Holly Madison reveals she ‘had a lot of fear' in Playboy mansion as she exposes ‘disgusting' sex acts
Out of the house.
Former Playboy bunny Holly Madison, who is currently hosting 'The Playboy Murders' (airing Mondays at 9 p.m. on ID and streaming on Max), told The Post that her time living in the Playboy mansion and dating its late founder, Hugh Hefner, wasn't cheerful.
'I had a lot of fear when I was there,' Madison, 45, exclusively told The Post.
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'After I moved in and started to realize how things really were, I did have a lot fear. I even had a fear of leaving too, because I would see other women leave and kind of get into really bad situations after leaving,' she explained. 'And I thought, 'I have to really save my money.''
8 Model Holly Madison, publisher Hugh Hefner, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson attend Playboy's Super Saturday Night Party for Super Bowl XLII at Wild Horse on February 2, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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8 Holly Madison during her April 2025 video interview with the New York Post.
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The former 'The Girls Next Door' star explained, 'We weren't allowed to work outside of the house but I had to try and find ways to establish some kind of career, or something for myself. Because I just knew once I left, there was gonna be such an emotional fallout for me, that I needed to keep myself safe in some way.'
Madison lived in the Playboy mansion and dated Hefner from 2001 to 2008, when Madison was in her 20s and the late mogul was in his 70s. Hefner died in 2017 at age 91.
In 'The Playboy Murders,' Madison tells the stories of other people in the Playboy world whose lives ended in tragedy, such as the death of Playboy casting assistant Kimberly Fattorini, who died after a night out, leaving unanswered questions. Another episode covers Playboy Bunny Adrienne Pollack's 1973 death.
Madison recalled that during her time immersed in the Playboy world, 'I had a lot of fear. I knew things could go wrong.'
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During a chat on Owen Thiele's 'In Your Dreams' podcast Friday, Madison also revealed she wasn't a fan of group activities in the bedroom with Hefner.
'Everybody else in the room, no. That was disgusting. I hated it. I made it very known I hated it,' she said.
The reality TV star noted that women 'wanted to get [the sex] over with as quickly as possible' because they weren't 'into it.'
'We thought of it as a chore that we had to do or else we'll get kicked out of the house. Everybody just wanted to make it go by as quickly as possible,' Madison recalled.
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8 Holly Madison arrives at One Drop Foundation's 'One Night for One Drop' at Hakkasan Nightclub at MGM Grand Las Vegas on March 22, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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8 layboy Magazine Creator and Publisher Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Bunnies attend the launch party for season three of 'The Girls Next Door' at the Playboy Mansion February 27, 2007 in Bel Air, California.
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8 Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner, Bridget Marquart and Kendra Wilkinson in 2007.
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Madison told The Post that, in her view, Playboy is similar to Scientology.
'I feel like there was kind of a cult mentality with a lot of the people who surrounded Hef,' she said, referring to Hefner.
She recalled that everyone looked at the late Playboy founder 'as not human, and infallible.'
'You can't even say — not even something bad, but you can even say something bad-adjacent about him without being like, excommunicated,' she went on. 'In Scientology, they call it a suppressive person when someone goes against the church. And I kind of felt like I was treated that way.'
8 Holly Madison and Hugh Hefner in 2007.
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8 Holly Madison in her ID show, 'The Playboy Murders.'
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8 Playboy founder Hugh Hefner greets television personality and model Holly Madison in her dressing room after Hefner attended the adult production, 'Peepshow' starring Madison at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino July 18, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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The podcaster and TV star told The Post about Hefner, 'I just didn't know him well. I had this mindset of being in love, and it was kind of tinged with a little bit of Stockholm syndrome.'
'I thought I was connecting with [Hefner], when really I was just somebody who had trouble connecting with people my whole life,' the former 'The Girls Next Door' star explained.
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'And I'd met somebody who was like a master manipulator.'
'The Playboy Murders' airs Mondays at 9 p.m on ID and streams on Max.
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