1 00:00:07,416 --> 00:00:08,841 My name is Melanie Meyers, 2 00:00:10,678 --> 00:00:16,423 and the early 70s I lived in a duplex in West Hollywood and Paige 3 00:00:16,517 --> 00:00:21,669 Young was the girl that lived behind me in the carriage house. 4 00:00:21,764 --> 00:00:22,521 She was literally the girl next door. 5 00:00:25,417 --> 00:00:27,359 Paige was an artist, and a pretty good one. 6 00:00:29,605 --> 00:00:30,654 She had her own artistic vision. 7 00:00:33,350 --> 00:00:35,200 She was also a Playboy centerfold. 8 00:00:37,204 --> 00:00:39,830 And I remember the day she said to me that she was thinking about leaving. 9 00:00:42,543 --> 00:00:44,209 And I thought she meant she was leaving Los Angeles. 10 00:00:46,547 --> 00:00:49,715 But she was actually saying to me that she was going to kill herself. 11 00:00:53,703 --> 00:00:55,304 I found her lying on the American flag. 12 00:00:56,632 --> 00:00:58,974 I found her dead. 13 00:01:01,804 --> 00:01:02,394 She shot herself in the head 14 00:01:05,808 --> 00:01:07,232 and there was a large wall. 15 00:01:10,071 --> 00:01:18,071 And on this wall, were all these different pictures and clippings out of newspapers, 16 00:01:18,228 --> 00:01:23,665 And at the top of this mural of hers, was "Hugh Hefner is the devil." 17 00:01:29,315 --> 00:01:32,591 So, I walked back to my house and I remember 18 00:01:32,818 --> 00:01:35,010 sitting on the bed, and I called the police. 19 00:01:38,324 --> 00:01:39,431 In two days, everything was cleaned out and gone. 20 00:01:40,434 --> 00:01:41,600 It was like it never happened. 21 00:01:43,512 --> 00:01:48,089 How does a Playboy centerfold kill herself with a message "Hugh 22 00:01:48,109 --> 00:01:52,444 Hefner is the devil. and it doesn't hit any of the media outlets? 23 00:01:54,431 --> 00:01:58,784 This whole thing had to do with killing herself to 24 00:01:59,011 --> 00:02:01,703 leave a message behind for other women like her 25 00:02:04,867 --> 00:02:07,126 and the message was, to be careful, 26 00:02:09,521 --> 00:02:14,800 and that these men were damaging. That they were predatory. 27 00:02:16,119 --> 00:02:20,788 [Engine sound] 28 00:02:20,883 --> 00:02:21,807 My name is Hugh Hefner. I'm editor publisher of Playboy magazine. 29 00:02:23,310 --> 00:02:25,535 Hugh Hefner was just 27. He fashioned himself 30 00:02:25,629 --> 00:02:28,814 and Playboy as the face of sexual liberation. 31 00:02:29,041 --> 00:02:33,727 Playboy is one of the most famous brand names in the world. 32 00:02:33,821 --> 00:02:36,730 I would like to be remembered as somebody who played some 33 00:02:36,882 --> 00:02:38,407 positive part in changing the social sexual values of my time. 34 00:02:41,069 --> 00:02:43,495 I believe that Hef pulled one over on the whole world. 35 00:02:46,483 --> 00:02:49,918 The fantasy of Playboy that he created did not allow for the consent of the women. 36 00:02:52,155 --> 00:02:56,066 When it came to Hefner's buddies, you had to keep those secrets quiet. 37 00:02:56,159 --> 00:02:57,751 What have you got for free? - [Laughs] 38 00:02:57,903 --> 00:03:02,997 When you get someone that powerful, anything could happen. Anything! 39 00:03:03,091 --> 00:03:05,409 The people who are really there, they're the ones who know the real truth. 40 00:03:05,502 --> 00:03:09,521 I wanted to be a voice for the women who suffered the most at his hands. 41 00:03:09,673 --> 00:03:15,194 [Dramatic music] 42 00:03:15,345 --> 00:03:23,345 [Dramatic music] 43 00:03:28,951 --> 00:03:31,543 I worked for Hugh Hefner in the Holmby Hills mansion. 44 00:03:33,288 --> 00:03:34,963 I was one of his personal valets. 45 00:03:37,776 --> 00:03:40,344 Throughout history, butlers have always been invisible. 46 00:03:42,056 --> 00:03:42,888 We got to witness it. 47 00:03:45,059 --> 00:03:47,684 We, butlers and the valets, we couldn't participate. 48 00:03:51,732 --> 00:03:52,064 Thank you darling. 49 00:03:54,309 --> 00:03:58,403 I was a hostess at the major parties at the Playboy Mansion West. 50 00:04:01,467 --> 00:04:04,493 Part of the job was to meet people at the door and guide them through the party. 51 00:04:06,747 --> 00:04:08,997 The sense I got was the young girls didn't have a clue. 52 00:04:10,993 --> 00:04:12,084 At that age, they don't know better. 53 00:04:15,071 --> 00:04:18,423 I think for girls from small towns, it was like, "Oh my god, I'm gonna be a star." 54 00:04:20,836 --> 00:04:22,427 I don't think they thought much about what would happen when they got there. 55 00:04:25,933 --> 00:04:30,227 Mr. Hefner always wanted to be a famous film producer. 56 00:04:31,605 --> 00:04:32,271 That's why he came to Hollywood. 57 00:04:34,666 --> 00:04:37,943 I think that movies had a tremendous impact on my dreams, fantasies, when I was a kid. 58 00:04:38,946 --> 00:04:39,444 [Screaming in the movie] 59 00:04:42,007 --> 00:04:44,283 The one time Hef tried to be a producer on a film, it was Roman Polanski's Macbeth. 60 00:04:46,287 --> 00:04:49,871 And he got his shirt handed to him. Lost a lot of money and did very poorly. 61 00:04:51,125 --> 00:04:51,456 It's a terrible film. 62 00:04:53,109 --> 00:04:54,376 It's a bad adaptation of Macbeth. 63 00:04:56,463 --> 00:04:58,688 But, clearly, Hef didn't make another movie, you know, 64 00:04:58,782 --> 00:04:59,256 or Playboy didn't attempt to make another movie 65 00:05:01,376 --> 00:05:05,545 Hef has accomplished so much in his lifetime, I don't think the 66 00:05:05,639 --> 00:05:09,866 average person could understand how obsessed with fame he still was. 67 00:05:09,885 --> 00:05:12,311 Like, how important it was to have celebrities at his 68 00:05:12,538 --> 00:05:13,395 parties and how important it was to him to stay relevant. 69 00:05:15,799 --> 00:05:19,467 They always thought he was just a cheap imitation, a wanna be. 70 00:05:19,820 --> 00:05:20,610 Like the Oscars. 71 00:05:22,806 --> 00:05:24,823 They thought that he tried too hard to be accepted 72 00:05:25,050 --> 00:05:27,451 in Hollywood, that he didn't have any talents. 73 00:05:29,555 --> 00:05:33,406 It was known into Hollywood that if you knew Hef, you could 74 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:35,500 come up there to the mansion, and you could have sex. 75 00:05:37,396 --> 00:05:40,422 You could trade the girls, trade sex, because 76 00:05:41,675 --> 00:05:42,132 Hefner wanted that contact with Hollywood. 77 00:05:44,419 --> 00:05:45,177 He wanted to use it to his advantage. 78 00:05:47,681 --> 00:05:52,100 Hefner expanded the Casting Bedroom, to the Casting Mansion. 79 00:05:54,413 --> 00:05:58,857 Half of Hollywood seems to come to Hefner's place at one time or another. 80 00:05:59,084 --> 00:06:00,817 A lot of people would come here like Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson and Bill Cosby. 81 00:06:02,754 --> 00:06:06,180 If they go out with the public, it's hard for them to relax 82 00:06:06,274 --> 00:06:06,865 and just enjoy themselves. 83 00:06:08,852 --> 00:06:11,761 Because the people are very excited about seeing them whereas when they 84 00:06:11,855 --> 00:06:12,996 come up here and nobody bothers them. They can do whatever they want. 85 00:06:15,692 --> 00:06:18,335 Movie night, he had every celebrity from Robin Williams to Chevy Chase. 86 00:06:21,456 --> 00:06:25,959 Hef did things that wouldn't elevate him in Hollywood. All these 87 00:06:26,053 --> 00:06:28,387 celebrities would come and here's Arnold before he was Arnold. 88 00:06:30,874 --> 00:06:33,058 There's Wilt, and there's Jimmy, Caan and Cosby. 89 00:06:33,285 --> 00:06:36,228 They were like in a candy store up there these men. 90 00:06:38,290 --> 00:06:39,731 Mary O'Connor was a pimp in charge. 91 00:06:42,385 --> 00:06:45,812 She would call up my office and say we're having a party. Send the bunnies up. 92 00:06:45,906 --> 00:06:48,648 Mary O'Connor would call I think every girl in the mansion 93 00:06:48,742 --> 00:06:49,533 and say "You're expected to be at the movies tonight." 94 00:06:51,245 --> 00:06:52,577 You must be there to be seen. 95 00:06:56,583 --> 00:06:58,750 When you become a playmate, you go to the mansion 96 00:06:58,977 --> 00:07:02,996 and you politic to be Playmate of the Year. 97 00:07:03,090 --> 00:07:05,482 I mean literally, that's how what I was told by Merilyn 98 00:07:05,575 --> 00:07:06,341 Grabowskiy, the editor of Playboy at the time. 99 00:07:07,653 --> 00:07:09,511 It's Sunday night, let's do movie night. 100 00:07:11,339 --> 00:07:12,097 That's how it was laid out. 101 00:07:13,825 --> 00:07:16,601 We would turn the living room into a theater. 102 00:07:16,828 --> 00:07:19,104 So, we had one couch in the front, another couch behind 103 00:07:19,331 --> 00:07:20,105 the front couch and then the rest would be seats. 104 00:07:21,925 --> 00:07:25,259 Girls were very very very insecure because there 105 00:07:25,279 --> 00:07:27,028 was a hierarchy, there was like a pyramid. 106 00:07:28,507 --> 00:07:29,948 Mostly based on how beautiful you were. 107 00:07:32,177 --> 00:07:33,100 At movie night, I got to sit in the last row in the back. 108 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,954 [Laughs] 109 00:07:38,867 --> 00:07:41,126 Hefner would sit on the couch in the center, right up in front. 110 00:07:44,022 --> 00:07:47,707 His girlfriends are on either side or a couple on either 111 00:07:47,801 --> 00:07:51,136 side and then the director friends, the celebrity friends. 112 00:07:51,287 --> 00:07:52,471 So, VIPs were up in front. 113 00:07:55,291 --> 00:07:58,310 Girls were encouraged to talk and engage with 114 00:07:58,537 --> 00:08:00,562 VIPs. That was the whole point of being up there. 115 00:08:02,816 --> 00:08:05,633 Hef admired celebrities so much, he was enamored by them 116 00:08:05,727 --> 00:08:06,818 and to have them in his life 117 00:08:09,490 --> 00:08:10,739 I mean him being the - in the long run-the controller. 118 00:08:12,384 --> 00:08:15,327 He got off on that. He-that made him feel like Mr. Big. 119 00:08:17,313 --> 00:08:21,166 You could see by the place the butler would lead you to be seated that 120 00:08:23,061 --> 00:08:26,320 there was, you know, there was a structure. It 121 00:08:26,340 --> 00:08:28,673 was like you're assigned a seat at a wedding. 122 00:08:30,569 --> 00:08:34,012 It's all arranged by the secretaries. They would organize the seating. 123 00:08:35,423 --> 00:08:39,743 I was put with Tony Curtis a lot and he really 124 00:08:39,836 --> 00:08:41,978 had a drinking problem and it was very public. 125 00:08:43,915 --> 00:08:47,692 So, I dreaded, you know, when he started drinking 126 00:08:47,919 --> 00:08:49,653 because I didn't know what he might expect. 127 00:08:51,439 --> 00:08:53,281 I unfortunately sat next to Bill Cosby. 128 00:08:55,260 --> 00:08:58,370 I didn't know who Bill Cosby was until he put his hand down my knickers. 129 00:09:00,707 --> 00:09:02,207 I was kind of surprised. 130 00:09:02,434 --> 00:09:04,543 It's not the sort of thing you would do in England. 131 00:09:06,605 --> 00:09:07,712 There's the Grotto. 132 00:09:10,217 --> 00:09:13,635 For the specials, they heightened the decadence, there was a lot of decadence. 133 00:09:16,631 --> 00:09:22,302 They were constant flow of pretty faces that circulated throughout 134 00:09:22,396 --> 00:09:25,063 the mansion for movie night. because they were just being used. 135 00:09:26,233 --> 00:09:26,398 They liquored them up. 136 00:09:27,125 --> 00:09:29,901 They gave them drugs, 137 00:09:30,128 --> 00:09:31,294 and they ended up in the Jacuzzi and it was a free for all. 138 00:09:31,387 --> 00:09:33,238 Maybe they knew what they were getting into, but 139 00:09:33,389 --> 00:09:35,073 they didn't know what they're really getting into. 140 00:09:39,395 --> 00:09:44,140 I worked at a men's clothing store in Beverly Hills and somebody came by and 141 00:09:44,233 --> 00:09:46,585 asked me if I wanted to go to the Playboy Mansion and I gave them my number 142 00:09:48,814 --> 00:09:53,333 and that night, Paige was ready to go and I wasn't. 143 00:09:53,427 --> 00:09:57,745 So she went ahead of me and when I showed up at the Playboy Mansion, 144 00:09:57,764 --> 00:10:00,765 Hefner was at the end of the table, and Paige was on one side of him. 145 00:10:00,992 --> 00:10:02,508 [Music] 146 00:10:02,603 --> 00:10:06,104 Paige was very invested in the whole playboy lifestyle. 147 00:10:08,091 --> 00:10:12,777 What they were preaching was the girl next door, 148 00:10:13,004 --> 00:10:15,864 but free sex and Paige was their poster girl. 149 00:10:18,267 --> 00:10:20,702 She was not only beautiful, but she seemed very wild and free. 150 00:10:22,956 --> 00:10:25,624 The time I went up there, Paige ended up in the Grotto. 151 00:10:27,369 --> 00:10:29,628 And, I do think that's where her thinking started to go wrong. 152 00:10:31,965 --> 00:10:33,690 She really didn't get the whole Hollywood thing at all. 153 00:10:34,784 --> 00:10:36,635 You have to be careful who you're sleeping with. 154 00:10:39,047 --> 00:10:43,058 What I think happened to her is, somebody broke her. 155 00:10:45,812 --> 00:10:50,315 Somebody did something to her that she found unacceptable 156 00:10:50,542 --> 00:10:52,817 and she didn't know how to go on from there. 157 00:11:12,414 --> 00:11:15,173 When I was a teenager in the 70s, the female 158 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,010 standards of beauty were the Playboy playmates. 159 00:11:20,739 --> 00:11:22,180 They were thought of as perfect. 160 00:11:24,685 --> 00:11:26,592 They were a ten. 161 00:11:26,745 --> 00:11:27,686 The hair and the makeup is beautiful today. 162 00:11:29,189 --> 00:11:31,815 I was definitely not a ten and I was told that too. So, 163 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,698 I thought their lives would be so smooth and easy compared to mine. 164 00:11:41,609 --> 00:11:46,429 When I found out that wasn't the case, I was really shocked and 165 00:11:46,448 --> 00:11:50,208 it's sort of a fascination that I've kept over the decades. 166 00:11:53,788 --> 00:11:56,715 I'm always interested in when things appear one way but they're really very different. 167 00:12:01,054 --> 00:12:05,557 In December of 2014, there was an article in the Daily Mail about Paige 168 00:12:05,708 --> 00:12:10,228 Young, a former Playboy Playmate who had killed herself in 1974, 169 00:12:12,548 --> 00:12:13,398 that was common knowledge. 170 00:12:16,144 --> 00:12:19,237 But this article had a lot of new information about her death. 171 00:12:23,318 --> 00:12:29,914 I was surprised to read about the scene where there's a whole mural of Hugh Hefner. 172 00:12:31,901 --> 00:12:36,570 I thought it was a big deal and it made me wonder, what did he do? 173 00:12:36,664 --> 00:12:41,926 What happened that caused her to focus on Hugh Hefner so much? 174 00:12:45,173 --> 00:12:52,086 In the suicide note, it has listed men that she felt she'd been abused by, including 175 00:12:52,105 --> 00:12:57,233 Hugh Hefner, and the director John Houston, who was a major cultural icon. 176 00:13:01,097 --> 00:13:04,932 In the early 70s, when they were filming, Chinatown, the 177 00:13:04,951 --> 00:13:07,076 cast and crew would hang out a lot at the Playboy Mansion. 178 00:13:09,623 --> 00:13:12,457 So, there is a chance Houston spent time at the mansion during the filming. 179 00:13:15,353 --> 00:13:19,631 Paige told me that member of his Playboy Mansion, 180 00:13:19,782 --> 00:13:24,928 entourage or whatever it was, had filmed her having sex. 181 00:13:27,882 --> 00:13:31,309 Paige was so over the top upset about that tape. 182 00:13:32,628 --> 00:13:34,270 This was the end of the world for her. 183 00:13:36,374 --> 00:13:39,317 She didn't seem that shy, you know, about sex 184 00:13:42,897 --> 00:13:44,823 and it made me wonder what was on that tape. 185 00:13:48,219 --> 00:13:51,496 What I actually keep thinking is there's more on that than just sex. 186 00:13:53,241 --> 00:13:54,666 Hef, he had tapes on everybody. 187 00:13:56,411 --> 00:14:00,321 The first time I looked up at the two screens he had for the 188 00:14:00,415 --> 00:14:03,066 TV in the bedroom, and I realized that was me, I was like, 189 00:14:03,084 --> 00:14:04,008 whoa, what are you doing? 190 00:14:06,179 --> 00:14:08,680 And when we started bringing other people into the 191 00:14:08,831 --> 00:14:11,850 bedroom, some girls had the same reaction like "whoa!" 192 00:14:14,929 --> 00:14:20,024 And he would do the "Oh, well, I can turn it off. If it's not okay I'll turn it off. 193 00:14:22,103 --> 00:14:23,194 And they go " Oh no, would you turn it off?" 194 00:14:24,105 --> 00:14:24,529 And he would 195 00:14:27,442 --> 00:14:31,928 And then he says "Now we can just see that, that's 196 00:14:31,946 --> 00:14:33,946 all it. We're just seeing it. We're not recording." 197 00:14:34,099 --> 00:14:35,039 And, 198 00:14:37,936 --> 00:14:40,378 maybe a week later, a couple days of later, all of a sudden, there's the tape. 199 00:14:42,624 --> 00:14:43,214 He told you that you weren't recording this. 200 00:14:45,276 --> 00:14:45,550 Because you think that I really stopped it? 201 00:14:47,462 --> 00:14:51,222 He did it anyway and he had tapes on everybody. 202 00:14:54,302 --> 00:14:58,879 Hefner taped everything in his bedroom and many men and stars and 203 00:14:58,973 --> 00:15:03,401 athletes came into the bedroom and had sex with these girls. 204 00:15:06,239 --> 00:15:07,739 Most of the time, Hefner never participated. 205 00:15:08,742 --> 00:15:09,574 He just watched. 206 00:15:10,744 --> 00:15:11,743 He was a voyeur. 207 00:15:13,229 --> 00:15:13,745 He would stage them. 208 00:15:15,582 --> 00:15:17,248 He thought of himself as a film director. 209 00:15:19,068 --> 00:15:20,084 He didn't want to be on the tapes. 210 00:15:21,588 --> 00:15:23,421 He wanted these girls and the stars. 211 00:15:24,999 --> 00:15:29,152 But many of the girls were devastated after what they 212 00:15:29,170 --> 00:15:31,054 were expected to do, what they were forced to do. 213 00:15:33,675 --> 00:15:36,659 Well, can you imagine after he had all these 214 00:15:36,678 --> 00:15:38,394 tapes of you having sex with different girls, 215 00:15:40,774 --> 00:15:41,773 what power you had over these men? 216 00:15:45,278 --> 00:15:49,948 These are some of the notes I took around the time I worked for Playboy 217 00:15:51,434 --> 00:15:53,117 and the first one, 218 00:15:56,439 --> 00:15:59,791 the Tony Curtis incident about tapes and lawyers storming the mansion. 219 00:16:01,444 --> 00:16:02,627 Tony was a regular at the mansion. 220 00:16:03,797 --> 00:16:05,421 And he went, with several playmates. 221 00:16:07,875 --> 00:16:12,136 Tony was upset and maybe didn't realize that Hef was filming 222 00:16:14,882 --> 00:16:15,807 the orgy. 223 00:16:18,794 --> 00:16:22,271 So, his attorneys, they were very upset that Tony had been filmed. 224 00:16:22,890 --> 00:16:24,440 They wanted them. 225 00:16:27,821 --> 00:16:30,321 Hefner kept these tapes in a tape library. 226 00:16:32,492 --> 00:16:34,784 The librarian's office was down the hall from the bedroom. 227 00:16:37,071 --> 00:16:40,331 That was off limits to anybody except Hef and Mary O'Connor. 228 00:16:42,727 --> 00:16:44,002 If you were caught going near it, 229 00:16:46,006 --> 00:16:48,131 or talking to the librarian, he would be terminated. 230 00:16:51,327 --> 00:16:53,678 People around the world read Playboy magazine. 231 00:16:55,406 --> 00:16:57,849 Imagine this was nirvana for men. 232 00:17:00,928 --> 00:17:04,022 You could have sex with all these women and you weren't gonna have to pay for it. 233 00:17:06,100 --> 00:17:10,253 We didn't know about the emotional expense that 234 00:17:10,271 --> 00:17:13,031 these women would suffer and that was a tragedy. 235 00:17:27,288 --> 00:17:29,547 I have a degree in journalism, but I used it very little. 236 00:17:31,125 --> 00:17:32,550 But I still have that instinct. 237 00:17:35,555 --> 00:17:38,222 So, then December 2014, that story about Paige Young came out 238 00:17:39,617 --> 00:17:40,224 from the Daily Mail. 239 00:17:42,136 --> 00:17:44,729 They got a tip on Paige that she was someone who had 240 00:17:44,956 --> 00:17:48,066 been witnessed as being involved with Bill Cosby. 241 00:17:51,071 --> 00:17:55,981 I knew from the article that a definite connection 242 00:17:56,076 --> 00:18:01,412 wasn't made between Paige's suicide and Bill Cosby. 243 00:18:04,918 --> 00:18:09,754 So, I was trying to find out where she met Bill Cosby. 244 00:18:12,150 --> 00:18:16,168 And, I found Richard Sample, a fellow artist 245 00:18:16,321 --> 00:18:18,930 who saw her several times at the Playboy Club. 246 00:18:21,159 --> 00:18:23,676 He said that Paige had told him that Bill Cosby 247 00:18:23,828 --> 00:18:26,771 was always trying to put the make on her 248 00:18:28,257 --> 00:18:31,109 and that she had no interest in him whatsoever. 249 00:18:33,838 --> 00:18:38,599 Then he said that one time that he picked her up from the 250 00:18:38,618 --> 00:18:41,744 Playboy Club, he saw Bill Cosby acting angry towards her 251 00:18:44,940 --> 00:18:48,626 that she had rebuffed yet another one of his attempts to get with her. 252 00:18:50,630 --> 00:18:52,204 Breaking news tonight. 253 00:18:52,357 --> 00:18:55,424 He is known as America's dad but comedian Bill Cosby now the 254 00:18:57,528 --> 00:19:03,474 target of an LAPD police investigation for sex molestation of a then teen girl. 255 00:19:06,871 --> 00:19:11,440 When the whole Cosby story broke, I was like, oh, man, none of that was a surprise. 256 00:19:13,544 --> 00:19:14,777 You know, I was there. I saw, I know what he did. 257 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:23,995 Everybody that worked at the mansion knew that he was basically a predator. 258 00:19:27,892 --> 00:19:33,337 I was a member of Hugh Hefner's executive protection team during 1980 and 1981. 259 00:19:35,675 --> 00:19:38,083 When you're the primary bodyguard for somebody like 260 00:19:38,178 --> 00:19:42,588 Hef, you're not only expected to protect them from 261 00:19:42,740 --> 00:19:46,017 physical harm, you're also expected to protect them 262 00:19:46,168 --> 00:19:48,186 from anything that would tarnish their reputation. 263 00:19:50,857 --> 00:19:53,524 But at the mansion, it was the Wild West back then. 264 00:19:55,269 --> 00:19:57,028 There was rampant sexual exploitation. 265 00:19:58,531 --> 00:20:01,866 Bill Cosby was up there three to four times a week. 266 00:20:03,369 --> 00:20:04,035 He wasn't there to eat lunch. 267 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,857 So, a number of the allegations against Bill Cosby have 268 00:20:10,952 --> 00:20:13,044 involved stories that took place at the Playboy Mansion. 269 00:20:15,215 --> 00:20:17,340 He and Hugh Hefner were very close friends. 270 00:20:19,868 --> 00:20:25,056 I heard many stories about Bill Cosby from the 60s all the way up to 2008. 271 00:20:27,894 --> 00:20:31,020 In 1974, Bill Cosby had carte blanche to the mansion. 272 00:20:32,457 --> 00:20:34,974 And he drove up there in a limousine and he had 273 00:20:35,126 --> 00:20:37,735 this young girl, 15-year-old girl, Judy Huth. 274 00:20:39,405 --> 00:20:40,571 He brought her up to the mansion, she had cocktails. 275 00:20:41,574 --> 00:20:43,299 He drugged her. 276 00:20:43,317 --> 00:20:46,318 She was sexually assaulted at 15 years old. 277 00:20:46,412 --> 00:20:54,159 [Music] 278 00:20:54,254 --> 00:20:56,545 [People cheering] 279 00:20:59,575 --> 00:21:01,425 Cosby was up there a lot. He stayed there a lot. 280 00:21:02,929 --> 00:21:04,762 He would come and stay for a couple days at a time. 281 00:21:05,932 --> 00:21:06,931 It's just down the hall, room 2! 282 00:21:08,826 --> 00:21:09,433 You know, he funny. He was a funny man. 283 00:21:10,177 --> 00:21:11,269 But he was an arrogant man. 284 00:21:13,422 --> 00:21:14,105 I didn't know what was going on. 285 00:21:15,775 --> 00:21:16,274 Did Hef know? 286 00:21:19,670 --> 00:21:22,780 I think he did. How could anything be slipped under anyone's nose in that house? 287 00:21:23,616 --> 00:21:24,282 Cameras were everywhere. 288 00:21:25,785 --> 00:21:26,117 He had have known. 289 00:21:30,272 --> 00:21:34,625 But Cosby was the go-to celebrity at the Jazz Festival, at the tennis tournaments. 290 00:21:42,193 --> 00:21:46,453 It was Cosby, the funny man that they did these things for Hef 291 00:21:46,472 --> 00:21:50,808 and because of that, he was allowing the women to be used. 292 00:21:53,295 --> 00:21:55,313 I know that Bill Cosby knew better. 293 00:21:58,467 --> 00:21:59,150 I don't believe Bill Cosby cared. 294 00:22:00,987 --> 00:22:02,153 I knew him before I did playboy. 295 00:22:05,307 --> 00:22:09,827 Someone had taken my headshot and given it to Bill Cosby and I fly off and I 296 00:22:09,978 --> 00:22:13,831 meet him and I end up in this underage what I thought was a relationship. 297 00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:15,833 And I'm a minor. 298 00:22:18,412 --> 00:22:21,297 So, this relationship goes on for maybe a year and a half or so. 299 00:22:23,918 --> 00:22:26,135 I'm not even 16 or I may have turned 16 but I don't even drive yet. 300 00:22:27,238 --> 00:22:27,845 I'm a baby. 301 00:22:30,016 --> 00:22:32,183 And I have no one to turn to over this. 302 00:22:34,745 --> 00:22:37,596 So, how this all ends is I end up in a drug and 303 00:22:37,748 --> 00:22:40,432 alcohol facility in 1982 when I remember Cosby 304 00:22:40,526 --> 00:22:43,435 calling me on the payphone and him saying to me, you 305 00:22:43,588 --> 00:22:44,862 know you're not much fun when you're not drunk. 306 00:22:46,607 --> 00:22:48,366 Treatment saved me! 307 00:22:53,931 --> 00:22:57,449 In 2008, Bill Cosby brought this young woman 308 00:22:57,543 --> 00:22:59,877 Chloe Goins up to the mansion to go to a party. 309 00:23:01,363 --> 00:23:04,289 She alleges that he gave her a drink and she was 310 00:23:04,384 --> 00:23:08,052 drugged and was very woozy, could hardly stand up. 311 00:23:09,797 --> 00:23:14,040 So, Hefner himself told everybody, put her to bed and the 312 00:23:14,060 --> 00:23:17,061 next thing you know, she was assaulted by Bill Cosby. 313 00:23:19,882 --> 00:23:22,975 We have a sisterhood of victims of Bill Cosby 314 00:23:23,127 --> 00:23:24,902 and he did some terrible things to these girls. 315 00:23:26,631 --> 00:23:28,864 I got off easy compared to some of these girls. 316 00:23:41,587 --> 00:23:46,498 This is an article from The Daily Mail about my friend 317 00:23:46,592 --> 00:23:49,260 Paige Young and her relationship with Bill Cosby. 318 00:23:52,156 --> 00:23:53,264 Let me read you just a little bit about what they wrote about Paige. 319 00:23:55,326 --> 00:23:57,560 Paige was into her drugs and Bill wanted to get her some. 320 00:23:59,163 --> 00:24:01,330 She was along on the trip like his pet dog. 321 00:24:01,423 --> 00:24:02,773 She was a very subdued person. 322 00:24:04,277 --> 00:24:07,236 Well, when I knew her, Paige was into clean living. 323 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,949 I think more likely is that Bill drugged her. 324 00:24:15,012 --> 00:24:17,346 A direct connection has not been made between 325 00:24:17,364 --> 00:24:19,790 Bill Cosby and Paige Young's suicide. 326 00:24:22,036 --> 00:24:26,630 I did find a man who was friends with Paige during that same time and 327 00:24:26,782 --> 00:24:29,633 one of the times they spent together, Paige said Bill Cosby raped me. 328 00:24:32,379 --> 00:24:38,033 And I asked, did she say that he had drugged her as well and she 329 00:24:38,052 --> 00:24:41,770 implied it by saying, well I came too and realized I had been raped. 330 00:24:44,132 --> 00:24:45,649 We still don't know why Paige killed herself. 331 00:24:46,986 --> 00:24:48,444 But it seems like this is one piece of the puzzle. 332 00:24:51,807 --> 00:24:55,826 I knew Bill in 72 when I worked as a bunny. It 333 00:24:56,053 --> 00:24:58,496 wasn't until the situation in 79 in Chicago 334 00:24:59,999 --> 00:25:01,332 that he drugged and raped me. 335 00:25:06,839 --> 00:25:10,132 Voila! Here we are, wow. 336 00:25:11,994 --> 00:25:15,179 This is a picture of Bill Cosby, the day before he drugged and raped me 337 00:25:19,018 --> 00:25:22,019 and this is the original card that he sent me the following day after he raped me. 338 00:25:23,748 --> 00:25:27,841 What he sent me was a four foot Ficus tree and it says stay 339 00:25:27,935 --> 00:25:29,151 healthy mentally, stay in charge of yourself, Bill Cosby. 340 00:25:30,863 --> 00:25:31,153 How crazy was that? 341 00:25:36,110 --> 00:25:38,869 It's a reminder, it's a reminder of how far I've come from that. 342 00:25:40,206 --> 00:25:40,538 So, I keep it. 343 00:25:42,542 --> 00:25:46,118 I knew Bill Cosby for six years. 344 00:25:46,270 --> 00:25:50,381 He was a friend. Nothing more, but a friend that I would see on the Playboy circuit. 345 00:25:53,611 --> 00:25:57,537 Nine months or so after I had gotten to Chicago as the bunny mother, 346 00:25:57,557 --> 00:26:01,559 Bill Cosby was doing an interview in the playmate lunch room. 347 00:26:03,287 --> 00:26:05,637 Later that day, he called me and he said, Listen, 348 00:26:05,790 --> 00:26:06,397 you want to go out to dinner tomorrow night? 349 00:26:08,067 --> 00:26:08,223 I said, sure. 350 00:26:10,552 --> 00:26:14,238 He says, well, meet me at the Whitehall hotel and we'll go out to dinner. 351 00:26:14,389 --> 00:26:16,532 I said, sure. I didn't think anything of it because I knew this person. 352 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,245 So, the next night, I met him at seven o'clock, and he was in the penthouse. 353 00:26:23,732 --> 00:26:25,708 So, he said to me, well, come on up and we'll have a drink before we go to dinner. 354 00:26:26,586 --> 00:26:28,377 I went upstairs. 355 00:26:29,980 --> 00:26:30,588 He says, "what would you like to drink?" 356 00:26:31,832 --> 00:26:33,716 So, I said, I'll take a Grand Marnier. 357 00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:38,578 He gave me the glass. I took two sips and that's the last 358 00:26:38,598 --> 00:26:40,055 thing I remember until four o'clock the next morning 359 00:26:42,176 --> 00:26:43,934 and I woke up in bed naked. 360 00:26:45,754 --> 00:26:48,272 And I looked to my left and there he was naked 361 00:26:48,499 --> 00:26:51,609 sleeping next to me and I was in a panic. 362 00:26:53,446 --> 00:26:58,115 And I slivered out of the bed to try to collect my clothes that were all 363 00:26:58,342 --> 00:27:02,286 over the floor. And I had blood coming down my leg because he sodomized me. 364 00:27:04,348 --> 00:27:06,081 And blood was dripping on the floor. 365 00:27:07,126 --> 00:27:10,127 And I put my clothes on. 366 00:27:11,297 --> 00:27:11,920 But there was a lot of blood. 367 00:27:16,969 --> 00:27:18,469 It was a lot of blood. 368 00:27:19,972 --> 00:27:21,639 I dripped it all the way out in the lobby of the hotel. 369 00:27:22,867 --> 00:27:27,478 [Sobbing] 370 00:27:32,968 --> 00:27:36,487 I went home in the shower, and I just screamed. 371 00:27:36,638 --> 00:27:37,321 I was in the shower for a good hour. 372 00:27:43,220 --> 00:27:45,788 And I knew I had to go to work because I had nobody to cover me and I went to work. 373 00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:50,817 And about 11 o'clock in the morning, he calls my office, how 374 00:27:50,836 --> 00:27:53,837 he got that private line, I don't know, it was a private line. 375 00:27:55,082 --> 00:27:56,006 And he says, why did you leave? 376 00:27:57,735 --> 00:27:58,842 And I was like, are you kidding me? 377 00:28:00,346 --> 00:28:01,737 Why did you leave? 378 00:28:01,830 --> 00:28:05,683 I said listen, I can't talk to you now. I'm getting 379 00:28:05,910 --> 00:28:07,351 the girls on the floor. I'm doing my work. 380 00:28:09,522 --> 00:28:13,524 I hung up the phone, and I was in complete, total shock. 381 00:28:16,770 --> 00:28:21,757 That next day I called my boss and I told her that he raped me 382 00:28:21,775 --> 00:28:27,371 and he drugged me and her reply was that's Hefner's best friend. 383 00:28:30,117 --> 00:28:32,543 I suggest you shut your mouth if you want to keep your job. 384 00:28:34,772 --> 00:28:37,456 And for days on end, Cosby continued to call and 385 00:28:37,608 --> 00:28:40,718 ask me out, and I refused to go out with him. 386 00:28:42,221 --> 00:28:45,889 I couldn't go to Hefner because there were a lot of 387 00:28:46,116 --> 00:28:47,850 very strange things happening up at the mansion. 388 00:28:48,969 --> 00:28:50,561 How am I going to go to him? 389 00:28:51,305 --> 00:28:52,896 Who's gonna listen to me? 390 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,976 I knew nothing would have changed. I knew he wouldn't 391 00:28:58,070 --> 00:28:59,695 have been held accountable, it was Bill Cosby. 392 00:29:02,074 --> 00:29:04,408 He was gonna buy NBC Studios. Who's going to listen to me? 393 00:29:04,910 --> 00:29:06,243 How do I prove it? 394 00:29:07,988 --> 00:29:09,037 I had no avenue to go down. 395 00:29:11,825 --> 00:29:18,238 There were other celebrities and VIPs that were at the LA mansion 396 00:29:18,332 --> 00:29:21,425 that would definitely drug and sexually assault young women. 397 00:29:23,929 --> 00:29:28,006 Roman Polanski of course who we know to be someone who 398 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:31,994 fled the country after raping a very young girl allegedly. 399 00:29:32,087 --> 00:29:34,271 Right? Somebody who's a fixture at the Playboy Mansion at one point. 400 00:29:36,091 --> 00:29:38,609 So, what kind of people we choose to surround 401 00:29:38,836 --> 00:29:40,235 ourselves with says something about who we are. 402 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,630 My name is Charlotte Lewis and I did the cover of Playboy in 1994, June. 403 00:30:02,951 --> 00:30:05,969 I suddenly found out how close Roman Polanski and Hugh Hefner, really were. 404 00:30:08,641 --> 00:30:09,473 And I did find that a bit disturbing. 405 00:30:12,886 --> 00:30:15,479 In 1977, Polanski was convicted of rape of a minor. 406 00:30:17,875 --> 00:30:19,107 The minor was 13 years old. 407 00:30:21,153 --> 00:30:22,820 The girl was two weeks short of 14. 408 00:30:24,898 --> 00:30:28,066 But if you have seen her, sitting here next to 409 00:30:28,218 --> 00:30:33,405 me, you wouldn't be particularly shocked by it. 410 00:30:33,557 --> 00:30:36,224 As a matter of fact, you would find it completely normal. 411 00:30:36,243 --> 00:30:37,334 But I'd be particularly concerned to find out 412 00:30:37,485 --> 00:30:38,502 how old she was and you actually did know. 413 00:30:40,488 --> 00:30:43,340 I knew she was 14 because she was talking about her birthday before. 414 00:30:46,253 --> 00:30:47,636 Then I met him five and a half years later, six years later. 415 00:30:50,257 --> 00:30:54,017 I was raped by Roman Polanski when I was 16. 416 00:30:56,856 --> 00:31:00,691 It took a long time for me to realize that what had happened to 417 00:31:00,842 --> 00:31:03,026 me wasn't my fault, because I always thought it was my fault. 418 00:31:05,923 --> 00:31:10,592 You don't realize at the time when you're very young, that what's happened is illegal 419 00:31:10,611 --> 00:31:12,777 or wrong. 420 00:31:12,872 --> 00:31:13,328 You know it's wrong because it doesn't feel right. 421 00:31:15,616 --> 00:31:17,499 There are some men that obviously, of a generation. 422 00:31:19,953 --> 00:31:24,106 Yes, feel that there is some entitlement and 423 00:31:24,124 --> 00:31:30,462 that women are just the sex, you know, objects. 424 00:31:30,614 --> 00:31:31,221 It's about the control, really, isn't it? 425 00:31:33,541 --> 00:31:38,120 It's amazing that there is still some protection for 426 00:31:38,138 --> 00:31:41,064 these boys, these men, these debauched human beings. 427 00:31:41,808 --> 00:31:42,232 You know? 428 00:31:45,963 --> 00:31:51,391 I would be at the game house with Hef a lot and the conversations could get very 429 00:31:51,410 --> 00:31:55,061 heavy and Roman Polanski was one of the stories and I would listen to them talk. 430 00:31:55,080 --> 00:32:00,475 It was, gaw, he got caught, you know, or the 431 00:32:00,494 --> 00:32:04,087 schmo he got caught. Like it was okay to be with a young girl. 432 00:32:05,257 --> 00:32:05,923 Just don't get caught. 433 00:32:09,577 --> 00:32:10,761 They were just relieved that they hadn't gotten caught. 434 00:32:12,431 --> 00:32:12,888 But I don't believe it stopped with that. 435 00:32:18,753 --> 00:32:21,563 The idea of underage sex was not really taken very seriously. 436 00:32:23,609 --> 00:32:26,518 And indeed, Hefner's interest in young girls 437 00:32:26,670 --> 00:32:28,445 had been evident throughout his adult life, 438 00:32:30,098 --> 00:32:34,176 epitomized by the fact that he seduced one of the girls 439 00:32:34,194 --> 00:32:36,286 that had been at his daughter's 16th birthday party. 440 00:32:39,032 --> 00:32:45,203 10 of her school friends were invited and a few days after that, one of the girls 441 00:32:45,355 --> 00:32:48,298 who'd been at the party, called Hefner and said, she would like to meet him. 442 00:32:50,135 --> 00:32:51,134 She did come and see him and the inevitable happened. 443 00:32:54,881 --> 00:32:58,700 Why's it taken till today for it to be believed 444 00:32:58,719 --> 00:33:01,436 that oh my god, these things do happen to girls? 445 00:33:03,315 --> 00:33:04,815 Yeah, 50 year old men do rape girls. 446 00:33:08,061 --> 00:33:13,490 What we're dealing with is a very powerful team of close friends who stick together, 447 00:33:14,994 --> 00:33:16,827 Men defending their guy. 448 00:33:20,148 --> 00:33:23,575 Hold each individual man responsible, because what 449 00:33:23,727 --> 00:33:25,669 predator is not going to go to the Playboy Mansion? 450 00:33:27,247 --> 00:33:29,006 It's locked. It's secure. 451 00:33:31,084 --> 00:33:33,343 All the cookies are in the jar and it's okay. 452 00:33:34,179 --> 00:33:34,511 No one judges. 453 00:33:37,683 --> 00:33:40,242 Jim Brown, the football player is a known fixture at 454 00:33:40,260 --> 00:33:44,855 the Playboy Mansion and there have been a number of 455 00:33:45,006 --> 00:33:48,692 stories corroborated by women who claimed that they were 456 00:33:48,843 --> 00:33:50,861 sexually assaulted by Jim Brown at the Playboy Mansion. 457 00:33:52,197 --> 00:33:53,822 I was up to mention all the time. 458 00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:56,033 It was a ball. 459 00:33:58,186 --> 00:33:59,036 There were new girls coming in from all over the country 460 00:34:01,707 --> 00:34:04,374 and anything was okay between consenting partners. 461 00:34:05,544 --> 00:34:06,710 [Laughs] 462 00:34:09,273 --> 00:34:11,214 Jim Brown did come up and have sex at the mansion 463 00:34:13,443 --> 00:34:15,177 and he always abused different playmates. 464 00:34:18,873 --> 00:34:20,724 I observed it. Many people witnessed it. 465 00:34:23,896 --> 00:34:25,395 They tell me that Jim Brown brutalized women. Yeah. 466 00:34:29,068 --> 00:34:29,900 But why would he keep letting him come up? 467 00:34:31,295 --> 00:34:31,568 You know, what's with that? 468 00:34:32,462 --> 00:34:34,571 Because he was a celebrity. 469 00:34:34,798 --> 00:34:38,241 The first time I saw the abuse with Jim Brown 470 00:34:38,393 --> 00:34:39,150 was in the Grand Hall, they called it. 471 00:34:39,303 --> 00:34:39,910 There was a very big party. 472 00:34:41,914 --> 00:34:42,562 I think it was the New Year's party. 473 00:34:42,581 --> 00:34:45,582 3-2-1 474 00:34:48,829 --> 00:34:50,253 There was one girl. I don't remember her name, 475 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,816 but she was the black girl that I remember 476 00:34:54,835 --> 00:34:57,385 being at the mansion, and Jim Brown turned her upside down and held her by her heels. 477 00:34:58,989 --> 00:35:02,674 This is right in front of me, and shook her 478 00:35:02,826 --> 00:35:06,828 violently until her bosom fell out of her bra 479 00:35:06,847 --> 00:35:09,514 and then flipped her back up and she's hanging out. 480 00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:11,608 I could see it on her face and I thought, oh my God. 481 00:35:16,022 --> 00:35:21,526 And then there was the time when he was in the Grotto. In the shower 482 00:35:21,678 --> 00:35:25,122 room, there was an apparatus that all the men would go in and use. 483 00:35:27,701 --> 00:35:30,852 Hefner had this chair in the back house that 484 00:35:30,871 --> 00:35:33,279 was very odd shaped and looking at it thinking. 485 00:35:33,298 --> 00:35:33,797 What is this? 486 00:35:35,041 --> 00:35:35,924 He says, well, that's the sex chair. 487 00:35:37,878 --> 00:35:40,804 It was this chair with a dildo attached to it. 488 00:35:43,367 --> 00:35:45,625 That night, I was in the garden, 489 00:35:45,644 --> 00:35:47,477 and I heard the screaming and Stephen was there too. 490 00:35:50,482 --> 00:35:56,653 We peeked in there and we saw Jim just going bananas, violently on this girl. 491 00:35:58,657 --> 00:36:01,383 She was one of the African American women who came 492 00:36:01,401 --> 00:36:04,828 up to the mansion, and he put her on the sex chair. 493 00:36:06,481 --> 00:36:10,000 I could see him assaulting this woman and beating her. 494 00:36:13,246 --> 00:36:15,005 She was screaming in pain begging him to stop. 495 00:36:16,416 --> 00:36:18,008 I just - I was shocked. 496 00:36:21,254 --> 00:36:26,016 When he was finished, I had to help her and I took her to the front of the mansion 497 00:36:28,836 --> 00:36:32,856 and had one of Hefner's drivers take her to the hospital. 498 00:36:34,084 --> 00:36:35,984 I never saw her again there. 499 00:36:40,924 --> 00:36:43,425 After that, Hefner allowed Jim back on the 500 00:36:43,443 --> 00:36:46,870 property where he would brutalize these girls. 501 00:36:49,374 --> 00:36:50,707 He cracked ribs, he dislocated jaws. 502 00:36:51,877 --> 00:36:53,210 But nobody was going to come forward. 503 00:36:55,121 --> 00:36:58,506 Because nobody wanted Hefner to come after you or Jim Brown. 504 00:37:00,460 --> 00:37:03,887 It bothered me, what was I gonna do about it? 505 00:37:05,966 --> 00:37:09,059 Get fired? I had no power. 506 00:37:10,545 --> 00:37:11,061 I was an employee. 507 00:37:14,382 --> 00:37:17,859 I don't know the rules for movie stars, and Hefner at the mansion. 508 00:37:19,796 --> 00:37:21,905 It seemed that this was natural. 509 00:37:23,558 --> 00:37:25,408 This is what they expected Hefner to allow them to do. 510 00:37:29,823 --> 00:37:35,418 Jim Brown, like Bill Cosby, is not the only man with a history of 511 00:37:35,570 --> 00:37:37,879 accusations to predatory behavior that spent time in the Playboy Mansion. 512 00:37:40,817 --> 00:37:45,595 Systemic racism makes matters of rape infinitely more complicated. 513 00:37:47,841 --> 00:37:50,842 We know that there are a lot of white men that were 514 00:37:50,994 --> 00:37:52,269 going to the Playboy Mansion that are predators. 515 00:37:54,998 --> 00:37:59,276 But it's easier to hold black male predators accountable for a lot of reasons. 516 00:38:02,281 --> 00:38:05,356 It's easier to say "Hey, look, this black guy is a rapist. 517 00:38:05,509 --> 00:38:06,116 We're comfortable with that. 518 00:38:08,954 --> 00:38:15,867 Black men do not typically have the unspoken racial solidarity in society 519 00:38:16,019 --> 00:38:18,461 of white men around them in deference of people of other races and of women. 520 00:38:22,968 --> 00:38:25,760 But Hugh Hefner, what's his role in this? 521 00:38:27,121 --> 00:38:29,597 They were predators. They were power predators. 522 00:38:31,034 --> 00:38:32,475 But who set this ballroom up? 523 00:38:34,871 --> 00:38:37,705 He had the drugs, he had the liquor, he had 524 00:38:37,724 --> 00:38:40,483 the women, he had everything at his disposal. 525 00:38:53,498 --> 00:38:56,499 Every time I would find out a little bit more about Paige, 526 00:38:59,062 --> 00:39:00,462 it was like solving the mystery of a person. 527 00:39:03,066 --> 00:39:06,176 In my interview with Richard, Paige's boyfriend, 528 00:39:06,403 --> 00:39:10,138 Richard said, Hefner ruined a lot of good women. 529 00:39:12,351 --> 00:39:17,336 After that, I've read a few excerpts from what the scene was 530 00:39:17,430 --> 00:39:20,940 like there during that era and it wasn't a very pretty picture. 531 00:39:22,268 --> 00:39:25,028 A woman they call bunny BJ. 532 00:39:27,032 --> 00:39:30,367 She was a bunny at the Century City Club and she hung 533 00:39:30,518 --> 00:39:34,162 out on that scene in like 73, 74, same era as Paige, 534 00:39:36,208 --> 00:39:38,875 and she just wrote about her experience at the mansion. 535 00:39:41,938 --> 00:39:45,715 I began to realize, as far as Playboy was concerned, I was completely expendable. 536 00:39:48,387 --> 00:39:50,970 No one cared what kind of a person I was, what thoughts I had. 537 00:39:52,949 --> 00:39:55,308 I could have been a doll I tried suicide a couple of times. 538 00:39:57,545 --> 00:39:59,145 To me, there was no purpose to the kind of life I was leading. 539 00:40:01,716 --> 00:40:04,025 Playboy magazine should have a warning on it like cigarette advertising. 540 00:40:06,220 --> 00:40:08,029 This philosophy can be hazardous to your health. 541 00:40:12,059 --> 00:40:14,969 The suicide rate for playmates is significantly 542 00:40:14,988 --> 00:40:16,079 higher than the rate for American women. 543 00:40:18,491 --> 00:40:22,735 And, so, I think it's worth asking what is it about Playboy that 544 00:40:22,829 --> 00:40:25,422 leads so many women, that have graced it's pages, to tragedy? 545 00:40:31,004 --> 00:40:34,055 After the drugging and rape of Bill Cosby, I didn't know how to process it. 546 00:40:36,493 --> 00:40:38,726 I was never offered therapy. So I started cutting myself. 547 00:40:41,514 --> 00:40:43,022 Cutting my arms, cutting my legs. 548 00:40:46,278 --> 00:40:48,611 It's a weird thing that happens when you cut yourself. 549 00:40:48,838 --> 00:40:52,598 It's kind of like a release and it got so bad 550 00:40:52,617 --> 00:40:55,368 that I have several failed suicide attempts. 551 00:40:58,773 --> 00:41:02,792 And the last one, I ended up in Hackensack University Hospital for 17 days. 552 00:41:05,780 --> 00:41:06,629 They didn't think I was gonna make it. I didn't think I was gonna make it. 553 00:41:11,695 --> 00:41:12,802 The Playboy years were some pretty tough years. 554 00:41:14,547 --> 00:41:16,431 I didn't feel of value. 555 00:41:19,202 --> 00:41:24,647 So, I can see how girls that have lived that life have taken their own life. 556 00:41:26,968 --> 00:41:30,778 I so wish that I had been there to talk to them. 557 00:41:33,066 --> 00:41:34,824 I would have told them to stay. 558 00:41:36,143 --> 00:41:36,576 Just stay! 559 00:41:39,906 --> 00:41:45,484 Paige wanted to get her message out that these men were predatory 560 00:41:45,504 --> 00:41:47,562 and she thought the only way that anybody 561 00:41:47,580 --> 00:41:49,923 was going to pay attention to her was if she killed herself. 562 00:41:50,675 --> 00:41:52,342 The message got squashed. 563 00:41:54,237 --> 00:41:58,348 It was so sad that Paige went to all this trouble 564 00:41:58,499 --> 00:42:00,934 to leave a message and no one cared. 565 00:42:04,748 --> 00:42:08,249 This film that you're doing right now, this is going to be when Paige 566 00:42:08,342 --> 00:42:11,611 finally gets her side of the story, where she gets to speak for herself. 567 00:42:57,650 --> 00:43:01,152 There are so many men in Hef's inner circle, 568 00:43:01,246 --> 00:43:03,904 who were part of this underground system, 569 00:43:04,565 --> 00:43:06,249 the shadow man shades. 570 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,377 These men were out there recruiting. They would putting ads out. 571 00:43:10,088 --> 00:43:11,254 Want to be a Playmate? 572 00:43:11,998 --> 00:43:14,982 The competition is so stiff to be a playmate. 573 00:43:15,001 --> 00:43:19,578 So, that handful makes it the rest slip through the cracks. 574 00:43:19,672 --> 00:43:25,250 I would see these girls who are clearly drugged and not coherent. 575 00:43:25,345 --> 00:43:28,420 They would be, you know, injecting them with something. 576 00:43:28,514 --> 00:43:32,442 Oh, I think Hef knew definitely what was going on with the parties. 577 00:43:32,593 --> 00:43:36,595 Many women came forward finally and why these 578 00:43:36,615 --> 00:43:38,948 girls were so scared is really coming out.