Eesh: Details of Life Inside Hefner's Playboy Mansion Make It Almost Seem Like an 84-Year-Old Satyr Is Paying Young Girls To Live As Hookers In a Run-Down Sleazy Brothel

I mean, I'm kidding; of course that's what it is, and has always been.

Still, the details of the thing give it life. It's all pretty shabby.

‘Everything in the Mansion felt old and stale, and Archie the house dog would regularly relieve himself on the hallway curtains, adding a powerful whiff of urine to the general scent of decay.’

Many girls, it seems, endured these living conditions for the chance of becoming a centrefold in Playboy magazine — an invaluable career boost for any glamour model.

Others admitted that they stayed only for the cosmetic surgery to which Hefner treated them as a birthday presents, keeping a running account with a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon.

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But St James — with big university debts — was more interested in the weekly pocket money which Hefner paid all his girlfriends. ‘Every Friday morning we had to go to Hef’s room, wait while he picked up all the dog poo off the carpet — and then ask for our allowance: a thousand dollars counted out in crisp hundred-dollar bills from a safe in one of his bookcases,’ she says.

‘We all hated this process. Hef would always use the occasion to bring up anything he wasn’t happy about in the relationship. Most of the complaints were about the lack of harmony among the girlfriends — or your lack of sexual participation in the “parties” he held in his bedroom.

‘If we’d been out of town for any reason and missed one of the official “going out” nights [When Hefner liked to parade his girls at nightclubs] he wouldn’t want to give us the allowance. He used it as a weapon.’

Girls living at the house have a strict curfew -- they have to be in early at night (except for two official going-out nights), I guess to tend to Hef, or his other guests.

It's worth a read. Even if you don't think you're interested, you may wind up being interested. Not in a good way.

posted by Ace at 02:52 PM

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