Dark side of Playboy Mansion’s ‘shadow houses’ which ‘lured models with drugs’

March 17, 2022

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner created “shadow mansions” to lure in new playmates, a former resident has claimed.

At the height of Playboy’s success, women fortunate enough to find favour with the brand’s creator would be invited to reside with Hef in the luxurious Playboy mansion in LA.

Since Hefner’s death in 2017, a number of former playmates have spoken out about the dark side of life in the Mansion, with one ex-girlfriend suggesting that it was like “living in a cult”.

Now, former resident Jennifer Saginor has claimed that alongside the Mansion, Hefner and his employees would bring girls to smaller mansions where they would be scouted for the possibility of featuring in Playboy.

“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,” she told A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy.

“And they would have smaller versions of the Playboy mansions… They would house these young girls who would come to Los Angeles looking for opportunities to become actresses or models.

“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 going to hit them next.”

Jennifer recounted how entering these mansions would soon find girls stepping outside of their comfort zones.

“These young girls believed it was an opportunity to really move your dreams forward, when in fact it was really just all a facade,” she explained.

“Very quickly they’re crossing boundaries that they never thought they would cross, once you’re on this path, it’s very hard to find your way out.”

Jennifer had a difficult time in the Playboy mansion herself, having been brought to the mansion by her father, who acted as Hefner’s personal doctor and was referred to as Dr Feelgood.

“As a six year old, I was roaming around the Playboy mansion, everything was just a rollercoaster ride,” she remembered, speaking in an interview with a US TV channel last year.

Inevitably, being brought up in this adult environment led to Jennifer growing up quickly, and she alleged that she had her first sexual encounter when she was 14 with one of Hefner’s girlfriends.

“By age 16, I was doing so much blow [drugs], that I had to have a nose job just so that I could try to breathe clearly again,” she suggested.

In fact, Jennifer recalled feeling weird when she had been on the receiving end of a “French kiss” from the Playboy tycoon.

And, by the time she had reached the age of 17, Jennifer said that Hefner and her father had become desperate to end her affair with the entrepreneur's girlfriend, so orchestrated an orgy with her.

“My father ended up having sex with her and I walked in on them. It felt like such a betrayal,” she claimed.

This comes as one Playboy model revealed that playmates didn't talk about Hefner's penis size because they felt "ashamed" of having sex with the adult industry tycoon.

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