Name: The Big Playboy Lie
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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Former Playmates, girlfriends and employees including Sondra Theodore, Susie Krabacher, Lisa Loving Barrett and Audrey Huskey come together to share their experiences and struggles stemming from their time in the Playboy world.

Secrets of Playboy

The Aftermath

Former girlfriends of Hugh Hefner, Karissa and Kristina Shannon, discuss their experience with Hefner and the hit television series "The Girls Next Door"; Karissa and Kristina reveal their story of the darker world led by Hefner.

In public, Hefner continually professes that he wants to protect his girls next door, but he continually fails; Playmate Susie Krabacher, mansion employees Stefan and Stella Tetanbaum, and Sondra Theodore reveal dark truths.

Predator Number One

During the 1990s, Playmates, including Pamela Anderson and Anna Nicole Smith, reach peak fame and young women flock to Los Angeles in hopes of being the next centerfold; men in Hefner's inner circle set up shadow mansions where women are exploited.

The Shadow Mansions

Even in the earliest parties at the mansion, celebrities like Roman Polanski and Bill Cosby are a big part of the allure of the Playboy brand, but Hugh Hefner keeps some Hollywood A-listers happy at the expense of the women.

Predators' Ball

A roundtable of Playmates recount how decades of women modeled for the magazine because they believed that becoming a Playmate would lead to a lucrative career in a safe environment; instead, many faced a hostile environment.

The Big Playboy Lie

The Playboy corporate world was billed as a welcoming place for women, but Playmate and eventual Director of Playboy Promotions Miki Garcia and Bunny Mother PJ Masten reveal the rampant sexual harassment they faced within it.

The Corporate Game

After decades of silence, Hefner's former number-one girlfriend Sondra Theodore shares her story detailing how she was groomed by him to participate in his increasingly abusive sex life.

The Circus

Exploring the 1970s DEA investigation into Hefner, Playboy and drugs through the lens of two women who lived and worked at Playboy; Hefner's right-hand woman Bobbie Arnstein and Playboy Bunny Adrienne Pollack.

The Price of Loyalty

Playboy hired the most attractive women in the world by promising an environment where they would always be protected, but outside of the Playboy Mansion, the Bunnies faced dangers and abuses that were covered up by the Playboy "cleanup crew."

The Bunnies & the Cleanup Crew

In the 2000s, Hugh Hefner reinvented himself and his brand through the runaway success of the reality show "Girls Next Door," starring his girlfriends; the series made mansion life seem like a fairytale, but Holly and Bridget reveal the reality.

The Girl Next Door

Hugh Hefner sold himself as a champion of free speech who created the Playboy brand to set off a sexual revolution that would liberate men and women alike, but over the years he used Playboy to manipulate women to compete for his favor.

The Playboy Legacy

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Archival footage and exclusive interviews with insiders from all facets of the Playboy world help unravel the glamorous mythology created by the Playboy brand over several decades.

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