Introducing Power: Hugh Hefner

Power: Don King

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

3.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Who was Hugh Hefner? Centerfold models, Playboy Bunnies, and other women from the Playboy founder’s inner circle, like TV personality and author Holly Madison, tell journalist Amy Rose Spiegel their side of his story. We hear how Playboy changed their lives, for better and for worse. Beyond the bunny tails are darker questions: What actually went on at the notorious Playboy Mansion? How can we square Hefner's progressive legacy with his abuse of vulnerable people? What can the Playboy saga tell us about sex and power—then and now? A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	He was so unique and individual.
0:10.9	He was everything.
0:12.2	He was a brat.
0:13.2	He had his silk pajamas.
0:14.8	He had his velvet shoes and he had his pipe.
0:17.4	I'm Amy Rose Beagle and in the second season of Power, from something else, we're telling
0:22.8	the story of a man who set out to redefine lust and desire.
0:27.8	For you, for me and for everyone.
0:31.0	Hugh Maaston Hefner, president of Playboy Clubs International, publisher of Playboy magazine,
0:36.1	A Millionaire and a Bachelor.
0:38.1	Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy, built an empire on sex.
0:43.6	He's discovered a new formula for packaging pornography and it's made him playboy of the
0:47.8	Western world.
0:49.1	Walking down into the club, there was the ambiance, the lighting, the beautiful bunnies,
0:56.7	the music, everything gave this illusion of sexuality.
1:02.8	Hefner's influence reaches across generations, all the way to my own career as an editor
1:08.4	and journalist covering sex.
1:11.2	It's been impossible for me to avoid Playboy's legacy in my writing and before that, when
1:16.7	I worked in nightclubs or in front of a camera.
1:19.8	It's a legacy I find both fascinating and hard to grapple with.
1:24.2	The thing that's most defensive about the whole Playboy philosophy is that women are
1:29.5	presented as mindless sex objects.
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