Models who worked at the Playboy Mansion have lifted the curtain to reveal shocking details about their lives as models. One of them speaks openly about the violence, drugs and orgies that accompany the life of Hugh Hefner and the people around him.
16-year-old girls were drugged, beaten, raped and prepared for prostitution in mini estates owned by Hefner’s friends. Teenage girls were visited by celebrities, the president and the governor of the state.
Witnesses say that those who wanted to be “game buddies” but weren’t turned down at the mansion audition were placed in various houses in Beverly Hills, where the reality turned out to be much harsher. Girls received false promises of contracts that foreshadowed a stellar career on the podium. But the really rich and powerful men traded with them like cattle.
Jennifer Saginor grew up in a glamorous Playboy mansion. She is the daughter of Hefner’s personal physician and says she learned the dark side of the magazine from an early age.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, she described lewd parties in some “mini-mansions” with young girls forced to hang out with hard drugs, or worse, drugged minutes before the men had sex with them.
Sanigor, 51, claims the women were harassed by the owners of these estates, who received money and favors from powerful clients, including celebrities and high-profile politicians. Young girls were often blackmailed by men: “They threatened to tell their families that they were prostitutes if they did not have sex with them.”
I’ve spent most of my life at the Playboy Mansion. Holidays, after school, weekends that turned into decades. My father was Hefner’s closest friend. He was his doctor for 40 or more years.
“These men were very rich, involved in show business, politics and sports. The young girls who were part of the mini-estates did not realize that they were being trained to become prostitutes. They are addicted to drugs. “Pills in champagne or orange juice. Then the girls were so dizzy that they could not speak,” she said.
Sanigor attempted to lift the curtain on the alleged prostitution ring in a controversial memoir in 2005, but her publisher’s lawyers removed more than 200 pages from the book, fearing legal retribution from Hefner, who died in 2017.
Deleted pages from the manuscript of her book, Playground: A Kid Lost in the Playboy Mansion, describe chilling scenes, including 16-year-old Saginor who stumbles upon a girl in one of the mansions, completely naked and beaten. According to her, the girl was taken away by the guards, after which she disappeared.
In another chapter, Sanigor describes how she witnessed another shocking scene – a Swedish model she calls Paulina Svensson who overdosed on the drugs she received in exchange for oral sex. She added that the owner of the mansion forced his bodyguard to wrap the bleeding Paulina in a blanket and leave her in the bedroom without calling the police or an ambulance. Later, while eavesdropping on the door, Jennifer hears one of the men say, “It’s too late, she’s dead.”
Josh Behar, editor of Saginora’s book, said he was shocked to read her manuscript but was delighted to help uncover that side of Playboy: “Hefner’s wealth and influence terrified my lawyers, even though Jennifer had more than 15 witnesses behind her words.”
Saginor also said that one of the owners of the estates in question was the late financier Bernard Kornfeld, and the parties were often hosted by ICM talent agent Jack Gilardi, who was a Hollywood great before his death, including Charlton Heston, Burt Reynolds, Stallone and Jerry Lewis.
The Kornfeld Mansion has three floors, including 14 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms and a music room with wood paneling and hand-painted ceilings.
Saginor also revealed that her father and Hefner were not just close friends, but lovers: “In my opinion, for many years my father and Heff were just not very close friends. They had a physical relationship.