Hugh Hefnermay have cultivated a 24/7/365 party lifestyle for himself and his friends, but the party eventually stopped for the women surrounding him.
In PEOPLE’s exclusive sneak peek at Monday’s episode ofSecrets of Playboy, titled “The Shadow Mansions,” Playboy party regulars Jennifer Saginor and Jackie Hatten describe an evening when they realized even someone as famous asAnna Nicole Smithwas “disposable” in the eyes of Hefner and his cronies.
The women were at a party at the home of Dr. Mark Saginor, Jennifer’s father and Hefner’s personal physician.
“It just seemed like all the girls were on the menu,” claims Hatten. “Even Anna Nicole. I got the feeling when we were at the party that she was up for grabs for whoever.”
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“Anna Nicole was right around 30 at the time, and Hef made some comment like, you know, ‘She’s being phased out,’ " recalls Hatten.
“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,” Saginor explains.
“I believe that there’s something exciting in meeting these young girls that would come from small towns that still kind of had that light in them, and watching them slowly burn that light out,” she continues.
This sentiment has been a throughline in A&E’s docuseries about Hefner’s"circus” of sexual debauchery.
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According toSondra Theodore, Hefner’s girlfriend from 1976–81, women at the Playboy Mansion “were just being used.”
She shared inepisode 8, “Predators' Ball,“that Hefner and his friends “liquored ‘em up, they gave ‘em drugs and they ended up in the Jacuzzi, and it was a free-for-all.”
ThePlayboyfounder and his pals “were power predators,” affirmed PJ Masten, who worked for Playboy from 1972–82. She continued, “And who set this ballroom up? [Hefner] had the drugs, he had the liquor, he had the women, he had everything at his disposal.”
Secrets of Playboyairs Mondays at 9 p.m. ET on A&E.
source: people.com
