00:11:59,762 they just thought Playboy needed 247 00:11:59,806 --> 00:12:02,373 to be shut down and squashed. 248 00:12:02,417 --> 00:12:05,507 I was told that Adrienne Pollack 249 00:12:05,550 --> 00:12:08,423 was a Playboy Bunny in the Playboy Club 250 00:12:08,466 --> 00:12:12,035 that died of a drug overdose in 1973, 251 00:12:12,079 --> 00:12:16,648 and basically, she was running drugs on some level. 252 00:12:16,692 --> 00:12:19,086 Our office decided, "Let's reopen 253 00:12:19,129 --> 00:12:21,828 "the Adrienne Pollack case and take a look at it 254 00:12:21,871 --> 00:12:25,788 "because there may be more involving Hugh Hefner, drugs, 255 00:12:25,832 --> 00:12:28,530 other crimes potentially, conspiracies." 256 00:12:28,573 --> 00:12:33,404 This was the backdoor way for the state's attorney's office 257 00:12:33,448 --> 00:12:35,755 to get involved in the Playboy investigation. 258 00:12:35,798 --> 00:12:37,669 ♪ 259 00:12:37,713 --> 00:12:40,324 So I went out, and I do remember the family. 260 00:12:40,368 --> 00:12:44,241 They welcomed us and gave us kind of the backstory 261 00:12:44,285 --> 00:12:46,766 of Adrienne Pollack's development 262 00:12:46,809 --> 00:12:49,246 that led to her going to work for Playboy. 263 00:12:49,290 --> 00:12:51,466 ♪ 264 00:12:51,509 --> 00:12:54,730 Adrienne Claudette is her official name, 265 00:12:54,774 --> 00:12:56,471 Adrienne Claudette-Pollack. 266 00:12:56,514 --> 00:12:59,256 However, growing up, we called her Addie. 267 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:02,390 My sister was a little bit of a rebel and adventurous, 268 00:13:02,433 --> 00:13:06,350 and she was somebody who walks into the room 269 00:13:06,394 --> 00:13:08,700 and just lights up. 270 00:13:08,744 --> 00:13:10,398 I want to show you some things 271 00:13:10,441 --> 00:13:12,879 that I've collected over the years. 272 00:13:12,922 --> 00:13:17,579 All of these boxes are her items. 273 00:13:17,622 --> 00:13:19,755 So here are bunny ears 274 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:23,890 that my sister actually wore working for Playboy. 275 00:13:23,933 --> 00:13:27,589 Different costumes, different colors. 276 00:13:27,632 --> 00:13:32,812 This was part of her initial outfit that she had. 277 00:13:32,855 --> 00:13:37,251 This was her initial shot that was done in July of 1972. 278 00:13:37,294 --> 00:13:42,082 ♪ 279 00:13:42,125 --> 00:13:45,912 Addie was very daring, funny, fearless. 280 00:13:45,955 --> 00:13:48,392 ♪ 281 00:13:48,436 --> 00:13:50,525 This is my wedding, 282 00:13:50,568 --> 00:13:56,226 and this is my sister, Addie, in the blonde here on the end. 283 00:13:56,270 --> 00:13:58,185 She was really pretty, and, I mean, 284 00:13:58,228 --> 00:14:00,883 she had a nice figure and everything. 285 00:14:00,927 --> 00:14:02,885 She was hired immediately. 286 00:14:02,929 --> 00:14:06,193 ♪ 287 00:14:06,236 --> 00:14:07,803 She lived in the Playboy Mansion 288 00:14:07,847 --> 00:14:09,936 pretty much from the get-go. 289 00:14:09,979 --> 00:14:12,808 It was hard. I think it was really tough. 290 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:16,203 She didn't talk much about being a Bunny. 291 00:14:16,246 --> 00:14:18,901 She did have some experiences. 292 00:14:18,945 --> 00:14:21,295 Men would try to pull off the tail 293 00:14:21,338 --> 00:14:24,820 or be, you know, aggressive. 294 00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:26,909 Bunnies come, and Bunnies go, 295 00:14:26,953 --> 00:14:30,565 but there are always 100 girls on the application list 296 00:14:30,608 --> 00:14:33,394 waiting for a chance to enter the Playboy world. 297 00:14:33,437 --> 00:14:34,743 ♪ 298 00:14:44,361 --> 00:14:46,015 I think there was, like, an excitement 299 00:14:46,059 --> 00:14:48,365 because there were a lot of stars that came. 300 00:14:48,409 --> 00:14:51,934 One morning, she had breakfast with Warren Beatty. 301 00:14:51,978 --> 00:14:54,502 But then she also, after a while, 302 00:14:54,545 --> 00:14:58,027 got tired of living in a dorm 303 00:14:58,071 --> 00:15:00,508 with other girls who would take her things. 304 00:15:00,551 --> 00:15:03,511 She wanted to be her own separate individual, 305 00:15:03,554 --> 00:15:04,991 ♪ 306 00:15:05,034 --> 00:15:09,299 And in August of 1973, 307 00:15:09,343 --> 00:15:11,867 she moved out and got an apartment 308 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:14,609 a block and a half away with her boyfriend. 309 00:15:14,652 --> 00:15:17,090 ♪ 310 00:15:17,133 --> 00:15:20,310 August 16th, 1973, 311 00:15:20,354 --> 00:15:23,357 I was sitting on the front porch of our house. 312 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,578 My sister pulls up with her boyfriend, 313 00:15:27,622 --> 00:15:29,711 and I was really surprised to see them. 314 00:15:29,754 --> 00:15:31,408 ♪ 315 00:15:31,452 --> 00:15:33,367 My parents didn't expect it either. 316 00:15:33,410 --> 00:15:34,977 They were in their pajamas. 317 00:15:35,021 --> 00:15:36,674 They came inside. 318 00:15:36,718 --> 00:15:39,764 We sat at the kitchen table, and we took pictures. 319 00:15:39,808 --> 00:15:42,724 Then, she's like, "Well, I have to go." 320 00:15:42,767 --> 00:15:43,986 That was the last time I saw her. 321 00:15:44,030 --> 00:15:46,554 It was her 23rd birthday. 322 00:15:46,597 --> 00:15:48,121 ♪ 323 00:15:48,164 --> 00:15:50,558 Three weeks later, I remember sitting outside 324 00:15:50,601 --> 00:15:52,038 with a friend of mine. 325 00:15:52,081 --> 00:15:54,518 We saw a police car, 326 00:15:54,562 --> 00:15:57,565 and then, all of a sudden, he pulled up to our house. 327 00:15:57,608 --> 00:16:02,439 So I brought him inside, and he said, 328 00:16:02,483 --> 00:16:08,054 "I'm sorry to tell you, but your daughter is dead." 329 00:16:08,097 --> 00:16:10,404 ♪ 330 00:16:10,447 --> 00:16:12,972 But he didn't have any specifics. 331 00:16:13,015 --> 00:16:14,669 It's like, well, what happened? 332 00:16:19,543 --> 00:16:22,459 [tense music] 333 00:16:22,503 --> 00:16:25,027 ♪ 334 00:16:25,071 --> 00:16:27,856 I was 18, and I cried so much 335 00:16:27,899 --> 00:16:30,163 that my contacts were just filmed up. 336 00:16:30,206 --> 00:16:32,426 I just couldn't-- 337 00:16:32,469 --> 00:16:34,776 I could barely see. 338 00:16:34,819 --> 00:16:36,821 It's like, how could this be? 339 00:16:36,865 --> 00:16:38,693 ♪ 340 00:16:38,736 --> 00:16:44,046 I have an article of clothing that she passed away in. 341 00:16:44,090 --> 00:16:46,744 I just kept a piece of it. 342 00:16:46,788 --> 00:16:49,834 They said that she died of a accidental overdose 343 00:16:49,878 --> 00:16:51,923 from quaaludes. 344 00:16:51,967 --> 00:16:54,926 I had no idea she was doing things like uppers or downers 345 00:16:54,970 --> 00:16:57,712 or anything else. 346 00:16:57,755 --> 00:17:01,803 I was surprised, in a way, 347 00:17:01,846 --> 00:17:07,417 but I also knew her behavior had changed over the past year 348 00:17:07,461 --> 00:17:08,984 since she was in "Playboy." 349 00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:12,422 There was more questions than answers. 350 00:17:12,466 --> 00:17:15,512 It was absolutely possible there were major drugs 351 00:17:15,556 --> 00:17:16,861 in the Mansion. 352 00:17:16,905 --> 00:17:18,646 ♪ 353 00:17:18,689 --> 00:17:21,301 There's a memo that's issued April 1st, 1974, 354 00:17:21,344 --> 00:17:22,650 from Mary O'Connor. 355 00:17:22,693 --> 00:17:24,173 She was in charge of the Bunnies, 356 00:17:24,217 --> 00:17:25,740 pretty much the house mother. 357 00:17:25,783 --> 00:17:28,264 And in that memo, she says, 358 00:17:28,308 --> 00:17:30,919 "Make sure there's no illegal drugs on the premises." 359 00:17:30,962 --> 00:17:32,964 They had to anticipate there was the possibility 360 00:17:33,008 --> 00:17:34,357 of a search warrant. 361 00:17:34,401 --> 00:17:36,577 So they were gonna make sure if that occurred, 362 00:17:36,620 --> 00:17:38,753 there were no drugs found. 363 00:17:38,796 --> 00:17:42,017 It also implies that that was a concern 364 00:17:42,061 --> 00:17:44,063 because there were illegal drugs. 365 00:17:44,106 --> 00:17:47,196 ♪ 366 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,678 This is an internal report from DEA, 367 00:17:50,721 --> 00:17:53,681 a report of investigation memo 368 00:17:53,724 --> 00:17:55,378 about an interview with Allen Crawford, 369 00:17:55,422 --> 00:17:59,208 the former head of security for Playboy, 370 00:17:59,252 --> 00:18:01,080 and they have some information 371 00:18:01,123 --> 00:18:04,083 that there were phony prescriptions, potentially, 372 00:18:04,126 --> 00:18:07,129 that were drawn up so Hefner could get drugs. 373 00:18:07,173 --> 00:18:09,740 But the bottom line was, what can you prove? 374 00:18:09,784 --> 00:18:13,440 ♪ 375 00:18:13,483 --> 00:18:16,182 Hef pretended he wasn't involved in any hard drug use 376 00:18:16,225 --> 00:18:19,402 at the Mansion, but that was just a lie. 377 00:18:19,446 --> 00:18:22,057 Quaaludes, down the line, were used for sex. 378 00:18:22,101 --> 00:18:23,450 ♪ 379 00:18:23,493 --> 00:18:25,104 Everything felt good to touch. 380 00:18:25,147 --> 00:18:28,498 Everything felt soft and soft-focus, and-- 381 00:18:28,542 --> 00:18:30,065 and it was lovely. 382 00:18:30,109 --> 00:18:32,807 Usually, you just took a half. 383 00:18:32,850 --> 00:18:36,550 Now, if you took two, you'd pass out. 384 00:18:36,593 --> 00:18:39,509 It was such a seduction, and the men knew this, 385 00:18:39,553 --> 00:18:43,078 that they could get girls to do just about anything they wanted 386 00:18:43,122 --> 00:18:44,427 if they gave them a quaalude. 387 00:18:44,471 --> 00:18:48,605 ♪ 388 00:18:48,649 --> 00:18:52,174 I worked for Hefner at the Playboy Mansion in LA 389 00:18:52,218 --> 00:18:58,746 from late 1977 to mid-1989. 390 00:18:58,789 --> 00:19:00,139 ♪ 391 00:19:00,182 --> 00:19:01,923 Quaaludes were-- 392 00:19:01,966 --> 00:19:03,490 we called them the leg-spreaders, you know? 393 00:19:03,533 --> 00:19:06,623 I mean, and I don't know that I want to get that crude, 394 00:19:06,667 --> 00:19:10,061 but that is what the whole point of them was, you know? 395 00:19:10,105 --> 00:19:13,282 They were a necessary evil, if you will, to the partying. 396 00:19:13,326 --> 00:19:16,807 We would have prescriptions in some of our names. 397 00:19:16,851 --> 00:19:19,636 There were prescriptions in Sondra's name, 398 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:23,945 and Hef's name, and my name. 399 00:19:23,988 --> 00:19:26,339 There was a prescription in Mary's name. 400 00:19:26,382 --> 00:19:29,255 We kept a desk calendar that just would say, you know, 401 00:19:29,298 --> 00:19:32,736 "Lisa's Q," or "Hef's Q," or Sondra's Q." 402 00:19:32,780 --> 00:19:36,610 That enabled certainly four 403 00:19:36,653 --> 00:19:38,873 and sometimes five different prescriptions 404 00:19:38,916 --> 00:19:44,052 for the same medication to feed the machine. 405 00:19:46,837 --> 00:19:50,537 To Hef's bedroom, to his personal drawer. 406 00:19:50,580 --> 00:19:53,148 He had a drawer that none of us had access to. 407 00:19:53,192 --> 00:19:55,977 We gave them directly to Hef. Then, there were-- 408 00:19:56,020 --> 00:19:58,197 There was the Dexedrine, the speed that he took 409 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,024 that was not in everyone else's names. 410 00:20:00,068 --> 00:20:02,723 It was probably only in mine and Mary's and Hef's. 411 00:20:02,766 --> 00:20:04,725 Dexedrine was a speed. 412 00:20:04,768 --> 00:20:07,293 It was a pretty popular diet pill back in the day, 413 00:20:07,336 --> 00:20:12,472 and amphetamine, and I think that it was fuel. 414 00:20:12,515 --> 00:20:13,951 When Hef would take Dexedrine, 415 00:20:13,995 --> 00:20:16,476 he always took a little every day. 416 00:20:16,519 --> 00:20:18,347 He couldn't swallow a pill, so he chewed it. 417 00:20:18,391 --> 00:20:20,131 He would always, like, break off a little piece and-- 418 00:20:20,175 --> 00:20:21,524 then wrap it into tissue 419 00:20:21,568 --> 00:20:23,309 and stick it in the top pocket of his pajamas. 420 00:20:23,352 --> 00:20:25,789 Cocaine was a big deal. 421 00:20:25,833 --> 00:20:30,141 I can remember at a couple of the larger parties, 422 00:20:30,185 --> 00:20:34,058 there was a downstairs powder room off of the Great Hall 423 00:20:34,102 --> 00:20:40,587 that, underneath the ornate toilet paper holder, 424 00:20:40,630 --> 00:20:42,371 you would lift that up, and there was a pile of cocaine 425 00:20:42,415 --> 00:20:45,548 underneath there. [laughs] 426 00:20:45,592 --> 00:20:50,249 I remember asking once, "Where is he getting this?" 427 00:20:50,292 --> 00:20:53,164 You know, 'cause he doesn't leave the property. 428 00:20:53,208 --> 00:20:54,731 Where is this coming from? 429 00:20:54,775 --> 00:20:57,865 [cheers and applause] 430 00:20:57,908 --> 00:21:00,259 The first time I did cocaine came 431 00:21:00,302 --> 00:21:02,783 when we did the Schlong Show for his birthday, 432 00:21:02,826 --> 00:21:04,263 and I had to sing. 433 00:21:04,306 --> 00:21:09,659 ♪ Mama doesn't even have an inkling ♪ 434 00:21:09,703 --> 00:21:12,706 ♪ That we're working here at Hefner's ♪ 435 00:21:12,749 --> 00:21:17,145 ♪ In a pair of lacy pants [laughter] 436 00:21:17,188 --> 00:21:20,235 But I was nervous because nobody had heard me sing. 437 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:23,369 So someone said, "What you need is a bump." 438 00:21:23,412 --> 00:21:24,718 And I said, "What's a bump?" 439 00:21:24,761 --> 00:21:27,373 And somebody is going, "She doesn't know." 440 00:21:27,416 --> 00:21:30,332 They go, "Some cocaine!" And I said, "Cocaine?" 441 00:21:30,376 --> 00:21:32,639 [laughs] Cocaine? 442 00:21:32,682 --> 00:21:35,294 ♪ 443 00:21:35,337 --> 00:21:36,773 And in the beginning, it was fun. 444 00:21:36,817 --> 00:21:39,515 ♪ 445 00:21:39,559 --> 00:21:41,604 There was drugs everywhere. 446 00:21:41,648 --> 00:21:43,911 John Dante was Hef's best friend, 447 00:21:43,954 --> 00:21:46,696 and Dante's little dog, Louis, 448 00:21:46,740 --> 00:21:50,047 who was a little tiny poodle, got hooked on cocaine. 449 00:21:50,091 --> 00:21:53,094 And the dog would smell it from across the room, 450 00:21:53,137 --> 00:21:56,967 and a very famous person walked in the game house one night. 451 00:21:57,011 --> 00:22:00,971 And that little dog jumped off the couch and was-- 452 00:22:01,015 --> 00:22:04,323 he was like Superdog, flew to that person, 453 00:22:04,366 --> 00:22:07,282 up that person's arm and was licking the nose. 454 00:22:07,326 --> 00:22:09,806 And she's like, "Oh, he just loves me!" 455 00:22:09,850 --> 00:22:13,157 And we're all going, "Mm-hmm. Yeah, sure." 456 00:22:13,201 --> 00:22:16,465 We knew why that dog was on her, 457 00:22:16,509 --> 00:22:18,641 and he had to lock that dog up when people were around 458 00:22:18,685 --> 00:22:21,949 because it was addicted to the cocaine, and-- 459 00:22:21,992 --> 00:22:24,778 People you wouldn't even think were doing it were doing it. 460 00:22:24,821 --> 00:22:26,910 So who's gonna bring these drugs to him? 461 00:22:26,954 --> 00:22:28,085 He didn't go anywhere, 462 00:22:28,129 --> 00:22:29,696 and he wasn't gonna go get them himself. 463 00:22:29,739 --> 00:22:31,437 ♪ 464 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,483 At the time in LA, when I was there, 465 00:22:34,527 --> 00:22:36,616 there were bowls of quaaludes. 466 00:22:36,659 --> 00:22:40,620 There were huge vials of cocaine. 467 00:22:40,663 --> 00:22:44,711 And then, when I transferred to the Chicago Playboy Club, 468 00:22:44,754 --> 00:22:46,713 there were a lot of Bunnies that were still there 469 00:22:46,756 --> 00:22:50,630 that knew Adrienne Pollack, and they said, 470 00:22:50,673 --> 00:22:53,415 "Adrienne and Bobbie Arnstein 471 00:22:53,459 --> 00:22:56,375 supplied drugs for the Chicago Mansion 472 00:22:56,418 --> 00:22:59,247 for parties for Hefner and his VIPs." 473 00:23:04,774 --> 00:23:06,210 The Feds suspected 474 00:23:06,254 --> 00:23:08,474 that both Bobbie Arnstein and my sister, Adrienne, 475 00:23:08,517 --> 00:23:12,782 were involved in trafficking drugs for Playboy. 476 00:23:12,826 --> 00:23:15,742 State government wanted to see 477 00:23:15,785 --> 00:23:18,397 what they could get on Hefner and Playboy. 478 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,835 ♪ 479 00:23:21,878 --> 00:23:23,489 Hefner was smart. 480 00:23:23,532 --> 00:23:26,100 Is somebody gonna come forward? No. 481 00:23:26,143 --> 00:23:29,451 Everybody wanted to be Hef's favorite. 482 00:23:29,495 --> 00:23:34,456 Everybody wanted to be rising up in the organization. 483 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:36,110 I think Adrienne Pollack, 484 00:23:36,153 --> 00:23:38,939 maybe she did a little bit of involvement 485 00:23:38,982 --> 00:23:42,899 with running the drugs or being a mule on some level. 486 00:23:42,943 --> 00:23:44,510 That's very possible. 487 00:23:44,553 --> 00:23:46,294 I mean, we'd be naive not to think that. 488 00:23:46,337 --> 00:23:49,253 [dramatic music] 489 00:23:49,297 --> 00:23:52,213 ♪ 490 00:23:52,256 --> 00:23:55,521 After my sister died, 491 00:23:55,564 --> 00:23:57,871 when my mom and dad and I were allowed 492 00:23:57,914 --> 00:24:00,961 to get her things in her apartment, 493 00:24:01,004 --> 00:24:04,268 she had this dark wig. 494 00:24:04,312 --> 00:24:06,967 So we asked her boyfriend what this was about, 495 00:24:07,010 --> 00:24:09,535 and he said, "This was one of her disguises." 496 00:24:09,578 --> 00:24:13,974 She would wear this wig when she was trafficking. 497 00:24:14,017 --> 00:24:18,848 Addie called me one time, and she was in Florida. 498 00:24:18,892 --> 00:24:23,766 Addie told me there was a drug cartel member there with her, 499 00:24:23,810 --> 00:24:26,726 and I believe that was her date for the evening. 500 00:24:26,769 --> 00:24:30,643 I said, "Aren't you afraid?" 501 00:24:30,686 --> 00:24:33,472 She said, "Don't worry. There's a bunch of us here." 502 00:24:35,299 --> 00:24:37,563 They were the Playboy Bunnies. 503 00:24:37,606 --> 00:24:39,608 I think there were somewhere around, like, 504 00:24:39,652 --> 00:24:42,263 seven, eight girls that went. 505 00:24:42,306 --> 00:24:48,051 ♪ 506 00:24:48,095 --> 00:24:50,358 I know that she was on the Bunny plane. 507 00:24:50,401 --> 00:24:55,668 I know that she went to Las Vegas, Hollywood, Hawaii, 508 00:24:55,711 --> 00:25:00,194 to Montego Bay, Jamaica, Florida, 509 00:25:00,237 --> 00:25:04,677 but it may not have always been on the Bunny plane. 510 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,767 A Playboy Bunny friend of hers had given her, 511 00:25:07,810 --> 00:25:11,466 it was a Leo horoscope picture. 512 00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:14,121 Here it says, "The Leo personality 513 00:25:14,164 --> 00:25:17,298 are the ideal heads of large enterprises." 514 00:25:17,341 --> 00:25:19,169 So this head character-- 515 00:25:19,213 --> 00:25:21,607 this head Egyptian character, pharaoh-- 516 00:25:21,650 --> 00:25:24,566 has an A on it for Adrienne. 517 00:25:24,610 --> 00:25:27,787 It shows her as the head, and then, it shows meth, 518 00:25:27,830 --> 00:25:32,531 heroin, LSD, ludes, Valium, and cocaine. 519 00:25:32,574 --> 00:25:36,578 And I firmly believe that she was involved quite a bit 520 00:25:36,622 --> 00:25:38,972 with the drug trafficking. 521 00:25:39,015 --> 00:25:40,887 ♪ 522 00:25:40,930 --> 00:25:42,497 So in 2004, 523 00:25:42,541 --> 00:25:48,372 I decided to contact Adrienne's boyfriend, Jerry. 524 00:25:48,416 --> 00:25:50,636 This is his recollection of what happened 525 00:25:50,679 --> 00:25:53,769 on the day of September 5th, 1973, 526 00:25:53,813 --> 00:25:55,641 the day before her death. 527 00:25:55,684 --> 00:25:59,427 She had a meeting at the Playboy Mansion. 528 00:25:59,470 --> 00:26:02,604 The meeting involved Bobbie Arnstein and two other guys 529 00:26:02,648 --> 00:26:04,606 that were later arrested with Bobbie Arnstein 530 00:26:04,650 --> 00:26:06,739 for cocaine possession. 531 00:26:06,782 --> 00:26:09,785 Jerry said that there was the connection 532 00:26:09,829 --> 00:26:12,266 between Addie's drug trafficking 533 00:26:12,309 --> 00:26:14,616 and Playboy and Bobbie, 534 00:26:14,660 --> 00:26:18,533 and she wanted to get out of it. 535 00:26:18,577 --> 00:26:20,840 If Jerry Pingatore had said 536 00:26:20,883 --> 00:26:24,191 that there was a connection between the two, 537 00:26:24,234 --> 00:26:25,714 there could have been some truth to that, 538 00:26:25,758 --> 00:26:28,848 but we did not talk to Jerry Pingatore 539 00:26:28,891 --> 00:26:30,545 because he was lawyered up. 540 00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:33,940 Adrienne was possibly a low-level mule, 541 00:26:33,983 --> 00:26:37,639 but we were stonewalled early on. 542 00:26:37,683 --> 00:26:39,423 Hefner was smart. 543 00:26:39,467 --> 00:26:41,208 If there was drug activity, 544 00:26:41,251 --> 00:26:43,036 Hefner could have very easily said, 545 00:26:43,079 --> 00:26:45,038 "I don't want to know about it. Do what you got to do." 546 00:26:45,081 --> 00:26:47,910 We could not prove that the Mansions 547 00:26:47,954 --> 00:26:50,478 had massive amounts of drugs or drug activity 548 00:26:50,521 --> 00:26:52,480 that we could make a case out of. 549 00:26:52,523 --> 00:26:58,747 And then, Bobbie Arnstein was indicted, 550 00:26:58,791 --> 00:27:03,099 tried for cocaine possession and distribution charges. 551 00:27:03,143 --> 00:27:05,362 ♪ 552 00:27:05,406 --> 00:27:07,669 In the course of the trial, 553 00:27:07,713 --> 00:27:10,672 there was a lot of wiretap evidence in the case. 554 00:27:10,716 --> 00:27:13,980 They recorded phone calls. 555 00:27:14,023 --> 00:27:16,852 And they were played for the jury. 556 00:27:16,896 --> 00:27:18,941 Bobbie did not take the stand 557 00:27:18,985 --> 00:27:20,769 because if she would have taken the stand, 558 00:27:20,813 --> 00:27:22,249 they could have asked her a lot of questions 559 00:27:22,292 --> 00:27:24,120 about Hef and Playboy 560 00:27:24,164 --> 00:27:26,209 that she would not have wanted to answer, probably. 561 00:27:26,253 --> 00:27:27,994 In the Playboy world, 562 00:27:28,037 --> 00:27:31,780 they always prided themselves on how private it was. 563 00:27:31,824 --> 00:27:34,348 ♪ 564 00:27:34,391 --> 00:27:36,393 Hugh Hefner's social secretary, 565 00:27:36,437 --> 00:27:38,482 32-year-old Bobbie Arnstein, 566 00:27:38,526 --> 00:27:40,615 and two men were found guilty today 567 00:27:40,659 --> 00:27:43,357 of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. 568 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,751 After the verdict was returned by the federal court, 569 00:27:45,794 --> 00:27:47,970 sentencing was set for November 20th, 570 00:27:48,014 --> 00:27:50,190 and Arnstein left the federal courts building 571 00:27:50,233 --> 00:27:53,236 accompanied by her attorney, Tom Sullivan. 572 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:57,414 Sullivan advised her to say nothing to waiting reporters. 573 00:27:57,458 --> 00:27:58,981 ...any statements. 574 00:27:59,025 --> 00:28:00,896 I don't think you ought to give any statement at all. 575 00:28:00,940 --> 00:28:04,508 - Well, I think it's absurd. - Do not give any statement. 576 00:28:04,552 --> 00:28:07,294 My lawyer suggests that I not give any statements. 577 00:28:07,337 --> 00:28:09,905 It's not my personal opinion. 578 00:28:09,949 --> 00:28:11,733 You're welcome. Sorry. 579 00:28:11,777 --> 00:28:13,126 She was convicted 580 00:28:13,169 --> 00:28:16,085 of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. 581 00:28:16,129 --> 00:28:20,481 She was sentenced provisionally with a 15-year sentence. 582 00:28:20,524 --> 00:28:22,483 Then, within a few weeks, 583 00:28:22,526 --> 00:28:27,096 the government called Bobbie in to speak with them. 584 00:28:27,140 --> 00:28:30,883 I remember being in a large room crowded with men, 585 00:28:30,926 --> 00:28:33,537 and Bobbie and I were there. 586 00:28:33,581 --> 00:28:37,498 And the government told her that they had information 587 00:28:37,541 --> 00:28:40,631 that there was a contract out on her life 588 00:28:40,675 --> 00:28:45,158 and that she needed to be very careful of friend and foe. 589 00:28:45,201 --> 00:28:46,768 ♪ 590 00:28:46,812 --> 00:28:48,770 So I don't think for either of us, 591 00:28:48,814 --> 00:28:51,164 there was any question about how we were supposed 592 00:28:51,207 --> 00:28:55,211 to interpret that odd message. 593 00:28:55,255 --> 00:28:57,779 ♪ 594 00:28:57,823 --> 00:29:01,130 The only person that it made any sense would be 595 00:29:01,174 --> 00:29:05,004 to assume that Hugh Hefner was willing to kill Bobbie Arnstein 596 00:29:05,047 --> 00:29:09,399 to keep the cocaine scandal out of his life and Playboy's life, 597 00:29:09,443 --> 00:29:11,793 and that simply isn't believable for any of us 598 00:29:11,837 --> 00:29:13,447 who knew the two of them. 599 00:29:13,490 --> 00:29:14,927 What I'm describing to you 600 00:29:14,970 --> 00:29:18,582 is what was transparently obvious to all of us, 601 00:29:18,626 --> 00:29:20,933 Bobbie included, her attorneys and ourselves, 602 00:29:20,976 --> 00:29:26,112 as a transparent and incredible pressure on Bobbie... 603 00:29:29,376 --> 00:29:33,902 to establish 604 00:29:33,946 --> 00:29:35,730 and accomplish exactly what we've been talking about here, 605 00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:38,602 to make her strike out at us. 606 00:29:38,646 --> 00:29:40,953 ♪ 607 00:29:40,996 --> 00:29:43,520 Bobbie had made it fairly clear to all her friends 608 00:29:43,564 --> 00:29:45,740 that she'd do whatever she needed to do 609 00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:47,568 not to go to prison, but she wasn't gonna 610 00:29:47,611 --> 00:29:50,397 flip on Hef or anybody in the Playboy Empire. 611 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,270 ♪ 612 00:29:54,314 --> 00:29:57,491 So she took an overdose of pills, 613 00:29:57,534 --> 00:29:59,406 I think 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, 614 00:29:59,449 --> 00:30:03,149 and took a taxi over to the Maryland Hotel 615 00:30:03,192 --> 00:30:07,457 and got a room by herself, 616 00:30:07,501 --> 00:30:12,811 wrote her note out on the hotel stationery by hand, 617 00:30:12,854 --> 00:30:14,943 took her pills, and went to sleep. 618 00:30:14,987 --> 00:30:16,945 ♪ 619 00:30:16,989 --> 00:30:19,121 Bobbie Arnstein had lived for several years 620 00:30:19,165 --> 00:30:21,863 in Hugh Hefner's luxurious Chicago mansion, 621 00:30:21,907 --> 00:30:24,126 but the 34-year-old executive secretary 622 00:30:24,170 --> 00:30:26,825 checked into a nearby night-club district hotel 623 00:30:26,868 --> 00:30:28,870 before apparently taking her own life 624 00:30:28,914 --> 00:30:30,698 with an overdose of drugs. 625 00:30:30,741 --> 00:30:35,442 ♪ 626 00:30:35,485 --> 00:30:36,704 It was right in the middle of everything, 627 00:30:36,747 --> 00:30:38,793 so everything blows up. 628 00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:43,493 ♪ 629 00:30:43,537 --> 00:30:46,366 Bobbie Arnstein had been subpoenaed 630 00:30:46,409 --> 00:30:50,109 by the local grand jury 631 00:30:50,152 --> 00:30:52,546 in conjunction with the Adrienne Pollack case 632 00:30:52,589 --> 00:30:54,853 just prior to her suicide. 633 00:30:54,896 --> 00:30:56,811 ♪ 634 00:30:56,855 --> 00:31:03,078 So all that evidence that she may have had 635 00:31:03,122 --> 00:31:05,254 went with her. 636 00:31:05,298 --> 00:31:07,169 She apparently died of a suicide, 637 00:31:07,213 --> 00:31:09,737 but we don't believe it was a suicide. 638 00:31:15,917 --> 00:31:17,310 It was my responsibility to determine what happened 639 00:31:17,353 --> 00:31:18,833 to Roberta Arnstein. 640 00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:21,140 So I treated it as a murder. 641 00:31:21,183 --> 00:31:26,145 I had the crime laboratory take the door off the hotel room, 642 00:31:26,188 --> 00:31:28,625 and I had it sent to the crime laboratory 643 00:31:28,669 --> 00:31:31,193 to have the tool mark section check the locks 644 00:31:31,237 --> 00:31:33,717 to make sure they hadn't been picked. 645 00:31:33,761 --> 00:31:35,328 I even went up on the roof, 646 00:31:35,371 --> 00:31:37,808 directly above the window of that room, 647 00:31:37,852 --> 00:31:41,116 to make sure there were no grappling hook marks 648 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,553 on the roof. 649 00:31:43,597 --> 00:31:48,254 I mean, I covered every single possible contingency. 650 00:31:48,297 --> 00:31:51,083 We had handwriting analysis done on the note. 651 00:31:51,126 --> 00:31:52,562 It was her handwriting. 652 00:31:52,606 --> 00:31:54,521 There was no violence, 653 00:31:54,564 --> 00:31:57,393 so there was no blood, no signs of restraint. 654 00:31:57,437 --> 00:32:00,048 You know, she hadn't been bound or anything like that. 655 00:32:00,092 --> 00:32:01,615 No bruising. 656 00:32:01,658 --> 00:32:04,226 Nothing had been disturbed. 657 00:32:04,270 --> 00:32:06,098 It was a suicide. 658 00:32:06,141 --> 00:32:08,056 [tense music] 659 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:11,103 Roberta Arnstein was charged federally, 660 00:32:11,146 --> 00:32:13,409 tried in a federal courtroom in Chicago, 661 00:32:13,453 --> 00:32:15,803 and sentenced to 15 years in prison. 662 00:32:15,846 --> 00:32:17,631 Even if she hadn't committed suicide, 663 00:32:17,674 --> 00:32:19,807 she'd have been ruined by this. 664 00:32:19,850 --> 00:32:23,071 I mean, they were gonna put her in prison. 665 00:32:23,115 --> 00:32:26,248 They fully intended to send her away. 666 00:32:26,292 --> 00:32:31,297 Narcotics agents frequently use our severe drug laws 667 00:32:31,340 --> 00:32:33,299 in an arbitrary and capricious manner 668 00:32:33,342 --> 00:32:35,823 to elicit the desired testimony for a trial. 669 00:32:35,866 --> 00:32:37,781 ♪ 670 00:32:37,825 --> 00:32:39,914 Faced finally 671 00:32:39,958 --> 00:32:43,570 with a conditional sentence of 15 years, 672 00:32:43,613 --> 00:32:46,007 the pressure of a lengthy appeal 673 00:32:46,051 --> 00:32:47,530 and increasing harassment 674 00:32:47,574 --> 00:32:49,837 from government prosecutors and their agents... 675 00:32:53,188 --> 00:32:56,452 an already emotionally troubled woman 676 00:32:56,496 --> 00:33:00,848 was pushed beyond endurance, and she killed herself. 677 00:33:00,891 --> 00:33:03,329 ♪ 678 00:33:03,372 --> 00:33:05,157 The end was very scary. 679 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,810 ♪ 680 00:33:06,854 --> 00:33:08,943 And you could see how heartbroken Hefner was 681 00:33:08,987 --> 00:33:10,336 when he was a pallbearer. 682 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:23,001 I think her struggle was like it is for everybody: survival. 683 00:33:23,044 --> 00:33:27,179 And she just couldn't cope, and she chose not to. 684 00:33:27,222 --> 00:33:30,182 Bobbie was my soul mate. 685 00:33:30,225 --> 00:33:33,011 She was incredibly close. 686 00:33:33,054 --> 00:33:37,102 And I should have been able to help her, but I wasn't, 687 00:33:37,145 --> 00:33:39,843 so I felt incredibly guilty. 688 00:33:39,887 --> 00:33:41,889 It still makes me cry. 689 00:33:41,932 --> 00:33:48,896 ♪ 690 00:33:51,986 --> 00:33:56,860 She never felt totally happy or satisfied. 691 00:33:56,904 --> 00:33:59,863 There was always a sad side to her. 692 00:33:59,907 --> 00:34:02,649 She was wielding the power she wanted, 693 00:34:02,692 --> 00:34:05,869 but she didn't have all the status she wanted 694 00:34:05,913 --> 00:34:08,524 or all the pay. 695 00:34:08,568 --> 00:34:10,526 Bobbie and I talked about 696 00:34:10,570 --> 00:34:13,964 the difficulties women had in getting ahead. 697 00:34:14,008 --> 00:34:16,576 And she was surrounded by male executives, 698 00:34:16,619 --> 00:34:19,100 and she was not an executive. 699 00:34:19,144 --> 00:34:21,015 She was an executive secretary. 700 00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:22,321 ♪ 701 00:34:22,364 --> 00:34:24,236 In everything that I saw her do, 702 00:34:24,279 --> 00:34:26,064 she was a support person. 703 00:34:26,107 --> 00:34:30,503 I definitely see her as probably having difficulty 704 00:34:30,546 --> 00:34:34,159 reaching for a position that had power in its own right. 705 00:34:34,202 --> 00:34:36,291 ♪ 706 00:34:36,335 --> 00:34:38,467 There was an article in the "Chicago Reader" 707 00:34:38,511 --> 00:34:41,992 called "The Life and Death of Bobbie Arnstein." 708 00:34:42,036 --> 00:34:45,648 "She wanted a title that would define her 24-hour-a-day duties 709 00:34:45,692 --> 00:34:47,476 "more accurately than the words, 710 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,827 "quote, 'executive secretary,' end quote, did, 711 00:34:50,871 --> 00:34:52,307 "but after more than a decade 712 00:34:52,351 --> 00:34:55,789 "of living without breathing space of her boss, 713 00:34:55,832 --> 00:34:58,879 "Bobbie Arnstein wasn't able to come right out and tell him. 714 00:34:58,922 --> 00:35:01,186 "She required a monetary pat on the head, 715 00:35:01,229 --> 00:35:04,711 "a paper reassurance that he needed her. 716 00:35:04,754 --> 00:35:06,278 She wasn't getting either." 717 00:35:06,321 --> 00:35:08,149 ♪ 718 00:35:08,193 --> 00:35:10,586 Bobbie was a feminist. 719 00:35:10,630 --> 00:35:12,806 She wanted to be respected for her mind 720 00:35:12,849 --> 00:35:15,983 and for her achievements and for her judgment. 721 00:35:16,026 --> 00:35:19,073 On the other hand, she put herself into a world 722 00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:22,642 where every woman was a sex object. 723 00:35:22,685 --> 00:35:27,647 I think it was the conflict at the center of Bobbie's soul. 724 00:35:27,690 --> 00:35:30,519 Bobbie clearly understood 725 00:35:30,563 --> 00:35:33,957 that this world that she lived and thrived in, 726 00:35:34,001 --> 00:35:37,570 as glamorous as it was, and it was very glamorous, 727 00:35:37,613 --> 00:35:41,269 it was also based on exploiting other women. 728 00:35:41,313 --> 00:35:43,315 Must have caused some guilt. 729 00:35:43,358 --> 00:35:49,190 ♪ 730 00:35:49,234 --> 00:35:51,801 When they found out that Roberta Arnstein was dead, 731 00:35:51,845 --> 00:35:53,977 the U.S. Attorney knew that their whole Playboy case 732 00:35:54,021 --> 00:35:55,501 had gone right out the window. 733 00:35:55,544 --> 00:35:57,677 It was done. There was no more Playboy case. 734 00:35:57,720 --> 00:35:59,896 ♪ 735 00:35:59,940 --> 00:36:02,116 Our investigation was officially closed 736 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,205 in spring of '75. 737 00:36:04,249 --> 00:36:07,252 Not that long after the Bobbie Arnstein death, 738 00:36:07,295 --> 00:36:10,777 but we got in too late. 739 00:36:10,820 --> 00:36:12,605 Key people were lawyered up. 740 00:36:12,648 --> 00:36:14,911 The leads were dried up. 741 00:36:14,955 --> 00:36:17,653 Hefner was idolized by these people. 742 00:36:17,697 --> 00:36:19,786 They weren't gonna snitch him off. 743 00:36:19,829 --> 00:36:21,353 And that was the end of it. 744 00:36:21,396 --> 00:36:23,833 ♪ 745 00:36:23,877 --> 00:36:27,272 These are letters my mom wrote. 746 00:36:27,315 --> 00:36:30,623 She wrote to all the news stations, 747 00:36:30,666 --> 00:36:34,540 to all the politicians that she knew. 748 00:36:34,583 --> 00:36:36,368 ♪ 749 00:36:36,411 --> 00:36:39,588 And all she was doing was searching for somebody 750 00:36:39,632 --> 00:36:43,201 to help find what really happened. 751 00:36:43,244 --> 00:36:46,291 We still never really got any answers. 752 00:36:46,334 --> 00:36:49,250 Somebody knows something. Tell us the truth. 753 00:36:49,294 --> 00:36:52,340 ♪ 754 00:36:52,384 --> 00:36:55,430 When I was his girlfriend, I was afraid to speak up. 755 00:36:55,474 --> 00:37:00,261 I've never told anybody any of this before. 756 00:37:00,305 --> 00:37:03,264 I was too ashamed, 757 00:37:03,308 --> 00:37:07,094 for a lot of reasons, but I was a drug mule for Hef. 758 00:37:14,710 --> 00:37:17,844 [soft dramatic music] 759 00:37:17,887 --> 00:37:20,716 Hef used cocaine. He used more than that. 760 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,415 He had a drawer full of drugs. 761 00:37:23,458 --> 00:37:25,721 I discovered it when he started giving me the key 762 00:37:25,765 --> 00:37:26,766 to that drawer. 763 00:37:26,809 --> 00:37:29,595 [eerie music] 764 00:37:29,638 --> 00:37:35,078 The first time that Hef sent me "as a mule" 765 00:37:35,122 --> 00:37:38,256 to get the drugs, 766 00:37:38,299 --> 00:37:39,779 there were two brothers that came up to the house. 767 00:37:39,822 --> 00:37:41,955 ♪ 768 00:37:41,998 --> 00:37:46,046 One of the brothers sold cocaine, 769 00:37:46,089 --> 00:37:48,657 so Hef sent me to his house. 770 00:37:48,701 --> 00:37:51,312 He said, "Here's the money. Get the stuff." 771 00:37:51,356 --> 00:37:53,140 ♪ 772 00:37:53,183 --> 00:37:55,751 It was so easy for him. 773 00:37:55,795 --> 00:37:56,752 That became the norm. 774 00:37:56,796 --> 00:37:59,189 I picked up the stuff, 775 00:37:59,233 --> 00:38:00,843 and I brought it back to him, handed it to him. 776 00:38:00,887 --> 00:38:04,543 He locked it up under lock and key. 777 00:38:04,586 --> 00:38:06,893 Hef used cocaine. 778 00:38:06,936 --> 00:38:10,331 Soon after, we were doing it on a regular basis together. 779 00:38:10,375 --> 00:38:12,942 ♪ 780 00:38:12,986 --> 00:38:16,424 How many times did I pick up drugs for Hef? 781 00:38:16,468 --> 00:38:18,774 I don't know, countless. Countless times. 782 00:38:20,907 --> 00:38:23,388 Oh, yeah. I'd say once a week. 783 00:38:23,431 --> 00:38:26,304 ♪ 784 00:38:26,347 --> 00:38:29,872 Everybody did their own job. 785 00:38:29,916 --> 00:38:34,660 We all had to do exactly what he wanted, 786 00:38:34,703 --> 00:38:37,010 and we all did it like little puppets. 787 00:38:37,053 --> 00:38:39,012 If he gave you a job, you were-- 788 00:38:39,055 --> 00:38:41,188 it was almost an honor. 789 00:38:41,231 --> 00:38:43,843 And here I am running drugs for him, and that's an honor. 790 00:38:43,886 --> 00:38:48,500 Yeah, okay, it's crazy, but it made me feel like 791 00:38:48,543 --> 00:38:50,371 I was important to him. 792 00:38:50,415 --> 00:38:51,677 When you think about it, 793 00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:56,116 here's a man 30 years older than me, 794 00:38:56,159 --> 00:39:01,382 and he's sending a young girl for illegal substances. 795 00:39:01,426 --> 00:39:02,992 ♪ 796 00:39:03,036 --> 00:39:05,081 It was nothing to him. "Go get it." 797 00:39:05,125 --> 00:39:07,040 It was like sending me out for a quart of milk. 798 00:39:07,083 --> 00:39:09,956 If I got caught, my life would be over. 799 00:39:09,999 --> 00:39:12,959 ♪ 800 00:39:13,002 --> 00:39:16,441 And do you think he would have said, "Oh, it's my fault"? 801 00:39:16,484 --> 00:39:18,965 No, it would have been me, it would have been my problem. 802 00:39:19,008 --> 00:39:23,404 And luckily, I had angels watching over me, 803 00:39:23,448 --> 00:39:25,145 and I didn't get caught. 804 00:39:25,188 --> 00:39:28,017 ♪ 805 00:39:28,061 --> 00:39:32,370 The people that got caught, they suffered for it. 806 00:39:32,413 --> 00:39:33,762 I do believe that he knew 807 00:39:33,806 --> 00:39:35,721 Bobbie was involved with the drugs. 808 00:39:35,764 --> 00:39:37,940 I believe that Hugh Hefner was the reason 809 00:39:37,984 --> 00:39:39,942 she was involved in the drugs. 810 00:39:39,986 --> 00:39:42,554 Would Bobbie have gotten involved 811 00:39:42,597 --> 00:39:47,994 if not for that whisper in the ear from him? 812 00:39:48,037 --> 00:39:49,735 ♪ 813 00:39:49,778 --> 00:39:54,087 Bobbie was going to be forced to testify against him. 814 00:39:54,130 --> 00:39:57,438 I know that because he told me that. 815 00:39:57,482 --> 00:40:00,267 He said, "She died because 816 00:40:00,310 --> 00:40:04,619 she didn't want to have to testify against me." 817 00:40:04,663 --> 00:40:08,406 So with Bobbie, knowing that he was that close to her, 818 00:40:08,449 --> 00:40:10,059 it wouldn't have taken much 819 00:40:10,103 --> 00:40:13,672 for him to get her to do the drug running for him. 820 00:40:13,715 --> 00:40:16,239 ♪ 821 00:40:16,283 --> 00:40:18,546 If Sondra Theodore had come forth 822 00:40:18,590 --> 00:40:25,205 with that type of testimony in 1973 or 1974, 1975, 823 00:40:25,248 --> 00:40:27,860 it would have changed the whole direction of the investigation. 824 00:40:27,903 --> 00:40:30,166 She would have been sworn in 825 00:40:30,210 --> 00:40:33,866 to either the grand jury or given a sworn statement, 826 00:40:33,909 --> 00:40:35,998 and that would have left open the possibility 827 00:40:36,042 --> 00:40:40,046 of potential indictment of Hefner, even. 828 00:40:40,089 --> 00:40:42,614 And people would have been looking at it a lot harder 829 00:40:42,657 --> 00:40:45,181 because then there would have been a viable witness 830 00:40:45,225 --> 00:40:49,403 to that activity, which we didn't have at that time. 831 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:52,798 I have been very successful in arranging a system 832 00:40:52,841 --> 00:40:56,366 whereby I am able to do what I want to do 833 00:40:56,410 --> 00:40:59,326 when I want to do it without outside interference. 834 00:40:59,369 --> 00:41:02,808 ♪ 835 00:41:02,851 --> 00:41:05,767 I am very, very selfish. I am very self-oriented, 836 00:41:05,811 --> 00:41:07,769 and I think that everybody should be. 837 00:41:07,813 --> 00:41:11,077 Intelligent self-interest is for the good of everyone. 838 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,035 The person who spends all of their time 839 00:41:13,079 --> 00:41:15,777 thinking about others accomplishes almost nothing. 840 00:41:15,821 --> 00:41:18,171 It was wrong 841 00:41:18,214 --> 00:41:21,827 to take a young girl, so young, 842 00:41:21,870 --> 00:41:27,049 and have her do that kind of thing for him. 843 00:41:27,093 --> 00:41:32,141 To put a young girl in that position was so dangerous. 844 00:41:32,185 --> 00:41:36,972 I--I didn't allow myself to know 845 00:41:37,016 --> 00:41:40,498 that that was abusive 846 00:41:40,541 --> 00:41:42,108 because I was told it was in love, 847 00:41:42,151 --> 00:41:44,197 in the name of love. 848 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:49,289 ♪ 849 00:41:49,332 --> 00:41:53,902 And if Hef was alive, he would be in jail. 850 00:41:53,946 --> 00:41:56,339 And wherever he is, 851 00:41:56,383 --> 00:41:59,560 and I don't think it's a good place, 852 00:41:59,604 --> 00:42:03,608 I know he knows that I told the truth, 853 00:42:03,651 --> 00:42:05,566 and he's not happy about it. 854 00:42:05,610 --> 00:42:08,134 [sniffles] 855 00:42:08,177 --> 00:42:12,791 He's finally been called out. 856 00:42:12,834 --> 00:42:14,227 Finally. 857 00:42:14,270 --> 00:42:19,232 ♪ 858 00:42:45,432 --> 00:42:47,260 Let's celebrate our sexuality. 859 00:42:47,303 --> 00:42:49,915 It is fun when you first have sex, right? 860 00:42:49,958 --> 00:42:52,134 But there's a line that's crossed. 861 00:42:52,178 --> 00:42:54,223 I felt so violated. 862 00:42:54,267 --> 00:42:56,530 She said, "You cannot believe 863 00:42:56,574 --> 00:42:58,837 what went on in that bedroom." 864 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,534 It was cult-like. 865 00:43:00,578 --> 00:43:02,231 The women had been groomed. 866 00:43:02,275 --> 00:43:03,537 A kid who has a sweet tooth 867 00:43:03,581 --> 00:43:05,104 who is thrust into a candy store 868 00:43:05,147 --> 00:43:08,020 starts, after a little while, 869 00:43:08,063 --> 00:43:10,544 thinking about other things besides candy. 870 00:43:10,588 --> 00:43:12,764 Nipple rings. Sex trapezes. 871 00:43:12,807 --> 00:43:14,243 Double dildos. 872 00:43:14,287 --> 00:43:16,637 Linda Lovelace was drunk, 873 00:43:16,681 --> 00:43:18,944 and drugged, and out of nowhere, 874 00:43:18,987 --> 00:43:20,380 German shepherd shows up. 875 00:43:20,423 --> 00:43:23,688 This is the dark underbelly of Playboy. 876 00:43:23,731 --> 00:43:27,648 I watched a slow descent into... madness. 877 00:43:27,692 --> 00:43:29,345 You wanna talk about depravity? 878 00:43:29,389 --> 00:43:30,608 This is despicable.