Former Playboy model Holly Madison is offering a revealing glimpse into her seven years living at the iconic Playboy Mansion. In a new podcast interview, Madison, now 45, didn’t hold back when discussing the intimate details of her life with the late Hugh Hefner. She moved into the mansion in 2001 and quickly became a central figure in Hefner’s world, eventually becoming one of his main girlfriends and sharing his bedroom, while other partners had their own rooms nearby.
Madison drew a clear distinction between her private moments with Hefner and the group activities that were expected of all the women. She was blunt in her assessment of the group dynamic, calling it “disgusting” and stating clearly that she hated it. However, she was also surprisingly candid in defending the normality of her one-on-one relationship with Hefner, despite the 57-year age gap that fascinated the public. She even joked about the online trolls and the measures taken to maintain a sense of privacy behind closed doors.
Her stories extended beyond the bedroom to include bizarre, everyday details that punctured the mansion’s glamorous facade. She described finding strange trays placed all over the estate—by the pool, on the tennis courts, in bathrooms—stocked with a random assortment of items from tissues and sunscreen to Vaseline and Pepto-Bismol, hinting at the unconventional and often awkward reality of life there. For Madison, her time at the mansion was a package deal. The negative aspects, which she attributes to strained relationship dynamics, were intertwined with positive ones. She expresses no regret about posing for the magazine, which was a dream come true, and she valued her later work producing the very pictorials she had once admired.
