A&E On The Late Hugh Hefner: Sleazoid of Sleepy Hollow?

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Note: This is a women's issue (sexual exploitation) that invites responses.

Hugh Marston Hefner, probably still clad in his silk jammies, went to that Big Bunny in the sky back in September of 2017. Now ex-Playmates and others feel it's safe to come forward-- and as the cliché says-- tell the real story of what life was like behind the gates of the Playboy Mansion. Predictably the women divulge little about Hugh Hefner the trailblazing publisher of a men's magazine. But there's a whole lot of how miserable and exploited they feel after having posed nude in the magazine and worse, what is was like to sexually submit to a weird, nerdy, minimally-endowed dweeb who doled-out their paychecks. Said one, "he didn't date a lot of girls and women back in school."

Thus far there have been four episodes is this A&E trash fest, but already I've discovered some inaccuracies. A woman said she flew aboard Hef's Douglas DC-9-32, possibly to far-flung tropical locations like Hawaii and Montego Bay, Jamaica. In-fact N950PB made all but a handful of flights in its six-year existence with Playboy between Chicago and Los Angeles. Hefner, the man they called Mr. Excitement, stayed at home 99.9% of the time. For those who aren't familiar with this famous all-black corporate jet with the white bunny logo on its tail here is an article, complete with some publicity stills taken out at Burbank airport on January of 1969. Scroll down for a marketing video depicting the best airborne party that never was, put to Cy Colman's Playboy Theme music.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14697/remembering-hugh-hefners-iconic-jet-black-dc-9-big-bunny
 

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Some reminiscences regarding this topic:

September, 1969 heading to school on the South Side, on Lakeshore Drive southbound and there it was: The Playboy Building. Not the biggest building, but well placed for visibility, with the iconic “Playboy” and the rabbit. At nighttime, it was striking and very well-lit.

I think March, 1971: At Midway Airport, heading home for spring break, on the tarmac, there it was, Hef’s plane.

Much later, late 90’s, living in California now, one of my customers got a contract to refresh the audio-visual in the Playboy Mansion, and some of my products were called for. I so wanted the chance to pay a site visit, but I was told, “No way.” It was still a nice sale, and I heard some stories of unbelievable babes milling about.
 
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Thanks Fredneck1951! You were someone who came of age during the peak wonder years of Playboy. I came along a bit late.

I'm also a bit disappointed in this formulaic A&E docuseries. To get a series like this on-air these days it probably had to adhere to a #MeToo theme. It's true that Hugh Hefner and his inner circle were wealthy men-- bland, non-athletic and largely unphotogenic with ties to Hollywood; powerbrokers who for the most part couldn't have gotten laid in a proverbial house of ill repute had they not had massive financial portfolios. But Playboy is also a tale of triumphant feminine highs to go along with sexual exploitation. Unfortunately this A&E series overlooks some of the lesser known, but more intriguing playmate tales.

Many are familiar with the tragic story of Dorothy Stratten, a Playmate of the Year in 1980 who was shot and killed by her jealous boyfriend after she left him for producer Peter Bogdanovich. She met Bogdanovich at a Playboy Mansion party. Sometime after a sexual interlude in the Playboy Mansion's infamous love grotto, he promised to make her a star. Like most young women this opportunity at fame and fortune was too great for young Dorothy to resist. Shortly afterward, she was killed in a jealous murder/suicide rage by Paul Snider.

Not as widely known was Connie Kreski, also a beautiful blonde. Kreski was 5'5" tall, similar in height to a majority of Playboy centerfolds who stood between 5'4" and 5'6" tall. Hugh Hefner, himself barely 5' 8" on a good day, felt highly uncomfortable looking up at a woman. Unlike Dorothy Stratten, Connie took to sex and group sex like a duck to water. Together with a face and figure that kept a nation of horny males awake at night, not-surprisingly she also became a Playmate of the Year early in 1969. As part of her PMOY booty came a pristine pink Shelby GT500 Fastback, courtesy of Carroll Shelby who knew something about fast cars and gorgeous fast women when he saw them. Unfortunately it also came with a manual stick shift which was a complexity Kreski could not overcome. The Shelby, now valued at roughly $160,000, mysteriously disappeared sometime after the Playboy rose garden ceremony.

Connie Kreski and Her Lost Shelby GT500

Concurrent to her rise in Playboy fame, Connie predictably fell into the intoxicating circle of Hef's Jewish Hollywood producer buddies. Roman Polanski, all of 5'2" tall, a poor swimmer who could barely peak above the bubbles of the notorious waters inside the Playboy grotto, nevertheless bravely went into the cave with Kreski and somehow successfully consummated coitis. His triumphant male sexual euphoria may have been so great that he then offered her a ski trip to Gstaad, Switzerland. Shortly after they returned from Europe, Connie was sometime shacking-up in Beverly Hills with Polanski and playing bit parts in movies. Kreski seemed to live a charmed life.

On August 9, 1969 the radiant blonde, ensconced somewhere in the wilds of Beverly Hills, awoke hungover after a fun-filled sex and drug party she had enjoyed the night before. In-fact, too hungover to feel like attending her friend Sharon Tate's party up at Roman Polanski's rental house on Cielo Drive. Besides, Polanski wasn't even home as he was busy shooting a new movie. But as the day wore on Connie felt better, so by evening she drove her (automatic transmission) vehicle to their home...just in time to witness police and coroners carrying-out Sharon Tate's lifeless body, one of the victims of Charles Manson's murderous cult.

Connie Kreski passed away in Beverly Hills at the relatively young age of 48. Her cause-of-death was listed as a blocked carotid artery though I could not find an autopsy report. Any autopsy must have been performed by Thomas Noguchi "the coroner of the stars." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Kreski

If the above reads like excerpts of crude and jocular notes extracted from an unpublished Playboy manuscript, you are correct. It has been gathering dust in my study for years.
 
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