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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."
