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Perspective: Hugh Hefner's moral depravity laid bare in A&E series

In this Sept. 5, 1969, photo, Hugh Hefner, publisher and owner of Playboy magazine, and his girlfriend Barbara Benton, 19-year-old coed turned actress, are surrounded by Bunny Girls at the Playboy Club in London. A new A&E series gives voice to the women closest to the bathrobe-clad shepherd of the sexual revolution. Hefner was, as one former girlfriend of five years described him, a “monster.”

In this Sept. 5, 1969, photo, Hugh Hefner, publisher and owner of Playboy magazine, and his girlfriend Barbara Benton, 19-year-old coed turned actress, are surrounded by Bunny Girls at the Playboy Club in London. A new A&E series gives voice to the women closest to the bathrobe-clad shepherd of the sexual revolution. Hefner was, as one former girlfriend of five years described him, a “monster.” (Associated Press)


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When Playboy founder Hugh Hefner died in 2017, a laudatory obituary in The Washington Post called him a "visionary editor" who liberated the country from "the puritanical moral code of Middle America." A new A&E series gives voice to the women closest to the bathrobe-clad shepherd of the sexual revolution. Hefner was, as one former girlfriend of five years described him, a "monster."

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