Holly Madison And Bridget Marquardt Revealed Hugh Hefner Used A Notebook To Keep Track Of How Many Times The Playboy Bunnies Slept With Him And When They Were On Their Period

Holly and Bridget revealed that Hefner would consult the notebook to give the Playmates “a report on how good a job they were doing” when he handed out their weekly allowances.

Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt revealed that Hugh Hefner “kept track” of how many times the women at his notorious Playboy mansion slept with him.

Madison and Marquardt, who moved into the mansion in the early noughties, recently launched their own podcast, titled Girls Next Level, to reflect on their experiences with the Playboy founder.

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Madison was just 21 when she started dating Hefner, then 75, in 2001. She eventually left his establishment in 2008, while Marquardt moved in at 28 and also spent several years branded as one of the mogul’s girlfriends.

Hefner’s past sexual encounters with his former Playmates — most of whom were women in their early 20s — have come to be heavily criticized in recent years. Not only have some of these women spoken out about their experiences in harrowing detail, but A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy explored the controversial history of Playboy in detail earlier this year.

And Madison and Marquardt, now 42 and 48, respectively, are two of the most vocal ex-Playmates, using their new podcast to divulge a ton of secrets about the Playboy mansion and their controversial relationships with Hefner, who died in 2017 at 91.

On the latest episode, which was released this Monday, the duo discussed how the Playmates often felt uncomfortable asking Hefner for their weekly allowances.

“He would walk over to the safe and open it up, and then he had this little black book in there that he would pull out,” Marquardt divulged, while Madison simply noted: “Ew.”

“The black book kept track of a few different things,” Marquardt explained. “It kept track of when somebody collected their allowance — he would mark it off so you couldn’t ask for it twice.”

“But it also kept track of who slept with him and when,” she said. Madison said that she “so badly” wanted to “burn that book” when she moved out of the house.

“I’m just so disgusted with how he [kept] a record of who he had sex with [and] on what night, and [took] all these nudes of all the girls when they’re in the limo and drunk and flashing and stuff,” Madison said.

Madison went on to share that Hefner would print these nude photos out, hand them to “every girl in the limo,” and put them “in a scrapbook.”

“I later found out that at that point, he planned on donating his scrapbook to a library,” she added. “So that was another thing that made me feel kind of weird and afraid to leave, ‘cause I felt like there was this mountain of revenge porn.”

Marquardt echoed, “It was just very uncomfortable asking for allowance... A lot of times, I wouldn’t ask for it for weeks at a time.”

Madison went on to note that some of the other women at the mansion would be “given a report” by Hefner detailing “how good of a job they were doing” as they went to collect their allowances.

“I’ve heard other girls complain that when they went to ask for their allowance, they would be given a report on how good a job they were doing,” she said.

“He would pull out that book where he kept track of who he had sex with [and on] what nights, and he’d be like, ‘Oh, you’ve been on your period,’” she went on, with Marquardt jokingly chiming in: “For three weeks.”

“Like, ‘Oh you’re not really doing enough here,’ or, ‘You’re not really participating here,’ or, ‘You didn’t come out with us that night,’” Madison said, quoting what Hefner would tell the women.

What’s more, Madison and Marquardt also discussed how Hefner would often “fake cry” during heated arguments with the Playmates in order to “get his way” with them.

Recounting a time that she and Hefner engaged in a huge spat, Madison revealed that she “ended up in tears” when the mogul “yelled” at her.

“He bit my head off and yelled at me and was so mean,” she recalled, detailing that she’d simply made a suggestion for the living arrangements within the mansion, which he evidently hadn’t approved of.

“I ended up in tears,” she said. “And I said to him, ‘Well, clearly this relationship isn’t what I thought it was.’ ‘Cause this was after months of him lovebombing me, saying he wanted me to spend the rest of his life with him, and I can’t even have a reasonable conversation with him?”

Madison said that at this point, Hefner started “fake crying” in response to her vocalizing her thoughts on their relationship and dynamic.

“He starts fake crying back,” she recalled, before elaborating: “Hef would fake cry when he was trying to get his way with a girl. Like, if we were emotional about something, or asked for something, he would start fake crying.”

“It was such bad acting and so obvious,” she said. “For the longest time, I never talked to anybody about it ‘cause I thought maybe I was the only one noticing.”

“But you can’t say anything,” she went on. “He’s the one who has all the power in the relationship. What are you gonna do, accuse somebody of fake crying? That sounds crazy. It was like a weird, gaslighty thing, and it makes you back off.”

You can listen to the full episode of the Girls Next Level podcast here.

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