- This is the one, all right?
[dramatic music]
- girls come from a small town or from all over the world
to try to vie for the 12 slots for playmate of the month
or that one position of playmate of the year.
- "playboy," I've always wanted to be in since I was a kid,
so I'm very excited.
- Only a handful will make it.
What happens to the rest of them?
♪ ♪
- in the early '90s, "playboy" was so popular.
- Playmates like pam anderson and jenny mccarthy
were very successful.
- So many girls wanted to be a playmate,
and for one reason or another, they wouldn't make it.
- If the girls didn't make the cut at playboy,
they were shuffled off into the shadow mansions.
♪ ♪
now, the shadow mansions,
my father and the inner circle from playboy
created clones of the playboy mansion
on a smaller scale to sort of lure these young girls in.
It was very predatory.
These young girls have no idea
what's gonna hit them next.
♪ ♪
- my name is hugh hefner.
I'm editor/publisher of "playboy" magazine.
- When hugh hefner was just 27,
he fashioned himself and playboy
as the face of sexual liberation.
- Playboy is one of the most famous brand names
in the world.
- I would like to be remembered
as somebody who played some positive part
in changing the social-sexual values of my time.
- I believe that hef pulled one over on the whole world.
- The fantasy of playboy that he created
did not allow for the consent of the women.
- When it came to hefner's buddies,
you had to keep those secrets quiet.
- What have you got for free?
- When you get someone that powerful,
anything could happen-- anything.
- The people who were really there--
they're the ones who know the real truth.
- I want to be a voice for the women
that suffered the most at his hands.
♪ ♪
- he was the ultimate celebrity insider--
a doctor who took care of hugh hefner and had the run
of the playboy mansion, but not anymore.
Witnesses say the doctor could end up in jail.
- Mark saginor,
hefner's personal doctor and party pal for two decades.
♪ ♪
- my father, mark saginor, was hugh hefner's best friend,
and doctor for about 40 years.
Their friendship was, like, next level.
Like, they were just, like, soul mates.
All the girls would sort of come and go over the years,
but they would remain constant.
- Mark was a very prominent, prestigious doctor.
- The public should simply be aware
that there are inherent dangers to this.
Dieting without the addition of significant exercise
is just inappropriate.
- Mark was given credit for saving hef's life
when hef had the stroke back in the mid-'80s.
- Dr.. Saginor had carte blanche at the mansion.
He had the keys to the kingdom
and he took that opportunity
to live his life to the fullest.
- Mark and I were friends.
I didn't see the side of mark that I guess other people saw.
- The 19-year-old told police he drugged her,
forced her to perform oral sex.
♪ ♪
- back in 2004, my father was partying
at one of the playboy mansion parties with a few girls
who ended up going back to his house afterwards.
And I believe,
you know, they were partying there as well.
- She said saginor called in a second man
to take polaroid photos of her drugged out and seminude.
Saginor was banned from the playboy mansion
after he was investigated by the lapd.
♪ ♪
- hef, of course, heard this news,
and hef distanced himself publicly from my father.
♪ ♪
he always wanted to be one step removed from every situation
so that nothing would ever come back
as, like, a direct negative reflection on him.
- He would actually be trying to convince me
that smoking crack cocaine would cure my asthma.
He's misusing his position as a doctor
and as hefner's friend.
He's using it to ruin young girls' lives.
♪ ♪
- my father reacted very poorly to hef distancing himself,
because he felt that he was the fall guy,
and he felt that he was a part of something much bigger.
There are so many other men in hef's inner circle
who were part of this underground system.
The bigger picture is a operation
that had been in place for many decades.
♪ ♪
- all right, here we go, boys. - Now?
- I'm rolling. - 15 in a row.
- 15 in a row, eh?
[indistinct chatter]
♪ ♪
- for hefner
and all the inner circle from the mansion,
it was a mindset.
It was a mentality of men
who look at women as commodities,
as objects that are disposable.
Girls were another form of a game to these men.
- Ooh, ah!
Oh!
Fantastic! - That was a good game.
- Oh, that was a great one, huh?
- In the late '70s and the '80s,
there was this place where hefner and my father
and a lot of the men
in the inner circle from the mansion
would go enjoy a night out playing games,
and it was called pips.
- Where are the really in places?
- The best one right now seems to be pips,
which was started by my man. [chuckles]
it's a discotheque, backgammon club.
- Pips was a place that hefner invested in
along with bernie cornfeld,
who was my father's good friend
and was also hefner's really good friend.
In the front room at pips, there was a dance floor,
and it just looked like a regular club.
And then in the back, there was a private vip area
for people who were very well-known
or established.
Backgammon and monopoly and poker,
and it was even girls.
I mean, anything you could think of was there
and available.
♪ ♪
as a teenager, I had a bedroom myself at the playboy mansion,
and I would tag along with the guys
when they'd go to pips.
♪ ♪
part of my job was running downstairs
and greeting a bunch of the girls
that would pile out of the limo.
They were brought in
almost like you would bring in a backgammon set
or, you know, you'd put chips on the table for poker.
They were just part of the game.
You know, you can bet on a girl like,
"oh, which one do you want," you know?
If I win something, I get this one.
Who should this one go to? Who gets that one?
It was a system of trading girls.
They were not aware of what was happening to them,
that they were being wagered on
or used as sort of collateral gifts within the games.
♪ ♪
the girls that would attend pips,
some of them could be playmates.
Some of them were just guests who showed up for the night.
But I think a lot of these young women
were coming from the shadow mansions.
♪ ♪
by shadow mansion,
I mean that these men in hef's inner circle
would try to emulate what he created
in his own empire at the playboy mansion.
And they would have smaller versions
of the playboy mansions,
which I would refer to as mini mansions.
They would house these young girls
who would come to los angeles
looking for opportunities to become actresses or models.
♪ ♪
in the '70s, bernie cornfeld,
the guy who owned pips,
was one of the first men
to set up his own shadow mansion.
♪ ♪
- I have diaries from every year of my life
from the time I was seven.
That's not the one. Here, '73 and '74 right here.
♪ ♪
my name is sharmagne leland-st. John-sylbert.
In the early '70s, I had already been a playboy bunny,
but I was no longer a bunny.
Instead, I was partners with bernie
in this modeling agency.
♪ ♪
just up the road a bit from the playboy mansion,
there was the house that was called grayhall,
which was the home of bernie cornfeld.
Bernie had a talent agency
for actresses and models,
and he had a dormitory upstairs,
where he would invite these young women
to come and live in his home.
♪ ♪
by the time I understood what was going on at grayhall,
it had already been going on for some time.
Bernie, he would go prowling at night.
He'd go prowling up in the dormitory
and be having sex with the girls up there.
I realized that the modeling agency
apparently fronted for bernie's sexual appetite.
So, if you moved into the house, you became prey.
You became one of his next conquests.
♪ ♪
- bernie cornfeld had a really nice house,
and we used to shoot there a lot
for "playboy" magazine.
♪ ♪
marilyn grabowski, my boss,
was the west coast photo editor.
She says, "I'm gonna have dinner with bernie,
and I want you to come with me."
and so I went there.
I said, "now, let me know when you leave
'cause I'm not staying here without you."
and so I'm sitting at the end of this big living room,
and all of a sudden, I see her walking to the door,
and I'm like...
So I grab my purse, and I start to walk out,
and bernie goes, "are you leaving?"
and I said, "yeah, I got work tomorrow," you know?
And he goes, "well, I know a better way out
so you don't have to walk all the way to the front door."
and so he walks me into a frickin' bedroom
and throws me down on the bed.
And I'm like, "[bleep], bernie, let me up!"
and I'm hitting him.
I said, "you know, who do you think I am?"
so he finally lets me go...
And the next day I said to marilyn,
"how dare you?
"I told you to let me know when you were leaving,
and you didn't do it," you know?
And for a woman to do that to another woman is not right.
That's not cool.
♪ ♪
- in the '70s, it was just bernie cornfeld
and the grayhall mansion.
♪ ♪
and as time went on,
so many other men
in the inner circle from playboy
really wanted to emulate hef's lifestyle.
The shadow-mansion system
really became much larger during the '90s.
It became this predatory movement
where the girls that didn't make the cut at playboy
were being really shuffled off into this underground system.
♪ ♪
ntroduce you
to our new 1995 playmate of the year,
julie cialini.
[cheers and applause]
- I feel like in the '90s at the playboy mansion
was, like, a whole different era.
It was all about more press
and bringing attention
to the women of playboy,
and that's definitely not anything that happened
in the '80s.
[dramatic music]
the women in the '80s at playboy,
I believe they didn't really have as much of a voice.
It was more about keeping them enclosed, you know,
within the mansion community and culture.
And then as the '90s came about,
there was a shift.
- Though millions buy the magazine and video cassettes,
much of the playboy mystique has come to an end.
Hefner's private plane, the "big bunny," sold.
Playboy's casinos, closed.
Hefner's bachelorhood, endangered.
He says he's getting hitched, to a centerfold, of course.
- As you reached into the '90s,
it was a big, big change.
♪ ♪
still in the aids epidemic.
And in that time,
the party kind of ended, I mean, for everybody.
So maybe it was time
for hef to settle down a little bit.
- Hugh hefner, do you take kimberly conrad,
here present, to be your wife?
- I do.
- Hef settled down
in the midst of this pandemic.
- It was a sad day for all of us.
[laughing]
you didn't need to be a fortune teller
to see that his lifestyle was going to take a drastic turn.
- Yeah, it is more of like a family house.
You know, they all have to get their sleep now.
[laughs]
- oh, during the kimberly years?
Oh, hell, no. [chuckles]
hef did not hit on any of the playmates.
Kimberly's presence
was definitely known around the mansion.
- As far as talking to him,
we were told that's a good way
to get yourself blacklisted from the mansion.
You know, if we saw him coming one way,
we'd go the other way.
♪ ♪
- the irony of the '90s
is that the mansion was sort of shut down to the public,
and yet there was more opportunities for women,
and then these women happened to have personalities,
where they really stepped into those opportunities
and owned it.
[photographers chattering]
- I first started going to the mansion with my friend
anna nicole smith.
Anna nicole was the it girl at the mansion
and all through the '90s.
She was playmate of the month, 1992.
- Anna. [applause]
- and then she became playmate of the year, '93.
- I feel like the '90s in los angeles
and especially the playboy mansion
is defined by someone like anna nicole smith.
♪ ♪
- it's a big check. [laughter]
- during the year that she was becoming playmate of the year,
she became an international sort of sensation
with the campaign for guess.
♪ ♪
and then you have jenny mccarthy,
pamela anderson.
These women are sort of branding themselves
outside the mansion.
- I did my first cover for "playboy" in October of '89,
and I've got "baywatch" now.
It's so exciting. It's great.
- All of a sudden, the public was noticing them.
It became a lot more mainstream and acceptable
to be a playmate.
- When you see somebody make it really big because of playboy,
like pam anderson and jenny mccarthy and stuff,
you're like, "wow.
"like, look at all the opportunities that it brings
and how amazing that is."
and I was like, "I want that."
- as a result, women flock to los angeles from all over
trying to become playmates.
- This sophomore is into advertising,
and she is not ashamed of trying out for playboy
♪ ♪
- people come from other places
trying to be the celebrity or the star.
That's their dream, and they're wishing for it,
but the competition is so stiff
to be a playmate.
So that handful makes it.
The rest slip through the cracks
and get preyed on by whomever is out there,
knowing that they didn't make the cut.
♪ ♪
- in the '90s, I believe that these men around hef
saw a very big opportunity.
For many years,
hef had different men who were out there recruiting.
My father was a scout.
They would put ads out in the different newspapers.
"want to be a playmate? Do you want to be a model?"
♪ ♪
and when you moved into the '90s,
the scouts would be circulating
throughout the nightclubs in los angeles,
'cause all the young girls
that would come from out of town would obviously show up
at the nightclubs.
And they would number the level of girl
that they would meet.
♪ ♪
if they were super hot and, you know, great physique
and they were, like, a ten,
then they would be brought to the mansion
and brought to a party
and given maybe an opportunity to pose in "playboy."
and then you have nine.
That was maybe given,
you know, a lesser opportunity,
but still would be introduced to people
that could possibly bring her career to the next level.
And then you have the girls that are, like, you know,
the sevens and the eights.
♪ ♪
these girls didn't make the cut for playboy,
but you don't want to just throw away nice girls.
They're still pretty.
You know, "what can we do with them?"
these scouts would invite these girls
to these mini mansions
for these modeling-agency parties
and offer them a place to live
and offer them modeling contracts.
♪ ♪
the young girls believed an opportunity
to really move your dreams forward,
when, in fact, it was really just all a facade.
Very quickly they're crossing boundaries
that they never thought that they would cross.
Once you're on this path,
it's very hard to find your way out.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- we're ready to go. - Copy. All right.
[speaking indistinctly]
♪ ♪
- I'm rachel myers,
and I was a guest at many of the playboy mansion parties.
When I first moved to l.A.,
I was working at a clothing store in beverly hills.
Two older gentlemen came in and said to me,
"would you like to attend the playboy mansion party?
If so, I can get you in. You have to see someone."
♪ ♪
I went to someone's house.
This is someone in the inner circle at the playboy mansion,
and I was told that the way to get into the playboy mansion
was to show my boobs.
♪ ♪
I don't know. I just did it.
♪ ♪
photos were taken, and there were photos
on the table of multiple women,
and so I just thought it was normal.
And so that's how I got into the playboy mansion.
♪ ♪
at the mansion, I went with an older gentleman
who picked me up in a limo.
I was actually brought to hugh hefner's table
and introduced to hugh.
And I met some other older men,
and they would invite me to the mini mansions.
♪ ♪
the mini mansions were similar parties
to the playboy mansion parties on a lower scale.
I would see the same guys at the mini mansions
that I would see at the playboy mansion.
So I think there was definitely a learned behavior
from the mansion to the mini mansions.
These men got some ideas
on how to manipulate women.
♪ ♪
- the experience I had at the mini-mansion parties
is immediately walking in,
having all the men glom on to you
offering you, you know, lines of coke
or a bowl of, you know, ecstasy.
If you refuse those,
they're trying to shove champagne in your face.
You know, who knows what's in the champagne,
if they've dropped anything in there?
I've just seen it too many times.
♪ ♪
I just would refrain and get my own drink or my own water
and make sure I opened it myself,
and that's how I avoided being prey.
So that's the first red flag.
Second red flag is they're promising you,
to come to this party,
you're going to get a modeling contract.
- At the mini mansions, these men had come up to me
and given me their cards
and told me that they would sign me.
- Who's signing a contract at night at a party?
So the grooming that's happening
at these mini-mansion parties
is pretty obviously not for modeling.
♪ ♪
- at these parties, in many of the rooms,
they were, like, you know, setting up
these, like, fake photo shoots where the girls would feel
like they were being given this opportunity
to be a model.
♪ ♪
maybe they were given a drink to relax
and then whenever that sort of would kick in,
then the girls were, like, posing
without their clothes on.
♪ ♪
I just remember walking in on them
and being, like, horrified.
These girls were clearly drugged
and not coherent.
Maybe they would also
have somebody, like, videotaping them,
and then that videotape could be used as blackmail,
so they wouldn't tell anyone or so that they'd sort of fall
into this underground system of being available.
Basically, any powerful, wealthy man in los angeles
who was on the guest list
to attend the mini-mansion parties
was given an opportunity
to spend time with particular girls.
"spending time with her" is code for "having sex with her."
♪ ♪
I think many of the girls stayed
in the mini-mansion system because they were scared
of being blackmailed with videotapes.
I believe others really didn't have other opportunities,
and they thought that perhaps if they would just sleep
with this next guy and get it over with
that they could offer you a certain opportunity.
♪ ♪
- it's very hard for me
to look back on those times
because it's something
that I don't necessarily want to remember or admit,
but it was a part of my life.
♪ ♪
as a young girl, I was molested,
so I probably detached from my body at a young age.
And so having that trauma...
♪ ♪
made it easier... [chuckles]
♪ ♪
'cause I didn't own my body, someone else did.
♪ ♪
I would say to my younger self now
to not use your body for opportunities.
♪ ♪
- in the '90s, there was at least six or seven guys
that I knew in hef's inner circle
that ended up setting up these shadow mansions...
Guys like peter nygard.
♪ ♪
- for decades, peter nygard
has been fashion royalty.
- I met peter nygaard about 30 years ago
at one of the mini-mansion parties.
He wanted to be the next hef.
He would roll over to the mansion
and just go see hef and hang out.
They'd play cards.
♪ ♪
- peter nygard has a house in marina del rey.
It's huge. It's, like, on the beach.
When I went to a party at peter nygard's house,
he tried to pull down my top, kiss my boob, and kiss me.
And I was like, "what are you doing?"
like, peter nygard is a predator.
The news is completely true, what they're saying about him.
- The fbi calls nygard a predator,
and they allege he sexually assaulted dozens,
if not hundreds, of women and girls over a 25-year period.
♪ ♪
- when I was in l.A. Doing the shooting for playboy,
nygard called me up.
I'm sure that he got the information from playboy.
I mean, where else?
I was stupid enough to go to his house
when I was invited there.
♪ ♪
he was hinting about anal sex,
like certain kind of things that he really liked.
And what he said to me was the same allegations
that women were telling about him.
- He held me down, and he sodomized me.
I didn't know what to do.
I had never felt that kind of pain before,
and I was scared
♪ ♪
- when I was there, he probably could have raped me
or drugged me or something.
I was really lucky to be able to escape that situation.
♪ ♪
- oh, I think hef knew
definitely what was going on at the parties,
because most of the people
throwing the mini-mansion parties
had partied at the mansion.
- That's really what it is.
Of course hefner's aware of the system.
All of his friends were, you know, housing these girls,
and they were the ones who owned the mini mansions.
♪ ♪
in the '80s and '90s,
even my father's house was a mini mansion,
a shadow mansion.
There were so many different young models
living at my father's house.
Bernie cornfeld and these different men
who owned their own shadow mansions
would stop by my father's house
to sort of check out the cattle.
♪ ♪
and then in 2004, my father was made the fall guy
for this mini-mansion system.
Hef then publicly distanced himself from my father.
My father was hefner's very good friend of 40 years,
and he was really upset
that hef would sort of turn his back on him
in that moment publicly.
At the time, I didn't understand
why he felt so betrayed.
It led me to reevaluate their relationship.
I started to connect the dots over the decades.
That it was much more than a friendship.
♪ ♪
- say, aren't you brigham young?
- I am.
- The man with 50 wives? - I am.
- The man with 240 children?
- I am. - Why, you should be hung.
- I am.
[cheers and applause]
- in my mind, for many years,
my father and hef were in a very close friendship
for many, many decades.
[dramatic music]
what I've realized over time is that their connection
was much more than just best friends.
It's my personal belief that the love of hef's life
was my father.
♪ ♪
over the years,
my father, you know, really gave up his family life,
his practice to be with him.
I don't know many men
who just basically give up their own life
and then move into some other man's house.
- So, during my tenure at the playboy mansion,
as far as dr. Saginor and mr. Hefner,
I experienced those two becoming very close.
I remember
"a midsummer night's dream" party,
and I noticed that, you know, mr. Hefner,
mr. Hefner's girlfriend,
and dr. Saginor
made their way up to the bedroom--
bedroom one-- that's mr. Hefner's room.
You could paint the picture
I don't know, but they didn't come back down.
- You have admitted to some homosexual curiosities.
How serious have any of those dalliances been?
- Not serious at all.
When you're involved in the swing period
or the orgy period of the '70s,
there was more than a little bisexuality.
- Mark became his best friend.
They took things really far.
They became more than best friends.
♪ ♪
yeah.
Yeah, they became that.
- My father and hef had a spiritual connection
that I don't believe any of these wives or girlfriends
could ever compete against.
♪ ♪
they had a physical relationship
in the context of these different orgies.
The orgy sort of started as something
that was an opportunity for people
to sort of experience their open sexuality,
and then that sort of turned into something
that was a little bit more sinister.
It was just more of a transaction
that was exciting
and that probably stemmed from their own childhood.
♪ ♪
growing up, they were both these weird, nerdy guys
who didn't date a lot of women.
♪ ♪
so having control and power
over these types of women at the mansion
was something that is very exciting.
You know, the breaking down of a woman,
watching them sort of fall into something
where they're now doing something
that maybe thought they would never do.
Maybe they're crossing boundaries
that they never thought that they would cross.
There's some kind of rush in that.
And then it's like anything.
You know, once you have something,
you need, you know, more of that
to sort of create the same feeling.
"so how do we recruit more girls like this," you know?
How do we bring in fresh meat?"
the bigger the situations they created,
the more their energy was on the girls,
seducing them into the world
and really just breaking them down.
♪ ♪
and that, over time, I believe,
became something that turned into a bigger picture.
♪ ♪
when you moved into the '90s
when hef married kimberly
and all the big orgies shut down at the mansion,
all of a sudden, we're taking the party elsewhere.
- Yeah. - They moved.
At mark's, yeah. - Yeah.
- Yeah.
He only went to my father's house,
'cause they're still partying and doing--
you know, they're "partying" together.
I mean, you can't just stop the machine, right?
The machine must go on, and that is something
that was now taking place off the property.
♪ ♪
- one time I remember being in a limo
with hef and anna nicole.
We were heading to a mini-mansion party
at mark saginor's house.
At the party, it just seemed
like all the girls were on the menu.
- There was, like, 10, 15 girls
living at my father's house.
Literally, they would just come one by one down the staircase.
- Even anna nicole--
I got the feeling when we were at the party
that she was up for grabs for whoever.
Anna nicole was right around 30 at the time.
Hef made some comment,
like, you know, she's being phased out.
- That's how it works,
even for someone like anna nicole smith.
They're used for a certain period of time.
They are then easily disposable.
♪ ♪
I believe that there's something exciting
in meeting these young girls
that will come from small towns
that still kind of had that light in them
and watching them slowly burn that light out.
♪ ♪
- in the '90s,
once I moved into my father's house,
he had these different pictures of women
who were on all fours naked
with a leash around the girl's neck.
When I would try to say something to him, he was like,
"well, they actually like to be submissive."
they want to be dominated.
He was on drugs at the time
and offering drugs to these young girls.
♪ ♪
I remember walking into his bedroom
and seeing these young girls really incoherent,
and he would be, you know, injecting them with something.
I grew up watching these girls come in looking one way
and slowly becoming
someone that they probably don't even recognize.
♪ ♪
one of the girls who was spending time
at my father's house for a while,
her name was paulina.
She came here from europe, wanted to become a model,
and she's someone who I became friends with instantly.
She was just so sweet and nice
and had such a light in her spirit.
♪ ♪
at one of the parties-- I believe it was in malibu.
Again, it was one of the fake modeling-agency parties.
She was really high.
She kept looking for a guy to help her get coke.
She's found the next guy,
and she went in the bathroom with him,
and they did a bunch of blow, I believe.
♪ ♪
for the longest time, nobody came out.
♪ ♪
I walked in on the bathroom
and saw her laying down in a pool of blood.
♪ ♪
I was scared. I didn't know what to do.
And so I started screaming for help.
No one came.
And then all of a sudden,
the owner of this particular mini mansion called security.
Security came and literally picked up her lifeless body
and brought it into, like, the back.
And I'm like, "wait a minute. Where are you taking her?"
and they're like, "we got it from here, kid."
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and I never saw her again.
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[knock at door]
many months later, there was a knock at my father's door,
and there was this cute little old man.
He pulled out, like, a polaroid picture,
and he said, "you know, have you seen my daughter?
Her name is paulina."
♪ ♪
I was conditioned from such a young age, of course,
to be loyal to the men,
and so the last thing I'm gonna do
is be honest with this man
about what I saw happen to his daughter.
And so I just said, "no," you know,
"I haven't seen paulina.
Maybe you have the wrong house."
♪ ♪
and he put his head down, and, you know, he walked away.
♪ ♪
I was too scared to say anything myself
or to tell anybody.
I just I feel guilty that I watched these young girls,
you know, many of them...
That were drugged and...
I just knew what was gonna happen to them,
and I didn't do anything.
♪ ♪
- how old were you at this point?
- Um...
I mean, it was all the years.
[chuckles]
I feel guilty that I was there attending these parties
and having fun, and, you know,
and I thought it was fun.
I did have fun.
But it's devastating
that these young girls were basically--
their spirits were really sucked out of them,
and that's something that I can relate to.
I thought since I was the doctor's daughter
that I was protected, I was shielded, you know,
against being taken advantage of.
And then these same experiences happened to me
that happened to so many of these girls.
♪ ♪
as a teenager,
I turned to one of my father's friends for advice
and showed up at his house.
♪ ♪
he ended up offering me a drink
and putting something in my drink.
♪ ♪
before I knew it, I was, you know, out of body
and came to with him trying to have sex with me...
♪ ♪
telling me I had to take my, like, clothes off,
and I was in his bed,
and the whole thing was so horrific.
♪ ♪
for me, growing up in that setting,
I was the only female that's welcomed into this boys' club.
You know, I felt good about myself.
I felt special and different.
And really at the end of the day, I'm not.
I'm just the same as, you know,
any other girl who's coming to los angeles
who's, you know--
who eventually is gonna be sucked up by the system.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- he's misusing his position as a doctor
and as hefner's friend.
He's using it to ruin young girls' lives.
♪ ♪
- over the years, I've seen it so much--
girls who were subject to...
These--especially the mini mansions,
but, you know, really taken in, you know, and their innocence
and their spirits were really sucked out of them.
♪ ♪
in 2004,
when the girls made claims against my father,
his medical license was suspended
for a short period of time.
- Mark saginor is not allowed to practice medicine
because he is a danger to his patients.
- It was definitely a turning point for my father.
He checked into rehab. He became sober.
During that time period
when hef distanced himself publicly
hef and my father still spoke on the phone
and then they did start spending time together again,
especially towards the end of hef's life.
When hef was passing,
the one that was by his side in the end was my father.
♪ ♪
after hefner passed,
my father decided to marry a young woman he met in rehab.
♪ ♪
I remember showing up to this wedding,
and it was so surreal
to see these giant, blown-up posters on easels
of hefner and mary o'connor and keith hefner.
♪ ♪
my father and this woman were at the altar,
and I remember my father,
you know, asked for this moment of silence
within the group to honor and remember hef.
And he asked the orchestra who is there to please play,
you know, hefner's favorite song.
And my father, you know, had tears at the altar.
♪ ♪
and I just remember being
just so, you know, surprised this was happening.
Like, we're basically celebrating somebody
who's not here.
We're celebrating hef.
♪ ♪
and I just remember looking at everybody.
All the mansion regulars were there
with their playboy pins,
and there was just something about it
that just reminded me
of being in this sort of, like, private cult.
Everyone in this environment put hef on a pedestal
and everything he believed in on a pedestal.
I just felt alone.
I felt like I was the only one
seeing playboy for what it is.
♪ ♪
when I see this, it reiterates in my mind even more
that it wasn't about connection.
I do believe that with all these men,
it was really about knowing
that you had power over someone else.
And my father, although he played a role,
he still wasn't the master puppeteer.
- One man did this-- hugh hefner.
- Instead of giving the young women
the right to consent to any of it,
he simply took it.
- When I was 18 years old,
I didn't get the opportunity that night in hef's room
to make any choice.
People should know he was not a hero.
- He was a predator. That's what he was.
Let's get it out in the open. It's time to talk about it.
♪ ♪
for god sakes,
it's time for the playboy women to come forward.
- This whole thing that had to be a secret,
I've got to tell somebody.
- It wasn't just hefner's buddies,
the big vips.
It was hugh hefner himself.
I think he hated women underneath it all.
- It was a total giveaway
when he brought out his skeleton key and he told me,
why wouldn't I want a key to every room in this house?
- There was nothing in the relationship with dorothy
that I am less than proud of.
- Dorothy stratten-- she was psychically destroyed.
- Hold hef accountable.
- Hefner was a sexual predator...
That didn't care who he damaged.