1 00:00:01,758 --> 00:00:04,000 A woman would do literally anything to be in Playboy. 2 00:00:05,379 --> 00:00:08,034 Jill Ann Spaulding was an aspiring Playboymodel. 3 00:00:08,068 --> 00:00:12,310 She had blonde hair, blue eyes, big boobs. 4 00:00:12,344 --> 00:00:15,620 [Clark] Jill Ann was extremely focused about her goal, 5 00:00:15,655 --> 00:00:18,172 that her dream was, "I am gonna be in Playboy." 6 00:00:21,275 --> 00:00:24,517 I think there definitely can be a dark side to the Playboy Mansion. 7 00:00:24,551 --> 00:00:26,827 [Supersonic] I don't know if anybody else ever really 8 00:00:26,862 --> 00:00:29,000 stepped up to the plate like Jill did 9 00:00:29,034 --> 00:00:31,172 and, you know, spilled the beans 10 00:00:31,206 --> 00:00:33,551 and told everybody what was going on there. 11 00:00:35,137 --> 00:00:37,275 [Madison] For me that felt 12 00:00:37,310 --> 00:00:40,206 like something along the lines of revenge porn. 13 00:00:40,241 --> 00:00:41,793 [Heinrichs] I don't think Jill Ann knew 14 00:00:41,827 --> 00:00:43,827 exactly what she was getting herself into 15 00:00:43,862 --> 00:00:45,137 when she was pursuing this dream. 16 00:00:46,482 --> 00:00:50,034 It was really the moment where the veil lifted. 17 00:00:50,068 --> 00:00:53,206 This is what happens when no one is watching 18 00:00:53,241 --> 00:00:55,000 and when all the party goers go home. 19 00:01:12,586 --> 00:01:13,689 I was assigned 20 00:01:13,724 --> 00:01:15,862 to the homicide investigation unit in Mesa. 21 00:01:15,896 --> 00:01:17,000 [phone ringing] 22 00:01:18,758 --> 00:01:20,551 We received a phone call from our sergeant 23 00:01:20,586 --> 00:01:22,965 telling us that we had a homicide investigation. 24 00:01:24,758 --> 00:01:27,206 Mesa is a tight-knit community. 25 00:01:27,241 --> 00:01:28,758 Everyone knows their neighbors. 26 00:01:28,793 --> 00:01:30,862 Everyone knows who should be in the area, 27 00:01:30,896 --> 00:01:31,965 who shouldn't be in the area. 28 00:01:33,931 --> 00:01:35,551 As I was driving up, 29 00:01:35,586 --> 00:01:38,241 in my head I'm thinking, "There's no way 30 00:01:38,275 --> 00:01:41,344 that there was homicide here." 31 00:01:41,378 --> 00:01:44,033 This had to be an accidental death or something 32 00:01:44,068 --> 00:01:45,827 because it was just too nice 33 00:01:45,862 --> 00:01:47,896 and too pretty of a location. 34 00:01:47,931 --> 00:01:49,896 [indistinct conversation on radio] 35 00:01:50,931 --> 00:01:52,378 [Haynes] When we get to the scene 36 00:01:52,413 --> 00:01:54,517 it's sectioned off with crime scene tape. 37 00:01:57,241 --> 00:01:58,896 When you walk in the front door, 38 00:02:00,448 --> 00:02:01,655 there was a kitchen. 39 00:02:01,689 --> 00:02:03,689 It's kind of like one of those galley kitchens 40 00:02:03,724 --> 00:02:05,689 you can see out in to the dining room. 41 00:02:05,724 --> 00:02:08,240 And so, when you come around the corner 42 00:02:08,275 --> 00:02:09,827 and you're at the dining room table, 43 00:02:09,862 --> 00:02:11,896 you can see there's a male subject 44 00:02:11,931 --> 00:02:14,344 that's on the floor face down. 45 00:02:14,379 --> 00:02:17,344 Then there's another man that was on their back. 46 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,241 When they are clearing the residence, 47 00:02:21,275 --> 00:02:23,793 as they go and come down the hallway 48 00:02:24,793 --> 00:02:26,413 we find a female subject 49 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,103 lying in the bathroom 50 00:02:29,137 --> 00:02:30,137 clearly had been shot. 51 00:02:34,827 --> 00:02:38,172 It appeared as though she was probably standing at the mirror 52 00:02:38,206 --> 00:02:40,620 when she was shot and she fell 53 00:02:40,655 --> 00:02:43,067 because she was at an unnatural angle 54 00:02:43,103 --> 00:02:45,137 but she was on her back, so you could see her face. 55 00:02:46,344 --> 00:02:48,655 She was a petite, pretty girl. 56 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,620 I then spoke with the family 57 00:02:51,655 --> 00:02:55,930 and that's when I learned that she was aPlayboy model. 58 00:02:55,965 --> 00:02:57,793 We just have to figure out why did it happen. 59 00:03:06,758 --> 00:03:08,586 Playboywas definitely in flux 60 00:03:08,620 --> 00:03:11,172 around the late '90s, early 2000s. 61 00:03:11,206 --> 00:03:14,034 Hef had just got out of a long-term marriage 62 00:03:14,068 --> 00:03:15,379 and was dating multiple women 63 00:03:15,413 --> 00:03:16,413 and going out all the time 64 00:03:16,448 --> 00:03:18,379 and getting all this publicity. 65 00:03:18,413 --> 00:03:21,137 I was one of Hef's girlfriends of the time. 66 00:03:21,172 --> 00:03:23,482 I had not even been there a full year yet. 67 00:03:23,517 --> 00:03:25,896 So, I was still feeling very new. 68 00:03:25,931 --> 00:03:28,896 My close friend Bridget had just started coming out with us 69 00:03:28,931 --> 00:03:31,034 so we were just meeting each other. 70 00:03:31,068 --> 00:03:33,896 So, it was all kind of still a whirlwind to me. 71 00:03:36,379 --> 00:03:38,344 When Hef first started dating 72 00:03:38,379 --> 00:03:40,206 there was three girls, 73 00:03:40,241 --> 00:03:42,413 and then it turned to seven girlfriends. 74 00:03:42,448 --> 00:03:44,310 I was part of the seven, 75 00:03:44,344 --> 00:03:46,000 and then while I was there 76 00:03:46,034 --> 00:03:49,379 it went from seven down to three, 77 00:03:49,413 --> 00:03:52,655 and then the three of us were part of a show called The Girls Next Door. 78 00:03:53,758 --> 00:03:55,067 -[knock at door] -Bridget? 79 00:03:55,103 --> 00:03:57,034 [Madison] Bridget is one of my best friends ever 80 00:03:57,067 --> 00:03:58,344 and my favorite thing about her 81 00:03:58,379 --> 00:03:59,551 is she gets super excited 82 00:03:59,586 --> 00:04:01,827 and it's just fun to have people like that around. 83 00:04:01,862 --> 00:04:04,310 [Marquadt] Playboy is something that I always wanted to do. 84 00:04:04,344 --> 00:04:05,896 My dad used to get the magazine 85 00:04:05,931 --> 00:04:07,620 and I would thumb through and think, 86 00:04:07,655 --> 00:04:09,413 "Oh, my gosh, I wanna look just like those girls." 87 00:04:12,137 --> 00:04:15,758 I think what made Hef so special is just what he built. 88 00:04:15,793 --> 00:04:19,103 The empire that he built, the magazine. 89 00:04:19,137 --> 00:04:22,310 To be a Playboymodel, it was like a coveted title. 90 00:04:23,482 --> 00:04:25,034 It was glamorous. 91 00:04:25,586 --> 00:04:27,482 It was beautiful. 92 00:04:27,517 --> 00:04:30,275 And it was this title that kind of gave you a stepping stone 93 00:04:30,310 --> 00:04:32,586 to do bigger things in life. 94 00:04:32,620 --> 00:04:35,034 [Madison] I would say there's two different categories of women 95 00:04:35,068 --> 00:04:36,068 who would become Playmates. 96 00:04:36,103 --> 00:04:38,068 There would be the one category 97 00:04:38,103 --> 00:04:39,310 that maybe they were scouted 98 00:04:39,344 --> 00:04:40,413 or somebody saw them and thought, 99 00:04:40,448 --> 00:04:41,724 "Oh, you'd be great in the magazine." 100 00:04:41,758 --> 00:04:43,620 Or the women who are fans of the magazine 101 00:04:43,655 --> 00:04:45,310 and really wanted to be in it. 102 00:04:45,344 --> 00:04:48,448 And there was no bigger fan ofPlayboy than Jill Ann Spaulding. 103 00:04:48,482 --> 00:04:50,103 She was a huge fan of the magazine 104 00:04:50,137 --> 00:04:51,310 and the Playmates who were in it 105 00:04:51,344 --> 00:04:53,103 and she really wanted to be one of them. 106 00:05:01,103 --> 00:05:05,379 Jill Ann Spaulding was born in April 1970, in Phoenix, Arizona. 107 00:05:07,965 --> 00:05:10,965 Jill Ann's parents were extremely liberal. 108 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,586 Her grandfather was actually a collector of Playboy, 109 00:05:13,620 --> 00:05:15,206 and so she really grew up 110 00:05:15,241 --> 00:05:17,275 knowing that there was no shame 111 00:05:17,310 --> 00:05:19,517 in a woman's body. 112 00:05:19,551 --> 00:05:23,551 Jill Ann really became driven to start her own Playboycollection. 113 00:05:24,689 --> 00:05:26,931 All of these women were real idols, 114 00:05:26,965 --> 00:05:30,896 and sort of the paradigms of glamor for Jill. 115 00:05:30,931 --> 00:05:33,137 [Marquadt] I think that when Jill Ann saw the magazines, 116 00:05:33,172 --> 00:05:38,172 she saw beautiful, glamorous women who were put on a pedestal, 117 00:05:38,206 --> 00:05:42,758 who had this amazing coveted title of being Playmate, 118 00:05:42,793 --> 00:05:44,724 or inPlayboy magazine, 119 00:05:44,758 --> 00:05:48,517 and it was a very coveted thing to want to do. 120 00:05:49,517 --> 00:05:51,206 [Tryon] I believe Jill lovedPlayboy 121 00:05:51,241 --> 00:05:53,931 because she just thought it was classy 122 00:05:53,965 --> 00:05:57,689 and displayed the beauty of a woman's body. 123 00:06:02,758 --> 00:06:06,206 After high school Jill moved out of her house 124 00:06:06,241 --> 00:06:09,241 and started her pursuit on her modeling. 125 00:06:10,482 --> 00:06:12,034 She wanted to be aPlayboy model. 126 00:06:13,103 --> 00:06:14,724 Jill was very beautiful. 127 00:06:14,758 --> 00:06:17,413 Very skinny, big boobs. 128 00:06:17,448 --> 00:06:19,448 I guess you have to have that to be inPlayboy. 129 00:06:20,137 --> 00:06:21,724 She had a laugh. 130 00:06:21,758 --> 00:06:24,724 I mean her laugh just put a smile on my face. 131 00:06:26,275 --> 00:06:29,448 [Heinrichs] There's no question that she really wanted more. 132 00:06:30,413 --> 00:06:33,551 She wanted glamor, she wanted fame. 133 00:06:33,586 --> 00:06:39,724 She wanted to be someone who was known to people. 134 00:06:42,379 --> 00:06:44,241 Shortly after Jill leaves home, 135 00:06:44,275 --> 00:06:46,413 she meets Bruce Gifford 136 00:06:46,448 --> 00:06:48,448 and she's 21 years old at the time. 137 00:06:50,241 --> 00:06:53,068 They meet in a bar on Valentine's Day 138 00:06:53,103 --> 00:06:55,896 and he's 22 years older than her. 139 00:06:57,413 --> 00:06:59,655 [Tryon] Jill told me about Bruce, 140 00:06:59,689 --> 00:07:01,103 her boyfriend, on the phone. 141 00:07:01,137 --> 00:07:03,206 She just was saying that she met somebody, 142 00:07:03,241 --> 00:07:07,172 and so, it wasn't until later that I realized how old he was. 143 00:07:08,862 --> 00:07:11,793 [Supersonic] Bruce was pretty amazing. 144 00:07:11,827 --> 00:07:13,758 He was very calm and levelheaded. 145 00:07:13,793 --> 00:07:16,275 I never saw him lose his cool. 146 00:07:16,310 --> 00:07:18,482 He was like this good-looking guy, 147 00:07:18,517 --> 00:07:19,862 and he was just there. 148 00:07:21,275 --> 00:07:23,620 [Tryon] Bruce encouraged Jill to get 149 00:07:23,655 --> 00:07:25,448 all these plastic surgeries 150 00:07:25,482 --> 00:07:27,827 and liposuction and boob job. 151 00:07:29,965 --> 00:07:32,551 [Heinrichs] Obviously this caused some contention 152 00:07:32,586 --> 00:07:33,827 for Jill and her family. 153 00:07:33,862 --> 00:07:35,620 Her father was not thrilled. 154 00:07:37,310 --> 00:07:41,793 All of that contention really drove them closer to each other. 155 00:07:41,827 --> 00:07:46,931 Jill Ann often recalls that Bruce would refer to her as his princess. 156 00:07:47,655 --> 00:07:49,793 Was he a steadfast supporter 157 00:07:49,827 --> 00:07:52,655 or was this a control thing for Bruce 158 00:07:52,689 --> 00:07:54,482 to be her shadow in so many ways? 159 00:08:00,034 --> 00:08:02,034 I met Jill Ann in the early 2000s. 160 00:08:03,103 --> 00:08:06,034 She called me up to ask me to help her train. 161 00:08:06,068 --> 00:08:07,413 She wanted to get ready 162 00:08:07,448 --> 00:08:09,413 for a potential model shoot, 163 00:08:09,448 --> 00:08:11,379 and she wanted to get in the best shape of her life. 164 00:08:14,103 --> 00:08:17,482 Jill Ann was extremely focused about her goal, 165 00:08:17,517 --> 00:08:20,758 that her dream was, "I am gonna be in Playboy." 166 00:08:21,758 --> 00:08:23,689 And she wouldn't say, "Hey, I want to," 167 00:08:23,724 --> 00:08:26,137 she said, "I am going to be inPlayboy." 168 00:08:26,172 --> 00:08:27,655 "I am going to be inPlayboy." 169 00:08:27,689 --> 00:08:29,344 And those words always stuck out, 170 00:08:29,379 --> 00:08:33,206 because like, for people who have goals and dreams, 171 00:08:33,241 --> 00:08:36,379 she was already in her mind realizing it. 172 00:08:36,413 --> 00:08:41,586 So, I go over there and I was immediately uncomfortable at her house. 173 00:08:41,620 --> 00:08:44,068 She's wearing short shorts 174 00:08:44,102 --> 00:08:47,862 and a little t-tank top, half shirt with no bra, 175 00:08:47,896 --> 00:08:51,034 and then she's like, "Let's go upstairs to my bedroom." 176 00:08:52,793 --> 00:08:54,862 And I am like, "Okay, that's awkward." 177 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Now, Bruce is with us, 178 00:08:58,034 --> 00:08:59,655 we're working out in her bedroom 179 00:08:59,689 --> 00:09:01,206 which is already a lot to me. 180 00:09:01,241 --> 00:09:02,275 I mean the whole first month 181 00:09:02,310 --> 00:09:04,310 was like a whirlwind of dynamics 182 00:09:04,344 --> 00:09:07,241 of me working out Jill Ann in her bedroom 183 00:09:07,275 --> 00:09:09,896 with her boyfriend sitting there on the bed. 184 00:09:13,586 --> 00:09:16,344 Bruce was just support structure 185 00:09:16,379 --> 00:09:17,379 for Jill Ann. 186 00:09:18,517 --> 00:09:20,793 And I think Bruce recognized right away, 187 00:09:20,827 --> 00:09:23,724 "Hey I just need to stand back and let her do her thing 188 00:09:23,758 --> 00:09:25,103 and we'll be super successful." 189 00:09:32,586 --> 00:09:33,758 [Madison] Over the next few years, 190 00:09:33,793 --> 00:09:36,034 Jill continued to model locally. 191 00:09:36,068 --> 00:09:37,034 To supplement her income 192 00:09:37,068 --> 00:09:39,068 she became a professional poker player, 193 00:09:39,103 --> 00:09:41,103 and she and Bruce also started buying 194 00:09:41,137 --> 00:09:43,137 investment properties around Arizona, 195 00:09:43,172 --> 00:09:44,586 but throughout this whole time 196 00:09:44,620 --> 00:09:46,586 she still had her eyes on the prize. 197 00:09:46,620 --> 00:09:48,379 She still really wanted to be a Playmate. 198 00:09:49,172 --> 00:09:51,482 Jill's drive came from her heart, 199 00:09:51,517 --> 00:09:53,137 from her passion, from everything. 200 00:09:53,172 --> 00:09:56,758 Every inch of being what she wanted to do she was gonna do, 201 00:09:56,793 --> 00:09:59,482 and uh, that's the way she got things accomplished. 202 00:10:07,310 --> 00:10:09,931 So, at 30 years old, Jill Ann decides 203 00:10:09,965 --> 00:10:13,103 she wants to pursue Playboyfull force. 204 00:10:13,137 --> 00:10:16,586 Ultimately it was because she had built confidence. 205 00:10:16,620 --> 00:10:20,310 She had, you know, a team of people who were really behind her 206 00:10:20,344 --> 00:10:23,103 saying, "This is a dream that you can make real." 207 00:10:27,827 --> 00:10:29,758 On December seventh, 2000, 208 00:10:29,793 --> 00:10:32,068 Jill Ann has her first test shoot with Playboy. 209 00:10:33,793 --> 00:10:35,275 [Marquadt] Just a test for Playmate, 210 00:10:35,310 --> 00:10:37,586 there are different ways of doing that, 211 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:40,896 sometimes they had photoshoots where they were mobile. 212 00:10:40,931 --> 00:10:43,793 There were days that you could go to Santa Monica 213 00:10:43,827 --> 00:10:46,586 and get up nude photoshoots on really quick. 214 00:10:46,620 --> 00:10:48,310 I know Jill mentioned that she did that. 215 00:10:50,620 --> 00:10:53,620 [Clark] I do remember Jill Ann had a test shoot. 216 00:10:53,655 --> 00:10:54,827 The results weren't great. 217 00:10:56,827 --> 00:10:58,862 [Heinrichs] She gets a rejection letter fromPlayboy 218 00:10:58,896 --> 00:11:00,724 saying that, 'Now is not your time." 219 00:11:00,758 --> 00:11:03,310 That letter nailed home the fact that 220 00:11:03,344 --> 00:11:06,344 this is, you know, not an overnight path to fame 221 00:11:06,379 --> 00:11:10,448 and being someone who doesn't do anything less than a 110%, 222 00:11:10,482 --> 00:11:12,724 reads the letter, feels down for a moment, 223 00:11:12,758 --> 00:11:14,689 and then decides, "I'm gonna keep trying." 224 00:11:25,827 --> 00:11:29,034 One of the interesting things about Jill Ann was she was this poker player. 225 00:11:29,068 --> 00:11:31,034 It was interesting to me when we were training, 226 00:11:31,068 --> 00:11:34,000 I would see books on her bed and she's studying poker moves 227 00:11:34,034 --> 00:11:36,724 and she was reading books on poker. 228 00:11:36,758 --> 00:11:40,620 In May 2001, Jill Ann graces the cover of Poker Digest 229 00:11:40,655 --> 00:11:43,689 and the headline is, "Poker's Wonder Girl." 230 00:11:48,206 --> 00:11:50,344 Jill Ann decides that she's going to submit 231 00:11:50,379 --> 00:11:52,344 photos to Playboy.com 232 00:11:52,379 --> 00:11:55,310 fresh of this Poker Digestcover win. 233 00:11:56,965 --> 00:11:59,137 In the 2000s there would generally be 234 00:11:59,172 --> 00:12:02,172 about three different pictorials in each issue of Playboy. 235 00:12:02,206 --> 00:12:03,896 There would be the Playmate of the Month, 236 00:12:03,931 --> 00:12:05,103 which was the centerfold. 237 00:12:05,137 --> 00:12:06,931 There will be a celebrity pictorial 238 00:12:06,965 --> 00:12:08,793 which was typically what was on the cover. 239 00:12:08,827 --> 00:12:11,172 But there'd also be another pictorial 240 00:12:11,206 --> 00:12:13,620 and that would usually be about women 241 00:12:13,655 --> 00:12:16,275 or one woman who had something interesting about them. 242 00:12:16,310 --> 00:12:17,931 Whether it was a unique job 243 00:12:17,965 --> 00:12:19,896 or maybe they were from the military, 244 00:12:19,931 --> 00:12:22,551 maybe they were a police officer or something like that. 245 00:12:24,275 --> 00:12:28,344 I think Jill realized that if she wasn't fitting the mold of a centerfold, 246 00:12:28,379 --> 00:12:31,379 she could get in by having an interesting story 247 00:12:31,413 --> 00:12:32,931 and in the early 2000s 248 00:12:32,965 --> 00:12:35,344 poker was really, really trendy, 249 00:12:35,379 --> 00:12:37,689 and they jumped at the opportunity to photograph her. 250 00:12:52,241 --> 00:12:54,827 [Allocca] Jill Ann Spaulding was created 251 00:12:54,862 --> 00:12:56,689 to go intoPlayboy magazine. 252 00:12:56,724 --> 00:12:58,862 She had the body that Playboy 253 00:12:58,896 --> 00:13:00,896 would like to show, 254 00:13:00,931 --> 00:13:02,655 and I am sure every American man 255 00:13:02,689 --> 00:13:04,000 would like to look at. 256 00:13:12,482 --> 00:13:15,275 [Heinrichs] To Jill Ann Playboy was this utopia 257 00:13:15,310 --> 00:13:18,103 where women were empowered to get what they need, 258 00:13:18,689 --> 00:13:20,931 but fantasy and reality 259 00:13:20,965 --> 00:13:23,000 are two vastly different things. 260 00:13:33,586 --> 00:13:34,827 [Madison] Playboy expanded 261 00:13:34,862 --> 00:13:36,862 in the late '90s to the Internet 262 00:13:36,896 --> 00:13:38,172 and they have Playboy.com 263 00:13:38,206 --> 00:13:39,172 and they needed, of course, 264 00:13:39,206 --> 00:13:40,689 a lot more content for the website 265 00:13:40,724 --> 00:13:42,448 than they did for the magazine. 266 00:13:42,482 --> 00:13:45,827 Jill ended up doing a pictorial for Playboy.com, 267 00:13:45,862 --> 00:13:47,827 and it was featured on the website. 268 00:13:47,862 --> 00:13:49,000 [Marquadt] Being on Playboy.com 269 00:13:49,034 --> 00:13:50,586 is definitely an accomplishment, 270 00:13:50,620 --> 00:13:52,275 but Jill still wanted more, 271 00:13:52,310 --> 00:13:53,965 and she still wanted to be at the Mansion 272 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,517 and she was still pushing. 273 00:13:56,655 --> 00:13:58,896 She wasn't gonna stop at Playboy.com. 274 00:14:06,896 --> 00:14:10,724 Hugh Hefner was an icon to many people. 275 00:14:10,758 --> 00:14:12,896 That very first time you meet Hef 276 00:14:12,931 --> 00:14:15,103 and he's in his robe and smoking jacket, 277 00:14:15,137 --> 00:14:17,724 it just feels surreal, like, is this really happening? 278 00:14:19,448 --> 00:14:21,517 [Clark] To most males, he's probably 279 00:14:21,551 --> 00:14:23,413 one of those powerful people in the world. 280 00:14:23,931 --> 00:14:24,862 He has money. 281 00:14:24,896 --> 00:14:26,241 He has a beautiful house. 282 00:14:26,275 --> 00:14:27,862 He has beautiful women all around him. 283 00:14:27,896 --> 00:14:31,379 If there's some dreamlife for some kid growing up, I think this is it. 284 00:14:39,068 --> 00:14:40,827 Jill Ann decides to write a letter 285 00:14:40,862 --> 00:14:42,448 to the man himself, Hugh Hefner. 286 00:14:43,896 --> 00:14:45,586 [Marquadt] Jill sends a letter to Hef, 287 00:14:45,620 --> 00:14:49,103 with a, I believe it was a nude photo of herself in it, 288 00:14:49,724 --> 00:14:52,448 and he did respond, 289 00:14:52,482 --> 00:14:55,689 and he told her that she could come to the Mansion. 290 00:14:55,724 --> 00:14:58,172 [Madison] When I first knew that Jill was gonna be coming out with us, 291 00:14:58,206 --> 00:14:59,862 it was because Hef in his room 292 00:14:59,896 --> 00:15:01,517 would have this, like, wooden box 293 00:15:01,551 --> 00:15:03,620 and in it would be pictures of the women 294 00:15:03,655 --> 00:15:07,310 that were coming to the Mansion at any given time. 295 00:15:07,344 --> 00:15:11,310 There will be a picture and a little note card, paper clipped to the picture 296 00:15:11,344 --> 00:15:13,689 that would tell him, like the name and where she was from. 297 00:15:18,448 --> 00:15:20,344 [Heinrichs] That April 2002, 298 00:15:20,379 --> 00:15:22,241 Jill Ann arrives at the Mansion, 299 00:15:23,482 --> 00:15:26,931 and she's so thrilled but ultimately learns that 300 00:15:26,965 --> 00:15:30,068 there's a strict no husband, or boyfriend policy. 301 00:15:32,379 --> 00:15:35,793 [Madison] Playmates andPlayboy models were almost never allowed 302 00:15:35,827 --> 00:15:38,310 to bring boyfriends or husbands 303 00:15:38,344 --> 00:15:40,655 unless they happen to be married to somebody famous 304 00:15:40,689 --> 00:15:42,310 or Hef knew them really, really well. 305 00:15:44,034 --> 00:15:46,758 [Heinrichs] So, of course Bruce has to drop her off at the Mansion. 306 00:15:47,724 --> 00:15:48,931 [Clark] I'm sure Bruce is going, 307 00:15:48,965 --> 00:15:51,137 "Why is she with me? I'm 22 years older," 308 00:15:51,172 --> 00:15:54,310 then all the beautiful people going to the Playboy Mansion. 309 00:15:54,344 --> 00:15:56,965 I can imagine that would play on anybody's psyche 310 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,517 and so I'm sure Bruce felt 311 00:15:59,551 --> 00:16:01,206 a lot of insecurity around that. 312 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,482 So, Jill Ann is just this flurry of emotions. 313 00:16:10,517 --> 00:16:12,655 This is what she has been working for, 314 00:16:12,689 --> 00:16:14,655 for a very long time now. 315 00:16:14,689 --> 00:16:16,517 She wanted to be in that space 316 00:16:16,551 --> 00:16:18,344 and there she was finally in it 317 00:16:18,379 --> 00:16:20,758 but going into it alone. 318 00:16:20,793 --> 00:16:22,482 [Madison] Jill was a hugePlayboy fan. 319 00:16:22,517 --> 00:16:24,965 She had a huge Playboycollection. 320 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,896 I'd been a fan of the magazines, 321 00:16:26,931 --> 00:16:29,413 so when you finally get to step on the property 322 00:16:29,448 --> 00:16:30,758 and see all the Playmates 323 00:16:30,793 --> 00:16:33,068 and meet Hef it's really, really exciting. 324 00:16:34,862 --> 00:16:37,482 [Marquadt] ThePlayboy parties in the early 2000s 325 00:16:37,517 --> 00:16:39,793 were so incredible. 326 00:16:39,827 --> 00:16:41,379 They were super exclusive. 327 00:16:44,413 --> 00:16:46,068 A-list celebrities were there. 328 00:16:47,103 --> 00:16:49,172 It was just everybody put 329 00:16:49,206 --> 00:16:51,172 everything into, into their outfits. 330 00:16:51,206 --> 00:16:54,379 The decorations and the ambience, 331 00:16:54,413 --> 00:16:56,068 you just can't even believe you are in there. 332 00:16:56,103 --> 00:16:58,413 You feel like you have been transported into, like, a fairy world. 333 00:17:04,517 --> 00:17:06,792 [Heinrichs] Jill Ann makes couple of meaningful connections 334 00:17:06,827 --> 00:17:08,931 with some of the models. 335 00:17:08,964 --> 00:17:12,000 She makes it clear, "I wanna be a part of this space." 336 00:17:15,517 --> 00:17:17,103 So, a few months after the party 337 00:17:17,137 --> 00:17:18,964 in June, Jill Ann is invited 338 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,758 to spend a couple of days at the Mansion. 339 00:17:22,964 --> 00:17:27,482 I think the unique dynamic of Bruce and Jill Ann was that he was always there. 340 00:17:28,620 --> 00:17:31,689 I could imagine the dynamic of 341 00:17:31,724 --> 00:17:33,310 her being gone 342 00:17:33,344 --> 00:17:35,103 at the Mansion and boyfriends, 343 00:17:35,137 --> 00:17:37,965 from a couple they were together all the time 344 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,482 to all of a sudden a separation 345 00:17:39,517 --> 00:17:42,551 of no boyfriends at Mansion, Jill's there, Bruce is here. 346 00:17:42,586 --> 00:17:44,241 I can't imagine he dealt with that well 347 00:17:44,275 --> 00:17:45,793 because that was very different 348 00:17:45,827 --> 00:17:47,379 from the way they lived. 349 00:17:56,344 --> 00:17:57,758 [Madison] Jill was very confident. 350 00:17:57,793 --> 00:18:00,482 You could tell she definitely had the eyes on the prize. 351 00:18:00,517 --> 00:18:01,862 That she knew what she wanted. 352 00:18:01,896 --> 00:18:04,310 She was very friendly and talkative. 353 00:18:04,344 --> 00:18:06,137 She was very complimentary. 354 00:18:07,689 --> 00:18:09,655 She was outgoing to the point where 355 00:18:09,689 --> 00:18:12,310 I remember I was taking a shower after a night out 356 00:18:12,344 --> 00:18:14,344 and all of a sudden the door of the shower opens 357 00:18:14,379 --> 00:18:15,482 and she pops her head and she's like, 358 00:18:15,517 --> 00:18:17,689 "I just wanna tell you you're really beautiful." 359 00:18:17,724 --> 00:18:19,896 Which was sweet and everything but I was kind of like, 360 00:18:19,931 --> 00:18:23,482 I am very introverted, so, I was kinda like, "Wow, what's happening?" 361 00:18:26,482 --> 00:18:29,068 Unfortunately Jill Ann happened to walk in 362 00:18:29,103 --> 00:18:32,448 at the very worst time when we were talking about hostility, 363 00:18:32,482 --> 00:18:34,724 and females being competitive against one another. 364 00:18:36,586 --> 00:18:39,931 [Marquadt] At that time there were seven girlfriends who didn't really get along, 365 00:18:39,965 --> 00:18:43,206 and so there was like, uh, different factions. 366 00:18:43,241 --> 00:18:45,620 There was Holly and I and a couple other girls 367 00:18:45,655 --> 00:18:47,310 and then what we called "the Mean Girls." 368 00:18:48,379 --> 00:18:49,689 [Madison] Throughout my time atPlayboy, 369 00:18:49,724 --> 00:18:51,896 I've made tons of really close friends 370 00:18:51,931 --> 00:18:54,724 and had really positive times with other women 371 00:18:54,758 --> 00:18:56,758 but there was something about the years, 372 00:18:56,793 --> 00:18:59,137 like, 2002, 2003, 373 00:18:59,172 --> 00:19:00,551 right after I moved in, 374 00:19:00,586 --> 00:19:03,241 it was just really, really, toxic. 375 00:19:04,965 --> 00:19:08,241 [Marquadt] When I first met Jill Ann it was at the Playboy Mansion 376 00:19:08,275 --> 00:19:10,034 and it was in the Great Hall. 377 00:19:12,724 --> 00:19:15,620 Everybody is very curious when they get there. 378 00:19:15,655 --> 00:19:20,344 But Jill Ann had a lot more questions than the normal person. 379 00:19:20,379 --> 00:19:24,413 It was like, asking about everything, from meals and ordering 380 00:19:24,448 --> 00:19:26,758 and relationships with staff. 381 00:19:26,793 --> 00:19:29,379 Just like, so many questions, 382 00:19:29,413 --> 00:19:31,379 that you started to feel uncomfortable, 383 00:19:31,413 --> 00:19:33,862 like, "Why is this person asking so much stuff?" 384 00:19:35,551 --> 00:19:39,103 She was also very much with her camera 385 00:19:39,137 --> 00:19:41,620 trying to take pictures of every little thing. 386 00:19:41,655 --> 00:19:44,758 Even things that we felt uncomfortable about. 387 00:19:47,586 --> 00:19:50,724 It almost like the press was trying to infiltrate. 388 00:19:50,758 --> 00:19:53,068 [Madison] I know she was very talkative and nice 389 00:19:53,103 --> 00:19:54,931 and asking a lot of questions 390 00:19:54,965 --> 00:19:56,862 and I could tell some of the girls in the group 391 00:19:56,896 --> 00:19:59,862 felt very put off by all the questions she was asking. 392 00:20:04,758 --> 00:20:08,068 A fixture of Jill Ann's stay at the Mansion 393 00:20:08,103 --> 00:20:10,241 was a night out with all of the women 394 00:20:10,275 --> 00:20:13,241 living at the Mansion at that time. 395 00:20:13,275 --> 00:20:16,793 There's a limo, there's champagne bottles popping in the limo. 396 00:20:16,827 --> 00:20:19,206 It's exactly what Jill Ann thinks it's going to be, 397 00:20:19,241 --> 00:20:22,965 up until the point where they attend a club. 398 00:20:26,241 --> 00:20:30,068 Jill Ann learned quickly that you are not to engage 399 00:20:30,103 --> 00:20:32,689 or even look at another man outside of the circle. 400 00:20:32,724 --> 00:20:35,413 You are to give Hef your full attention. 401 00:20:36,965 --> 00:20:39,206 He was extremely controlling, 402 00:20:39,241 --> 00:20:41,689 and had a lot of expectations for these women. 403 00:20:41,724 --> 00:20:43,275 Another expectation was, 404 00:20:43,310 --> 00:20:44,965 "When we are get home 405 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,620 you are all heading up to my bedroom for sex." 406 00:20:51,724 --> 00:20:52,724 [Marquadt] I think there definitely 407 00:20:52,758 --> 00:20:54,724 can be a dark side to the Playboy Mansion. 408 00:20:55,620 --> 00:20:57,931 There is the whole bedroom routine 409 00:20:57,965 --> 00:20:59,620 and that is not for everybody, 410 00:20:59,655 --> 00:21:02,517 and you may or may not be okay with that. 411 00:21:03,862 --> 00:21:05,517 [Madison] Hef expected all his girlfriends 412 00:21:05,551 --> 00:21:07,517 and whatever other girls he could find 413 00:21:07,551 --> 00:21:09,137 at nightclubs or wherever 414 00:21:09,172 --> 00:21:11,620 to join him in the bedroom a couple of nights a week. 415 00:21:11,655 --> 00:21:13,482 But if you're new to the situation, 416 00:21:13,517 --> 00:21:15,103 whether you want to be a girlfriend 417 00:21:15,137 --> 00:21:16,793 or want to be a Playmate or whatever 418 00:21:16,827 --> 00:21:19,448 you don't know what exactly goes on in the bedroom 419 00:21:19,482 --> 00:21:21,862 or what's expected of you, that's never explained. 420 00:21:23,172 --> 00:21:24,689 [Heinrichs] I don't think Jill Ann knew 421 00:21:24,724 --> 00:21:26,758 exactly what she was getting herself into 422 00:21:26,793 --> 00:21:28,620 when she was pursuing this dream. 423 00:21:28,655 --> 00:21:30,793 Jill Ann was by no means... 424 00:21:31,310 --> 00:21:32,137 a dummy. 425 00:21:33,172 --> 00:21:36,448 The problem was Playboy had posited itself 426 00:21:36,482 --> 00:21:38,758 as this positive brand for women. 427 00:21:38,793 --> 00:21:44,413 It had posited itself as a means for women to achieve what Jill wanted 428 00:21:44,448 --> 00:21:47,482 which was financial freedom and independence, 429 00:21:47,517 --> 00:21:50,275 and a place where she could have fun, 430 00:21:50,310 --> 00:21:53,827 and live her life and feel beautiful. 431 00:21:56,206 --> 00:21:57,689 It was really the moment 432 00:21:57,724 --> 00:22:00,103 where the veil lifted for Jill Ann. 433 00:22:00,137 --> 00:22:03,206 This is what happens when no one is watching 434 00:22:03,241 --> 00:22:04,896 and when all the partygoers go home. 435 00:22:16,448 --> 00:22:18,724 We had a very clockwork schedule 436 00:22:18,758 --> 00:22:20,413 at the Mansion around that time. 437 00:22:20,448 --> 00:22:21,931 Everything was the same every week. 438 00:22:22,827 --> 00:22:24,000 Sundays, during the day, 439 00:22:24,034 --> 00:22:25,724 before buffet dinner and a movie, 440 00:22:25,758 --> 00:22:27,034 would be fun in the sun, 441 00:22:27,068 --> 00:22:30,206 so we would all be outside laying by the pool. 442 00:22:30,241 --> 00:22:32,724 Every Wednesday we went out to a nightclub. 443 00:22:32,758 --> 00:22:36,310 Thursday we would go out to dinner usually. 444 00:22:36,344 --> 00:22:38,551 Friday we would go out to a nightclub. 445 00:22:47,068 --> 00:22:48,413 [Marquadt] At the end of a club night, 446 00:22:48,448 --> 00:22:50,482 if you come up to the bedroom with everybody, 447 00:22:50,517 --> 00:22:52,379 there is a certain level of expectation 448 00:22:52,413 --> 00:22:54,586 that you are agreeing to participate. 449 00:22:56,103 --> 00:22:59,137 There is no forced participation or anything like that. 450 00:23:02,586 --> 00:23:04,206 But it's very frowned upon 451 00:23:04,241 --> 00:23:05,724 to be up there and just spectate. 452 00:23:13,758 --> 00:23:17,793 Hefner is really starting to pay attention to Jill Ann. 453 00:23:17,827 --> 00:23:20,275 And he's telling other women in the group, 454 00:23:20,310 --> 00:23:23,448 "I want to have sex with Jill Ann tonight." 455 00:23:23,482 --> 00:23:25,896 And so that expectation is now there. 456 00:23:28,068 --> 00:23:32,310 In her mind, Jill Ann is truly worried that 457 00:23:32,344 --> 00:23:35,724 there's a reality in which she refuses sex with Hefner 458 00:23:35,758 --> 00:23:37,758 and he would force her 459 00:23:37,793 --> 00:23:41,068 that she would be raped, essentially. 460 00:23:41,103 --> 00:23:44,551 And all of these other women would be participants in that. 461 00:23:47,172 --> 00:23:49,413 This is not what she had in mind at all. 462 00:23:49,448 --> 00:23:50,931 She's thinking of, you know, 463 00:23:50,965 --> 00:23:52,655 Bruce's reaction to all of this. 464 00:23:56,344 --> 00:23:57,758 [Clark] She drew a line in the sand, 465 00:23:57,793 --> 00:23:59,586 and Jill Ann said, "This is my line, 466 00:23:59,620 --> 00:24:00,655 and I'm not gonna cross it." 467 00:24:02,482 --> 00:24:04,137 They said, "Well, if you're gonna be here, 468 00:24:04,172 --> 00:24:06,827 you need to erase that line and move it over here." 469 00:24:06,862 --> 00:24:08,517 And she's like, "I'm not willing to do that." 470 00:24:11,689 --> 00:24:13,931 [Tryon] Jill called me and said she got banned 471 00:24:13,965 --> 00:24:15,724 from the Playboy Mansion. 472 00:24:15,758 --> 00:24:18,034 She said that Hugh Hefner has sex 473 00:24:18,068 --> 00:24:20,034 with all these Playboy bunnies. 474 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,965 And, uh, she refused. 475 00:24:26,827 --> 00:24:29,344 Sometimes you meet someone, you idolize them 476 00:24:29,379 --> 00:24:32,103 and you really don't know anything about them. 477 00:24:36,241 --> 00:24:37,827 It doesn't surprise me that she left. 478 00:24:38,551 --> 00:24:39,862 Jill didn't smoke. 479 00:24:39,896 --> 00:24:42,034 She didn't drink alcohol, 480 00:24:42,068 --> 00:24:45,137 and she was in a relationship with somebody. 481 00:24:47,413 --> 00:24:48,931 [Heinrichs] I think Jill Ann's expectation 482 00:24:48,965 --> 00:24:50,793 of the relationship with Hefner 483 00:24:50,827 --> 00:24:53,448 was one like she had with Bruce, 484 00:24:53,482 --> 00:24:57,000 where it was one of mutual interest, mutual support. 485 00:24:57,034 --> 00:25:02,034 One that didn't necessarily have any physical affection. 486 00:25:02,068 --> 00:25:05,206 So, to learn that it wasn't that 487 00:25:05,241 --> 00:25:08,068 and in fact was incredibly disturbing 488 00:25:08,103 --> 00:25:10,689 was a shock to Jill's system, 489 00:25:10,724 --> 00:25:13,896 and by the time she leaves the Mansion 490 00:25:13,931 --> 00:25:17,758 ultimately, she has the feeling of "This is not for me," 491 00:25:17,793 --> 00:25:21,000 and also, "I am going to find a way to tell this story." 492 00:25:30,758 --> 00:25:32,931 [Supersonic] I was Jill Ann's publicist, 493 00:25:32,965 --> 00:25:35,448 for her book, Jill Ann: Upstairs. 494 00:25:35,482 --> 00:25:37,586 It was a tell-all book on Hugh Hefner. 495 00:25:38,896 --> 00:25:41,344 I don't know if anybody else ever really 496 00:25:41,379 --> 00:25:43,344 stepped up to the plate like Jill did 497 00:25:43,379 --> 00:25:45,896 and you know spilled the beans 498 00:25:45,931 --> 00:25:48,103 and told everybody what was going on there. 499 00:25:49,620 --> 00:25:53,620 [Heinrichs] Upstairs was really one of the first exposes 500 00:25:53,655 --> 00:25:56,448 of thePlayboy brand written by someone 501 00:25:56,482 --> 00:25:58,103 who was actually there. 502 00:25:58,137 --> 00:26:00,655 Wo was actually a participant at the parties. 503 00:26:00,689 --> 00:26:03,344 Who stayed at the Mansion. 504 00:26:03,379 --> 00:26:06,413 And as in every venture that Jill Ann started, 505 00:26:06,448 --> 00:26:09,655 Bruce was incredibly supportive of Upstairs. 506 00:26:09,689 --> 00:26:11,862 He wanted to be a part of it. 507 00:26:11,896 --> 00:26:14,482 He helped her make sure that it was self-published, 508 00:26:14,517 --> 00:26:17,413 and of course in the dedication section, 509 00:26:17,448 --> 00:26:21,000 Jill Ann quite literally dedicates the entire book 510 00:26:21,034 --> 00:26:23,344 to Bruce and his support of her. 511 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,620 [Allocca] I first met Jill on a photoshoot 512 00:26:29,655 --> 00:26:32,000 that I was assigned for from the New York Post, 513 00:26:32,517 --> 00:26:33,586 Page Six. 514 00:26:33,620 --> 00:26:37,172 My job was to go and do a photo feature on her 515 00:26:37,206 --> 00:26:39,620 for a feature story they were writing on her 516 00:26:39,655 --> 00:26:42,103 about the bookUpstairs. 517 00:26:42,137 --> 00:26:44,620 So, I went up and took photos of her and her puppy. 518 00:26:45,827 --> 00:26:48,000 Back then, you know, in 2004, 519 00:26:48,034 --> 00:26:50,413 it was unheard of to come out against 520 00:26:50,448 --> 00:26:52,344 Playboy magazine, 521 00:26:52,379 --> 00:26:54,931 or something like Hugh Hefner. 522 00:26:54,965 --> 00:26:58,655 I was beside myself when I found out that somebody 523 00:26:58,689 --> 00:27:01,379 who was pushing all the buttons, asking all these questions 524 00:27:01,413 --> 00:27:04,586 and being very intrusive and taking all these pictures 525 00:27:04,620 --> 00:27:06,517 turned around and wrote a tell-all book. 526 00:27:07,551 --> 00:27:09,482 I was absolutely livid. 527 00:27:11,172 --> 00:27:14,000 [Madison] For me, the book felt like a violation 528 00:27:14,034 --> 00:27:15,827 because she came into the bedroom, 529 00:27:15,862 --> 00:27:18,206 did not have sex with Hef herself, 530 00:27:18,241 --> 00:27:21,068 but kinda watched everybody else and wrote about it, 531 00:27:21,689 --> 00:27:24,137 and for me that felt 532 00:27:24,172 --> 00:27:26,586 like something along the lines of revenge porn. 533 00:27:27,758 --> 00:27:30,724 I didn't actively consent to have her in the room. 534 00:27:30,758 --> 00:27:32,827 I didn't want her in the room. 535 00:27:32,862 --> 00:27:35,310 I think Hef definitely felt betrayed. 536 00:27:35,344 --> 00:27:37,344 Hef thought he was giving her a hand out 537 00:27:37,379 --> 00:27:38,896 and letting her come to the Mansion 538 00:27:38,931 --> 00:27:41,310 and kind of letting her dreams come true 539 00:27:41,344 --> 00:27:43,724 and then she took advantage. 540 00:27:43,758 --> 00:27:47,310 I don't know what Hef's reaction to the book was in private, 541 00:27:47,344 --> 00:27:48,620 and when he first found out. 542 00:27:48,655 --> 00:27:50,724 But his reactions to me was, 543 00:27:50,758 --> 00:27:54,379 "The best thing to do is to say nothing." 544 00:27:54,413 --> 00:27:55,482 To say nothing. 545 00:27:57,517 --> 00:28:01,206 [Heinrichs] I thinkPlayboy was... affronted 546 00:28:01,241 --> 00:28:04,413 that this person who was begging 547 00:28:04,448 --> 00:28:05,896 to be a part of that circuit 548 00:28:05,931 --> 00:28:08,448 would then have that experience 549 00:28:08,482 --> 00:28:09,896 and dare write about it, 550 00:28:09,931 --> 00:28:11,827 and dare write things that weren't positive. 551 00:28:13,310 --> 00:28:16,965 The allegations that she makes in this book, 552 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:22,103 the descriptions of certain instances in this book are criminal, 553 00:28:22,137 --> 00:28:25,586 or have criminal implications. 554 00:28:25,620 --> 00:28:27,379 [Supersonic] People were nervous for Jill 555 00:28:27,413 --> 00:28:30,724 that she was talking and saying these things. 556 00:28:30,758 --> 00:28:33,034 And then, "Oh, my God, what's gonna happen to her? 557 00:28:33,068 --> 00:28:35,620 She's scared. Something could happen to her." 558 00:28:38,482 --> 00:28:41,793 That was sort of the end of any relationship 559 00:28:41,827 --> 00:28:43,137 that Jill Ann would have with Playboy. 560 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,068 [reporter] Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has died at the age of 91. 561 00:28:57,103 --> 00:28:59,620 He's known worldwide as a hedonist who revved up 562 00:28:59,655 --> 00:29:01,862 the sexual revolution in the 1950s, 563 00:29:01,896 --> 00:29:04,448 and built a multi-media empire 564 00:29:04,482 --> 00:29:07,275 symbolized by bow-tied women in bunny costumes. 565 00:29:09,482 --> 00:29:12,000 [Madison] Hef was 91 when he passed away. 566 00:29:12,034 --> 00:29:14,137 According to the rumors that I heard, 567 00:29:14,172 --> 00:29:15,586 I don't think he was in very good health 568 00:29:15,620 --> 00:29:17,206 for the past few years. 569 00:29:17,241 --> 00:29:20,724 You know, he started to go in from the parties a lot earlier 570 00:29:20,758 --> 00:29:22,517 or not appear at his parties at all. 571 00:29:26,689 --> 00:29:29,482 [Heinrichs] In 2017 after Hefner has died, 572 00:29:29,517 --> 00:29:33,551 Jill Ann really takes that as an opportunity to recirculate her book. 573 00:29:34,793 --> 00:29:36,827 It really pissedPlayboy off. 574 00:29:36,862 --> 00:29:39,965 It pissed some of the women affiliated withPlayboy off, 575 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,344 and it was not a decision 576 00:29:42,379 --> 00:29:44,137 that was met with warm reception 577 00:29:44,172 --> 00:29:46,206 or even understanding at all. 578 00:29:47,517 --> 00:29:49,482 [Marquadt] She was using Hugh Hefner's death 579 00:29:49,517 --> 00:29:51,517 to promote herself and promote her book 580 00:29:51,551 --> 00:29:53,793 and I just think that that's bottom of the barrel. 581 00:29:55,482 --> 00:29:57,034 [Supersonic] I went back and checked to see 582 00:29:57,068 --> 00:29:59,689 when she was last in the press, 583 00:29:59,724 --> 00:30:01,206 and it was right when he died. 584 00:30:01,241 --> 00:30:03,034 I was like, "Oh, that was the wrong thing to do." 585 00:30:04,896 --> 00:30:06,448 [Haynes] You're always gonna wonder 586 00:30:06,482 --> 00:30:08,310 especially when you have someone like Jill 587 00:30:08,344 --> 00:30:10,620 and what she accomplished in her life 588 00:30:10,655 --> 00:30:11,724 and that book. 589 00:30:12,827 --> 00:30:14,965 That book I'm sure made a lot of enemies. 590 00:30:17,068 --> 00:30:18,310 A lot of enemies. 591 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,931 [Heinrichs] On December 23rd, 2017, 592 00:30:33,965 --> 00:30:36,379 Mesa Police respond to a 911 call 593 00:30:36,413 --> 00:30:38,827 on a quiet residential street... 594 00:30:38,862 --> 00:30:41,551 [indistinct conversation on radio] 595 00:30:42,551 --> 00:30:44,206 ...and find three dead bodies. 596 00:30:46,551 --> 00:30:47,827 When we get to the scene 597 00:30:47,862 --> 00:30:49,482 as the homicide investigators, 598 00:30:49,517 --> 00:30:53,137 we knew that they found a third body. 599 00:30:53,172 --> 00:30:56,275 We knew that one was possibly Jill. 600 00:30:57,896 --> 00:30:59,275 One was possibly Bruce. 601 00:31:00,655 --> 00:31:03,275 They did not know who the third person was. 602 00:31:08,931 --> 00:31:11,620 I learned that Jill was aPlayboy model, 603 00:31:12,551 --> 00:31:15,275 and that she had risen 604 00:31:15,310 --> 00:31:18,413 up through the, the modeling career 605 00:31:18,448 --> 00:31:20,862 and now she owns businesses 606 00:31:20,896 --> 00:31:23,103 and she had made something of herself. 607 00:31:24,310 --> 00:31:28,034 [Marquadt] The manner in which she died is shocking. 608 00:31:28,068 --> 00:31:31,034 Regardless of what my relationship was like with her 609 00:31:31,068 --> 00:31:32,758 or how you feel about somebody 610 00:31:32,793 --> 00:31:34,586 that's never okay to hear that about 611 00:31:34,620 --> 00:31:36,068 somebody that you've known. 612 00:31:37,862 --> 00:31:40,103 [Clark] And the immediate thought was, 613 00:31:41,034 --> 00:31:42,758 it's somebody very close to me. 614 00:31:42,793 --> 00:31:45,172 I've spent very near and dear time 615 00:31:45,206 --> 00:31:47,206 with Jill Ann and... 616 00:31:47,241 --> 00:31:50,275 this is someone who I have a bunch of admiration for. 617 00:31:52,931 --> 00:31:54,724 [Haynes] You always have to consider, 618 00:31:54,758 --> 00:31:57,034 when you come to a homicide investigation, 619 00:31:57,068 --> 00:31:58,517 "Did they make somebody mad?" 620 00:32:01,655 --> 00:32:03,482 When I heard about the fact 621 00:32:03,517 --> 00:32:05,448 that Jill had that tell-all book 622 00:32:05,482 --> 00:32:08,000 then I started thinking, "Do they have enemies 623 00:32:08,034 --> 00:32:10,344 that want to do harm to them? 624 00:32:10,379 --> 00:32:12,137 And is it to the point that 625 00:32:12,172 --> 00:32:14,068 they would actually kill multiple people 626 00:32:14,103 --> 00:32:16,310 just to kill their one target?" 627 00:32:16,344 --> 00:32:17,793 [Supersonic] I was trying to figure out the date, 628 00:32:17,827 --> 00:32:21,000 the first thing I thought was like, 'When did Hugh die?" 629 00:32:21,034 --> 00:32:22,965 And what day did she go out there 630 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:23,965 and start talking about him, 631 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,655 like, the next day immediately? 632 00:32:25,689 --> 00:32:26,965 You have to think about 633 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,482 you're not up against Hugh Hefner anymore 634 00:32:28,517 --> 00:32:29,931 because he's a dead guy. 635 00:32:29,965 --> 00:32:32,482 Now you're up against his estate. 636 00:32:32,517 --> 00:32:35,517 Now, it's a problem, and she is causing problems. 637 00:32:35,551 --> 00:32:38,206 Maybe somebody needed to eliminate the problem. 638 00:32:38,241 --> 00:32:40,655 [Clark] I think without a doubt Jill Ann could have been 639 00:32:40,689 --> 00:32:42,068 a murder-for-hire situation 640 00:32:42,103 --> 00:32:45,172 on outing one of the most iconic brands 641 00:32:45,206 --> 00:32:47,482 in North America, maybe the world. 642 00:32:55,137 --> 00:32:59,413 When we got there, Bruce's children were on scene 643 00:32:59,448 --> 00:33:02,172 because they were supposed to be meeting for dinner. 644 00:33:02,206 --> 00:33:03,655 When they couldn't get hold of him, 645 00:33:03,689 --> 00:33:05,517 they came looking to see, 646 00:33:05,551 --> 00:33:06,689 you know, "Hey, what's going on?" 647 00:33:06,724 --> 00:33:08,551 They see all the police presence and everything. 648 00:33:10,172 --> 00:33:13,068 Bruce Gifford was 70-year-old man. 649 00:33:13,103 --> 00:33:17,379 From what I've gathered, very, very likeable guy. 650 00:33:17,413 --> 00:33:20,827 I learned that Bruce and Jill had recently separated 651 00:33:20,862 --> 00:33:24,068 within a couple of months prior to this incident, 652 00:33:24,103 --> 00:33:28,275 and he actually was staying at Jill's grandfather's house 653 00:33:28,310 --> 00:33:32,344 with Jill for a little bit, while he's figuring out what he was gonna do. 654 00:33:32,379 --> 00:33:34,586 [Heinrichs] At some point afterPlayboy, 655 00:33:34,620 --> 00:33:37,000 and after Jill Ann has made a name for herself 656 00:33:37,034 --> 00:33:38,517 in a lot of other ways, 657 00:33:38,551 --> 00:33:40,724 she has a lot of successful businesses, 658 00:33:40,758 --> 00:33:43,068 she has so much going for her 659 00:33:43,103 --> 00:33:46,068 and is so much more established as a woman at this time, 660 00:33:46,103 --> 00:33:49,206 she decides that Bruce isn't the partner 661 00:33:49,241 --> 00:33:51,344 that she's going to spend the rest of her life with. 662 00:33:56,275 --> 00:34:01,793 [Tryon] In August of 2017, Jill called me. 663 00:34:01,827 --> 00:34:05,482 Her and Bruce wanted to take me to dinner. 664 00:34:05,517 --> 00:34:08,068 They seemed happy together. 665 00:34:08,103 --> 00:34:11,585 I had no idea that they were, like, apart. 666 00:34:11,620 --> 00:34:14,551 [Haynes] The separation according to everybody was amicable. 667 00:34:14,585 --> 00:34:16,827 He's staying at Jill's grandfather's house. 668 00:34:16,862 --> 00:34:19,482 I mean there's obviously no issues if he's still with the family. 669 00:34:25,585 --> 00:34:27,896 When we were briefed patrol had already spoken 670 00:34:27,931 --> 00:34:30,206 to a neighbor that lived across the street. 671 00:34:31,344 --> 00:34:34,413 He had said that he had come home from his run 672 00:34:34,447 --> 00:34:40,827 and he had seen Jill and this unknown male getting out of the vehicle, 673 00:34:40,862 --> 00:34:43,585 and she had walked inside the house with that male. 674 00:34:46,688 --> 00:34:50,275 Ultimately though, it's revealed that that person is not a stranger. 675 00:34:50,310 --> 00:34:52,241 That's Jill Ann's new boyfriend. 676 00:34:55,585 --> 00:34:59,310 [Haynes] Ben Childs was a new boyfriend to Jill. 677 00:35:00,103 --> 00:35:01,724 Bruce and Jill had opened 678 00:35:01,758 --> 00:35:03,482 one of their businesses out in California. 679 00:35:03,517 --> 00:35:04,965 Ben was out in California 680 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,344 and he ended up starting to work for 681 00:35:07,379 --> 00:35:09,793 Bruce and Jill for that business. 682 00:35:11,827 --> 00:35:13,172 [Tryon] And I believe this was 683 00:35:13,206 --> 00:35:17,034 Jill's, like, first real relationship since Bruce. 684 00:35:17,068 --> 00:35:19,620 [Heinrichs] He was a sort of ordinary guy 685 00:35:19,655 --> 00:35:21,482 who had no ties toPlayboy 686 00:35:21,517 --> 00:35:23,827 or any part of that chapter of her life. 687 00:35:23,862 --> 00:35:26,827 He really was a person who 688 00:35:26,862 --> 00:35:30,172 had no interest in chasing any of that lifestyle. 689 00:35:30,206 --> 00:35:31,931 He was content with where he was at, 690 00:35:31,965 --> 00:35:34,310 and so this was the ideal person 691 00:35:34,344 --> 00:35:37,620 that Jill Ann probably needed to be with at this time in her life. 692 00:35:42,931 --> 00:35:44,724 [Haynes] Because we were getting that information 693 00:35:44,758 --> 00:35:47,551 that we knew there was two men and one female in there, 694 00:35:47,586 --> 00:35:50,517 we started figuring out well, that's probably Jill, 695 00:35:50,551 --> 00:35:54,206 probably Bruce and probably Ben that are in there. 696 00:35:54,241 --> 00:35:56,482 So, now we are trying to figure out 697 00:35:57,379 --> 00:35:58,344 who did what. 698 00:36:00,655 --> 00:36:02,172 [Heinrichs] It leads police to wonder, 699 00:36:02,206 --> 00:36:04,379 had there been a lovers quarrel? 700 00:36:04,413 --> 00:36:08,931 Had Ben been upset about something related to the job? 701 00:36:08,965 --> 00:36:11,206 Could something have happened 702 00:36:11,241 --> 00:36:13,862 between Bruce and Jill Ann again 703 00:36:13,896 --> 00:36:16,551 and Ben was there to defend her honor? 704 00:36:17,620 --> 00:36:18,862 All of these possibilities 705 00:36:18,896 --> 00:36:20,172 are running through police's mind. 706 00:36:20,931 --> 00:36:23,103 Geez, did Ben do this? 707 00:36:24,793 --> 00:36:27,172 Is he the one that shot everybody and shot himself? 708 00:36:39,827 --> 00:36:42,275 [Haynes] So, when we first saw Ben's body, 709 00:36:42,310 --> 00:36:45,551 we were still under the theory that he possibly shot himself. 710 00:36:48,137 --> 00:36:50,758 We initially lifted up Ben first 711 00:36:50,793 --> 00:36:52,448 because we thought for sure 712 00:36:52,482 --> 00:36:54,551 weapon's gonna be underneath him. 713 00:36:54,586 --> 00:36:57,448 So, when they rolled Ben over and there was no weapon, 714 00:36:57,482 --> 00:37:00,586 we are like, obviously there was someone else in this residence, 715 00:37:01,482 --> 00:37:03,620 and we have an outstanding suspect. 716 00:37:03,655 --> 00:37:06,344 Probably shouldn't have jumped the gun, if you will, right away 717 00:37:06,379 --> 00:37:08,241 because then we went over to Bruce 718 00:37:08,275 --> 00:37:10,931 and when they moved Bruce we found the weapon. 719 00:37:12,482 --> 00:37:13,896 Everyone was like, "Wow." 720 00:37:13,931 --> 00:37:16,310 Wasn't expecting that because we thought 721 00:37:16,344 --> 00:37:18,862 we would have seen the weapon if Bruce had it. 722 00:37:18,896 --> 00:37:21,689 Um, but obviously they can drop and fall any place 723 00:37:21,724 --> 00:37:23,931 before he falls, he was taller guy. 724 00:37:23,965 --> 00:37:26,482 It ended up falling on the ground and he landed on top of it. 725 00:37:30,620 --> 00:37:35,068 With Bruce, his gunshot wound was clearly self-inflicted. 726 00:37:35,103 --> 00:37:37,620 As it was right hand, he is right handed 727 00:37:37,655 --> 00:37:40,206 and it was at the top of his head, right hand side 728 00:37:40,241 --> 00:37:43,137 and it had gone down, so, the way someone would hold the gun 729 00:37:43,172 --> 00:37:44,689 if they were going to shoot themselves. 730 00:37:46,482 --> 00:37:48,344 [Heinrichs] Medical examiners concluded that 731 00:37:48,379 --> 00:37:51,827 it was in fact not Ben who was the perpetrator in this situation, 732 00:37:51,862 --> 00:37:54,965 but that Bruce had entered the home 733 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,310 shot Jill Ann and Ben and then of course turned the gun on himself. 734 00:38:07,413 --> 00:38:09,827 [Haynes] During the investigation we learned that, 735 00:38:09,862 --> 00:38:13,068 all of the businesses, all of the property, 736 00:38:13,103 --> 00:38:15,413 everything was in Jill's name. 737 00:38:15,448 --> 00:38:18,655 I am sure it just became too much for Bruce. 738 00:38:18,689 --> 00:38:22,034 He had to have felt, "What do I have anymore? I have no money. 739 00:38:22,068 --> 00:38:24,793 I don't have Jill. I don't have my Playboymodel. 740 00:38:24,827 --> 00:38:26,241 What is there to live for?" 741 00:38:34,620 --> 00:38:35,827 [Madison] For someone like Bruce, 742 00:38:35,862 --> 00:38:37,862 he could see Jill Ann as a trophy 743 00:38:37,896 --> 00:38:40,896 because she is a Playboymodel and a prize that he has won, 744 00:38:40,931 --> 00:38:42,620 and when that gets taken away from him 745 00:38:42,655 --> 00:38:44,344 and she is with another man, 746 00:38:44,379 --> 00:38:45,827 he takes it hard. 747 00:38:47,620 --> 00:38:49,517 [Clark] The sheer angst that 748 00:38:49,551 --> 00:38:52,172 he's got a feeling in his mind of her leaving. 749 00:38:52,206 --> 00:38:55,551 My assumption is that the jealousy is so high 750 00:38:55,586 --> 00:38:59,862 that if he can't be with Jill Ann, no one's gonna be. 751 00:38:59,896 --> 00:39:03,965 [Haynes] Bruce seeing Ben and Jill walking in to the house. 752 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,965 I think it was definitely a crime of passion 753 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,896 like it just, it pushed him over the edge. 754 00:39:11,931 --> 00:39:15,448 [Clark] My guess is that he killed the partner first. 755 00:39:17,586 --> 00:39:19,103 So she would know the pain, 756 00:39:19,137 --> 00:39:20,655 like, "I just killed your partner." 757 00:39:23,689 --> 00:39:25,275 [Haynes] I don't think Jill saw it coming 758 00:39:25,310 --> 00:39:28,793 because she was lulled into a false sense of security 759 00:39:28,827 --> 00:39:32,827 that, "Well, no, he would never do this to me. He's not Hugh Hefner. 760 00:39:32,862 --> 00:39:36,586 That guy was just blatant about how he was, 761 00:39:37,275 --> 00:39:38,551 and Bruce isn't. 762 00:39:39,448 --> 00:39:40,758 Bruce takes care of me." 763 00:39:57,896 --> 00:39:58,896 [gunshot] 764 00:40:02,137 --> 00:40:04,310 [Haynes] Whenever it's a murder-suicide, 765 00:40:04,344 --> 00:40:06,551 I don't believe there's ever any justice. 766 00:40:07,620 --> 00:40:10,448 Ben's family was devastated. He has a child, 767 00:40:10,482 --> 00:40:12,758 that is now gonna grow up without her father. 768 00:40:13,758 --> 00:40:16,379 Ben had nothing to do with this. 769 00:40:16,413 --> 00:40:19,448 Just the wrong place, wrong time, wrong person, 770 00:40:20,586 --> 00:40:22,758 and he paid the ultimate price. 771 00:40:25,310 --> 00:40:27,068 [Heinrichs] In many ways Jill Ann Spaulding 772 00:40:27,103 --> 00:40:29,655 was really a progressive woman 773 00:40:29,689 --> 00:40:31,827 who was truly ahead of her times. 774 00:40:31,862 --> 00:40:35,068 She was one of the first women to ever speak publicly 775 00:40:35,103 --> 00:40:36,896 about the disillusionment that she felt 776 00:40:36,931 --> 00:40:39,034 withPlayboy and with Hefner. 777 00:40:41,344 --> 00:40:43,620 [Supersonic] Jill's mission was to bring the truth 778 00:40:43,655 --> 00:40:45,586 to the people about Playboy, 779 00:40:45,620 --> 00:40:47,793 you know through her book. 780 00:40:47,827 --> 00:40:51,068 It was a creative way to tell her story. 781 00:40:53,862 --> 00:40:55,137 [Madison] When I read Jill Ann's book, 782 00:40:55,172 --> 00:40:56,931 I think I was really surprised, 783 00:40:56,965 --> 00:40:58,931 that you know, just how methodical 784 00:40:58,965 --> 00:41:00,931 her plan to get intoPlayboy was 785 00:41:00,965 --> 00:41:04,172 which is great, like I love, ambition and... 786 00:41:05,172 --> 00:41:07,206 that was something I kinda had an idea 787 00:41:07,241 --> 00:41:08,551 about Jill Ann when I met her, 788 00:41:08,586 --> 00:41:10,620 but didn't know all the details. 789 00:41:12,689 --> 00:41:14,448 [Marquadt] After re-reading Jill's book 790 00:41:14,482 --> 00:41:16,517 and all these years have passed, 791 00:41:16,551 --> 00:41:18,172 I understand her passion, 792 00:41:18,827 --> 00:41:20,827 and I understand her drive 793 00:41:20,862 --> 00:41:22,793 and I even understand the obsession 794 00:41:22,827 --> 00:41:24,517 to a certain extent. 795 00:41:24,551 --> 00:41:26,551 I was there. I wanted it, too. 796 00:41:26,586 --> 00:41:28,310 I put a lot on the line to get there. 797 00:41:28,344 --> 00:41:31,965 In a lot of ways our, um, paths were the same. 798 00:41:34,068 --> 00:41:37,551 [Heinrichs] I think there is a discernible tragic note 799 00:41:37,586 --> 00:41:40,655 that often follows women who are associated with Playboy. 800 00:41:41,655 --> 00:41:43,655 Multiple women have alleged 801 00:41:43,689 --> 00:41:46,379 incredibly serious criminal wrong-doing. 802 00:41:46,413 --> 00:41:49,827 Multiple women have wound up dead 803 00:41:49,862 --> 00:41:51,931 who have been associated withPlayboy. 804 00:41:51,965 --> 00:41:56,793 There is a deeply sordid underbelly of the brand. 805 00:41:56,827 --> 00:41:58,862 [Tryon] I think if Jill was still around, 806 00:41:58,896 --> 00:42:02,206 she would be something incredible. 807 00:42:03,137 --> 00:42:07,172 She'd have her own show or a podcast 808 00:42:07,206 --> 00:42:10,379 or... I know she'd be doing something. 809 00:42:10,413 --> 00:42:11,413 Showing off herself. 810 00:42:12,103 --> 00:42:13,586 That's what Jill's about.