1 00:00:06,074 --> 00:00:11,112 There is a saying once a playmate, always a playmate and that seems to be absolutely 2 00:00:11,179 --> 00:00:13,481 true, but does being a playmate really bring the success, 3 00:00:13,581 --> 00:00:15,015 fame and fortune that some believes that it will? 4 00:00:16,550 --> 00:00:20,554 Hefner's promise was to keep us in the framework of Girl Next door. 5 00:00:22,256 --> 00:00:25,793 You got more fame, you got more money. Who didn't want that? The whole philosophy. 6 00:00:26,860 --> 00:00:27,561 It was all a lie. 7 00:00:28,729 --> 00:00:30,131 It was a lifetime sentence. 8 00:00:31,599 --> 00:00:35,035 Playboy had an obligation to protect us girls. 9 00:00:35,103 --> 00:00:38,038 I didn't sign up to do porn. During my video, I was just uncomfortable. 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,411 I would tell them do not go to the mansion, I would do 11 00:00:43,511 --> 00:00:46,414 cocaine and I'd never dreamed that I would do that. 12 00:00:46,514 --> 00:00:50,050 I did not realize that I had been sent to go have sex. 13 00:00:51,452 --> 00:00:55,389 The big lie was become a Playboy Playmate, and 14 00:00:55,456 --> 00:00:58,392 you're going to have all of your dreams come true. 15 00:01:03,097 --> 00:01:04,465 My name is Hugh Hefner, I'm editor publisher of Playboy magazine. 16 00:01:05,666 --> 00:01:09,002 Hugh Hefner was just 27, he fashioned himself 17 00:01:09,069 --> 00:01:11,305 and Playboy as the face of sexual liberation. 18 00:01:11,372 --> 00:01:16,177 Playboy is one of the most famous brand names in the world. 19 00:01:16,277 --> 00:01:19,247 I would like to be remembered as somebody who played some 20 00:01:19,313 --> 00:01:21,081 positive part in changing the social sexual values of my time. 21 00:01:23,584 --> 00:01:25,286 I believe that Hef pulled one over on the whole world. 22 00:01:27,888 --> 00:01:32,360 The fantasy of Playboy that he created did not allow for the consent of the women. 23 00:01:34,962 --> 00:01:38,132 When it came to Hefner's buddies, you had to keep those secrets quiet. 24 00:01:38,199 --> 00:01:40,501 What have you got for free? 25 00:01:40,568 --> 00:01:45,105 When you get someone that powerful, anything could happen. Anything! 26 00:01:45,206 --> 00:01:48,609 The people who are really there, they're the ones who know the real truth, 27 00:01:48,676 --> 00:01:51,979 I want to be a voice for the women who suffered the most at his hands. 28 00:01:52,045 --> 00:02:10,398 [Dramatic music] 29 00:02:10,464 --> 00:02:14,402 For a long time, I myself believed the Playboy promise. 30 00:02:17,004 --> 00:02:18,272 I was one of Hefner's best ambassadors. 31 00:02:20,508 --> 00:02:25,979 I was his director of playmate promotions and it was 32 00:02:26,079 --> 00:02:28,416 my department's job to keep that fantasy going. 33 00:02:30,618 --> 00:02:36,690 But over time, I realized that what was supposed to be the 34 00:02:36,757 --> 00:02:40,294 launching pad for these young women was really a pit. 35 00:02:43,297 --> 00:02:47,535 The Playboy promise was that if you signed the 36 00:02:47,635 --> 00:02:51,905 contract, became Playmate of the Year, more fame 37 00:02:51,972 --> 00:02:57,445 would come to you, more money would come to you, more glory and job opportunities. 38 00:02:57,511 --> 00:02:58,412 There was no limit to what a girl could actually do. 39 00:03:02,015 --> 00:03:06,387 If you get it, you have so many doors open to you like what like acting, modeling. 40 00:03:08,356 --> 00:03:12,159 What set Playboy apart from the competition was 41 00:03:12,260 --> 00:03:16,330 the photography in Playboy was not hardcore? 42 00:03:18,131 --> 00:03:22,836 It was art. Hugh Hefner celebrated the beauty of the female 43 00:03:22,936 --> 00:03:26,139 body. And you had an opportunity to be part of that. 44 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,343 Not part of some disgusting other magazine. 45 00:03:32,513 --> 00:03:35,015 I came up with a very good idea and a lot of guys copied it. 46 00:03:35,115 --> 00:03:38,852 Fortunately, you know, not as well. 47 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:42,990 You know, if you look at the original 48 00:03:43,090 --> 00:03:43,491 Marilyn Monroe picture for the centerfold began as topless, 49 00:03:46,093 --> 00:03:47,695 then things started getting more and more risqué in the world. 50 00:03:48,896 --> 00:03:52,833 In the 70s Playboy wasn't at the vanguard anymore. 51 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:56,304 Once Playboy was virtually the only magazine of its kind on the newsstand. 52 00:03:56,370 --> 00:03:58,238 Now there are dozens of imitations. 53 00:03:58,306 --> 00:04:02,209 Penthouse jumped the Atlantic from England in 54 00:04:02,276 --> 00:04:04,978 1969 with a promotion aimed directly at Playboy. 55 00:04:05,045 --> 00:04:07,247 It has done well but remains a distant number two. 56 00:04:09,216 --> 00:04:14,054 Penthouse did full nudity and pubic hair. Hef was a little bit old fashioned, right? 57 00:04:14,121 --> 00:04:14,388 So, he had to tune it up a notch. 58 00:04:16,424 --> 00:04:20,961 During the 70s Hefner became involved in what he 59 00:04:21,028 --> 00:04:23,897 called, and he was the one to name it, the pubic wars. 60 00:04:26,066 --> 00:04:29,770 Playboy magazine and Penthouse, they were trying to compete with each other. 61 00:04:31,204 --> 00:04:32,940 Now there's this debate within Playboy about how far do we go? 62 00:04:34,942 --> 00:04:39,012 Hef wasn't keen on actually going pubic, if you like, but he chose to do it. 63 00:04:40,481 --> 00:04:43,283 They eventually settled on we'll show pubic hair. That's it. 64 00:04:45,853 --> 00:04:50,057 I was Playboy's first full frontal in 1972. 65 00:04:50,123 --> 00:04:51,425 It sold 7 million copies. 66 00:04:56,597 --> 00:04:59,266 The genie was out of the bottle. Tastes were 67 00:04:59,333 --> 00:05:01,569 changing, the whole girl next door thing wasn't 68 00:05:01,635 --> 00:05:03,971 flying anymore and the competition really hurt him. 69 00:05:06,139 --> 00:05:09,410 Circulation that reached 7 million in 1972 has dropped to less than 6 million. 70 00:05:10,578 --> 00:05:11,545 Playboy hotels and resorts are also suffering. 71 00:05:13,981 --> 00:05:16,316 Penthouse was breathing down his neck. And of 72 00:05:16,384 --> 00:05:18,652 course then the Hustler comes on the scene 73 00:05:18,719 --> 00:05:20,821 in 1974. 74 00:05:22,656 --> 00:05:25,726 Hustler is probably the most uncompromising porno magazine yet, 75 00:05:25,793 --> 00:05:28,596 enough to make even Hugh Hefner, father of Playboy, wince. 76 00:05:30,898 --> 00:05:35,135 Over the years, Hefner walked some kind of a line to try to 77 00:05:35,235 --> 00:05:38,105 keep the playmate as close as possible to the girl next door. 78 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:43,444 That's what set him apart and these women believed in Hefner. 79 00:05:43,511 --> 00:05:47,147 In spite of the fact, Playboy is rather tame 80 00:05:47,247 --> 00:05:50,451 by comparison to others, or perhaps because 81 00:05:50,518 --> 00:05:53,554 of it Playboy says it now has more playmate applicants than ever before. 82 00:05:55,723 --> 00:06:00,360 When I did my centerfold, in 1986, I was proud to be in Playboy, 83 00:06:01,995 --> 00:06:03,597 where no offense, I wouldn't have been proud to be in hustler. 84 00:06:05,399 --> 00:06:08,368 For me that was crossing a line. Playboy was 85 00:06:08,436 --> 00:06:10,771 just seen at the respectable men's magazine. 86 00:06:11,872 --> 00:06:15,476 The reality is, through the 70s and 80s, PlayBoy 87 00:06:15,543 --> 00:06:19,246 was becoming more explicit, and the women 88 00:06:19,312 --> 00:06:19,713 were not comfortable with it. 89 00:06:22,049 --> 00:06:24,384 It felt like there was a push to show more and 90 00:06:24,452 --> 00:06:27,387 to be a good girl and do what you're told. 91 00:06:28,055 --> 00:06:29,156 Get the shot. 92 00:06:30,924 --> 00:06:33,160 I felt that with my centerfold shot. 93 00:06:36,797 --> 00:06:40,067 I'm a small town girl from a little desert town in California. 94 00:06:43,103 --> 00:06:43,671 In the morning of my 18th birthday, when I woke up, I was like, I'm old enough now. 95 00:06:45,205 --> 00:06:47,407 I can be in Playboy magazine. 96 00:06:48,676 --> 00:06:53,046 I knew that that modeling was gonna get me the money 97 00:06:53,113 --> 00:06:54,648 so that I could actually afford to go to college. 98 00:06:58,619 --> 00:06:59,587 There was no way a 19 year old could be prepared what 99 00:06:59,653 --> 00:07:00,654 was gonna happen to you once I did Playboy. 100 00:07:03,857 --> 00:07:05,092 You know, I've been on my own since I was 17. 101 00:07:07,427 --> 00:07:08,629 I had some pretty severe sexual trauma growing up. 102 00:07:10,898 --> 00:07:12,533 You know, when you're on your own as a kid, you 103 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,402 have to take care of yourself, which means you 104 00:07:15,469 --> 00:07:17,070 have to bring a paycheck, I have bills. 105 00:07:19,807 --> 00:07:21,108 Shooting's my centerfold, and they want to show pubic hair. 106 00:07:22,610 --> 00:07:25,546 So, I remember trying to get the right shot. 107 00:07:25,646 --> 00:07:29,583 Because if I got accepted, I would make 15,000. 108 00:07:31,318 --> 00:07:31,585 So, I had to get accepted. 109 00:07:33,487 --> 00:07:35,523 I think I signed the contract right away. 110 00:07:37,525 --> 00:07:38,692 And I sat down with my mother. 111 00:07:42,262 --> 00:07:44,565 No, we were naive. 112 00:07:44,898 --> 00:07:45,799 We just did it. 113 00:07:49,703 --> 00:07:52,239 It's a big deal to take your clothes off for a camera, 114 00:07:52,339 --> 00:07:53,140 and a man taking the pictures. 115 00:07:54,942 --> 00:07:58,946 All of a sudden, one of the makeup crew comes up and hands you, 116 00:07:59,012 --> 00:08:00,013 "Can you just sign this for us because we were taking your picture? 117 00:08:01,048 --> 00:08:01,949 You know, we have to have your permission." 118 00:08:04,518 --> 00:08:04,952 You don't know what you're signing, really. 119 00:08:06,019 --> 00:08:08,589 Sometimes you'd think they got the girl stoned, 120 00:08:08,656 --> 00:08:09,723 partied out, and then they hand her the contract. 121 00:08:11,458 --> 00:08:13,761 They have their ways. Through this, you signed your life away forever. 122 00:08:16,797 --> 00:08:19,266 My Playboy contract came to me when I was 17 years old. 123 00:08:20,968 --> 00:08:23,604 So, I really didn't take the contract very seriously 124 00:08:23,704 --> 00:08:25,973 because I felt like I still had you know control. 125 00:08:26,974 --> 00:08:30,611 Several playmates, took their photos at 17 126 00:08:30,678 --> 00:08:33,747 years of age with the consent of their parent. 127 00:08:37,217 --> 00:08:43,791 They were signing contracts in front of either Hefner or someone of his choosing 128 00:08:43,891 --> 00:08:47,595 and he's holding these photos until they are of age. 129 00:08:49,362 --> 00:08:55,168 I was 18 when I came to Playboy, I felt so lucky. So, I didn't really think about like 130 00:08:56,403 --> 00:08:58,772 the contractual side of it and what exactly that meant. 131 00:09:01,842 --> 00:09:03,611 When I was a playmate, there were no videos. 132 00:09:04,812 --> 00:09:07,815 I was so nervous having to be naked for this special 133 00:09:10,718 --> 00:09:12,953 and they promised that none of it was shown 134 00:09:15,656 --> 00:09:17,691 This is when said I'm really nervous about the cameras in here in the bathtub. 135 00:09:19,793 --> 00:09:22,229 He said, don't worry about it, it's all for 136 00:09:22,295 --> 00:09:22,896 family hour. It will all be on the cutting room floor. 137 00:09:25,432 --> 00:09:27,801 But then later a friend saying, "Oh, I saw your video". I'm like, 138 00:09:27,901 --> 00:09:31,504 what video? And that's when they turned around and used that 139 00:09:31,571 --> 00:09:32,973 footage on the cutting room floor. 140 00:09:37,477 --> 00:09:38,912 Just sit down in there and draw bubbles all around your neck. 141 00:09:41,548 --> 00:09:46,754 Playboy pieced it together, released it in cable without telling me that it was going 142 00:09:46,820 --> 00:09:52,292 to be happening, not paying me for it and that was soft porn. They had made me a porn 143 00:09:52,359 --> 00:09:53,861 star against my will 144 00:09:57,330 --> 00:10:01,635 Playboy channel was officially launched on November 15th 145 00:10:01,735 --> 00:10:06,473 I think it is going to be increasingly 146 00:10:06,573 --> 00:10:10,878 certainly adult but also tastefully done. I think the best basis for judging it is the 147 00:10:10,978 --> 00:10:12,612 magazine itself from the 30 years we've been publishing. 148 00:10:14,547 --> 00:10:19,887 In the 80s, cable had come up, and all of a sudden, now playmates have to do a video 149 00:10:22,155 --> 00:10:25,292 and we're like, what do you mean you have to do a 150 00:10:25,358 --> 00:10:28,996 video? In my video, you know, there I am waterskiing, 151 00:10:29,096 --> 00:10:33,200 and kite surfing and then all of a sudden, I'm naked. 152 00:10:33,266 --> 00:10:37,805 A lot of us girls really screamed and yelled about not doing it. 153 00:10:37,905 --> 00:10:38,906 That was like really crossing the line. 154 00:10:43,110 --> 00:10:46,880 This whole video was really hard for me and looking 155 00:10:46,980 --> 00:10:49,750 back at it, I really felt like it bordered on 156 00:10:50,283 --> 00:10:50,884 you know, 157 00:10:53,020 --> 00:10:57,958 Kind of pornish and that's why we did playboy. That's why we didn't do Penthouse. 158 00:10:58,025 --> 00:11:01,194 That's why we didn't do Hustler. I mean I was just uncomfortable. 159 00:11:04,464 --> 00:11:06,867 I was very concerned about the women, that were doing these videos. 160 00:11:06,934 --> 00:11:12,172 But the reality is, once you sign that release 161 00:11:12,239 --> 00:11:17,277 you are no longer in control. Hefner was the one in control 162 00:11:17,344 --> 00:11:18,011 of your image. 163 00:11:21,514 --> 00:11:26,186 When I was director of Playmate promotions, I wanted to reach out and try to get these 164 00:11:26,253 --> 00:11:29,056 gals into some key positions in modeling. 165 00:11:31,825 --> 00:11:34,928 For example, there was one particular playmate 166 00:11:34,995 --> 00:11:39,166 who was very special to me. I don't want to 167 00:11:39,232 --> 00:11:42,702 pinpoint her name. I can see in her incredible 168 00:11:42,770 --> 00:11:46,373 possibilities. I wanted her to be an 169 00:11:46,473 --> 00:11:48,241 Herbal Essence girl with Claire Hall, I had big ideas. 170 00:11:50,477 --> 00:11:53,213 I got her appointment with several different people and took 171 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:55,048 her to New York and tried to help her make a transition. 172 00:11:56,884 --> 00:12:00,253 Unfortunately, it was impossible. 173 00:12:03,523 --> 00:12:06,994 The companies did not want the playmate image with their products. 174 00:12:09,830 --> 00:12:12,866 Because she was a playmate, it cut it right there. She was already dead in the water. 175 00:12:15,068 --> 00:12:19,139 Playboy had become too explicit. The stigma was way too much. 176 00:12:25,278 --> 00:12:27,848 As the director of Playmate promotions, 177 00:12:27,915 --> 00:12:32,419 I had a front seat into the lives of many women. 178 00:12:33,453 --> 00:12:36,857 And I could see the damage that happened. 179 00:12:38,926 --> 00:12:40,427 There were many playmates that trusted me 180 00:12:41,895 --> 00:12:45,765 and I would say to them, do not go to the mansion. 181 00:12:45,833 --> 00:12:47,300 There's nothing good that's going to come from it. 182 00:12:50,938 --> 00:12:52,873 Something about Playboy was like sandpaper. 183 00:12:54,942 --> 00:12:56,776 I would go up to the mansion. It's like when 184 00:12:58,045 --> 00:13:01,281 you have that feeling in your gut that something's 185 00:13:01,348 --> 00:13:03,450 not right. But you can't put your finger on it. 186 00:13:05,485 --> 00:13:11,158 I got the red flags, but I was too young to understand what they were. 187 00:13:11,258 --> 00:13:14,027 When is your big month? When are we going to see it? 188 00:13:14,094 --> 00:13:16,997 I'm not really sure yet, they haven't really picked them up. 189 00:13:17,097 --> 00:13:20,033 There were all these playmates all under one roof 190 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:22,903 and shooting to become Playmate of the Year, 191 00:13:23,003 --> 00:13:24,571 when you do that, these girls knew they had to wait. 192 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,343 The system is set up that we're gonna pay $15,000 for 193 00:13:30,410 --> 00:13:34,381 the centerfold, we're gonna pay it in three intervals. 194 00:13:34,447 --> 00:13:37,684 When you get finished shooting. When you get published, and one year from 195 00:13:37,750 --> 00:13:39,419 your publishing date. 196 00:13:39,486 --> 00:13:42,822 It was 5000 when you're when your pictorial came out. 197 00:13:44,691 --> 00:13:48,896 I think another 2500, when you're done with your video. 198 00:13:48,962 --> 00:13:54,902 They give it to you 5000 here, 2500 here, they drag it out because 199 00:13:54,968 --> 00:13:57,570 you have to fulfill your duty before you get it all. 200 00:13:59,506 --> 00:14:02,375 They paid you over two years. That's like below 201 00:14:02,442 --> 00:14:04,244 poverty level, it's nothing when you think about it. 202 00:14:05,512 --> 00:14:08,481 You couldn't do anything without their permission. 203 00:14:08,548 --> 00:14:10,583 Like if you're trying to make money off yourself. 204 00:14:11,784 --> 00:14:12,452 That was a no no. 205 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:20,627 While you're waiting for the paycheck, you wait at the mansion and you meet Hef and 206 00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:24,264 you politic to be Playmate of the Year or you politic to stay current. 207 00:14:28,501 --> 00:14:32,472 In the 80s, there was a lot of partying. It was Party Central. 208 00:14:35,275 --> 00:14:37,477 I think every girl in the mansion say, you're 209 00:14:37,577 --> 00:14:39,846 expected to be at the party. You had to be 210 00:14:39,947 --> 00:14:43,850 part of their scene. It was like, well, Hef's gonna 211 00:14:43,951 --> 00:14:47,154 want you to do that or Hef's gonna be disappointed, 212 00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:48,288 You know? That sort of thing. 213 00:14:49,923 --> 00:14:53,626 I mean, drugs and alcohol were accepted at the 214 00:14:53,693 --> 00:14:57,864 Playboy Mansion, the Playboy parties, anybody that 215 00:14:57,931 --> 00:15:01,301 is put in that situation, it can get out of hand. 216 00:15:04,504 --> 00:15:09,109 Because I wanted to stay thin I would do, you know, the occasional 217 00:15:09,176 --> 00:15:12,179 cocaine and I'd never ever ever dreamed that I would do that. 218 00:15:14,447 --> 00:15:17,284 At the mansion, there was a sense of everyone 219 00:15:17,350 --> 00:15:19,186 likes drugs, and everyone likes to share them. 220 00:15:20,287 --> 00:15:23,991 I didn't start the heavy drugs until after Playboy. 221 00:15:25,325 --> 00:15:29,362 I lost all my teeth. I mean you have to 222 00:15:29,462 --> 00:15:32,265 take a lot of drugs to do this to yourself. So, that was a lot of cocaine. 223 00:15:33,633 --> 00:15:35,435 I think the drugs definitely played a major role 224 00:15:35,502 --> 00:15:39,839 in controlling and manipulating these women. 225 00:15:39,906 --> 00:15:45,245 Whenever you step into the Playboy Mansion and you're a new female on the scene. 226 00:15:45,312 --> 00:15:51,218 Basically, you're introduced to my father, he was Hefner's best friend and doctor to 227 00:15:51,284 --> 00:15:52,419 all the playmates, who of course, would then you know, 228 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,323 make sure that you were weighed 229 00:15:56,389 --> 00:16:00,093 in on a regular basis and make sure that they were that perfect weight. 230 00:16:03,730 --> 00:16:09,702 By the time I was 20, I weighed 90 pounds and ended up in hospital. 231 00:16:09,769 --> 00:16:11,104 It was really hard 232 00:16:11,171 --> 00:16:17,377 and it took a lot of therapy to go back to regular eating. 233 00:16:17,477 --> 00:16:21,481 There were a lot of girls, they were fresh off the farm, and 234 00:16:21,548 --> 00:16:25,685 they felt like they had made it and yet those same girls, 235 00:16:25,785 --> 00:16:31,224 months later, would go home a skeleton, just a mere shadow of themselves. 236 00:16:32,825 --> 00:16:35,628 Happened to me, this picture. I was just skin and bones. 237 00:16:39,699 --> 00:16:45,638 The pull of that mansion and his power was just way too much for most and once they're 238 00:16:45,705 --> 00:16:48,007 hooked on drugs, they're no longer in control. 239 00:16:50,443 --> 00:16:52,245 And when they ended up hitting rock bottom, 240 00:16:54,081 --> 00:16:54,614 Hefner was not going to give them support. 241 00:16:59,486 --> 00:17:03,256 Specifically the girl that I really thought was going 242 00:17:03,323 --> 00:17:04,557 to bridge the gap and to the modeling industry. 243 00:17:07,727 --> 00:17:09,796 She just kept spiraling and she 244 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:11,431 became addicted to cocaine. 245 00:17:13,666 --> 00:17:16,035 She was so thin that she looked like she could die at any time. 246 00:17:17,570 --> 00:17:21,274 Her teeth were gray. She needed help. 247 00:17:22,309 --> 00:17:25,712 I didn't want her thrown away. 248 00:17:30,283 --> 00:17:32,452 I wanted to save her 249 00:17:36,789 --> 00:17:38,458 and damn it, she was worth saving. 250 00:17:42,162 --> 00:17:46,533 I was told you're not to go and give her groceries. You're not to pay her rent. 251 00:17:48,868 --> 00:17:51,404 She got herself in that mess, and Hefner doesn't want anything to do with it. 252 00:17:52,139 --> 00:17:54,541 Can you imagine that? 253 00:17:56,976 --> 00:18:00,613 After all the money he made off of that girl, he didn't want to feed her. 254 00:18:02,482 --> 00:18:03,616 [bleep] shame on that son of a bitch. 255 00:18:11,958 --> 00:18:13,560 I did it. I did it anyway. 256 00:18:19,266 --> 00:18:21,634 I begged her to go back home and she did it. 257 00:18:24,571 --> 00:18:28,441 I almost got fired several times for doing what I did. 258 00:18:29,576 --> 00:18:34,181 Years ago when I was at the house, at the mansion, 259 00:18:34,247 --> 00:18:37,684 Hef told me to be careful because Miki was 260 00:18:37,750 --> 00:18:38,651 crazy and dangerous. 261 00:18:40,153 --> 00:18:44,191 He didn't want the girls talking to her because she was stirring up 262 00:18:44,291 --> 00:18:47,260 trouble. She was pointing things out that he 263 00:18:47,327 --> 00:18:49,496 didn't want pointed out and he was losing control. 264 00:18:53,099 --> 00:18:58,671 I'd become mother confessor to many women and I felt a responsibility. But I realized 265 00:19:02,242 --> 00:19:02,742 I was fighting a losing battle. 266 00:19:05,011 --> 00:19:10,483 I could not handle it anymore. When I left Playboy in 1982, 267 00:19:11,751 --> 00:19:15,488 I didn't think the situation could get any worse. But it did. 268 00:19:22,094 --> 00:19:27,600 I had worked hard to change the way that playmate promotions 269 00:19:27,667 --> 00:19:31,804 handled their women. How they made sure that they 270 00:19:31,871 --> 00:19:36,543 had safety that anytime anything happened, they were able to report it. 271 00:19:38,578 --> 00:19:40,880 It wasn't an easy job. Many of the executives, they were 272 00:19:40,947 --> 00:19:44,317 only interested in protecting Playboy and Hugh Hefner. 273 00:19:46,686 --> 00:19:49,456 Like Valerie Cragin with the Playboy Model Agency. 274 00:19:51,624 --> 00:19:53,626 At first, Valerie Cragin kind of took care of 275 00:19:53,693 --> 00:19:56,729 me. She taught me a lot because I came from a 276 00:19:56,796 --> 00:20:00,567 small town and so, like, she would take me 277 00:20:00,667 --> 00:20:03,035 shopping and she would take me to nice restaurants 278 00:20:03,102 --> 00:20:04,871 and I learned proper etiquette. 279 00:20:06,339 --> 00:20:08,741 She was kind to me, and she made sure that I got work. 280 00:20:10,743 --> 00:20:13,613 But certain girls were getting a hell of a lot more work. 281 00:20:14,981 --> 00:20:18,451 I was like, how in the hell are you getting that much work? 282 00:20:19,819 --> 00:20:22,589 Valerie Cragin was a pimp for Hugh Hefner. 283 00:20:24,624 --> 00:20:29,228 She and I went at it a lot. The Playboy Modeling Agency 284 00:20:29,296 --> 00:20:33,500 was a place where women could be invited to the mansion for the parties. 285 00:20:35,535 --> 00:20:37,770 I didn't want any part of it. 286 00:20:40,773 --> 00:20:47,079 1982 after I left Playboy, Valerie Cragin took over the planning promotions 287 00:20:47,146 --> 00:20:50,783 department and at that point in time, it became what I considered flesh peddling. 288 00:20:54,354 --> 00:20:55,788 Valerie Cragin was head of Playmate Promotions, 289 00:20:55,855 --> 00:20:59,225 when I began. Playmate Promotions, those were 290 00:20:59,292 --> 00:21:00,827 the girls who went out and they signed autographs 291 00:21:00,893 --> 00:21:03,296 and did all that there was good money there. 292 00:21:03,363 --> 00:21:04,531 So, this was my income. 293 00:21:06,232 --> 00:21:07,033 The first few years of promotions were rough. 294 00:21:09,902 --> 00:21:13,440 They started doing some stuff with casinos. They would 295 00:21:13,506 --> 00:21:17,076 fly us in with the high rollers and we do little 296 00:21:17,143 --> 00:21:23,115 fashion shows and then they'd say, go on down and gamble with the high rollers. 297 00:21:23,215 --> 00:21:24,784 The guys were kind of like which ones do this and which girls do that? 298 00:21:26,018 --> 00:21:28,688 It was like, they were pimping us out a little bit. 299 00:21:33,059 --> 00:21:36,429 Oh, yeah. I had a playmate I was rooming with, 300 00:21:36,496 --> 00:21:39,666 I was back in my bed and two guys held the 301 00:21:39,732 --> 00:21:43,736 door open and she just stood there and she changed her clothes halfway in the hall and 302 00:21:43,803 --> 00:21:45,872 there's $100 bills literally flying all over the 303 00:21:45,938 --> 00:21:47,540 place but she worked hard for those last night. 304 00:21:50,209 --> 00:21:53,380 There was this one trip to Atlantic City for Playmate Promotions. 305 00:21:53,446 --> 00:21:55,348 It was like 20 guys, 306 00:21:55,415 --> 00:21:57,684 They wanted to take a picture with us in this hot tub. 307 00:21:58,785 --> 00:22:02,922 He is like, get in here, I paid for you. Really! 308 00:22:02,989 --> 00:22:04,991 As if we were prostitutes and it was gross, you know. 309 00:22:06,125 --> 00:22:07,560 It was gross. 310 00:22:11,664 --> 00:22:14,801 When I was working for Playmate Promotions, 311 00:22:14,901 --> 00:22:16,002 I was sent out to do a job, which turned out 312 00:22:18,771 --> 00:22:24,010 to be non-existent. I was actually just being sent there to go on a date. 313 00:22:25,678 --> 00:22:29,148 So, I flew to Texas to do this 314 00:22:29,215 --> 00:22:32,985 big truck calendar for this guy who owned oil companies. 315 00:22:34,454 --> 00:22:37,023 I showed up and then I realized this is not real. 316 00:22:40,126 --> 00:22:44,163 I remember barricading myself in the room and putting the chair 317 00:22:44,230 --> 00:22:47,867 underneath the door. I called Playboy and I was like, you got to get me 318 00:22:47,967 --> 00:22:48,134 out of here, this isn't real. This isn't happening. 319 00:22:51,971 --> 00:22:54,240 It was Valerie Cragin on the other end of 320 00:22:54,306 --> 00:22:57,744 the line saying, 321 00:22:57,844 --> 00:23:00,079 First, Valerie Gragin says oh my gosh, let me look 322 00:23:00,146 --> 00:23:05,017 into it and then she calls me back and says, what 323 00:23:05,117 --> 00:23:08,087 we're understanding is that the client is very upset with you because you are the one 324 00:23:08,154 --> 00:23:08,387 who has acted inappropriately. 325 00:23:12,191 --> 00:23:16,062 Valerie Cragin, boy, she was an incredible manipulator. 326 00:23:17,129 --> 00:23:19,932 She knew everybody's business where they were, 327 00:23:21,501 --> 00:23:25,071 what they would do. I just- she made my skin crawl. 328 00:23:28,841 --> 00:23:33,279 The second incident was they made promotion, sent me to Alaska 329 00:23:33,345 --> 00:23:36,949 to model and it turned out that there was no modeling gig. 330 00:23:39,151 --> 00:23:42,855 I ended up driving all around Alaska with this guy 331 00:23:42,922 --> 00:23:45,091 and I get dropped off and I go home. 332 00:23:48,427 --> 00:23:52,865 Then he came looking for me later, he found out where I live. I honestly 333 00:23:52,932 --> 00:23:53,833 don't know everything that happened, he drugged me. 334 00:23:56,936 --> 00:23:58,437 I don't know, what did he do to me? 335 00:24:04,911 --> 00:24:05,444 He did a lot of really horrific things. 336 00:24:09,949 --> 00:24:12,318 When that was over, when I finally got away from 337 00:24:12,384 --> 00:24:15,087 him, I went right to Playboy's security 338 00:24:17,624 --> 00:24:19,125 team and I told them about it. 339 00:24:20,693 --> 00:24:22,128 I didn't have to testify. I didn't have to do 340 00:24:22,194 --> 00:24:24,731 anything. They took care of it. That's all I know. 341 00:24:26,398 --> 00:24:29,135 As Playmates we get put in situations 342 00:24:32,238 --> 00:24:37,877 that are almost impossible to get out of without conceding. 343 00:24:41,781 --> 00:24:43,015 Playboy was dangerous to women. 344 00:24:45,552 --> 00:24:52,024 Playboy ruined women's lives and I was going to stop it any way I could. 345 00:24:56,596 --> 00:24:59,999 This administration is putting the purveyors of illegal obscenity and child 346 00:25:00,099 --> 00:25:03,836 pornography on notice. Your industries days are numbered. 347 00:25:04,070 --> 00:25:07,139 [Clapping] 348 00:25:07,239 --> 00:25:11,010 The 80s were a backlash to the 70s because the 349 00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:13,045 70s was all free love and the sexual revolution. 350 00:25:16,716 --> 00:25:19,051 After the pubic wars, people were afraid of what was happening culturally. 351 00:25:21,788 --> 00:25:25,057 The pornography problem in this country is a front burner issue with moral majority, 352 00:25:26,392 --> 00:25:29,662 and moral majority will continue to deal with that issue. 353 00:25:31,463 --> 00:25:36,168 The religious right was constantly raining down on Playboy talking about how we were 354 00:25:36,268 --> 00:25:39,305 influencing in American culture towards hell. 355 00:25:41,574 --> 00:25:44,811 In 1985, Edwin Meese was the attorney general 356 00:25:44,911 --> 00:25:48,681 under the Reagan administration who came up with the Commission Against Pornography 357 00:25:50,149 --> 00:25:53,285 because of the influence of the Religious Right. 358 00:25:53,352 --> 00:25:57,389 One of the first things Edwin Meese did when becoming Attorney General 359 00:25:57,489 --> 00:25:58,991 was to launch a new study of pornography, a study to determine 360 00:25:59,058 --> 00:26:02,662 if there was a demonstrable cause and effect 361 00:26:02,762 --> 00:26:05,097 between dirty books, movies, etc, and dirty crimes. 362 00:26:07,166 --> 00:26:10,102 The Commission did a series of hearings around 363 00:26:10,169 --> 00:26:12,605 the country discussing pornography and its 364 00:26:12,672 --> 00:26:15,942 bad influences on culture. 365 00:26:16,042 --> 00:26:18,544 We demand that the Commission acknowledged that 366 00:26:18,611 --> 00:26:20,279 the $8 billion a year pornography industry 367 00:26:20,379 --> 00:26:24,116 is built on the sexual enslavement and exploitation of women, 368 00:26:25,151 --> 00:26:28,921 Playboy always differentiated itself from 369 00:26:29,021 --> 00:26:34,126 straight up porn, but with the Meese commission, 370 00:26:34,226 --> 00:26:37,096 suddenly we were being lumped together with Penthouse 371 00:26:37,196 --> 00:26:40,132 and Hustler by the religious right by the feminist. 372 00:26:41,634 --> 00:26:44,570 We went from a very repressive, conservative 373 00:26:44,637 --> 00:26:48,040 time in the 50s and we are back once again, 374 00:26:48,107 --> 00:26:52,478 to some extent, in a conservative posture again. 375 00:26:52,544 --> 00:26:54,480 So, obviously, Playboy and I personally 376 00:26:54,580 --> 00:26:58,050 have an easy target. 377 00:26:58,117 --> 00:27:01,854 Hef thought the Meese commission was persecution and 378 00:27:01,954 --> 00:27:04,390 thought it was bullshit, and Playboy was clearly targeted. 379 00:27:06,893 --> 00:27:14,000 In 1985, a religious group contacted me and asked me if I would participate and tell my 380 00:27:14,066 --> 00:27:18,637 story and testify at the Meese commission. 381 00:27:20,139 --> 00:27:23,910 She was Miss January of 1973, and served as 382 00:27:23,976 --> 00:27:27,046 Director of Playmates Promotions from 1976 to 1982. 383 00:27:28,881 --> 00:27:32,919 Now saying she fears that going public will put her life and the lives of her family 384 00:27:32,985 --> 00:27:36,288 in danger, Miki Garcia has come forward with what she 385 00:27:36,388 --> 00:27:38,324 claims as the inside story of Playboy's Playmates, 386 00:27:40,626 --> 00:27:43,162 I knew that he was terrified of my testimony because he sent so many people 387 00:27:44,764 --> 00:27:48,167 to me to come shut me up. 388 00:27:50,602 --> 00:27:53,672 I wasn't about to accept the silence that he was threatening me with. 389 00:27:55,107 --> 00:27:57,176 And I didn't care that I was scared. 390 00:27:57,243 --> 00:27:59,712 Appearing before the US Attorney General's 391 00:27:59,779 --> 00:28:02,214 Commission on Pornography, Garcia said Playmates 392 00:28:02,281 --> 00:28:04,016 often came to see her complaining of being pressured 393 00:28:04,116 --> 00:28:05,217 into doing things they didn't want to do, 394 00:28:07,419 --> 00:28:09,221 sometimes by Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner himself. 395 00:28:09,989 --> 00:28:13,425 Miki testified against Playboy. 396 00:28:13,492 --> 00:28:17,764 She stood up against a lot of threats. She had to have 397 00:28:17,830 --> 00:28:23,235 a bodyguard and some other girls were gonna testify with her and they bailed on her. 398 00:28:28,674 --> 00:28:34,080 Talking to Miki Garcia, Miki, you spoke before the Attorney General's commission on 399 00:28:34,180 --> 00:28:37,683 Pornography. What really goes on in Playboy? 400 00:28:37,784 --> 00:28:41,120 Well, what happens once the girl is introduced 401 00:28:41,187 --> 00:28:44,857 into the system in, I do call it a system. 402 00:28:44,957 --> 00:28:47,359 She is then subjected to a lot of things beyond her control. 403 00:28:49,428 --> 00:28:52,231 I said what was happening to the women, that 404 00:28:52,331 --> 00:28:54,266 they were being coerced into terrible things. 405 00:28:56,002 --> 00:28:57,736 I testified about drugs, 406 00:29:00,339 --> 00:29:07,413 rape, abuse, coercion. Many things that young woman should not be subjected to. 407 00:29:08,781 --> 00:29:11,851 At Playboy Mansion West, Hefner and his staff 408 00:29:11,918 --> 00:29:13,752 encouraged playmates to use illegal drugs. 409 00:29:15,221 --> 00:29:15,988 How much is Hefner involved in the drug use? 410 00:29:18,724 --> 00:29:19,291 It's his home isn't it? 411 00:29:21,727 --> 00:29:22,995 But he claims that if there isn't anything, he's unaware of it? 412 00:29:25,331 --> 00:29:26,866 Well, the man has to be deaf, dumb and blind and I think Hefner is not. 413 00:29:28,567 --> 00:29:33,139 I wanted to be able to stop this kind of abuse of women. 414 00:29:34,740 --> 00:29:38,577 Many of the playmates would come to me and say, I'm doing the photo session, I'm 415 00:29:38,644 --> 00:29:44,216 embarrassed. I didn't realize that the photos were going to be so explicit. 416 00:29:44,316 --> 00:29:47,319 I talked about contracts that were totally unfair. He trapped us. 417 00:29:49,989 --> 00:29:50,322 He made sure he had all of the rights. 418 00:29:53,259 --> 00:29:56,662 There was an archive on each of us not just what 419 00:29:56,728 --> 00:29:59,932 is published through the year or there might be volumes more. 420 00:30:01,267 --> 00:30:03,435 She has no editorial control over those photos. 421 00:30:05,271 --> 00:30:08,340 She always has this lurking in her background, that at any 422 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,310 time the magazine could pull out one of those pictures. 423 00:30:11,410 --> 00:30:13,445 Garcia said the centerfold layouts create the 424 00:30:13,545 --> 00:30:15,781 impression that the models are promiscuous. 425 00:30:15,882 --> 00:30:19,285 I talked about Playmate Promotions, selling sex. 426 00:30:19,351 --> 00:30:22,721 When she travels on Playmate Promotions, she is out there. 427 00:30:22,788 --> 00:30:26,558 She's in open for sexual harassment. She knows that if she reports 428 00:30:26,658 --> 00:30:31,763 this to Playboy, that it will fall on deaf ears, or that maybe they'll take the action 429 00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:32,831 where she can no longer work again. 430 00:30:34,033 --> 00:30:36,903 I had power when I testified at the Meese commission, 431 00:30:36,969 --> 00:30:39,939 I had power and I knew it. 432 00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:43,675 In a written response, Playboy called Garcia's allegations, false statements. 433 00:30:43,775 --> 00:30:48,080 I am sure that he was constipated for 10 years after I testified 434 00:30:49,748 --> 00:30:50,382 and I loved every minute of it. 435 00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:56,388 The Press covered my testimony. 436 00:30:57,924 --> 00:30:59,125 I had a voice. 437 00:31:00,759 --> 00:31:05,932 I want the public to start asking Hugh Hefner some very serious questions. 438 00:31:06,032 --> 00:31:08,734 I did not have the support of any women, not the 439 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:13,305 women I protected, and not the women I worked with at Playboy, 440 00:31:13,405 --> 00:31:14,006 the female executives. 441 00:31:15,474 --> 00:31:16,408 It was a huge decision for me to come forward. 442 00:31:18,810 --> 00:31:20,546 No one wanted the truth out, nobody. 443 00:31:23,049 --> 00:31:26,485 I went in there and said, wake up America. 444 00:31:26,585 --> 00:31:30,122 Do not buy that piece of crap. Don't be fooled by 445 00:31:30,222 --> 00:31:31,890 this man and he needs to be brought to justice. 446 00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:34,360 He took it for granted that he would be able 447 00:31:34,460 --> 00:31:37,529 to control us and that he could get away with it. 448 00:31:42,468 --> 00:31:44,103 The Attorney General's commission on pornography 449 00:31:44,170 --> 00:31:45,871 will issue its final report today. 450 00:31:45,938 --> 00:31:48,707 The Meese commission today called for picketing and 451 00:31:48,807 --> 00:31:52,311 boycotting stores that sell hard and soft-core pornography. 452 00:31:52,378 --> 00:31:54,280 Meese commission was very effective in hurting Playboy. 453 00:31:55,647 --> 00:31:58,417 You can get adult magazines on street corners, but 454 00:31:58,484 --> 00:32:01,320 not in 8000 convenience stores around the country 455 00:32:01,387 --> 00:32:05,424 In September 1986, my small town could not get my issue of 456 00:32:05,524 --> 00:32:08,460 Playboy on the newsstand because of the Meese Commission. 457 00:32:10,562 --> 00:32:13,199 They said you can't have that smut magazine in the front of a 458 00:32:13,265 --> 00:32:15,301 store for anybody to just walk up and see. 459 00:32:17,236 --> 00:32:20,572 My Testimony did have an impact. Playboy was 460 00:32:20,639 --> 00:32:23,675 no longer welcomed in convenience stores and 461 00:32:23,775 --> 00:32:24,943 and that was big revenue. 462 00:32:26,512 --> 00:32:34,086 I did financially impact him and I was happy, very happy 463 00:32:34,186 --> 00:32:36,622 - 1000s of 7 - Elevens and other stores removed the magazines from their shelves. 464 00:32:38,524 --> 00:32:40,359 Sales figures are not in yet, but a drop is anticipated. 465 00:32:42,561 --> 00:32:45,231 If half of your circulation is from magazine rack sales, 466 00:32:45,297 --> 00:32:46,765 and all of a sudden you can't 467 00:32:46,832 --> 00:32:49,235 be on a magazine rack anymore, it's a serious effect. 468 00:32:50,569 --> 00:32:54,206 There is politics behind all of this. I think 469 00:32:54,273 --> 00:32:57,209 that the appeal to right wing fundamentalist 470 00:32:57,276 --> 00:33:03,582 is what lies behind much of this kind of nonsense going on. 471 00:33:03,649 --> 00:33:09,955 Of course Hefner started suing and eventually Edwin Meese had to backpedal. 472 00:33:10,022 --> 00:33:13,292 Absolutely, it's hurt us, I mean there's no way that it couldn't have hurt us. 473 00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:15,361 Playboy is suing Attorney General Meese and the Commission. 474 00:33:16,995 --> 00:33:21,300 When it was over and the review was done. They went back up on the shelves, but they 475 00:33:21,367 --> 00:33:22,101 were wrapped at that point. 476 00:33:24,270 --> 00:33:29,275 So, the magazine became more subscribable. But at the end of the day, they won. 477 00:33:30,509 --> 00:33:31,110 Playboy always won. 478 00:33:32,811 --> 00:33:35,581 A group of right wing zealots, even in the Justice 479 00:33:35,647 --> 00:33:36,848 Department cannot override the Constitution 480 00:33:36,915 --> 00:33:39,551 and this is still a free society. 481 00:33:41,487 --> 00:33:44,823 [Clapping] 482 00:33:44,890 --> 00:33:49,428 Tonight, our Playmate of the Year is a 21 year old lady 483 00:33:52,698 --> 00:33:58,036 from North Carolina with her parents here, Church going Baptists, as she is, 484 00:33:59,905 --> 00:34:05,043 After the Meese Commission, the powers that be were definitely much more conservative. 485 00:34:07,079 --> 00:34:11,683 Playboy understood that so Playmate of the Year was from the Bible belt. 486 00:34:11,750 --> 00:34:13,719 Supposedly she was a virgin, you know, it was political. 487 00:34:15,087 --> 00:34:16,855 Our playmate of the year, Donna Edmondson 488 00:34:16,922 --> 00:34:19,691 [Clapping] 489 00:34:19,791 --> 00:34:23,429 In late 80s, after the Meese Commission, of course, 490 00:34:23,495 --> 00:34:27,199 the party line was, it didn't affect us at all. 491 00:34:27,266 --> 00:34:30,369 This was part of Hefner's brilliance, it was spinning it 492 00:34:30,436 --> 00:34:33,205 but it was really fraught time of change for Playboy. 493 00:34:35,774 --> 00:34:43,482 There was also Aids coming in the 80s. AIDS being this mysterious disease that 494 00:34:43,549 --> 00:34:46,618 people didn't understand. People were like sex, it's all that sex. 495 00:34:52,524 --> 00:34:56,027 When AIDS came in, it freaked people out, but it 496 00:34:56,094 --> 00:34:58,497 didn't really hit people until Rebecca got sick. 497 00:35:01,066 --> 00:35:03,635 Rebecca Armstrong, she was the first playmate that had AIDS. 498 00:35:06,438 --> 00:35:11,210 When I tested positive in 1989, I was only 22 years old. 499 00:35:13,479 --> 00:35:15,581 I lied actually to Playboy when 500 00:35:15,681 --> 00:35:19,050 I was getting sick. But I didn't just stop 501 00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:22,288 working and then I went full blown AIDS within 502 00:35:22,354 --> 00:35:24,190 like what? Three and a half years 503 00:35:24,256 --> 00:35:27,659 and that's when I went to Playboy and told them. 504 00:35:28,794 --> 00:35:31,129 Hugh Hefner's reaction 505 00:35:31,763 --> 00:35:32,364 was really amazing. 506 00:35:35,301 --> 00:35:39,671 He stepped right up to the plate. He said, you know, sex isn't the enemy 507 00:35:42,208 --> 00:35:42,374 AIDS is the enemy. 508 00:35:45,611 --> 00:35:50,015 Playboy gave me a platform, shooting videos about HIV awareness. 509 00:35:50,081 --> 00:35:52,784 I'm Rebecca Armstrong, and I am one of more 510 00:35:52,851 --> 00:35:54,820 than a million Americans living with HIV today. 511 00:35:56,322 --> 00:35:59,658 and it opened up doors that would not have been 512 00:35:59,725 --> 00:36:00,392 open, had I not posed for Playboy magazine. 513 00:36:02,528 --> 00:36:07,699 I also had to educate people at Playboy. I was one of their own. 514 00:36:09,901 --> 00:36:11,303 Has AIDS, knocked the Playboy philosophy on the head? 515 00:36:14,206 --> 00:36:15,307 Not if you properly understand what the Playboy 516 00:36:15,407 --> 00:36:18,043 philosophy is all about because Playboy established 517 00:36:18,109 --> 00:36:19,645 from the very outset. 518 00:36:19,711 --> 00:36:23,181 The fact that we really had to take a fresh look at the ethics and 519 00:36:24,350 --> 00:36:26,785 morality of sexuality, something that we've never 520 00:36:26,852 --> 00:36:27,419 really bothered to do in western civilization 521 00:36:30,155 --> 00:36:31,457 and obviously, AIDS becomes one of the important elements in all of that. 522 00:36:34,860 --> 00:36:39,331 Hef did the interviews and you saw more articles about HIV being written in Playboy? 523 00:36:40,899 --> 00:36:43,469 He did not shy away from making sure that people knew about this disease. 524 00:36:48,340 --> 00:36:52,210 No, life at the mansion didn't change. No way. 525 00:36:58,650 --> 00:37:06,124 After my diagnosis, I remember asking the doctor how long do I have and he 526 00:37:06,191 --> 00:37:09,728 said, well, I honestly can't tell you but maybe a year or two. 527 00:37:12,598 --> 00:37:16,602 So, the dreams that I had of going to school and 528 00:37:16,668 --> 00:37:19,505 becoming a lawyer or a psychologist that was gone 529 00:37:21,106 --> 00:37:23,509 and it's a really really frightening time. 530 00:37:25,711 --> 00:37:29,515 I started self-medicating and drinking every single day and then I got 531 00:37:30,549 --> 00:37:31,917 really sick and ended up in the hospital 532 00:37:34,853 --> 00:37:36,788 and I still don't know exactly how I contracted it. 533 00:37:47,198 --> 00:37:47,666 I don't know. 534 00:37:51,036 --> 00:37:53,539 I honestly don't know everything that happened, he drugged me. 535 00:37:59,778 --> 00:38:00,512 No. 536 00:38:11,490 --> 00:38:12,924 And I can't even believe I'm saying it right now but yeah. 537 00:38:19,731 --> 00:38:23,935 But I can't hang on to the what if, it will make me not be able to sleep at night. 538 00:38:32,511 --> 00:38:35,313 There may have been a Rebecca in the past that would 539 00:38:35,414 --> 00:38:39,818 have been filled with anger but I try not to allow that to poison me anymore. 540 00:38:40,419 --> 00:38:40,986 Do I think 541 00:38:45,090 --> 00:38:47,859 some parties that worked there are scumbags? Yeah! 542 00:38:53,932 --> 00:38:54,733 You get the idea of what we're supposed to be doing. 543 00:38:56,267 --> 00:38:59,605 I want you to have a lot of life in front of the camera and 544 00:38:59,671 --> 00:39:00,338 communicate with the camera. Let's go ahead and try your now, honey. 545 00:39:11,917 --> 00:39:17,355 Valerie Cragin, the world is not a lesser place because of her death. 546 00:39:19,290 --> 00:39:22,027 I mean I remember long after I did Playboy, 547 00:39:24,262 --> 00:39:29,468 I went to a restaurant and I saw her and I just know I turned white. 548 00:39:29,535 --> 00:39:32,904 I know I just turned white and I turned around really quickly and got out of there. 549 00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:41,880 The big lie that Playboy was telling was "Become a Playboy 550 00:39:41,947 --> 00:39:45,016 Playmate and you're going to have all your dreams come true". 551 00:39:47,619 --> 00:39:49,054 I was angry, I was pissed. 552 00:39:51,823 --> 00:39:54,426 How do we allow this to happen? 553 00:39:54,493 --> 00:39:57,863 And why do we withhold the truth so that more 554 00:39:57,929 --> 00:40:01,232 women every month send their photos into Playboy 555 00:40:01,299 --> 00:40:04,936 magazine seeking to be a centerfold for all the wrong reasons? 556 00:40:06,605 --> 00:40:08,073 Playboy is not what they read about. 557 00:40:09,941 --> 00:40:12,711 It was a far more sinister world and that's what I wanted everyone to know 558 00:40:12,811 --> 00:40:14,946 and I did it. 559 00:40:16,482 --> 00:40:21,520 And after I testified, I really thought that maybe it would stop. 560 00:40:22,621 --> 00:40:26,925 Maybe women would stop signing the damn contracts. 561 00:40:26,992 --> 00:40:29,661 Maybe they would stop going to the mansion. 562 00:40:30,596 --> 00:40:33,098 Maybe Hefner would have to get a real job 563 00:40:36,935 --> 00:40:38,103 and stop making this money off of the backs of women. 564 00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,543 Hefner's biggest push right now is the adult video market. 565 00:40:44,610 --> 00:40:45,844 The company is replacing its 566 00:40:45,944 --> 00:40:49,748 money losing Playboy channel with a pay per view network. 567 00:40:49,815 --> 00:40:52,851 His promise was to always protect us and keep 568 00:40:52,918 --> 00:40:55,220 us within the framework of girl next door, 569 00:40:56,488 --> 00:41:01,026 He lied. The Playmate contract gave Hefner and 570 00:41:01,092 --> 00:41:05,430 Playboy the right to use the photos and the filming 571 00:41:05,497 --> 00:41:08,567 in any media that he saw fit. 572 00:41:09,635 --> 00:41:12,504 The stock is selling at an all-time high and 573 00:41:12,571 --> 00:41:15,841 much of what began with magazine has expanded 574 00:41:15,907 --> 00:41:18,109 now because the internet and it's just a tremendous exciting time 575 00:41:18,577 --> 00:41:19,745 Hefner sold us. 576 00:41:21,279 --> 00:41:26,251 He took our photos and put them on hardcore porn sites. 577 00:41:28,019 --> 00:41:31,156 My name is attached to every porn site you can imagine. That's bullshit. 578 00:41:33,124 --> 00:41:35,026 Playboy had an obligation to protect us girls, 579 00:41:35,093 --> 00:41:37,863 especially with our photos and videos. 580 00:41:39,430 --> 00:41:41,166 They just open floodgates and let them go, it was all about the money. 581 00:41:43,602 --> 00:41:49,074 The Playboy fantasy would still go on, because Hefner 582 00:41:49,140 --> 00:41:53,178 simply knew what sold and what sold was Playboy. 583 00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:59,050 There are people that want to keep Hef's secrets. 584 00:42:00,652 --> 00:42:01,920 I was breaking the code. 585 00:42:03,922 --> 00:42:04,189 Just don't tell. 586 00:42:06,758 --> 00:42:10,929 You don't tell but I did and I don't regret it. 587 00:42:40,959 --> 00:42:44,062 I remember Paige as being a happy person and then 588 00:42:44,129 --> 00:42:47,098 she shot herself in the head. What happened? 589 00:42:49,534 --> 00:42:54,105 I think the Paige Young's story reveals the dark side of the Playboy Mansion scene. 590 00:42:54,172 --> 00:42:58,343 A number of the allegations against Bill Cosby have 591 00:42:58,409 --> 00:43:00,111 involved stories that took place at the Playboy Mansion. 592 00:43:02,147 --> 00:43:05,183 There were a lot of powerful people in Hollywood 593 00:43:05,283 --> 00:43:08,519 that the women in Playboy shouldn't have gone with. 594 00:43:08,620 --> 00:43:11,089 Paige believed that these men were predatory, 595 00:43:11,156 --> 00:43:15,393 especially Hugh Hefner. You're not going to win 596 00:43:15,460 --> 00:43:18,596 a game against rich important men.