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My name is melanie myers,
and the early '70s,
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I lived in a duplex
in west hollywood,
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and paige young was the girl
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that lived behind me
in the carriage house.
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She was literally
the girl next door.
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Paige was an artist and a--
and a pretty good one.
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She had her own artistic vision.
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She was also
a "playboy" centerfold.
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And I remember the day
she said to me
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that she was thinking
about leaving,
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and I thought she meant
she was leaving los angeles.
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But she was actually
saying to me
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that she was going
to kill herself.
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I found her lying
on the american flag.
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I found her...Dead.
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She shot herself in the head.
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And there was a-a large wall.
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And on this wall
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were all these different
pictures and clippings
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out of newspapers,
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and at the top
of this mural of hers
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was "hugh hefner is the devil."
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♪♪♪
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so I walked back to my house,
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and I-I remember
sitting on the bed,
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and I called the police.
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In two days, everything
was cleaned out and gone.
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It was like it never happened.
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How does a "playboy" centerfold
kill herself
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with a message
"hugh hefner is the devil,"
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and it doesn't hit
any of the media outlets?
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This whole thing had to do
with killing herself
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to leave a message behind
for other women like her,
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and the message was
to be careful
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and that these men
were damaging,
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that they were predatory.
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[motor revving]
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my name is hugh hefner.
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I'm editor-publisher
of "playboy" magazine.
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When hugh hefner was just 27,
he fashioned himself
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and "playboy" as
the face of sexual liberation.
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Playboy is one of the most
famous brand names in the world.
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I would like to be remembered
as somebody who played some
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positive part in changing the
social-sexual values of my time.
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I believe that hef pulled
one over on the whole world.
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The fantasy of playboy
that he created
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did not allow
for the consent of the women.
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When it came
to hefner's buddies,
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you had to keep
those secrets quiet.
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-What have you got for free?
-[laughs]
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when you get someone
that powerful,
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anything could happen. Anything.
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The people
who were really there--
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they're the ones who know
the real truth.
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I want to be a voice
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for the women who had suffered
the most at his hands.
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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I worked for hugh hefner in
the--the holmby hills mansion.
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I was one of his, uh,
personal valets.
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Throughout history, butlers
have always been invisible.
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We got to witness it.
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We butlers and valets--
we couldn't participate.
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♪♪♪
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thank you, darling.
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I was a hostess
at the major parties
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at the playboy mansion west.
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Part of the job was to meet
people at the door
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and guide them
through the party.
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The sense I got was
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the young girls
didn't have a clue.
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At that age,
they don't know better.
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I think for girls
from small towns,
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it was like, "oh, my god,
I'm gonna be a star."
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I don't think
they thought much about
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what would happen
when they got there.
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Mr. Hefner always wanted
to be a famous film producer.
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That's why he came to hollywood.
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I think that movies had
a tremendous impact
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on my dreams, fantasies
when I was a kid.
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[yells]
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the one time hef tried to be
a producer on a film,
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it was
roman polanski's "macbeth,"
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and he got his shirt handed
to him.
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Lost a lot of money and--
and did very poorly.
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It's a terrible film.
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[laughing] it's a bad adaptation
of "macbeth."
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but clearly, hef didn't
make another movie, you know,
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or playboy didn't attempt
to make another movie.
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Hef has accomplished so much
in his lifetime,
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I don't think the average person
could understand
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how obsessed with fame
he still was,
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like, how important it was to
have celebrities at his parties
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and how important it was
to him to stay relevant.
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They always thought he was just
a cheap imitation, a wannabe.
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-Like the oscars.
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they thought
that he'd tried too hard
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to be accepted in hollywood,
that he didn't have any talents.
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It was known into hollywood
that if you knew hef,
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you could come up there
to the mansion,
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and you could have sex.
You could trade the girls,
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trade sex,
because hefner wanted
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that contact with hollywood.
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He wanted to use it
to his advantage.
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Hefner expanded
the casting bedroom
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to the casting mansion.
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Reporter: Half of hollywood
seems to come to hefner's place
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at one time or another.
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A lot of people would come here
like warren beatty
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and jack nicholson
and bill cosby.
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If they go out with the p--
with the public,
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it's hard for them to relax
and--and just enjoy themselves,
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uh, because the, uh, people are
very excited about seeing them,
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whereas when they come up here,
and nobody bothers them.
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They can do whatever they want.
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Movie night,
he had every celebrity
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from robin williams
to chevy chase.
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Hef did things that would
elevate him in hollywood.
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All these, uh,
celebrities would come,
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and here's arnold
before he was arnold.
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There's wilt, and there's
jimmy caan and cosby.
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They were like in a candy store
up there--these men.
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Mary o'connor was
a pimp in charge.
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She would call up my office
and say, "we're having a party.
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Send the bunnies up."
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mary o'connor would call,
I think,
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every girl in the mansion
and say,
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"you're expected to be
at the movies tonight."
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you must be there to be seen.
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♪♪♪
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when you become a playmate,
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you go to the mansion
and you politic
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to be playmate of the year.
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I mean, literally, that's how--
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what I was told
by marilyn grabowski,
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the editor of "playboy"
at the time.
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It's Sunday night.
Let's do movie night.
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That's how it was laid out.
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We would turn
the living room into a theater.
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So, we had one couch
in the front,
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another couch
behind the front couch,
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and then
the rest would be seats.
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Girls were
very, very, very insecure
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because there was
a hierarchy there.
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It was like a pyramid,
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mostly based on how
beautiful you were.
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At movie night, I got to sit
in the last row in the back.
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[laughs]
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hefner would sit on the couch
in the center right up in front.
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His girlfriends are
on either side
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or a couple on either side,
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and then the director friends,
the celebrity friends.
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So vips were up in front.
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Girls were encouraged
to talk and engage with vips.
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That was the whole point
of being up there.
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Hef admired celebrities so much.
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He was--he was enamored by them,
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and to have them in his life
and then him being the--
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in the long run, the controller,
he got off on that.
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He--that made him feel like
mr. Big.
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You could see by the place
the butler would lead you to--
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to be seated that there was,
you know, there was a structure.
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It was like, um, you're assigned
a seat at a wedding.
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It's all arranged
by the secretaries.
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They would
organize the seating.
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I was put with tony curtis
a lot,
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and he really had
a drinking problem,
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and it was very public.
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So I dreaded, you know,
when he started drinking
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because I didn't know what--
what he might expect.
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I unfortunately sat
next to bill cosby.
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I didn't know who bill cosby was
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until he put his hand down
my knickers.
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I was kind of surprised.
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It's not the sort of thing
you would do in England.
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There's the grotto.
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For the specials, they made--
they heightened the--
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the decadence.
There was a lot of decadence.
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they were a constant flow
of pretty faces
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that circulated throughout
the mansion for movie night,
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because they were
just being used.
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They liquored 'em up,
gave 'em drugs,
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and they ended up
in the jacuzzi,
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and it was a free-for-all.
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Maybe they knew what
they were getting into,
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but they didn't know what they
were really getting into.
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I worked at a men's
clothing store in beverly hills,
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and somebody came by
and asked me if I wanted to go
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to the playboy mansion,
and I gave them my number,
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and that night, paige was
ready to go, and I wasn't.
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So she went ahead of me,
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and when I showed up
at the playboy mansion,
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hefner was
at the end of the table,
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and paige was
on one side of him.
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♪♪♪
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paige was very invested in
the whole playboy lifestyle.
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What they were preaching
was the girl next door,
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but free sex,
and paige was their poster girl.
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She was not only beautiful,
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but she seemed
very wild and free.
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The time I went up there,
paige ended up in the grotto.
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And I do think that's where her
thinking started to go wrong.
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She really didn't get the whole
hollywood thing at all.
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You have to be careful who
you're sleeping with.
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What I think happened to her
is somebody broke her.
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Somebody did something to her
that she found unacceptable,
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and she didn't know how
to go on from there.
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♪♪♪
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when I was a teenager
in the '70s,
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the female standards of beauty
were the playboy playmates.
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They were thought of as perfect.
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-[camera shutter clicks]
-nice.
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They were a 10.
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The hair and the makeup
is beautiful today.
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I-I was definitely not a 10,
and I was told that, too, so...
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I thought their lives
would be so smooth and easy
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compared to mine.
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When I found out
that wasn't the case,
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I was really shocked,
and it's sort of a fascination
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that I've kept over the decades.
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I'm always interested in
when things appear one way,
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but they're really
very different.
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♪♪♪
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in December of 2014,
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there was an article
in the "daily mail"
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about paige young,
a former playboy playmate,
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who had killed herself in 1974.
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That was common knowledge.
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But this article had a lot of
new information about her death.
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I was surprised to read
about the scene
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where there's a whole mural
of hugh hefner.
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I thought it was a big deal,
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and it made me wonder,
what did he do?
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What happened that caused her
to focus on hugh hefner so much?
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In the suicide note, it has
listed men that she felt
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she'd been abused by,
including hugh hefner
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and the director john huston,
who was a major cultural icon.
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In the early '70s, when they
were filming "chinatown,"
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the cast and crew would hang out
a lot at the playboy mansion.
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So there is a chance huston
spent time at the mansion
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during the filming.
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Paige told me that member
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of his playboy mansion
entourage or whatever it was,
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had filmed her having sex.
246
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Paige was so over the top
upset about that tape.
247
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This was the end of the world
for her.
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She didn't seem that shy,
you know, about sex,
249
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and it made me wonder,
what was on that tape?
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What I actually keep thinking is
251
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there's more on that
than just sex.
252
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Hef--he had tapes on everybody.
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The first time I looked up
at the two screens he had
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for the tv in the bedroom,
255
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and I realized that was me,
and I'm like,
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"whoa, what are you doing?"
257
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and when we started bringing
other people into the bedroom,
258
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some girls had the same reaction
like, "whoa,"
259
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and he would--
he would do the...
260
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"oh, well, I can turn it off.
261
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If it's not okay,
I'll turn it off."
262
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and they go, "oh, no.
Yeah, would you turn it off?"
263
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and he would...
264
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And then he would say,
"now we can just see it.
265
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That's all it--you know,
we're just seeing it.
266
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We're not recording."
267
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and maybe a week later,
a couple days later,
268
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all of a sudden,
there's the tape.
269
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He told you that
you weren't recording this.
270
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He goes, "you think
I really stopped it?"
271
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so he did it anyway,
and he had tapes on everybody.
272
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Hefner taped everything
in his bedroom,
273
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and many men and stars
and athletes
274
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came into the bedroom
and had sex with these girls.
275
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Most of the time,
hefner never participated.
276
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He just watched.
277
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He was a voyeur.
278
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He would stage them.
279
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He thought of himself
as a film director.
280
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He didn't want to be
on the tapes.
281
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He wanted these girls
and the stars.
282
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But many of the girls
were devastated
283
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after what they
were expected to do,
284
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what they were forced to do.
285
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Well, can you imagine
after he had all these tapes
286
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of you having sex
with different girls,
287
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what power you had
over these men?
288
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These are some, uh, notes
I took
289
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around the time I worked
for playboy, and, um,
290
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the first one--
291
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the tony curtis incident
292
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about tapes and lawyers
storming the mansion.
293
00:15:22,622 --> 00:15:25,056
Tony was a regular
at the mansion,
294
00:15:25,158 --> 00:15:28,760
and he went
with several playmates.
295
00:15:28,862 --> 00:15:32,497
Tony was upset
and maybe didn't realize
296
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that hef was filming...
The--the orgy.
297
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So his attorneys--
298
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they were very upset
that tony had been filmed.
299
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They wanted them.
300
00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:51,916
Hefner kept these tapes
in a tape library.
301
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The librarian's office was
down the hall from the bedroom.
302
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That was off-limits to anybody
except hef and mary o'connor.
303
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If you were caught
going near it
304
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or talking to the librarian,
you would be terminated.
305
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People around the world
read "playboy" magazine.
306
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Imagine this was
nirvana for men,
307
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that you could have sex
with all these women,
308
00:16:22,349 --> 00:16:24,816
and you weren't gonna
have to pay for it.
309
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We didn't know
about the emotional expense
310
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that these women would suffer,
311
00:16:31,458 --> 00:16:34,459
and that was a tragedy.
312
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♪♪♪
313
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I have a degree in journalism,
but I used it very little.
314
00:16:42,769 --> 00:16:45,737
But I still have that instinct.
315
00:16:45,839 --> 00:16:50,241
So then December 2014, that
story about paige young came out
316
00:16:50,343 --> 00:16:52,677
in the "daily mail."
317
00:16:52,779 --> 00:16:56,080
they got a tip on--on paige
that she was someone who had
318
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been witnessed as being
involved with bill cosby.
319
00:17:01,554 --> 00:17:07,358
I knew from the article
that a definite connection
320
00:17:07,460 --> 00:17:14,465
wasn't made between
paige's suicide and bill cosby.
321
00:17:14,567 --> 00:17:16,000
♪♪♪
322
00:17:16,102 --> 00:17:20,605
so I was trying to find out
where she met bill cosby,
323
00:17:20,707 --> 00:17:26,444
and I found richard sample,
a fellow artist
324
00:17:26,546 --> 00:17:30,148
who saw her several times
at the playboy club.
325
00:17:30,250 --> 00:17:35,386
He said that paige
had told him that bill cosby
326
00:17:35,488 --> 00:17:38,056
was always trying to
put the make on her
327
00:17:38,158 --> 00:17:42,727
and that she had no interest
in him whatsoever.
328
00:17:42,829 --> 00:17:44,862
Then he said that one time
329
00:17:44,964 --> 00:17:46,931
that he picked her up
from the playboy club,
330
00:17:47,033 --> 00:17:52,437
he saw bill cosby acting angry
towards her,
331
00:17:52,539 --> 00:17:56,774
that she had rebuffed
yet another one of his attempts
332
00:17:56,876 --> 00:17:59,077
to get with her.
333
00:17:59,179 --> 00:18:02,947
Breaking news tonight.
He is known as america's dad,
334
00:18:03,049 --> 00:18:05,716
but comedian bill cosby
now the target
335
00:18:05,819 --> 00:18:09,053
of an lapd police investigation
336
00:18:09,155 --> 00:18:13,291
for sex molestation
of a then-teen girl.
337
00:18:13,393 --> 00:18:14,425
♪♪♪
338
00:18:14,527 --> 00:18:16,727
when the whole cosby story
broke,
339
00:18:16,830 --> 00:18:21,532
I was like, oh, man,
none of that was a surprise.
340
00:18:21,634 --> 00:18:26,003
You know, I was there.
I saw--I know what he did.
341
00:18:26,106 --> 00:18:29,107
Everybody that worked
at the mansion knew
342
00:18:29,209 --> 00:18:33,678
that he was basically...
A predator.
343
00:18:33,780 --> 00:18:38,950
I was a member of hugh hefner's
executive protection team
344
00:18:39,052 --> 00:18:42,520
during 1980 and 1981.
345
00:18:42,622 --> 00:18:44,455
When you're
the primary bodyguard
346
00:18:44,557 --> 00:18:46,424
for somebody like hef,
347
00:18:46,526 --> 00:18:50,495
you're not only expected to
protect them from physical harm,
348
00:18:50,597 --> 00:18:53,664
you're also expected
to protect them from anything
349
00:18:53,766 --> 00:18:56,601
that would tarnish
their reputation.
350
00:18:56,703 --> 00:19:01,772
But at the mansion,
it was the wild west back then.
351
00:19:01,875 --> 00:19:05,109
There was
rampant sexual exploitation.
352
00:19:05,211 --> 00:19:09,981
Bill cosby was up there
three to four times a week.
353
00:19:10,083 --> 00:19:13,417
He wasn't there to eat lunch.
354
00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,921
So a number of the allegations
against bill cosby
355
00:19:17,023 --> 00:19:20,625
have involved stories that took
place at the playboy mansion.
356
00:19:20,727 --> 00:19:24,862
He and hugh hefner
were very close friends.
357
00:19:24,964 --> 00:19:28,399
I heard many stories
about bill cosby
358
00:19:28,501 --> 00:19:32,770
from the '60s
all the way up to 2008.
359
00:19:32,872 --> 00:19:38,142
In 1974, bill cosby had
carte blanche to the mansion,
360
00:19:38,244 --> 00:19:41,045
and he drove up there
in a limousine,
361
00:19:41,147 --> 00:19:44,782
and he had this young girl,
15-year-old girl, judith huth.
362
00:19:44,884 --> 00:19:47,285
He brought her up to
the mansion. She had cocktails.
363
00:19:47,387 --> 00:19:48,619
He drugged her.
364
00:19:48,721 --> 00:19:53,391
She was sexually assaulted
at 15 years old.
365
00:19:54,694 --> 00:20:00,097
♪♪♪
366
00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,467
[cheers and applause,
playful shouting]
367
00:20:03,570 --> 00:20:07,138
cosby was up there a lot.
He stayed there a lot. Um...
368
00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,541
He would come and stay
for a couple days at a time.
369
00:20:10,643 --> 00:20:12,977
It's just down the hall,
room two.
370
00:20:13,079 --> 00:20:15,079
You know, he's funny.
He was a funny man,
371
00:20:15,181 --> 00:20:16,881
but he was an arrogant man.
372
00:20:16,983 --> 00:20:21,419
I didn't know what was going on.
Did hef know?
373
00:20:21,521 --> 00:20:24,956
I think he did.
How could anything be slipped
374
00:20:25,058 --> 00:20:27,692
under anyone's nose
in that house?
375
00:20:27,794 --> 00:20:31,395
Cameras were everywhere.
He had to have known.
376
00:20:31,497 --> 00:20:33,364
♪♪♪
377
00:20:33,466 --> 00:20:37,501
but cosby was his go-to
celebrity at the jazz festival,
378
00:20:37,604 --> 00:20:40,137
at the tennis tournament.
379
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:41,906
[laughter]
380
00:20:42,008 --> 00:20:44,775
[cheers and applause]
381
00:20:44,877 --> 00:20:46,811
it was cosby, this--
the funny man that--
382
00:20:46,913 --> 00:20:49,046
that they did these things
for hef,
383
00:20:49,148 --> 00:20:55,186
and because of that, he was
allowing the women to be used.
384
00:20:55,288 --> 00:21:01,092
I know that
bill cosby knew better.
385
00:21:01,194 --> 00:21:03,761
I don't believe
bill cosby cared.
386
00:21:03,863 --> 00:21:06,664
I knew him before I did
"playboy."
387
00:21:06,766 --> 00:21:10,835
someone had taken my headshot
and given it to bill cosby,
388
00:21:10,937 --> 00:21:13,604
and I fly off
and I meet him, and I end up
389
00:21:13,706 --> 00:21:17,975
in this underage--what I thought
was a relationship.
390
00:21:18,077 --> 00:21:19,410
And I'm a minor.
391
00:21:19,512 --> 00:21:22,613
So this "relationship" goes on
392
00:21:22,715 --> 00:21:24,749
for maybe a year and a half
or so.
393
00:21:24,851 --> 00:21:26,884
I'm not even 16.
394
00:21:26,986 --> 00:21:29,720
I may have turned 16,
but I don't even drive yet.
395
00:21:29,822 --> 00:21:32,490
I'm a baby.
396
00:21:32,592 --> 00:21:35,526
And I have no one to turn to
over this.
397
00:21:35,628 --> 00:21:37,194
So how this all ends is
398
00:21:37,297 --> 00:21:40,898
I end up in a drug and alcohol
facility in 1982,
399
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,633
and I remember cosby
calling me on the payphone
400
00:21:42,735 --> 00:21:44,435
and him saying to me,
401
00:21:44,537 --> 00:21:48,939
"you know, you're not much fun
when you're not drunk."
402
00:21:49,042 --> 00:21:51,876
treatment saved me.
403
00:21:51,978 --> 00:21:54,645
♪♪♪
404
00:21:54,747 --> 00:21:59,417
in 2008, bill cosby brought
this young woman, chloe goins,
405
00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:01,419
up to the mansion
to go to a party.
406
00:22:01,521 --> 00:22:06,724
She alleges that he gave her
a drink, and she was drugged
407
00:22:06,826 --> 00:22:09,126
and was very, very woozy,
could hardly stand up.
408
00:22:09,228 --> 00:22:12,363
So hefner himself
told everybody,
409
00:22:12,465 --> 00:22:15,433
"put her to bed,"
and the next thing you know,
410
00:22:15,535 --> 00:22:18,502
she was assaulted by bill cosby.
411
00:22:18,604 --> 00:22:22,907
We have a sisterhood
of victims of bill cosby,
412
00:22:23,009 --> 00:22:26,310
and he did some terrible things
to these girls.
413
00:22:26,412 --> 00:22:30,114
I got off easy compared
to some of these girls.
414
00:22:31,884 --> 00:22:34,018
♪♪♪
415
00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:35,820
this is an article
from the "daily mail"
416
00:22:35,922 --> 00:22:39,056
about my friend paige young
417
00:22:39,158 --> 00:22:43,260
and her relationship
with, uh, bill cosby.
418
00:22:43,363 --> 00:22:44,562
Let me read you just
a little bit
419
00:22:44,664 --> 00:22:46,497
about what they wrote
about paige.
420
00:22:46,599 --> 00:22:50,735
"paige was into her drugs,
and bill wanted to get her some.
421
00:22:50,837 --> 00:22:53,304
She was along on the trip
like his pet dog.
422
00:22:53,406 --> 00:22:55,339
She was a very subdued person."
423
00:22:55,441 --> 00:23:00,378
well, when I knew her,
paige was into clean living.
424
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:06,016
I think more likely
is that bill drugged her.
425
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:07,518
A direct connection
has not been made
426
00:23:07,620 --> 00:23:10,788
between bill cosby
and paige young's suicide.
427
00:23:10,890 --> 00:23:15,059
I did find a man
who was friends with paige
428
00:23:15,161 --> 00:23:16,494
during that same time,
429
00:23:16,596 --> 00:23:18,629
and one of the times
they spent together,
430
00:23:18,731 --> 00:23:22,366
paige said,
"bill cosby raped me."
431
00:23:22,468 --> 00:23:26,537
and I asked, "did she say that
he had drugged her as well?"
432
00:23:26,639 --> 00:23:28,639
and she implied it by saying,
433
00:23:28,741 --> 00:23:33,344
"well, I came to
and realized I had been raped."
434
00:23:33,446 --> 00:23:37,047
we still don't know why
paige killed herself.
435
00:23:37,150 --> 00:23:40,451
But it seems like this is
one piece of the puzzle.
436
00:23:40,553 --> 00:23:45,756
I knew bill in '72 when
I worked as a bunny.
437
00:23:45,858 --> 00:23:49,660
It wasn't until
the situation in '79 in chicago
438
00:23:49,762 --> 00:23:54,098
that he drugged and raped me.
439
00:23:56,536 --> 00:23:58,235
[sighs]
440
00:23:58,337 --> 00:24:00,971
voilà! Here we are. Wow.
441
00:24:01,073 --> 00:24:03,407
This is a picture of bill cosby
442
00:24:03,509 --> 00:24:05,976
the day before he drugged
and raped me,
443
00:24:06,078 --> 00:24:09,747
and this is the original card
that he sent me
444
00:24:09,849 --> 00:24:12,116
the following day
after he raped me
445
00:24:12,218 --> 00:24:14,685
when he sent me a 4-foot
ficus tree, and it says,
446
00:24:14,787 --> 00:24:17,421
"stay healthy mentally.
Stay in charge of yourself.
447
00:24:17,523 --> 00:24:19,523
Bill cosby."
448
00:24:19,625 --> 00:24:21,992
how crazy was that?
449
00:24:24,163 --> 00:24:25,663
It--it's a reminder.
450
00:24:25,765 --> 00:24:29,033
It's a reminder of how far
I've come from that.
451
00:24:29,135 --> 00:24:30,367
So I keep it.
452
00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:34,071
I knew bill cosby for six years.
453
00:24:34,173 --> 00:24:37,174
He was a friend.
Nothing more but a friend
454
00:24:37,276 --> 00:24:40,211
that I would see
on the playboy circuit.
455
00:24:40,313 --> 00:24:43,614
Nine months or so after
I had gotten to chicago
456
00:24:43,716 --> 00:24:44,715
as the bunny mother,
457
00:24:44,817 --> 00:24:48,285
uh, bill cosby was doing
an interview
458
00:24:48,387 --> 00:24:50,521
in the playmate lunchroom.
459
00:24:50,623 --> 00:24:52,957
Later that day,
he called me, and he said,
460
00:24:53,059 --> 00:24:55,226
"listen, you want to go out
to dinner tomorrow night?"
461
00:24:55,328 --> 00:24:57,194
I said, "sure."
462
00:24:57,296 --> 00:24:59,263
he says, "well, meet me
at the whitehall hotel,
463
00:24:59,365 --> 00:25:01,532
and we'll go out to dinner."
I said, "sure."
464
00:25:01,634 --> 00:25:04,134
I didn't think anything of it
'cause I knew this person.
465
00:25:04,237 --> 00:25:08,005
So the next night,
I met him at 7:00,
466
00:25:08,107 --> 00:25:09,440
and he was in the penthouse.
467
00:25:09,542 --> 00:25:11,075
So he said to me,
"well, come on up,
468
00:25:11,177 --> 00:25:13,978
and we'll have a drink
before we go to dinner."
469
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,482
I went upstairs, and he says,
"what would you like to drink?"
470
00:25:18,584 --> 00:25:21,752
so I said,
"I'll take a grand marnier."
471
00:25:21,854 --> 00:25:23,988
and he gave me the glass.
I took two sips,
472
00:25:24,090 --> 00:25:25,589
and that's the last thing
I remember
473
00:25:25,691 --> 00:25:28,526
until 4:00 the next morning.
474
00:25:28,628 --> 00:25:31,428
And I woke up in bed naked,
475
00:25:31,531 --> 00:25:34,331
and I looked to my left,
and there he was naked,
476
00:25:34,433 --> 00:25:38,669
sleeping next to me,
and I was in a panic.
477
00:25:38,771 --> 00:25:41,906
And I slivered out of the bed
478
00:25:42,008 --> 00:25:45,342
to try to collect my clothes
that were all over the floor,
479
00:25:45,444 --> 00:25:50,180
and I had blood coming down
my leg 'cause he sodomized me.
480
00:25:50,283 --> 00:25:53,083
And blood was
dripping on the floor.
481
00:25:53,185 --> 00:25:57,087
And, um... [voice breaking]
I put my clothes on,
482
00:25:57,189 --> 00:25:58,556
but there was a lot of blood.
483
00:25:58,658 --> 00:26:03,093
♪♪♪
484
00:26:03,195 --> 00:26:05,029
it was a lot of blood.
485
00:26:05,131 --> 00:26:08,732
I dripped it all the way
out in the lobby in the hotel.
486
00:26:08,834 --> 00:26:12,903
[sobbing]
487
00:26:13,005 --> 00:26:14,738
[sniffles]
488
00:26:16,475 --> 00:26:20,210
and I went home in the shower,
and I just screamed.
489
00:26:20,313 --> 00:26:22,446
I was in the shower
for a good hour.
490
00:26:22,548 --> 00:26:25,849
♪♪♪
491
00:26:25,952 --> 00:26:27,618
and I knew I had to go to work
492
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,488
because I had nobody to
cover me, and I went to work.
493
00:26:31,591 --> 00:26:34,592
And about 11:00 in the morning,
he calls my office.
494
00:26:34,694 --> 00:26:36,894
How he got that private line,
I don't know.
495
00:26:36,996 --> 00:26:38,495
It was a private line.
[sniffles]
496
00:26:38,598 --> 00:26:41,365
and he says,
"why did you leave?"
497
00:26:41,467 --> 00:26:43,767
and I was like,
"are you kidding me?"
498
00:26:43,869 --> 00:26:46,503
"why did you leave?"
499
00:26:46,606 --> 00:26:48,439
and I said, "listen,
I can't talk to you now.
500
00:26:48,541 --> 00:26:51,709
I'm getting the girls on
the floor. I'm doing my work."
501
00:26:51,811 --> 00:26:58,515
I hung up the phone, and I was
in complete, total shock.
502
00:26:58,618 --> 00:27:04,788
That next day I called my boss,
and I told her that he raped me
503
00:27:04,890 --> 00:27:08,993
and he drugged me,
and her reply was,
504
00:27:09,095 --> 00:27:12,029
"that's hefner's best friend.
505
00:27:12,131 --> 00:27:17,034
I suggest you shut your mouth
if you want to keep your job."
506
00:27:17,136 --> 00:27:18,802
and for days on end,
507
00:27:18,904 --> 00:27:22,406
cosby continued to call
and ask me out,
508
00:27:22,508 --> 00:27:24,041
and I refused
to go out with him.
509
00:27:24,143 --> 00:27:27,277
I couldn't go to hefner
because there were a lot
510
00:27:27,380 --> 00:27:31,448
of very strange things
happening up at the mansion.
511
00:27:31,550 --> 00:27:33,717
How am I gonna go to him?
512
00:27:33,819 --> 00:27:35,486
Who's gonna listen to me?
513
00:27:35,588 --> 00:27:38,389
I knew nothing
would have changed.
514
00:27:38,491 --> 00:27:40,491
I knew he wouldn't
have been held accountable.
515
00:27:40,593 --> 00:27:43,227
It was bill cosby.
516
00:27:43,329 --> 00:27:46,263
He was gonna buy nbc studios.
517
00:27:46,365 --> 00:27:49,700
Who's gonna listen to me?
How do I prove it?
518
00:27:49,802 --> 00:27:52,102
I had no avenue to go down.
519
00:27:52,204 --> 00:27:56,940
There were other celebrities
and vips
520
00:27:57,043 --> 00:27:59,176
that were at the, uh,
l.A. Mansion
521
00:27:59,278 --> 00:28:01,445
that would definitely drug
522
00:28:01,547 --> 00:28:04,415
and sexually assault
young women.
523
00:28:04,517 --> 00:28:06,984
Roman polanski, of course,
who we know
524
00:28:07,086 --> 00:28:10,054
to be someone
who fled the country
525
00:28:10,156 --> 00:28:12,956
after raping a very young girl,
allegedly, right,
526
00:28:13,059 --> 00:28:14,224
is somebody who's a fixture
527
00:28:14,326 --> 00:28:16,026
at the playboy mansion
at one point.
528
00:28:16,128 --> 00:28:19,563
So what kind of people we choose
to surround ourselves with
529
00:28:19,665 --> 00:28:21,799
says something about who we are.
530
00:28:27,106 --> 00:28:29,606
My name's charlotte lewis,
531
00:28:29,709 --> 00:28:35,913
and I did the cover
of "playboy" in 1994, June.
532
00:28:36,015 --> 00:28:37,514
I suddenly found out how close
533
00:28:37,616 --> 00:28:41,552
roman polanski and hugh hefner
really were,
534
00:28:41,654 --> 00:28:44,955
and I did find that
a bit disturbing.
535
00:28:45,057 --> 00:28:51,428
In 1977, polanski was
convicted of rape of a minor,
536
00:28:51,530 --> 00:28:54,298
and the minor was 13 years old.
537
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,367
The girl was two weeks short
of 14.
538
00:28:57,470 --> 00:29:02,406
But if you have seen her, uh,
sitting here next to me,
539
00:29:02,508 --> 00:29:05,976
you wouldn't be
particularly shocked by it.
540
00:29:06,078 --> 00:29:08,212
As a matter of fact, you would
find it completely normal.
541
00:29:08,314 --> 00:29:10,114
But I'd be particularly
concerned to find out
542
00:29:10,216 --> 00:29:12,449
how old she was,
and you actually did know.
543
00:29:12,551 --> 00:29:14,084
-You actually did know.
-Yeah, I knew. I knew.
544
00:29:14,186 --> 00:29:15,652
I knew she was 14
because she was talking
545
00:29:15,755 --> 00:29:17,254
about her birthday before that.
546
00:29:17,356 --> 00:29:19,990
Then I met him five,
five and a half years later,
547
00:29:20,092 --> 00:29:22,559
six years later.
548
00:29:22,661 --> 00:29:27,898
I was, uh, raped by
roman polanski when I was 16.
549
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000
It took a long time for me
to realize
550
00:29:30,102 --> 00:29:33,737
that what had happened to me
wasn't my fault,
551
00:29:33,839 --> 00:29:36,640
because I always thought
it was my fault.
552
00:29:36,742 --> 00:29:38,308
You don't realize at the time
when something's--
553
00:29:38,410 --> 00:29:40,177
when you're very young,
554
00:29:40,279 --> 00:29:44,314
that what's happened is--
is illegal or--or wrong.
555
00:29:44,416 --> 00:29:46,016
You know it's wrong
'cause it doesn't feel right.
556
00:29:46,118 --> 00:29:51,188
There are some men that
obviously, of a generation,
557
00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:56,827
yes, feel that there is
some...Entitlement
558
00:29:56,929 --> 00:30:01,498
and that women are just the sex,
you know, objects.
559
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,600
It's about the control,
really, isn't it?
560
00:30:03,702 --> 00:30:06,837
It's amazing there is
still some kind of protection
561
00:30:06,939 --> 00:30:08,972
for these--these boys,
these men,
562
00:30:09,074 --> 00:30:14,411
these--these debauched
human beings, you know?
563
00:30:14,513 --> 00:30:17,981
I would be up at the game house
with hef a lot,
564
00:30:18,083 --> 00:30:20,918
and the conversations
could get very heavy,
565
00:30:21,020 --> 00:30:24,288
and--and roman polanski
was one of the stories,
566
00:30:24,390 --> 00:30:26,557
and I would listen to them talk.
567
00:30:26,659 --> 00:30:30,761
It was, "gah, he got caught!"
568
00:30:30,863 --> 00:30:33,096
you know, or "the schmo--
he got caught,"
569
00:30:33,199 --> 00:30:35,632
like it was okay to be
with a young girl.
570
00:30:35,734 --> 00:30:37,367
Just don't get caught.
571
00:30:37,469 --> 00:30:42,206
They were just relieved
that they hadn't gotten caught,
572
00:30:42,308 --> 00:30:44,308
but I don't believe
it stopped with that.
573
00:30:44,410 --> 00:30:47,244
♪♪♪
574
00:30:47,346 --> 00:30:50,447
the idea of underage sex
575
00:30:50,549 --> 00:30:52,282
was not really taken
very, very seriously.
576
00:30:52,384 --> 00:30:56,420
And indeed,
hefner's interest in young girls
577
00:30:56,522 --> 00:30:59,389
had been evident
throughout his adult life,
578
00:30:59,491 --> 00:31:03,060
epitomized by the fact that, um,
he seduced one of the girls
579
00:31:03,162 --> 00:31:06,663
that had been at his daughter's
16th birthday party.
580
00:31:06,765 --> 00:31:11,134
10 of her school friends
were invited,
581
00:31:11,237 --> 00:31:12,936
and a few days after that,
582
00:31:13,038 --> 00:31:15,239
one of the girls
who'd been at the party
583
00:31:15,341 --> 00:31:18,375
called hefner and said
she would like to meet him.
584
00:31:18,477 --> 00:31:21,011
She did come and see him,
and the inevitable happened.
585
00:31:21,113 --> 00:31:22,779
♪♪♪
586
00:31:22,882 --> 00:31:27,284
why has it taken till today
for it to be believed
587
00:31:27,386 --> 00:31:30,888
that oh, my god, you know,
these things do happen to girls?
588
00:31:30,990 --> 00:31:35,058
Yeah,
50-year-old men do rape girls.
589
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,128
What we're dealing with is
a very powerful team
590
00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:42,933
of close friends
who stick together,
591
00:31:43,035 --> 00:31:46,036
men defending their guy.
592
00:31:46,138 --> 00:31:50,674
Hold each individual man
responsible,
593
00:31:50,776 --> 00:31:52,876
because what predator
is not going to go
594
00:31:52,978 --> 00:31:55,045
to the playboy mansion?
595
00:31:55,147 --> 00:31:58,282
It's locked. It's secure.
596
00:31:58,384 --> 00:32:00,417
All the cookies are in the jar,
597
00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:03,020
and it's okay. No one judges.
598
00:32:03,122 --> 00:32:06,390
Jim brown, the football player,
599
00:32:06,492 --> 00:32:09,760
is a known fixture
at the playboy mansion,
600
00:32:09,862 --> 00:32:11,595
and there have been
a number of stories, um,
601
00:32:11,697 --> 00:32:13,530
corroborated by women
602
00:32:13,632 --> 00:32:15,766
who claimed that they were
sexually assaulted
603
00:32:15,868 --> 00:32:19,469
by jim brown
at the playboy mansion.
604
00:32:19,571 --> 00:32:21,872
I was at the mansion
all the time.
605
00:32:21,974 --> 00:32:23,674
[chuckles] it was a ball.
606
00:32:23,776 --> 00:32:27,711
There were new girls coming in
from all over the country,
607
00:32:27,813 --> 00:32:31,882
and, uh, anything was okay
between consenting partners.
608
00:32:31,984 --> 00:32:34,785
[chuckles]
609
00:32:34,887 --> 00:32:38,989
jim brown did come up
and have sex at the mansion,
610
00:32:39,091 --> 00:32:42,225
and he always abused
different playmates.
611
00:32:42,328 --> 00:32:44,061
♪♪♪
612
00:32:44,163 --> 00:32:48,065
I observed it.
Many people witnessed it.
613
00:32:48,167 --> 00:32:54,171
Hef did tell me that jim brown
brutalized women, yeah.
614
00:32:54,273 --> 00:32:56,506
But why would he keep
letting him come up?
615
00:32:56,608 --> 00:33:00,010
You know, what's with that?
Because he was a celebrity?
616
00:33:00,112 --> 00:33:03,113
The first time I saw the abuse
with jim brown
617
00:33:03,215 --> 00:33:04,681
was in the grand hall,
they called it.
618
00:33:04,783 --> 00:33:06,149
There--there was
a very big party.
619
00:33:06,251 --> 00:33:09,286
I think it was
the new year's party.
620
00:33:09,388 --> 00:33:11,655
All: 3...2...!
621
00:33:11,757 --> 00:33:14,725
There was one girl.
I don't remember her name,
622
00:33:14,827 --> 00:33:16,493
but she was the black girl
623
00:33:16,595 --> 00:33:18,595
that I remember
being at the mansion,
624
00:33:18,697 --> 00:33:22,966
and jim brown turned her upside
down and held her by her heels--
625
00:33:23,068 --> 00:33:25,869
this was right in front of me--
and shook her violently--
626
00:33:25,971 --> 00:33:30,540
violently until
her bosom fell out of her bra,
627
00:33:30,642 --> 00:33:33,677
and then flipped her back up,
and she's hanging out.
628
00:33:33,779 --> 00:33:37,014
I could see it on her face,
and I thought, oh, my god.
629
00:33:39,051 --> 00:33:43,920
And then there was the time
when he was in the grotto.
630
00:33:44,023 --> 00:33:46,857
In the shower room,
there was an apparatus
631
00:33:46,959 --> 00:33:49,793
that all the men
would go in and use.
632
00:33:49,895 --> 00:33:54,297
Hefner had this chair
in the back house that
633
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,700
was very odd-shaped,
634
00:33:56,802 --> 00:33:58,335
and looking at it, thinking,
what is this?
635
00:33:58,437 --> 00:34:00,270
And he says,
"well, that's the sex chair."
636
00:34:00,372 --> 00:34:04,808
it was this chair
with a dildo attached to it.
637
00:34:04,910 --> 00:34:09,146
That night, I was in the garden,
and I heard the screaming,
638
00:34:09,248 --> 00:34:11,748
and stefan was there, too.
639
00:34:11,850 --> 00:34:17,087
We peeked in there, and we saw
jim just going bananas,
640
00:34:17,189 --> 00:34:20,624
bananas, violently on this girl.
641
00:34:20,726 --> 00:34:23,260
She was one
of the african american women
642
00:34:23,362 --> 00:34:27,898
who came up to the mansion,
and he put her on the sex chair.
643
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:34,738
I could see him assaulting
this woman and beating her.
644
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:39,042
She was screaming in pain,
begging him to stop.
645
00:34:39,144 --> 00:34:41,111
I just--I was shocked.
646
00:34:42,848 --> 00:34:46,116
When he was finished,
I had to help her,
647
00:34:46,218 --> 00:34:48,952
and I took her
to the front of the mansion
648
00:34:49,054 --> 00:34:56,827
and had one of hefner's drivers
take her to the hospital.
649
00:34:56,929 --> 00:35:00,197
I never saw her again there.
650
00:35:00,299 --> 00:35:01,798
♪♪♪
651
00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:05,869
after that, hefner allowed jim
back on the property
652
00:35:05,971 --> 00:35:10,073
where he would brutalize
these girls.
653
00:35:10,175 --> 00:35:12,342
He cracked ribs,
he dislocated jaws,
654
00:35:12,444 --> 00:35:15,078
but nobody was gonna
come forward,
655
00:35:15,180 --> 00:35:21,685
because nobody wanted hefner
to come after you, or jim brown.
656
00:35:21,787 --> 00:35:26,556
It bothered me.
What was I gonna do about it?
657
00:35:26,658 --> 00:35:28,492
Get fired?
658
00:35:28,594 --> 00:35:33,964
I had no power.
I was an employee.
659
00:35:34,066 --> 00:35:37,033
I don't know the rules
for movie stars
660
00:35:37,136 --> 00:35:39,769
and hefner at the mansion.
661
00:35:39,872 --> 00:35:42,939
It seemed that this was natural,
662
00:35:43,041 --> 00:35:47,711
that this is what they expected
hefner to allow them to do.
663
00:35:47,813 --> 00:35:50,580
Jim brown, like bill cosby,
664
00:35:50,682 --> 00:35:55,152
is not the only man
with a history of accusations
665
00:35:55,254 --> 00:35:57,754
of predatory behavior that spent
time at the playboy mansion.
666
00:35:57,856 --> 00:36:03,693
Systemic racism
makes matters of rape
667
00:36:03,795 --> 00:36:05,128
infinitely more complicated.
668
00:36:05,230 --> 00:36:08,732
We know that there are
a lot of white men
669
00:36:08,834 --> 00:36:10,634
that were going
to the playboy mansion
670
00:36:10,736 --> 00:36:12,269
that are predators,
671
00:36:12,371 --> 00:36:16,940
but it's easier to hold
black male predators accountable
672
00:36:17,042 --> 00:36:19,209
for a lot of reasons.
673
00:36:19,311 --> 00:36:23,246
It's easier to say "hey, look,
this black guy is a rapist."
674
00:36:23,348 --> 00:36:25,482
we're comfortable with that.
675
00:36:25,584 --> 00:36:28,718
Black men do not typically have
676
00:36:28,820 --> 00:36:32,455
the unspoken racial solidarity
in society
677
00:36:32,558 --> 00:36:34,357
of white men around them
678
00:36:34,459 --> 00:36:37,794
in deference of people
of other races and of women.
679
00:36:37,896 --> 00:36:40,530
[cheers and applause]
680
00:36:40,632 --> 00:36:45,235
but hugh hefner--
what's his role in this?
681
00:36:45,337 --> 00:36:48,305
They were predators.
They were power predators.
682
00:36:48,407 --> 00:36:51,675
But who set this ballroom up?
683
00:36:51,777 --> 00:36:53,610
He had the drugs.
He had the liquor.
684
00:36:53,712 --> 00:36:57,814
He had the women. He had
everything at his disposal.
685
00:36:57,916 --> 00:37:01,051
♪♪♪
686
00:37:01,153 --> 00:37:05,889
out
a little bit more about paige,
687
00:37:05,991 --> 00:37:09,292
it was like solving the mystery
of a person.
688
00:37:09,394 --> 00:37:14,798
In my interview with richard,
paige's boyfriend,
689
00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:18,969
richard said hefner ruined
a lot of good women.
690
00:37:19,071 --> 00:37:21,805
After that,
I've read a few excerpts
691
00:37:21,907 --> 00:37:25,609
from what the scene was like
there during that era,
692
00:37:25,711 --> 00:37:29,312
and it wasn't
a very pretty picture.
693
00:37:29,414 --> 00:37:33,450
A woman they call "bunny b.J."
694
00:37:33,552 --> 00:37:36,052
she was a bunny
at the century city club,
695
00:37:36,154 --> 00:37:39,823
and she hung out on that scene
in, like, '73, '74,
696
00:37:39,925 --> 00:37:41,524
same era as paige,
697
00:37:41,627 --> 00:37:46,096
and she just wrote about
her experience at the mansion.
698
00:37:46,198 --> 00:37:50,800
"I began to realize,
as far as playboy was concerned,
699
00:37:50,902 --> 00:37:53,003
I was completely expendable.
700
00:37:53,105 --> 00:37:56,573
No one cared what kind
of a person I was,
701
00:37:56,675 --> 00:37:58,508
what thoughts I had.
702
00:37:58,610 --> 00:38:00,176
I could have been a doll.
703
00:38:00,279 --> 00:38:02,412
I tried suicide
a couple of times.
704
00:38:02,514 --> 00:38:06,116
To me, there was no purpose to
the kind of life I was leading.
705
00:38:06,218 --> 00:38:08,418
'playboy' magazine should have
a warning on it
706
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,254
like cigarette advertising.
707
00:38:11,356 --> 00:38:15,458
'this philosophy can be
hazardous to your health.'"
708
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,127
♪♪♪
709
00:38:17,229 --> 00:38:19,696
the suicide rate for playmates
is significantly higher
710
00:38:19,798 --> 00:38:22,666
than the rate
for american women.
711
00:38:22,768 --> 00:38:27,637
And so I think it's worth asking
what is it about playboy that
712
00:38:27,739 --> 00:38:31,775
leads so many women that have
graced its pages to tragedy?
713
00:38:31,877 --> 00:38:34,678
♪♪♪
714
00:38:34,780 --> 00:38:37,814
after the drugging and rape
of bill cosby,
715
00:38:37,916 --> 00:38:40,216
I didn't know how to process it.
716
00:38:40,319 --> 00:38:44,754
I was never offered therapy.
So I started cutting myself--
717
00:38:44,856 --> 00:38:50,126
cutting my arms,
cutting my legs.
718
00:38:50,228 --> 00:38:52,495
It's a weird thing that happens
when you cut yourself.
719
00:38:52,597 --> 00:38:54,130
It's kind of like a release,
720
00:38:54,232 --> 00:39:01,371
and it got so bad that I have
several failed suicide attempts.
721
00:39:01,473 --> 00:39:04,374
And the last one,
I ended up in
722
00:39:04,476 --> 00:39:08,278
hackensack university hospital
for 17 days.
723
00:39:08,380 --> 00:39:09,779
They didn't think
I was gonna make it.
724
00:39:09,881 --> 00:39:11,348
I didn't think
I was gonna make it.
725
00:39:11,450 --> 00:39:14,484
♪♪♪
726
00:39:14,586 --> 00:39:17,987
the playboy years
were some pretty tough years.
727
00:39:18,090 --> 00:39:21,458
I didn't feel of value.
728
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,962
So I can see how girls
that have lived that life
729
00:39:26,064 --> 00:39:29,299
have taken their own life.
730
00:39:29,401 --> 00:39:34,938
I so wish that I had been there
to talk to them.
731
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,008
I would have told them, "stay.
732
00:39:39,111 --> 00:39:41,277
Just stay."
733
00:39:41,380 --> 00:39:42,445
♪♪♪
734
00:39:42,547 --> 00:39:44,347
paige wanted to get
her message out
735
00:39:44,449 --> 00:39:47,751
that these men were predatory,
736
00:39:47,853 --> 00:39:49,619
and she thought
the only way that anybody
737
00:39:49,721 --> 00:39:53,223
was going to pay attention to
her was if she killed herself.
738
00:39:53,325 --> 00:39:55,492
The message got squashed.
739
00:39:55,594 --> 00:40:00,330
It was so sad that paige
went to all this trouble
740
00:40:00,432 --> 00:40:04,701
to leave a message,
and no one cared.
741
00:40:04,803 --> 00:40:07,804
This film that you're doing
right now, this is going to be
742
00:40:07,906 --> 00:40:12,308
when paige finally gets
her side of the story,
743
00:40:12,411 --> 00:40:15,044
where she gets to speak
for herself.
744
00:41:02,127 --> 00:41:04,594
There are so many men
in hef's inner circle
745
00:41:04,696 --> 00:41:07,831
who were part
of this underground system,
746
00:41:07,933 --> 00:41:09,499
the shadow mansions.
747
00:41:09,601 --> 00:41:11,534
These men who were
out there recruiting,
748
00:41:11,636 --> 00:41:14,137
they would put ads out--
"want to be a playmate?"
749
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,173
the competition is so stiff
to be a playmate.
750
00:41:17,275 --> 00:41:19,943
So that handful makes it.
751
00:41:20,045 --> 00:41:22,045
The rest slip
through the cracks.
752
00:41:22,147 --> 00:41:25,915
I would see these girls who are
clearly drugged
753
00:41:26,017 --> 00:41:27,517
and not coherent.
754
00:41:27,619 --> 00:41:30,587
They would be, you know,
injecting them with something.
755
00:41:30,689 --> 00:41:32,388
Oh, I think hef knew
756
00:41:32,491 --> 00:41:34,157
definitely what was going on
at the parties.
757
00:41:34,259 --> 00:41:37,560
Many women
came forward finally,
758
00:41:37,662 --> 00:41:41,197
and why these girls were
so scared is really coming out.